Treatment Transducer for In Vivo Disinfection of Surfaces of Electrically Conductive Medical Devices,Parts and Components
AssigneeSolenic Medical, Inc.
InventorsJohn C. Tepper, Varun Sadaphal, Bibin Prasad, Sandy Huang, Andrei Mitrofan, Jason Fisher
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Abstract
A treatment transducer for a generator of alternating magnetic fields for in vivo disinfection of electrically conductive surfaces of medical implants, which may be used with a wide variety of implants and medical devices. The treatment head includes an enclosure for enveloping a portion of a body in which an implant is to be treated, and which contains a plurality of transducers for converting a radio-frequency signal to generating a shaped alternating magnetic field.
Claims16
An alternating magnetic field transducer for in vivo disinfection of electrically-conductive surfaces of medical devices, parts and components implanted internally into a patient body portion, comprising:
- a coil-holding form for positioning adjacent to a patient body portion having a electrically-conductive surface to be disinfected;
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- one or more coils physically held in a physical pattern and supported by the form, which, when excited by an excitation signal, generates a shaped electromagnetic field and provides focused induced heating of the electrically-conductive surface to be disinfected;
- thereby providing selective in vivo heating of the electrically-conductive surface and reducing heating of adjacent patient tissue.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.