Surgery – Magnetic field applied to body for therapy – Magnetic element placed within body
Patent
1998-03-31
2000-12-12
Lacyk, John P.
Surgery
Magnetic field applied to body for therapy
Magnetic element placed within body
A61M 3700
Patent
active
061591459
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to an appetite adjusting tool capable of restricting an appetite of a person by changing the person's sense of taste when the tool is inserted into an ear.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
In recent years, people are becoming more concerned about dieting as they tend to have increasing interest in more healthy life. Overweight persons challenge diet for preventing adult diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes, especially, females tend to enter on various forms of diet for maintaining their health and shapes.
Conventional methods of diet have basically been focused on how to reduce the volume of a meal or how to reduce caloric intake. However, in general, it is difficult to make persons establish a habit of taking low-calorie food for a long period of time, and some persons will abandon their efforts in the middle.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the present invention to provide an appetite adjusting tool for making a person restrict the intake of sweets having high calorific values by making the person sense a sweet taste of a food as a bitter taste when the tool is inserted into the external auditory canal of the ear of the person.
In order to achieve the above-described object, an appetite adjusting tool according to the present invention includes a stimulus giving section which has a cross section that can be inserted into the external auditory canal of the ear of a person, and provides a magnetic stimulus to nerves which give an influence to the sense of taste and appetite from a predetermined position of an internal wall of the external auditory canal.
The rear end of the stimulus giving section in the direction of insertion of the appetite adjusting tool into the external auditory canal may be connected to a bar member of a predetermined length extending along the direction of insertion. Alternatively, the appetite adjusting tool may be composed of only the stimulus giving section without the bar member.
Preferably, the stimulus giving section is composed of a non-magnetic hollow unit and a magnet fixedly arranged within this hollow unit. The magnet has a shape extending long in the direction of insertion into the external auditory canal, and any one side of the magnet may be an N pole or an S pole.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a front view of an appetite adjusting tool according to one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a front view of an appetite adjusting tool according to a first modification of one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 is a front view of an appetite adjusting tool according to a second modification of one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 is a cross sectional view of the appetite adjusting tool shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 5A is a perspective view of one element for structuring a magnet to be used in the appetite adjusting tool shown in FIG. 4;
FIG. 5B is an enlarged view of a principal portion showing that the magnet in the appetite adjusting tool shown in FIG. 4 is made up by accumulating a plurality of magnets shown in FIG. 5A;
FIG. 5C is an enlarged view of a principal portion showing that the positions of the N pole and the S pole in the appetite adjusting tool may be opposite to those shown in FIG. 5B;
FIG. 6A is an enlarged view of a principal portion showing that the magnet in the appetite adjusting tool shown in FIG. 4 is composed of a single magnet unlike the cases of FIG. 5B and FIG. 5C;
FIG. 6B is an enlarged view of a principal portion showing that the magnet in the appetite adjusting tool shown in FIG. 4 is composed of the magnet shown in FIG. 6A;
FIG. 6C is an enlarged view of a principal portion showing that the position of the N pole and S pole in the appetite adjusting tool may be opposite those shown in FIG. 6B;
FIG. 7 is a front view of an appetite adjusting tool as a second embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a cross sectional view of the appetite adjusting tool shown in FIG. 7;
FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining an effect of an appe
REFERENCES:
Microfilm of the specification and drawings annexed to the written application of Japanese Utility Model Application No. 30738/1978 (Laid-Open No. 133994/1979) (Tomio Sudo), Sep. 17, 1979.
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