Device for fastening of sensors to the surface of the skin and a method for detecting the removal of sensors from the surface of the skin

• US 6,169,915 B1
• Filed: 11/04/1998
• Issued: 01/02/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ufz-Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle GmbH
• Original Assignee: Ufz-Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle GmbH
• Inventors: Krumbiegel, Peter, Rolle-Kampczyk, Ulrike
• Primary Examiner(s): Peffley, Michael
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ruddy, David M.
• Application Number:
  US09/117,709
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• Field of Search: 600/372, 600/382, 600/384, 600/386, 600/387, 600/391, 600/393, 600/346, 600/362, 600/573, 600/575, 600/584, 604/358
• US Class Current: 600/372
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/00 Measuring for diagnostic purposes radiation diagnosis A61B6/00; diagnosis by ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves A61B8/00; Identification of persons
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6833 Adhesive patches

Abstract

The present invention relates to a device for attaching sensors to the surface of the skin comprising a basic plaster 3 and a detection plaster 4 which comprises a recess so that a hollow space 5 is provided between the basic plaster 3 and the detection plaster 4. The hollow space may contain a dye solution, solid matter, or odor marker which escapes during the unauthorized removal of the sensor by tearing open the hollow space 5.

Claims

1. A device for attaching a sensor to the surface of the skin so as to fix the sensor to the skin, the device comprising:

a basic plaster having a supporting layer and an adhesive layer; and

a detection plaster having a supporting layer, a recess being provided in the supporting layer of the detection plaster, the supporting layer of the detection plaster being attachable to the adhesive layer of the basic plaster to provide a hollow space therebetween, the recess being a part of the hollow space, an adhesion strength between the supporting layer of said detection plaster and the adhesive layer of the basic plaster being less than

an adhesion strength between the basic plaster and the skin and

an adhesion strength between the detection plaster and the skin.

2. The attachment device according to claim 1, wherein a portion of the basic plaster covering the hollow space is without the adhesive layer, the supporting layer of the basic plaster adjacent the portion without the adhesive layer is formed of a transparent material.

3. The attachment device according to claim 2, wherein the transparent material is one of polyethylene or polypropylene.

4. The attachment device according to claim 1, wherein the hollow space contains at least one of a dye solution, a solid matter, an odorized substance or a gas.

5. The attachment device according to claim 1, wherein the hollow space contains a leuco dye.

6. The attachment device according to claim 1, wherein the hollow space contains a solid matter with at least one of a characteristic color and spatial structure.

7. The attachment device according to claim 1, wherein the hollow space contains a gas having a characteristic odor.

8. The attachment device according to claim 1, wherein the adhesion strength of both the basic plaster and the detection plaster with the skin is the same.

9. The attachment device according to claim 1, wherein the adhesion strength of the detection plaster to the skin is greater than the adhesion strength of the basic plaster to the skin.

10. A method for proving removal of the sensor from the surface of the skin using the attachment device according to claim 1, comprising the step of during the removal of a sensor which is attached to the skin by the attachment device, the basic plaster is peeled off of the skin while the detection plaster remains on the skin with an adhesive layer of the detection plaster thereby causing the hollow space to tear open and to thereby prove removal of the sensor.

11. The method according to claim 10 wherein proof of removal includes use of at least one of a dye solution, a solid matter, an odorized substance and a gas which is present inside the hollow space and which escapes from the hollow space during the removal of the sensor from the skin.

12. A method for proving removal of a sensor from skin, the method comprising the steps of:

fixing the sensor to the skin, the sensor being fixed by an attachment device, the attachment device including a basic plaster having a supporting layer and an adhesive layer, and the attachment device further including a detection plaster having a supporting layer and an adhesive layer, a recess being provided in the supporting layer of the detection plaster;

adhering the basic plaster on the skin and adhering the detection plaster on the skin during the step of fixing;

attaching the supporting layer of the detection plaster to the adhesive layer of the basic plaster to form a hollow space therebetween, the recess being a part of the hollow space;

providing adhesion strength between the supporting layer of the detection plaster and the adhesive layer of the basic plaster to be less than adhesion strength between the basic plaster and the skin and less than adhesion strength between the detection plaster and the skin;

peeling the basic plaster from the skin while the detection plaster remains on the skin with its adhesive layer during the removal of the sensor; and

tearing open the hollow space during the step of peeling in order to prove removal of the sensor.

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the use of at least one of a dye solution, a solid matter, an odorized substance and a gas which is present inside the hollow space and which escapes from the hollow space during the removal of the sensor from the skin.