TREATMENT ARRANGEMENT, METHOD FOR PRODUCING A TREATMENT ARRANGEMENT

• US 20190308027A1
• Filed: 02/17/2017
• Published: 10/10/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: CINOGY GmbH
• Original Assignee: CINOGY GmbH
• Inventors: HAHNL, Mirko, TRUTWIG, Leonhard, STORCK, Karl-Otto, WANDKE, Dirk
• Granted Patent: US 11,660,459 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 13/00051 Accessories for dressings
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0468 Specially adapted for promoting wound healing
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0492 Patch electrodes A61N1/0412, A61N1/0428 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/40 Applying electric fields by inductive or capacitive coupling microwave apparatus A61N5/00; Applying radio-frequency signals
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/44 Applying ionised fluids ion generators H01J37/00
• CPC Class Codes: H05H 1/2406 using dielectric barrier discharges, i.e. with a dielectric interposed between the electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: H05H 1/2418 the electrodes being embedded in the dielectric
• CPC Class Codes: H05H 2277/10 Medical devices

Abstract

In a treatment arrangement for treating a surface, with a planar electrode array (2, 2′), to which an electrical voltage can be fed, and with a planar shielding layer (1) which is made of an insulating plastic and which at least partially surrounds the electrode array (2, 2′), a reliable and fixed connection between electrode array (2, 2′) and shielding layer (1) is achieved by the fact that the electrode array (2, 2′) is made of a pourable plastic provided with conductive additives and that, in the region of a boundary layer (22) between electrode array (2, 2′) and shielding layer (1), the plastics of the electrode array (2, 2′) and of the shielding layer (1) are connected to each other by material bonding.

Claims

1. A treatment arrangement for treating a surface, comprising:

a planar electrode arrangement to which an electric voltage can be supplied;

a planar shielding layer comprising an insulating plastic which at least partially encloses the electrode arrangement; and

a boundary layer between the electrode arrangement and the shielding layer,

wherein the electrode arrangement is formed from a pourable plastic with conductive additives,

wherein in a region of the boundary layer between the electrode arrangement and the shielding layer, the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of the shielding layer are connected to one another by a material-to-material joint.

2. The treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1, wherein the electrode arrangement is enclosed on all sides by the shielding layer with the shielding layer having at least one opening through which electrical connection to the electrode arrangement is made.

3. The treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1, further comprising at least one electrically conductive terminal of the electrode arrangement which is led out of the shielding layer.

4. The treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a contact arrangement for supplying the electrical voltage which is led through the shielding layer to the electrode arrangement.

5. The treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the shielding layer is profiled on a treatment side to form application surfaces between which air intermediate spaces for forming a plasma exist upon abutment of the treatment side of the treatment arrangement to a surface to be treated.

6. The treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a wound dressing surface formed on a treatment side of the treatment arrangement.

7. The treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of and the shielding layer are chemically identical.

8. The treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of and the shielding layer are both silicones.

9. The treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the shielding layer has sections protruding beyond a surface of the electrode arrangement, wherein the sections are formed to be adhesive toward a surface to be treated.

10. The treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the electrode arrangement is configured to be connectable to a pole of the electric voltage and is designed such that a surface to be treated functions as a counter electrode.

11. The treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the electrode arrangement has two electrode strips which are configured to be connectable to two voltage-conducting poles of the electric voltage.

12. The treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of the shielding layer are miscible with one another in a liquid state.

13. The treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1 wherein the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of the shielding layer are crosslinked with one another in the region of the boundary layer.

14. A treatment device comprising:

a treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1; and

a high-voltage supply device connected to the electrode arrangement to form a plasma between a planar treatment side of the treatment arrangement and a surface to be treated.

15. A method for producing a treatment arrangement as claimed in claim 1 comprising:

mixing with one another and in the liquid state at least in the region of the boundary surface between the electrode arrangement and the shielding layer the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of the shielding layer; and

jointly curing and/or crosslinking the plastic f the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of the shielding layer.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein at least one layer of the shielding layer and the plastic of the electrode arrangement are provided with the conductive additives in a liquid state and are introduced into a casting mold, and wherein the mixing step results in the boundary region between the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of the shielding layer, and wherein mixing step is performed prior to the jointly curing and/or crosslinking step.

17. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein one of the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of the shielding layer is partially crosslinked, and wherein in the mixing step is performed such that another of the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of the shielding layer is subsequently conducted onto the partially crosslinked one of the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of the shielding layer in the non-crosslinked state and a further crosslinking of the partially crosslinked one of the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of the shielding layer is carried out with crosslinking to the another of the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of the shielding layer.

18. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein one of the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of the shielding layer has crosslinkable functional groups in a crosslinked state, and wherein the material-to-material joint is produced with another of the plastic of the electrode arrangement and the insulating plastic of the shielding layer by a secondary crosslinking using the crosslinkable functional groups.