Flexible ring pessary
AssigneeVivoSensMedical GmbH
InventorsHolger Runkewitz, Andreas Ziegner
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Abstract
The present disclosure suggests an apparatus for determining at least one parameter in the vaginal channel of a user. The apparatus comprises a flexible pessary and a measurement unit comprising at least one sensor for measuring the at least one vaginal parameter. The measurement unit is reversibly mountable to the flexible pessary.
Claims19
An apparatus for determining at least one parameter in a vaginal channel, the apparatus comprising:
- a flexible pessary;
- and
- a removable measurement unit comprising a housing, at least one sensor, and a transmitter unit, wherein the at least one sensor and the transmitter unit are arranged inside and enclosed by the housing of the removable measurement unit,
- wherein the housing of the measurement unit is reversibly mountable to the flexible pessary;
- and
- wherein the flexible pessary is reversibly deformable.
An apparatus for determining at least one parameter in a vaginal channel, the apparatus comprising:
- a removable measurement unit comprising at least one sensor and a transmitter unit in a rigid and sealed housing;
- and
- an annular pessary, made from a reversibly deformable flexible material and comprising a rigid and sealed housing receiving section,
- wherein the removable measurement unit is reversibly mountable to the annular pessary.
A method for determining at least one parameter in the vaginal channel of a user, the method comprising:
- mounting a removable measurement unit comprising at least one sensor and at least one transmitter unit in a sealed housing to a reversibly deformable flexible pessary;
- placing the flexible pessary with the removable measurement unit in the vagina;
- determining the at least one parameter;
- removing the flexible pessary with the removable measurement unit from the vagina;
- and
- removing the removable measurement unit from the flexible pessary.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.