US 12,409,061 B2
Apparatus for thermal therapy treatment of a selected region of the body of a human or of an animal and method of operating said apparatus
Christian Stegmann, Burgberg im Allgäu (DE)
Assigned to HILOTHERM HOLDING AG, Oberwil b. Zug (CH)
Filed by HILOTHERM HOLDING AG, Oberwil b. Zug (CH)
Filed on Jul. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/365,957.
Claims priority of application No. 20206941 (EP), filed on Nov. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0142814 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. A61F 7/02 (2006.01); A61F 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 7/02 (2013.01) [A61F 7/0085 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0018 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0055 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0217 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0252 (2013.01); A61F 2007/0287 (2013.01)] 34 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for use in the thermal therapy treatment of a selected region of the body of a human or of an animal, and in particular for use in the treatment of tissue damage after surgical interventions, of injuries, of inflammations and of chronic diseases of the rheumatic type, and in particular for assisting chemotherapeutic treatments, comprising:
a temperature control device which is provided in order to control a temperature of a temperature control fluid;
a heat transfer device which is arranged to transfer heat to the selected region of the body,
wherein the temperature control device is connected, in a fluid conducting manner, to the heat transfer device, and is further arranged to temper the heat transfer device with a heat transferring temperature control fluid flowing through the heat transfer device,
a control device which is connected to the temperature control device and to the heat transfer device,
wherein the control device is arranged to control the temperature control device, in order to cause the heat transfer device to be at least partially at an approximately uniform temperature in the region of a contact surface between the heat transfer device and the selected region of the body to be temperature controlled,
a pressure device,
wherein the pressure device comprises at least one pressure unit, and a support device, wherein the pressure unit is attached to the support device, and the pressure unit is provided so as to at least partially subject the heat transfer unit to a pressure, wherein the pressure unit comprises a body of an elastic material which is adapted to at least partially increase a contact pressure of the heat transfer device on the selected region,
wherein the pressure unit has a volume, wherein the entire volume of the pressure unit is made of the elastic material.