Hybrid Compression Garment with Releasible Machine Coupling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Patients with limited dexterity face challenges in applying and removing active compression garments for therapy sessions, leading to decreased compliance and effectiveness of compression therapy due to the time-consuming nature of repeated application and removal.
Innovation Solution
A hybrid compression garment that combines static and active compression, featuring a sleeve with a connecting device for releasable connection to a machine, allowing for the transmission of force to constrict the sleeve without inflation, enabling seamless transition between static and active compression modes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If patients use separate active compression garments for therapy sessions, then active compression therapy effectiveness is improved, but patient compliance deteriorates due to time-consuming application and removal
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines static compression garment and active compression garment into a single hybrid garment system. The static compression sleeve can be worn continuously, and the active compression machine can be connected when therapy is needed, eliminating the need to apply and remove different garments and improving patient compliance while maintaining therapy effectiveness
Solution Approach 2:
The hybrid compression garment serves multiple functions: it provides static compression when worn alone and active compression when connected to the machine. This multi-functionality allows the same garment to be used for both daily wear and therapy sessions, reducing the number of garments needed and simplifying the application process
2Reliability
If patients apply and remove active compression garments before each therapy session, then compression therapy effectiveness is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The static compression sleeve is applied in advance and worn continuously, so when therapy is needed, the patient only needs to connect the machine rather than applying a new garment. This preliminary application of the base garment significantly reduces the time required before each therapy session
3Adaptability or versatility
If patients use separate static and active compression garments, then compression flexibility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The hybrid garment design allows a single sleeve to function in both static and active compression modes. The same sleeve provides static compression when worn alone and active compression when connected to the machine, reducing the number of separate garments needed and simplifying the overall system while maintaining compression flexibility
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AI summary
A hybrid compression garment comprises a sleeve adapted for placement on a limb of a person for applying static compression to the limb. A connecting device on the sleeve enables releasable connection of the sleeve to a machine. The machine is independent of the sleeve and operable to transmit, through the connecting device, a force to the sleeve that constricts the sleeve without inflating the sleeve to apply active compression to the limb. The connecting device is adapted for connection of the sleeve to the machine such that the sleeve can be used to apply active compression to the limb and adapted for disconnection of the sleeve from the machine such that the sleeve can be used to apply static compression to the limb. A method of applying compression to a limb of a person is also disclosed.