Surgery: kinesitherapy – Kinesitherapy – Vibrator
Reexamination Certificate
1999-06-09
2001-08-21
Yu, Justine R. (Department: 3764)
Surgery: kinesitherapy
Kinesitherapy
Vibrator
C601S078000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06277085
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The field of the invention pertains to vibrators that stimulate the skin and underlying tissue for medicinal treatment or for sensual pleasure. In particular, the invention pertains to small hand held electric massagers and vibrators that are held against the skin for treatment or pleasure.
Heretofore, electrical and mechanical skin vibrators have been designed to operate at a single constant amplitude and frequency or, with selection means, at any one of several preset constant amplitudes and frequencies. Thus, the user could adjust the frequency and amplitude to a different setting if desired, however the choice of settings was limited and unmodulated.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The new skin vibrator converts simple or complex electrical waveforms into simple or complex mechanical waveforms or vibrations that are applied to the skin and underlying tissues. The complex waveforms may be completely random in response to the output of a random electrical noise generator, or non-random but complex in response to music or speech. In effect, random acoustic vibrations or musical vibrations are induced in the skin and underlying tissue.
The new skin vibrator comprises a generally tubular or oblong hollow body closed at one end. Adjacent the closed end is an electric solenoid having a relatively heavy permanent magnet solid rod within the solenoid. The solid rod is free to move back and forth along the solenoidal axis but is constrained to remain within the solenoid by resilient partial damping means at each end of the solenoid. The damping means also contact the inside wall of the tubular body.
Attached to the solenoid are a pair of wires leading from the tubular body open end and connected to a signal generator or loudspeaker electric driver output. In an alternative embodiment the body is oblong and closed at both ends with the wires exiting the body at one end.
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Deimen James M.
Yu Justine R.
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