US 11,986,433 B2
Shock wave apparatus
Pavel Novak, Stetten (CH); Manfred Schulz, Tägerwilen (CH); Stephan Swart, Moers (DE); and Carlo DiMaio, Duisburg (DE)
Assigned to Storz Medical AG, Taegerwilen (CH)
Appl. No. 16/603,650
Filed by STORZ MEDICAL AG, Tägerwilen (CH)
PCT Filed Apr. 12, 2018, PCT No. PCT/EP2018/059379
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 8, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/189285, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 18, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 17020149 (EP), filed on Apr. 12, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0113777 A1, Apr. 16, 2020
Int. Cl. A61H 23/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/225 (2006.01); A61H 23/04 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61H 23/008 (2013.01) [A61B 17/2251 (2013.01); A61H 23/04 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00544 (2013.01); A61H 2201/1664 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus for treating a human or animal body, having
an applicator for an extraneous application onto the body,
a housing in which said applicator is held, and
a mechanism for generating strokes of said applicator in a stroke direction relative to the housing such that said applicator is adapted to couple said strokes into said body in an impact direction so that the mechanism is adapted to impart impacts into said body when said applicator is applied thereon,
wherein said applicator has a front face with a concave shape facing forwardly in the impact direction and adapted for being applied onto said body, said applicator at said front face having a softness resulting from the applicator at the concave shape front face consisting of an elastomeric material having a Shore A hardness of at most 60 Sh, wherein said elastomeric material has a thickness at said concave shape of at least 3 mm in said impact direction.