Compression Device Liquid Guide Member Detachment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing compression devices struggle with easy detachment from the living body surface after hemostasis, potentially causing skin damage due to high adhesive forces.

Innovation Solution

A compression device with an adhesive sheet, an expandable expansion member, and a liquid guide member that allows release liquid to permeate, facilitating easy detachment by weakening the adhesive force through the capillary action of the liquid guide member.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a compression device uses a strong adhesive sheet to ensure secure attachment during hemostasis, then the attachment reliability is improved, but the ease of detachment deteriorates and skin damage risk increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveattachment reliabilityVSAvoidease of detachment
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The release liquid is applied in advance to the liquid guide member before the compression device is attached to the patient's body. This preliminary action allows the release liquid to be positioned exactly where needed, enabling easy detachment later without requiring additional application steps or causing skin damage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The liquid guide member acts as an intermediary component between the adhesive sheet and the patient's skin. It channels the release liquid to the interface between the adhesive and skin, mediating the detachment process by weakening the adhesive bond in a controlled manner, thus enabling easy removal without direct skin damage.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Stability of the object's composition

If the adhesive sheet maintains strong adhesion to ensure stable compression, then the compression stability is improved, but the skin irritation risk worsens during detachment

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompression stabilityVSAvoidskin irritation risk
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The release liquid is applied in advance to the liquid guide member before compression begins. This ensures that when detachment is needed, the release liquid is already in position to immediately weaken the adhesive bond, reducing skin irritation risk while maintaining compression stability during the compression phase.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The liquid guide member serves as an intermediary that delivers the release liquid precisely to the adhesive-skin interface. This controlled delivery mechanism allows the adhesive to maintain strong bonding during compression while providing a safe detachment path that minimizes skin irritation when removal is required.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enables the compression device to be easily detached from the living body surface without causing significant skin damage, reducing the risk of skin irritation and promoting efficient hemostasis.

Implementation Method 1

a liquid guide member into which a release liquid can permeate, the liquid guide member provided with a main body adhered in the adhesive surface of the adhesive sheet

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCapillary action: Capillary Action

Data Source

PatentUS20240423638A1Compression device and method for detaching compression device
Publication Date: 2024.12.26 TERUMO KK
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AI summary

A compression device according to the present disclosure is provided with an adhesive sheet provided with an adhesive surface that can be adhered to a living body surface, an expansion member including an expandable expansion portion, a base member fixed to a fixing surface on a side opposite to the adhesive surface of the adhesive sheet and capable of pressing the expansion portion in an expanded state toward the living body surface, and a liquid guide member into which a release liquid can permeate, the liquid guide member provided with a main body adhered in the adhesive surface of the adhesive sheet, and the main body extending to a position of an outer edge of the adhesive surface.