US 7,502,654 B2
Electrode device having recessed part
Kenji Mori, Tsukuba (Japan); Hiroyuki Maeda, Tsukuba (Japan); Naruhito Higo, Tsukuba (Japan); Shuji Sato, Kawasaki (Japan); Yasushi Fuchita, Tokyo (Japan); Tatsuya Ogawa, Tokyo (Japan); and Saori Takahashi, Tokyo (Japan)
Assigned to Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co., Inc., Saga (Japan)
Appl. No. 10/517,535
PCT Filed Jun. 11, 2003, PCT No. PCT/JP03/07406
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Sep. 12, 2005,
PCT Pub. No. WO03/105949, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 24, 2003.
Claims priority of application No. 2002-171985 (JP), filed on Jun. 12, 2002.
Prior Publication US 2006/0206186 A1, Sep. 14, 2006
Int. Cl. A61N 1/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 607—153 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrode device, comprising:
(a) a substrate film including:
(i) a cup portion having a recess, a bottom disposed adjacent one end of the recess, and a periphery disposed adjacent an end of the recess opposite the bottom, said cup portion opened upward;
(ii) an outward flange section surrounding the periphery of the cup portion, and disposed in communication therewith, and
(iii) a deformed portion formed in the outward flange section, so as to surround the periphery of the cup portion, said deformed portion operable to cause the outward flange section of the substrate film to project or hollow; and
(b) an electrode layer printed on the substrate film, including:
(i) an electrode body arranged on the bottom of the cup portion; and
(ii) an electrode lead section extending from the bottom of the cup portion, up the recess, and over the outward flange section on the substrate film.