Pressure application garment
AssigneeNeuraltide
InventorKarine Berthet
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Abstract
A pressure application relating to a garment that includes at least one active part for applying pressure to at least one body part of a subject and the active part includes at least one bladder fillable with a fluid so as to obtain a homogeneous positive pressure applied to the whole of the corresponding at least one body part of the subject, the pressure application garment also including for the or each active part, at least one interface pressure sensor, a control unit, and a driving module wherein the pressure application garment further includes at least one sheet of a fabric made of at least three superimposed layers.
Claims15
A pressure application garment comprising at least one active part for applying pressure to at least one body part of a subject, comprising at least one bladder fillable with a fluid so as to obtain a homogeneous positive pressure applied to the whole of the corresponding at least one body part of the subject, said pressure application garment comprising:
- for the at least one active part, at least one interface pressure sensor, and
- a control unit comprising a receiving module configured to receive the interface pressure measurements from the one or more interface pressure sensors of the at least one active part, and a driving module configured to drive, based on the interface pressure measurements received by the receiving module for the at least one active part, at least one injection device for injecting fluid into the one or more fillable bladders of the active part(s), so as to maintain a predefined interface pressure value for the at least one active part,
- wherein said pressure application garment comprises in at least one area of the inner wall of the at least one active part in contact with the body, at least one sheet of a fabric made of at least three superimposed layers comprising a lower layer that is closest to the body part, an upper layer and an intermediate layer, said intermediate layer being between the lower layer and the upper layer and having elasticity in the transverse direction, enabling at least a limitation of a deformation of the lower layer when the upper layer is deformed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.