Patents by Inventor Paulien SMITS

Paulien SMITS has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240042225
    Abstract: A treatment pad for a dielectric barrier discharge plasma treatment of a tissue to be treated of an electrically conducting body, which tissue is used as a counter electrode, said treatment pad comprising: a treatment zone, arranged for at least covering the tissue to be treated; a pattern of one or more active areas, integrated in the treatment zone and arranged for generating a dielectric barrier discharge plasma, each said one or more active areas comprising: a first electrode to be coupled to a high voltage power source; a dielectric formed by a coating or foil of a flexible material so that the dielectric shields the first electrode from the tissue to be treated; and a spacer comprising a structured surface of protrusions adjacent a side of the dielectric facing the tissue to be treated; wherein the treatment zone comprises a complementary pattern of non-active areas, such that a complementary part of the tissue to be treated is covered by the said one or more active areas when the treatment pad is reapp
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Paulien SMITS, Sofie BASELMANS, Elisabeth Frieda DE RIDDER, Jeroen Antoine Jozef MULDER, Wouter Bastiaan ZEPER
  • Patent number: 11558953
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high voltage source to be coupled to an electrode arrangement for a dielectric barrier discharge plasma treatment. It has a high voltage transformer device including a primary and secondary inductor coupled via a magnetic circuit. A feed circuit including a power capacitor, the power capacitor coupled with the primary inductor and a first controllable conductor in series. A controller is arranged to intermittent switching of the first controllable conductor in on- and off-states; and a second controllable conductor is coupled in parallel to the primary windings; the controller arranged to switch the second controllable conductor to a conducting on-state when the first controllable conductor is in an on-state to short the resonating current in the primary inductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: PLASMACURE B.V.
    Inventors: Douwe Henrik de Vries, Paulien Smits, Wouter Bastiaan Zeper
  • Patent number: 11517757
    Abstract: An electrode arrangement is described that is configured to be coupled to a high voltage source for a dielectric barrier discharge plasma treatment of an irregularly three-dimensionally shaped surface of an electrically conducting body. The three-dimensionally shaped surface is used as a counter electrode. A first planar electrode is coupled to the high voltage source via a first lead, fitted to the object to be treated and brought in contact with a dielectric. A second electrode is contacted with the surface to be treated as reference electrode. The second electrode is provided in an edge portion that is circumferential to the first planar electrode and configured to be coupled to a reference voltage source via a second lead. An isolating cover layer covers the electrode and a third electrode covers the isolating cover layer as a ground electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: PlasmaCure B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Pieter de Penning, Paulien Smits, Wouter Bastiaan Zeper
  • Publication number: 20210360768
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrode arrangement to be coupled to a high voltage source for a dielectric barrier discharge plasma treatment of a to be treated tissue of a patient, which treatment surface is used as a counter electrode, having a plasma generating to be coupled to the high voltage source via a first lead; a dielectric shielding the plasma generating from the surface to be treated; a spacer defining a structured surface on a side of said arrangement facing a surface to be treated, said plasma generating being fitted to the object to be treated and brought in contact with the dielectric, a driver circuit for driving the plasma generating coupled to said high voltage source, wherein the driver circuit drives the plasma generating in a first voltage; said driver arranged to simultaneously drive the plasma generating at a second voltage, wherein first and second voltages combined do not exceed a range of 3-8 k V.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Wouter Bastiaan ZEPER, Paulien SMITS, Johannes Pieter DE PENNING, Matthijs Andreas VAN OORT
  • Publication number: 20200396820
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high voltage source to be coupled to an electrode arrangement for a dielectric barrier discharge plasma treatment. It has a high voltage transformer device including a primary and secondary inductor coupled via a magnetic circuit. A feed circuit including a power capacitor, the power capacitor coupled with the primary inductor and a first controllable conductor in series.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Douwe Henrik de Vries, Paulien Smits, Wouter Bastiaan Zeper
  • Publication number: 20200069956
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrode arrangement to be coupled to a high voltage source for a dielectric barrier discharge plasma treatment of an irregularly three-dimensionally shaped surface of an electrically conducting body, which surface is used as a counter electrode. A first electrode is coupled to the high voltage source via a first lead, fitted to the object to be treated and brought in contact with a dielectric. A second electrode is contacted with the surface to be treated as reference electrode, said second electrode provided in an edge portion being circumferential to the first electrode and to be coupled to a reference voltage source via a second lead. An isolating cover layer covers the electrode and a third electrode covers said isolating cover layer as a ground electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: PlasmaCure B.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Pieter de PENNING, Paulien SMITS, Wouter Bastiaan ZEPER