Patent ID: 6846295
Filing Date: 2005-01-25
Classification: A61F,A61H,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A compression sleeve at least a portion of which is made of a first and a second sheet of a flexible fluid-impervious material, each having distal and proximal end edges and two lateral edges extending therebetween; the sheets being sealingly fixed to each other by a plurality of longitudinal connection lines directed transversely to said lateral edges and by lateral connection lines extending along said lateral edges, thereby forming a plurality of longitudinal pressure cells each defined between a pair of connection lines, the pair of connecting lines defining first and second strip regions on the respective first and second sheets, a width of the second strip region between said pair of connection lines, at least in the majority of the cells, being greater than that of the first strip region, to form pleats along the longitudinal connection lines, which are kept in their pleated states by said lateral connection lines, the first or second strip region of each pressure cell having a fluid opening to enable direct inflation of the cell, said pressure cells, when inflated to exert pressure on a body, having said second strip region of one cell overlapping the second strip region of an immediately adjacent neighboring cell.