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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2002
Filed:
Mar. 11, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Jakob Barak, Oranit, IL;
Assignee:
Medical Compression Systems (D. B. N.), Caesarea, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61H 1/900 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61H 1/900 ;
Abstract
A device for applying pressure to a body limb comprises a sleeve containing individually inflatable cells, each cell being subdivided into longitudinally extending confluent compartments that are inflated and deflated essentially simultaneously. A messaging sleeve, an inflation unit for intermittent inflation of selected cells of the sleeve, and a detecting unit for detecting a temporo-spatial regime of cell inflation are provided. Applications include immobilization of fractured bones, and messaging of limbs to promote blood flow.