Surgery: light – thermal – and electrical application – Light – thermal – and electrical application – Electrical energy applicator
Patent
1995-09-08
1997-09-02
Cohen, Lee S.
Surgery: light, thermal, and electrical application
Light, thermal, and electrical application
Electrical energy applicator
607 40, 607 41, 128761, 128778, A61N 104
Patent
active
056626991
ABSTRACT:
Methods, and apparatus used in the methods, for stimulating, and monitoring the exercise of, muscles near a body cavity by transmitting electrical energy between an electrical source or processor and the wall of the body cavity. A flexible airtight sheath with a resilient skeleton and outer conductive bands is collapsed by vacuum and inserted into the body cavity. Air is allowed to enter so that the skeleton expands the sheath and forces the conductive bands against the body cavity wall. The skeleton may be a foam member, internal ribs or a separate internal frame. The leads for conducting electrical energy to and from the bands may be embedded in the bands for a substantial portion of the band circumference, or the leads may be connected to the bands by piercing conductive mounds on the bands or by being joined to conductive straps on the bands.
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Hamedi Hassan
Lynch H. Wilfred
Weeks Vaughan B.
Cohen Lee S.
Huang Stephen
Myo Kinetic Systems, Inc.
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