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AssigneeNational University of Ireland, Galway
InventorsAndrew CAMERON, Garry DUFFY, Scott ROBINSON, Jaime PUNTER-VILLAGRASA, Myles MCGARRIGLE, Georgina GETHIN, Mary-Paula COLGAN, Faisal SHARIF, Muhammad Adnan ELAHI
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A pressure sensing clip (1) and a system including a bandage (19) for detecting and displaying the pressure applied by a (compression) bandage (19) to a human or animal body in which the pressure sensing clip (1) has an inner bandage penetrating arm (2) and an outer arm (3) hingedly attached to the inner arm (2) at a hinge (4) so that the outer arm (3) is movable between a hingedly closed position with respect to the inner arm (2) and a hingedly open position. The device can be operatively attached to an applied compression bandage, or it can be placed beneath or between the bandage during bandage application so that the bandage covers the sensing part of the device. In the latter application, the ability of the arms of the device to adapt an open configuration allows the bandage to be applied over the inner arm leaving the outer arm to close once the bandage has been applied. The device can receive, store and transmit data to a user.
A bandage pressure sensing device for indicating the pressure applied by a bandage to a subject wherein the pressure sensing device comprises a pressure sensing clip comprising:
A bandage pressure sensing device as claimed in any preceding claim wherein the inner bandage penetrating arm comprises an arm body having a hinge end and an insertion end and a semi-rigid spine extends between the hinge end and the insertion end.
A bandage pressure sensing device as claimed in any preceding claim further comprising a force concentrator over the pressure sensing region.
A bandage pressure sensing device as claimed in any of claims 23 to 17 wherein the maximum height of the force concentrator above the outer edge of the inner arm body has a minimum ratio of the diameter/width of the inner arm housing of 1:20.
A bandage pressure sensing device as claimed in any preceding claim in which the inner bandage penetrating arm further comprises an outer water impermeable and/or friction reducing coating.
A bandage pressure sensing device as claimed in any preceding claim wherein the device is communicable with a separate electronics device.
bandage pressure sensing device as claimed in claim 48 wherein the separate electronics device is a computer or a controller.
A bandage pressure sensing device as claimed in any preceding claim wherein the pressure sensing device comprises a machine readable unique identifier to enable identification of device by the mobile application and/or an objective for leg measurement purposes.
A method of treating indications in a subject with a compression bandage comprising applying the compression bandage to the subject and sensing the pressure applied by the compression bandage to the subject with a bandage pressure sensing device comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.