Inflation-mediated pressure therapy garment
AssigneeInCare, LLC
InventorsPamela Cooper, Michael Morath
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Abstract
A garment provides therapeutic pressure to the body of a wearer in response to a two-factor authentication system. The garment includes reversibly inflatable chambers configured to press against the body of a wearer. The garment includes a pump fluidly connected to the chambers and a controller. The controller sends an inflation signal to the pump to inflate the chambers and a deflation signal to the pump to deflate the chambers. The garment includes touch-sensitive fabric. In some implementations, the controller sends the inflation signal to the pump in response to one or more touches to the touch responsive fabric. In some implementations, the controller sends the inflation signal to the pump in response to biometric data.
Claims20
A garment, comprising:
- a wearable fabric, wherein the wearable fabric comprises a plurality of reversibly inflatable chambers configured to press against a wearer's body when inflated;
- a pump, configured to be connected to the plurality of reversibly inflatable chambers and configured to inflate and to deflate the inflatable chambers, the pump integrated into the garment between layers of the wearable fabric;
- a controller, wherein the controller sends an inflation signal or a deflation signal to the pump, wherein the pump inflates or deflates the inflatable chambers in response to the inflation or deflation signal;
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- touch responsive fabric configured to provide an initiation signal to the controller, wherein in response to the initiation signal, the controller sends the inflation signal to the pump,
- wherein the touch responsive fabric is configured to transition between an activated state and an inactivated state,
- wherein, in the activated state, the touch responsive fabric provides the initiation signal to the controller in response to a touch to the fabric from the wearer,
- wherein, in the inactivated state, the touch responsive fabric ceases to provide the initiation signal to the controller in response to the touch to the fabric from the wearer,
- wherein the controller is configured to control an activation state of the touch responsive fabric to switch specific regions of the touch responsive fabric into the activated state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.