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Compression sleeve
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Inventors: Ben-Nun, Asher;
Assignee: Mego Afek Industrial Measuring Instruments (Doar Afek, IL)
Primary Examiner: Lucchesi; Nicholas D.
Assistant Examiner: Thanh; Quang D.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Browdy and Neimark, P.L.L.C.
A compression sleeve is made of a first and a second sheet of a flexible material each having distal and proximal end edges and two lateral edges extending therebetween. The sheets are connected one to the other by a plurality of longitudinal connection lines transverse to the lateral edges. Thus they form a plurality of longitudinal pressure cells each defined between a pair of connection lines and first and second strip regions of the respective first and second sheets. The width of the second strip region between said pair of connection lines is greater than the width of the first strip region. The pressure cells are inflatable and, when inflated to exert pressure on a body, the second strip region of one cell overlaps the second strip region of an immediately adjacent neighboring cell. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention suggests a novel compression sleeve having overlapping inflatable pressure cells.
The sleeve of the present invention has at least a portion thereof made of a first and a second sheet of a flexible material, each having distal and proximal end edges and two lateral edges extending therebetween; the sheets being connected one to the other by a plurality of longitudinal connection lines directed transversely to said lateral edges and thereby forming a plurality of longitudinal pressure cells each defined between a pair of connection lines which form first and second strip regions on the respective first and second sheets, a width of the second strip region between said pair of connection lines, at least in the majority of the cells, being greater than that of the first strip region, said cells being at least indirectly inflatable and, when inflated to exert pressure on a body, having said second strip region of one cell overlapping the second strip region of an immediately adjacent neighboring cell.
Preferably, said first and second sheets are made of a fluid-impervious material, and they are sealingly connected by said longitudinal connection lines and by lateral connection lines extending along said lateral edges, the first or the second strip region of each cell having a fluid opening to enable direct inflation of the cell.
This design is simple and easy to manufacture and it may be a cheap solution for disposable sleeves.
Alternatively, if desired, the longitudinal connection lines may be in the form of conventional sewn stretches and the cells may be adapted to receive therein fluid bags, such as for example in U.
S.
Pat.
No.
5,591,200.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, said second strip region of each cell is formed, along the longitudinal connection lines, with a pleat having a width of about half the difference between the widths of the first and second strip regions.
When this difference is about 50%, the width of the pleat and, therefore, the extent of the overlap between two immediately adjacent second strip regions is about 25%
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Heart Surgery 
