Substrate
AssigneeBioconix Pty Ltd.
InventorMelissa L. Knothe Tate
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Abstract
A substrate that can be applied to a user's body part having a region of temporally-controlled elasticity that transitions between a first state and a second state when activated, wherein the first state is more relaxed than the second state, and the substrate can at least partially revert from the second state to the first state over an extended time period resulting from the temporally-controlled elasticity of the substrate, and wherein the substrate can apply a treatment/mechanical force to the body part, as the substrate transitions from the second state to the first state.
Claims20
A woven substrate that can be applied to a user's body part comprising:
- a plurality of woven threads that form the woven substrate, the woven substrate including a region of temporally-controlled elasticity that varies over time and transitions between a first state and a second state when activated, wherein the first state is more relaxed than the second state, and the region of the woven substrate can at least partially revert from the second state to the first state over an extended time period resulting from the temporally-controlled elasticity of the region of the woven substrate, and
- wherein the region of the woven substrate is configured to apply a treatment/mechanical force to the body part as the region of the woven substrate transitions from the second state to the first state, and wherein the treatment/mechanical force is a function of the temporally controlled elasticity of the region of the woven substrate, and
- wherein the temporally controlled elasticity is provided by a weave pattern of the woven threads and/or elasticity of the woven threads that varies along lengths and/or within cross-sections of the woven threads.
A sleeve for fitting over a body part comprising:
- a plurality of woven threads that form a woven substrate, the woven substrate including at least one region of temporally-controlled elasticity that varies over time, wherein the region of the woven substrate is transitionable between a first state and a second state by movement of the body part covered by the sleeve over an extended time period resulting from the temporally-controlled elasticity of the region of the woven substrate, and
- wherein the region of the woven substrate is configured to apply a treatment/mechanical force to the body part, as the region of the woven substrate transitions from the second state to the first state, and wherein the treatment/mechanical force is a function of the temporally controlled elasticity of the region of the woven substrate, and
- wherein the temporally controlled elasticity is provided by a weave pattern of the woven threads and/or elasticity of the woven threads that varies along lengths and/or within cross-sections of the woven threads.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.