Wearable percussion/vibration device
AssigneeStryker Corporation
InventorsMartin W. Stryker, Scott Davis, Thomas William Granzow
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Abstract
A wearable device for vibration and/or percussion treatment, such as a covering configured to be worn by a person, such as patient, around the chest of the person, a plurality of actuators provided at the covering, and a control system in communication with the actuators and configured to provide independent and sequential operation of the actuators to generate progressive constriction and relaxation for providing movement of material in a person's lungs in the direction of the sequential operation of the actuators.
Claims20
A wearable device for vibration and/or percussion treatment:
- a covering configured to be worn by a person around the chest of the person;
- a plurality of actuators provided at said covering;
- and
- a control system in communication with said actuators and configured to provide independent and sequential operation of said actuators to generate progressive constriction and relaxation for providing movement of loose matter in a person's lungs in the direction of the sequential operation of the actuators.
A wearable device for vibration and/or percussion treatment:
- a covering configured to be worn by a person around the chest of the person;
- a plurality of bladders provided at said covering;
- a supply of air;
- and
- a control system in communication with said supply of air and said bladders, said control system configured to control the flow of air from said air supply to said bladders to inflate or deflate said bladders in a sequence to provide progressive constriction and relaxation to the chest of the person wearing the device to induce movement of loose matter in a person's lungs in the direction of the sequential operation of the bladders.
A method of applying sequential compression to a person's chest, said method comprising the steps of:
- locating a plurality of actuators about a person's chest;
- controlling the actuators to apply pulses of pressure to the person's chest;
- and
- wherein said controlling includes causing the actuators to apply pulses in a sequence to generate sequential compression on the person's chest.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.