Wearable devices
AssigneeCarl Turner
InventorCarl Turner
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Abstract
This disclosure provides self-applied wearable devices configured to electrically stimulate a user, generate and/or collect a user's electrophysiological data via electrodes, in contact with the outer layer of skin, that hydrate the skin surface using iontophoresis, reverse iontophoresis, and/or a combination thereof. The wearable devices provided herein increase conductivity and/or move biological ions and/or polar molecules from the electrode into the outer skin layer of skin surface to reduced impedance between the outer skin layer and electrode, wherein the impedance between electrodes is matched and/or minimized. This disclosure also provides systems comprising the same, and methods for making and using the same.
Claims16
A self-applied wearable device configured to electrically stimulate a user, generate and/or collect a user's electrophysiological data, comprising one or more electrodes wherein said one or more electrodes are in contact with an outer layer of a skin surface of the user and hydrate the outer layer of the skin via iontophoresis, reverse iontophoresis, and/or a combination thereof to move biological ions and/or polar molecules from beneath the skin surface into the outer skin surface to increase conductivity and/or to move the molecules from the electrode into the outer skin layer of skin surface to reduced impedance between the outer skin layer and electrode, and wherein the impedance between electrodes is matched and/or minimized.
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