Large area body shaping applicator
AssigneeSyneron Medical Ltd.
InventorsShimon ECKHOUSE, Avner ROSENBERG
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Abstract
A method and apparatus that affect vacuum to massage a volume of the skin and one or more types of skin treatment energies coupled to the massaged volume to treat the skin and subcutaneous adipose tissue and produce a desired treatment effect. The method and apparatus are based on coupling an array or a number of arrays being an assembly of skin treatment units with each skin treatment unit including a hollow cavity and a number of different energy to skin applying elements operative to receive skin treatment energy from a source of such energy and couple or apply the received energy to a treated segment of skin.
Claims13
1-39. (canceled)
An apparatus, comprising:
- a belt configured to be attached to a skin segment;
- a plurality of housings mounted on the belt, each housing including:
- a cavity configured to fluidly communicate with a source of negative pressure and to accommodate a volume of the skin segment drawn into the cavity by the source of negative pressure to create a skin protrusion;
- a skin energy delivery element configured to apply a skin treatment energy to the volume of the skin segment drawn into the cavity;
- a rim configured to facilitate sealing of the cavity when applied to the skin segment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.