Disposable external defibrillator with hinged housing halves

• US 7,072,712 B2
• Filed: 06/13/2002
• Issued: 07/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kroll Family Trust
• Original Assignee: Kroll Family Trust
• Inventors: Kroll, Mark W., Kroll, Kai, Kroll, Karl J. F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Schaetzle, Kennedy
• Application Number:
  US10/171,904
• Publication Number:
  US 20020156506A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,482 Days
• Field of Search: 607/36, 607/5, 607/2, 607/142, 607/153
• US Class Current: 607/5
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3904 External heart defibrillators [EHD]
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3975 Power supply A61N1/378 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4257 Smart batteries, e.g. electronic circuits inside the housing of the cells or batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 10/4264 with capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: H01M 6/36 containing electrolyte and made operational by physical means, e.g. thermal cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/10 Energy storage using batteries

Abstract

A pocket-sized disposable cardiac defibrillator relies on the use on a split unit packaging design to decrease the size.

Claims

1. An external defibrillator

built of two separate housing halves linked by a flexible link,

which is a hinged mechanism,

with a first housing half containing at least one capacitor

and a first external defibrillation electrode mechanically attached to the first housing half

and a second housing half containing circuitry

and a second external defibrillation electrode mechanically attached to the second housing half

cooperating to deliver a shock to a human chest through the two defibrillation electrodes.