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US 8,911,371 B2Granted
Transducer holder
OwnerSamuel George, Abdul Raheem Haloobinventors
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Abstract
A transducer holder for holding a transducer in signal-receiving contact with a patient's body, the holder comprising: a base adherently attachable to the patient's skin; and a retainer attached or attachable to the base; wherein, in use, the retainer holds the transducer in signal-receiving contact with the patient's body and retains the transducer in the holder.
Claims21
A transducer holder for holding a transducer in signal-receiving contact with a patient's body, the holder comprising:
- a base adherently attachable to the patient's skin;
- and
- a retainer attached or attachable to the base;
- wherein, in use, the retainer holds the transducer in signal-receiving contact with the patient's body and retains the transducer in the holder;
- and
- wherein the retainer is an elastically deformable membrane or one or more bands which, in use, extends over the transducer held by the holder and deforms elastically to accommodate the transducer, such that elastic restoring forces exerted by the retainer retain the transducer within the holder, and cause a net force to act on the transducer pushing it against the patient's skin;
- wherein the transducer holder comprises an elongate strip of flexible material that includes an elastically extensible central portion that defines the retainer, and two or more end portions that together at least partially define the base;
- and
- wherein, when the base is adherently attached to the patient's skin, the retainer partially defines the insertion opening for the transducer and the end portions define an aperture of the base through which the transducer is presented to the patient's skin.
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A transducer holder for holding a transducer in signal-receiving contact with a patient's body, the holder comprising:
- an adhesive layer having a removable backing layer on one side of the adhesive layer;
- a flexible disc having a disc opening such that the flexible disc is an annular ring, said annular ring adhesively attached to the side of the adhesive layer opposite that of the backing layer, wherein said disc opening is sized to snugly receive the transducer;
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- an elastic retainer configured to retain the transducer in signal-receiving contact with the patient's skin;
- wherein the adhesive layer comprises an opening sized to snugly receive the transducer, said adhesive layer opening is oriented in alignment with the disc opening such that the disc opening and the adhesive layer opening together form a transducer-receiving opening
- wherein the transducer holder comprises an elongate strip of flexible material that includes an elastically extensible central portion that defines the retainer, and two or more end portions that together at least partially define the annular ring;
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- wherein, when the annular ring is adherently attached to the patient's skin, the retainer partially defines the insertion opening for the transducer and the end portions define an aperture of the annular ring through which the transducer is presented to the patient's skin.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.