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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2002
Mark Thomas Bieberich, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Ryan S. Augustine, Bloomington, MN (US);
Scott D. Augustine, Bloomington, MN (US);
Mark Christopher Albrecht, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Mark Thomas Bieberich, Minnetonka, MN (US);
Ryan S. Augustine, Bloomington, MN (US);
Scott D. Augustine, Bloomington, MN (US);
Mark Christopher Albrecht, Chanhassen, MN (US);
Arizant HealthCare Inc., Eden Prairie, MN (US);
Abstract
An adaptor enables a convective treatment system to be modified for cooling by providing a bath of pressurized, cooled air intended to lower the body core temperature of a person. The adaptor may be constructed for being coupled between a blower assembly that provides a stream of pressurized air and a convective treatment device that receives the stream of pressurized air, distributes it, and provides it for bathing the body of a person in a general bath of cooled air in order to produce a desired clinical effect such as prevention or alleviation of hyperthermia or for thermal comfort. Such an adaptor may be embodied as an enclosure having a shaped internal cavity. The shape is useful for effectively and efficiently distributing a flow of pressurized over, around and through a bed of ice disposed in the cavity. Ports are provided in the enclosure for introducing a flow of pressurized air into, and receiving a flow of pressurized air from, the cavity.