# US 2018/0021208 A1 · Orthesis for a vacuum treatment of the deformations of the thorax > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2018/0021208 A1 - Document ID: US20180021208A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 15/547,286 - Filed: 2016-02-04 - Published: 2018-01-25 - Earliest claimed: 2015-02-10 - Assignees: Christian CHOUX; Bernard PAIN; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire; Universite Jean Monnet - Applicants: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire; Université Jean Monnet - Inventors: Christian CHOUX; Bernard PAIN; Olivier TIFFET - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20180021208A1 ## CPC - A61H 9/0057: {Suction (suction kneading A61H7/008)} - A61F 5/03: Corsets or bandages for abdomen, teat or breast support, with or without pads - A61F 5/048: Traction splints - A61F 5/05833: {Splints rigidified by vacuum evacuation} - A61H 1/008: {Apparatus for applying pressure or blows almost perpendicular to the body or limb axis, e.g. chiropractic devices for repositioning vertebrae, correcting deformation} - A61H 2201/1619: Thorax - A61M 1/00: Suction or pumping devices for medical purposes; Devices for carrying-off, for treatment of, or for carrying-over, body-liquids; Drainage systems (catheters A61M25/00; tube connectors, tube couplings, valves or branch units specially adapted for medical use A61M39/00; devices for taking samples of blood A61B5/15; filters implantable into blood vessels A61F2/01) - A61M 2210/101: Pleural cavity - A61H: PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY (electrotherapy, magnetotherapy, radiation therapy or ultrasound therapy A61N) - A61F: FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS (dental prosthetics A61C) - A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)} ## Abstract An orthosis for a vacuum treatment of the deformations of the thorax includes a bottom, a peripheral lip made of flexible, elastically deformable material and comes into sealing contact with the thorax so as to form a treatment space using negative pressure, and at least one suction head connected to a negative pressure generation component. The orthosis improves the sealing contact between the orthosis lip and the patient's thorax by increasing the orthosis deformability. To achieve this, the lip has a constant elasticity along the entire periphery thereof, and the bottom is formed of hollow, rigid, transverse side-by-side compartments connected to each other by bridges made of the same flexible material as the peripheral lip of the orthosis. The bridges of material allow the bottom to deform in such a way that the orthosis shape adapts to the thorax anatomy when the orthosis is applied vertically to the thorax. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An orthosis for a vacuum treatment of the deformations of the thorax, said orthosis configured to be pressed against the thorax along a direction extending from the head to the feet, having the general shape of an open box applied against the thorax and having a bottom wall, a peripheral lip made of a flexible and elastically deformable material, extending around the bottom wall and capable of coming into sealed contact against the thorax, to form a vacuum treatment space, said space communicating, by at least one tip for connecting to a flexible pipe, to a means generating a vacuum, wherein the bottom is formed by hollow and rigid juxtaposed compartments, linked to each other by bridges made of the same flexible material as the peripheral lip, the bridges giving the bottom wall a possibility of deformation such that the orthosis is shaped to the anatomy of the thorax when the orthosis is applied vertically against the thorax. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The orthosis according to claim 1, wherein the bridges between the compartments have a thickness increasing from the thickness of the bridge of material applied against the top of the thorax. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The orthosis according to claim 1, wherein the bridges between the compartments have a stiffness increasing from that of the bridge of material applied against the top of the thorax, by adding, in each bridge, a plate, each plate having a greater rigidity than the plate of the bridge of material which precedes it, either by variation of its thickness, or by the shape of its section. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The orthosis according to claim 1, wherein each of the bridges contains at least one longitudinal conduit or channel connecting the treatment spaces formed under the compartments. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The orthosis according to claim 1, wherein the compartments have an inverted U-shaped cross-section. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The orthosis according to claim 1, wherein the core of each inverted U-shaped compartment comprises, at least locally, a window obturated by a glazing made of transparent plastic material. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The orthosis according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the compartments of the orthosis is extended by a lateral connection capable of receiving the end of the suction pipe coming from a suction means.