Apparatus and method for treatment of tissue
AssigneeThermage, Inc.
InventorRoger A. Stern
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Abstract
An apparatus to treat the skin includes a template having a tissue interface surface and an energy delivery device coupled to the template. The energy delivery device is configured to be coupled to a power source and has a variable resistance portion. A sensor is coupled to one of the template, the energy delivery device, the tissue interface surface or a power source coupled to the energy delivery device. In another embodiment the variable resistance portion configured to reduce an electrode edge effect
Claims60
An apparatus for treating a tissue, comprising:
- a handpiece assembly;
- a dielectric electrode coupled to the handpiece assembly and including at least one RE electrode with a front surface and a back surface that is physically and electrically coupled to a back surface of a dielectric, at least a portion of the dielectric configured to contact a tissue surface;
- a cooling media delivery member coupled to the dielectric electrode and configured to deliver a cooling media to the back surface of the RF electrode;
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- a sensor coupled to the dielectric electrode.
An apparatus for treating to skin, comprising:
- a handpiece;
- and
- a dielectric electrode coupled to the handpiece and including at least One RF electrode with a front surface and a back surface that is physically and electrically coupled to a back surface of a dielectric, at least a portion of the dielectric configured to contact a skin surface;
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- a sensor coupled to the dielectric electrode.
An apparatus for treating the skin, comprising:
- a handpiece;
- and
- an energy delivery device coupled to tie handpiece, the energy delivery device having a conductive portion and a dielectric portion, the energy delivery device configured to be coupled to a power source, at least a portion of the dielectric portion configured to contact a skin surface;
- a cooling media delivery member coupled to the energy delivery device;
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- a sensor coupled to one of the energy delivery device, the energy delivery device, the tissue interface surface or a power source coupled to the energy delivery device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.