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Electrode
Revendications
  1. In a medical electrode of the type including an electrically conductive stud member and a first electrically conductive material for electrically coupling the electrode to skin the improvement comprising:
    a substrate including a second electrically conductive material substantially chemically inert with respect to said first electrically conductive material and electrically coupled to said stud member, and a layer of a third electrically conductive material ionically reactive with said first electrically conductive material when current is transmitted therebetween, said layer being disposed on said substrate physically spaced from said stud member and electrically interfacing with said first electrically conductive material so as to define an electrical path from said first electrically conductive material, through said layer to said second electrically conductive material and from said second electrically conductive material to said stud member.
  2. A medical electrode according to claim 1, wherein said layer of third electrically conductive material is disposed on said substrate in a pattern radially spaced from said stud member.
  3. A medical electrode according to claim 2, wherein said pattern of said layer is a ring disposed concentrically around said stud member.
  4. A medical electrode according to claim 3, wherein said substrate and said stud member are secured together.
  5. A medical electrode according to claim 1, wherein said layer of said third electrically conductive material is of a predetermined thickness and weight.
  6. A medical electrode according to claim 5, wherein said third electrically conductive material is silver.
  7. A medical electrode according to claim 6, wherein said first electrically conductive material includes negative ions and said silver ionically reacts with said negative ions as a function of time when a DC current is transmitted along said electrical path, wherein said predetermined thickness and weight is selected in part as a function of the expected level of said DC current so that said layer completely reacts with said first electrically conductive material at predetermined useful operating life.
  8. A medical electrode according to claim 7, wherein said negative ions are chloride ions and said layer reacts with said chloride ions to form silver chloride when a DC current is transmitted along said electrical path.
  9. A medical electrode according to claim 1, further including a sheet impervious to said first electrically conductive material disposed between said stud member and said first electrically conductive material.
  10. A medical electrode according to claim 1, further including a removable carrier sheet impervious to said first electrically conductive material and a porous pad which contains said first electrically conductive material and is in contact with said carrier sheet.
  11. A medical electrode according to claim 10, further including a ring of material secured to said substrate and having an aperture which receives said pad.
  12. A medical electrode according to claim 1, wherein said substrate includes an electrically conductive synthetic polymeric material.
Abrégé
An improved medical electrode is particularly adapted for transmitting DC currents. The electrode includes (1) an electrically conductive substrate electrically connected to a stud member and chemically inert with respect to the electrically and ionically conductive material, such as a gel, coupling the electrode to the skin of the user, and (2) a predetermined amount of an electrically-conductive material, preferably silver, disposed on the substrate in spaced relationship to the stud member and interfacing with the electrically and ionically conductive material.
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Examinateurs
Lee S. Cohen
Inventeurs
Robert L. Gomes, West Boxford MA
Joseph P. Maffione, Cambridge MA
Ayant-droit
Andover Medical Incorporated, Lowell MA
Date d’enregistrement
20 oct. 1983
Date de publication
18 févr. 1986
Date d'expiration prévue
20 oct. 2003
Mandataires
Grady J. Frenchick
Joseph F. Breimayer
John L. Rooney
Numéro de dépôt
06543695
IPC
A61B 504
A61N 104
Classification des États-Unis
128/639
128/641
128/803
Domaine de recherche
128/639.-641
128/643
128/644
128/783
128/798
128/802
128/803
Références brevet
US 3977392 (août, 1976) Manley 128/641
US 4166453 (sept., 1979) McClelland 128/639
US 4243051 (janv., 1981) Wittemann 128/802 X
US 4422461 (déc., 1983) Glumac 128/798