Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Valleylab, Inc.

Sherwood Services Ag

Jan E Carr

Gene H Arts

Yung Hsiang Huang

Garry Roland Woltman

Sara Jane Wille Stabelfeldt

John Edward Kerins

Christopher Martin Pieper

Michael D Lontine

Deanna R Kathumbi-Jackson

Karen T Kuk-Nagle

Brian A Millberg

A method of designing a product for use on a body used to develop a preferred product configuration using a computer-based virtual product development and testing system. A virtual wearer sub-model is created of the body and a virtual product sub-model is created of a product for use on the body. An environment sub-model is generated so that environmental factors affecting the product or the body are also used in designing or evaluating the product. Instructions defining how the wearer sub-model, the product sub-model and the environment sub-model interact are introduced in an interaction model. The sub-models and the interaction defined by the interaction model are then combined to create a virtual use model simulating the use of the virtual product sub-model by the virtual wearer sub-model. The use model determines the forces, deformations and stresses caused by movement and interaction between the virtual wearer sub-model and the virtual product sub-model using numerical method analysis. The results of the use model are analyzed to evaluate the performance of product features embodied in the virtual product sub-model such as when positioned on a virtual wearer and exposed to typical movements or forces. The analysis evaluates the performance of at least one product feature of the product and/or wearer body. The product sub-model is then modified in response to the determined performance of the product feature and the steps of interacting the models and combining the models are reperformed in the use model to design the product.

Method of designing a product worn on a body in a virtual environment

A design and method of manufacture is disclosed for an electrosurgical electrode with a silicone coating. The coating resists the buildup of eschar. The silicone material is thick enough in the flat area of the blade to withstand the electrosurgical voltage without breakdown. The electrosurgical current path is primarily through the blade edges and tip. The flat of the blade remains insulated under most conditions. The relatively thick coating also provides high tear strength and added durability. The composition of the electrode coatings may include silicone elastomers in the form of adhesives, dispersions, or liquid rubbers. The coating composition may also contain adhesion promoters, heat stabilizers, plasticizers, release enhancers, crosslinking agents, and colorants. Several methods of manufacture are illustrated by way of examples.

Coated electrosurgical electrode

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Denver, CO, United States of America

Jan E Carr