Electroactive vibration method
AssigneeChordate Medical AB
InventorsJan-Erik JUTO, Fredrik JUTO, William HOLM
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Abstract
A method for treatment by vibration stimulation of body tissue in a body cavity of a human subject includes providing a stimulation member comprising a dielectric polymer; introducing the stimulation member into a body cavity; expanding the stimulation member to a state such that it abuts the body tissue within the body cavity, and applying a time varying potential to said dielectric polymer to impart vibrations to body tissue in the body cavity.
Claims15
A method for treatment by vibration stimulation of body tissue in a body cavity of a human subject, comprising the steps of:
- introducing a stimulation member into the body cavity, said stimulation member comprising a dielectric polymer;
- expanding the stimulation member to a state such that the stimulation member abuts the body tissue within the body cavity;
- and
- applying a time varying potential to said dielectric polymer to impart vibrations to body tissue in the body cavity.
A method for treatment by vibration stimulation of body tissue in a body cavity of a human subject, comprising the steps of:
- introducing a stimulation member into the body cavity, said stimulation member comprising a dielectric polymer layer and a plurality of compliant electrode pairs arranged at opposite sides of the dielectric polymer layer;
- measuring a capacitance over the plurality of compliant electrode pairs;
- selecting a subset of compliant electrode pairs for which the measured capacitance is larger than a first capacitance;
- and
- applying one or more time varying potential(s) to the subset of compliant electrode pairs.
A method for treatment by vibration stimulation of body tissue in a body cavity of a human subject, comprising the steps of:
- introducing an expandable stimulation member into the body cavity, said expandable stimulation member comprising a dielectric polymer layer and a plurality of compliant electrode pairs arranged at opposite sides of the dielectric polymer layer;
- measuring capacitance over the plurality of compliant electrode pairs;
- expanding the stimulation member to a state such that a predetermined subset of the measured capacitances exceeds a predetermined capacitance, and
- applying one or more time varying potential(s) to the corresponding subset of compliant electrode pairs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.