Assembly for treating and preventing moisture related skin dermatitis

An assembly for preventing and treating moisture-based skin dermatitis having a housing including a handle for grasping by the user, a motor positioned within the housing, a fan coupled to the motor for rotating and generating air flow under pressure, a user control for receiving a user command and for controlling activation of the motor in response to a received user command, an input air flow chamber for drawing air from outside the housing to the fan, an output air flow chamber for receiving pressurized air from the fan, a nozzle coupled to the output air flow chamber defining an air outflow port for directing the pressurized air flow from the output air flow chamber onto a treatment area of a patient's skin, the assembly comprising:

• an air flow conditioning module positioned in the output air flow, the air flow conditioning module including a heating element for increasing the temperature of the generated air flow as received from the fan responsive to a received control signal;
• a temperature sensor positioned proximate to the output air flow, the temperature sensor sensing a current temperature of the output air flow as conditioned by the air flow conditioning module;
• a moisture sensor detecting a moisture level;
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• an air flow conditioning control module coupled to the air flow conditioning module and the temperature sensor, the moisture sensor, and the air flow conditioning module and generating the control signal, the air flow conditioning control module including a definable temperature range and moisture range of the output airflow responsive to receiving the sensed current temperatures from the temperature sensors and the sensed detected moisture level of the output air flow, comparing the sensed current temperatures to a current defined temperature range and the detected moisture level to a definable moisture range, and generating the control signal to provide the generated air flow at the nozzle is within the defined temperature range and within the defined moisture range.

An assembly for preventing and treating moisture-based skin dermatitis comprising:

• a housing including a handle for grasping by the user, a motor positioned within the housing, a fan coupled to the motor for rotating and generating air flow under pressure, a user control for receiving a user command and for controlling activation of the motor in response to a received user command, an input air flow chamber for drawing air from outside the housing to the fan, an output air flow chamber for receiving pressurized air from the fan, a nozzle coupled to the output air flow chamber defining an air outflow port for directing the pressurized air flow from the output air flow chamber onto a treatment area of a patient's skin;
• means for controlling a temperature range of the pressurized air flow through the nozzle;
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• means for controlling a moisture range of the pressurized air flow through the nozzle.