Portable thermoelectric hypothermia device

• US 3,327,713 A
• Filed: 06/18/1964
• Issued: 06/27/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William Eidus
• Original Assignee: William Eidus
• Inventors: WILLIAM EIDUS
• Application Number:
  US04/376,096
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• US Class Current: 607/96
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150129 by cooling
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 19/00 Local anaesthesia syringes therefor A61M5/00; Hypothermia A61M5/42 takes precedence; cooling blood in a bypass of the arterial system A61M1/36
• CPC Class Codes: F25B 21/04 reversible

Claims

1. A MEDICAL INSTRUMENT INCLUDING A THERMOCOUPLE ASSEMBLY HAVING HOT AND COLD JUNCTIONS, RESPECTIVE END WALLS ABUTTING SAID HOT AND COLD JUNCTIONS IN HEAT EXCHANGING RELATIONSHIP THEREWITH, A PLURALITY OF HEAT DISSIPATING MEMBERS, FIRST CONNECTING MEANS FOR RELEASABLY CONNECTING A SELECTED ONE OF SAID PLURALITY OF HEAT DISSIPATING MEMBERS WITH ONE OF SAID END WALLS AND FOR POSITIONING SAID SELECTED HEAT DISSIPATING MEMBER IN HEAT EXCHANGING RELATIONSHIP WITH SAID ONE END WALL, A PLURALITY OF APPLICATORS, SECOND CONNECTING MEANS FOR RELEASABLY CONNECTING A SELECTED APPLICATOR WITH THE OTHER OF SAID END WALLS IN HEAT EXCHANGING RELATIONSHIP THEREWITH, WHEREBY SAID PLURALITY OF APPLICATORS AND SAID PLURALITY OF HEAT DISSIPATING MEMBERS MAY BE INTERCHANGED TO PROVIDE A MEDICAL INSTRUMENT HAVING A DESIRED HEAT DISSIPATING MEMBER AND A DESIRED APPLICATOR, AND ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT MEANS FOR CONNECTING SAID THERMOCOUPLE ASSEMBLY TO A SOURCE OF POTENTIAL.