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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2012
Applicant:
Gary R. Bledsoe, Mansfield, TX (US);
Inventor:
Gary R. Bledsoe, Mansfield, TX (US);
Assignee:
Breg, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 7/00 (2006.01); A61F 7/10 (2006.01); A61F 7/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 7/10 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0056 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0244 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0257 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0268 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0273 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0274 (2013.01);
Abstract
A cold therapy system includes (i) a cooling bath structured to chill and hold chilled water; (ii) a pump positioned and arranged to pump the chilled water; (iii) a to-pad line positioned and arranged to hold chilled water pumped by the pump from the cooling bath; (iv) a from-pad line positioned and arranged to hold water returning to the cooling bath; and (v) a therapy pad in fluid communication with the to- and from-pad lines, the therapy pad including a patient-contacting chamber that is in heat exchange communication with a chilled-water chamber residing outside of the patient-contacting chamber when the therapy pad is donned.