Organ support and temperature control device
OwnerThomas Andrew Alexander Skinner, Ali Dergham +1inventors
InventorsThomas Andrew Alexander Skinner, Ali Dergham, Luke Witherspoon
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Abstract
The present disclosure provides an organ supporting device and a manufacturing system thereof. The organ supporting device includes a tube with a one or more bends to create two supporting regions for an organ. The supporting regions are connected via a connecting region. The tube is supplied with temperature control material, such as a cooling fluid, by a circulation component. The temperature of the organ and fluid are sensed by one or more sensors and the sensed temperatures are provided to a temperature control unit to increase or decrease the temperature of the temperature control material to maintain a temperature of an organ for in-vivo or ex-vivo surgical procedures.
Claims16
An organ supporting apparatus comprising:
- a tube comprising a first supporting region, a second supporting region separated from the first supporting region in a first direction, and a connecting region connecting the first supporting region and the second supporting region, wherein the tube comprises a single tube shape forming the first supporting region, the second supporting region, and the connecting region, wherein the tube comprises a thermally conductive metal configured to hold an organ without additional supporting material in the first supporting region, the second supporting region, and the connecting region;
- a first plurality of bends in the first supporting region of the tube, wherein the first plurality of bends are separated from each other by an air gap in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and wherein each of the first plurality of bends extends from a first side of the apparatus in the first direction on a lower side of the apparatus to form a first organ supporting region;
- a second plurality of bends in the second supporting region of the tube, wherein the second plurality of bends are separated from each other by an air gap in the second direction, and wherein each of the second plurality of bends extends from a second side of the apparatus opposite to the first side in a direction opposite to the first direction on the lower side of the apparatus to form a second organ supporting region;
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- a circulation component configured to convey a temperature control material through the tube, wherein the temperature control material comprises a liquid or a gas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.