Cooling device having a plurality of controllable cooling elements to provide a predetermined cooling profile
AssigneeJuniper Medical, Inc.
InventorsMitchell Levinson, Jesse N. Rosen, William Pennybacker
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Abstract
A cooling device for removing heat from subcutaneous lipid-rich cells of a subject having skin is provided. The cooling device includes a plurality of cooling elements movable relative to each other to conform to the contour's of the subject's skin. The cooling elements have a plurality of controllable thermoelectric coolers. The cooling elements can be controlled to provide a time-varying cooling profile in a predetermined sequence, can be controlled to provide a spatial cooling profile in a selected pattern, or can be adjusted to maintain constant process parameters, or can be controlled to provide a combination thereof.
Claims25
A cooling device for removing heat from subcutaneous lipid-rich cells of a subject having skin, comprising:
- a plurality of cooling elements hinged to each other to allow the elements to rotate relative to each other;
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- wherein the cooling elements have a skin interface surface.
A system for removing heat from subcutaneous lipid-rich cells, comprising:
- a plurality of rotatable cooling elements moveable relative to one another and thermally coupled to a plurality of thermoelectric cooling devices and a corresponding plurality of heat exchanging elements contained on a segmented frame rotatable and configured to reduce a temperature of a target region under the epidermis of the subject to reduce the temperature of lipid-rich cells in the region such that the lipid-rich cells are substantially affected while non-lipid-rich cells in the epidermis are not substantially affected;
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- a fluid chamber fluidicly coupled to the cooling device to dissipate heat generated by the cooling device.
A cooling device for removing heat from subcutaneous lipid-rich cells of a subject having skin, said device comprising:
- a plurality of cooling elements, each said cooling element being movable relative to an adjacent cooling element,
- wherein said cooling device is conformable to the skin of the subject.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.