Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61N—ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY
  • A61N2/00—Magnetotherapy
  • A61N2/02—Magnetotherapy using magnetic fields produced by coils, including single turn loops or electromagnets
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
  • A61N—ELECTROTHERAPY; MAGNETOTHERAPY; RADIATION THERAPY; ULTRASOUND THERAPY
  • A61N2/00—Magnetotherapy
  • A61N2/06—Magnetotherapy using magnetic fields produced by permanent magnets

Definitions

• This invention relates to treatment of living bodies and relates particularly, but not exclusively, to treatment of the human body.
• mag ⁇ etotherapy can improve certain conditions in human bodies. This therapy is thousands of years old but recent work by Dr. Jean-Bernard Baron of National Scientific Research Centre in Paris, France has documented that considerable improvement can be achieved in connection with a wide range of disorders including convergence of the eye, scoliosis, hemiphlegia, facial paralysis, muscle contractures, arthritis, tendonitis, synovitis, tension headache, post-operative and other pain, and sports injuries.
• the practice of magnetotherapy involves applying small permanent magnets across the affected areas so that a flux will flow into the human body.
• Many devices have been created for applying the flux of the permanent magnets to the body.
• One recent innovation involves the use of permanent magnets embedded within a blanket upon which a patient lies or which is placed over the patient. Contact is made with the affected area so that flux can flow into the body.
• Object and Statement of the Invention The application of permanent magnets directly to the skin of the human body across the affected area is considered to be generally unpleasant and partly troublesome to implement. In the case of the magnetic blankets, good magnetic contact with the surface of the skin across the affected area is not always possible. Accordingly, enhanced treatment could be provided if the magnetic flux could be applied electrically to the human body across the affected area. Accordingly it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for electrically simulating the treatment which can be produced by magnetotherapy.
• a first broad aspect of the present invention may reside in a method of treating a living body for the purpose of simulating the treatment which can be produced by magnetotherapy comprising: (a) providing a permanent magnet within an electrical coil of a D-block transition metal;
• a further broad aspect of the present invention relates to apparatus for treating a living body for simulating the treatment which can be provided by magnetotherapy comprising: electrical circuit means having a coil of a D-block transition metal, a permanent magnet mounted within said coil, and conductors of a D-block transition metal connectable with said coil and being for application to the living body, electrical power providing means within said circuit means for permitting a current to flow through said coil in a direction to enhance the magnetic flux in said coil and to simultaneously permit a further current to flow through said conductors and through said living body when connected with said conductors whereby a magnetic flux can be provided in said conductors and passed through the living body.
• said electric circuit means contains electric accelerating means for accelerating electrons carrying said further current. It is particularly preferred that the apparatus be battery driven, and that the battery be rechargeable from mains AC power.
• Figure 1 is a block schematic circuit diagram of an example of the preferred apparatus
• Figures 2A and 2B are a detailed circuit diagrams of the apparatus shown in Figure 1;
• Figures 3, 4 and 5 are graphs showing waveforms provided in the apparatus; and
• FIG. 6 is a block schematic circuit diagram of the apparatus shown in Figures 1-2 showing current flow.
• Figure 1 there is shown a block schematic circuit diagram of the example of the preferred apparatus.
• a main circuit 1 which has a pair of output terminals 3 and 5.
• Output terminal 3 can be considered a north magnetic pole and output terminal 5 can be considered a south magnetic pole.
• current will flow along conductor means which is connected with the terminals 3 and 5 to cause a current to flow into the living body such as a human body.
• the current will carry magnetic flux as will be explained hereinafter.
• the main circuit 1 is powered by a battery 7.
• the battery 7 is preferably rechargeable from a battery charging circuit 9 which is connectable with mains AC power.
• an inverter circuit 11 for producing two voltage outputs 10 and 12, a power control circuit 13, an electromagnetic circuit 15, a permanent magnet 17, a voltage amplifier circuit 19 and an output circuit 21.
• the electromagnetic circuit 15 contains a coil 23 of a D-block transition metal.
• the coil 23 is sufficiently large to receive a permanent magnet 17 therethrough.
• Conductors 21' of a D-block transition metal electrically connect with the coil in the electromagnetic circuit 15.
• the following theory is thought to be applicable as to how the magnetic flux can transfer from the permanent magnet 23 in the electromagnetic circuit 15 to the conductors 21.
• the magnetic particles within the permanent magnet 17 are basically orientated in one direction in order that the permanent magnet will have a north and south pole. The orientation is not complete as all the particles do not align themselves in parallel but merely in a general direction such that there will be a north and a south pole predominating.
• Application of the current to the coil 23 in the electromagnetic circuit 15 is in a direction which will enhance the magnetic flux in the permanent magnet 23. This, in turn, creates an intensive electromagnet flux in the permanent magnet 17 which will have a positive electromagnetic charge.
• the D-block transition metal from which the coil is made is within the magnetic flux which is now highly and intensely concentrated to be directed between the north and south poles of the permanent magnet.
• the D-block transition metal from which the coil 23 is made is characterized by having paired electrons which are readily free. These electrons have a negative atomic charge and are attracted to the positive electromagnetic charge created by the intense magnetic flux. Thus, the paired electrons, because of their attraction to the positive electromagnetic charge, will carry the attracted positive electromagnetic charge as the electrons flow through the conductor.
• a current flows directly through the permanent magnet and such current carries with it a magnetic flux from the intensified flux in the permanent magnet.
• the current flowing through coil 27 and through permanent magnet are combined to produce a current carrying the magnetic flux.
• the D-block transition metal can be said to have loose paired electrons at the outer shell (which is said D-orbital). This renders such metals oxiditic over wide ranges of states. Such metals are dense and high melting and exhibit very high thermal and electrical conductivity and are therefore able to carry the magnetic flux in a condensed and uniform state.
• the voltage amplifier 19 provides a high potential which is applied to an output circuit 21.
• the output circuit 21 does not electrically connect with the conductors 21 but merely provides a high potential in proximity to the conductors 21 to accelerate the free electrons flowing in the conductors 21 to, in turn, assist in boosting the flow of the electrons carrying the magnetic flux across terminals 3 and 5.
• the output circuit 21 can conveniently comprise a respective coil for each of the conductors 21. Thus, one of the coils can be used to accelerate the electrons passing from the apparatus whilst the other coil can be used to accelerate the electrons returning to the apparatus.
• the magnetic flux is carried inco the human body by polar attraction. In other words, it is attracted by the negative ions and the negative polar molecules within the body which are present in water which comprises a major component of the human body.
• Water has a particular molecular structure in that the shared electron pairs within water causes the molecule to have a V-shape.
• the 5 unshared electron pairs of each oxygen atom within the water give it a localized partial negative charge at the apex of the V. This negative charge of water attracts the north electromagnetic flux and the body is filled with the magnetic flux which flows. 10
• Figures 2A and 2B there is shown a detailed circuit diagram of the apparatus shown in Figure 1.
• the circuit is basically self-explanatory.
• the inverter circuit provides two output voltages 10 and 12.
• the first output voltage 12 of 6 volts AC 15 of 24 Hertz is half wave rectified and applied across a coil 23 in the electromagnetic circuit 15.
• the current flow can be approximately half an amp.
• the coil 23 comprises a copper coil having ten turns wound over the permanent magnet 17.
• the magnet has a flux density of approximately 20 15 webbers and comprises a ferrite of 10 mm diameter and of 30 mm length.
• the second output voltage 10 of the inverter circuit 11 is applied to the voltage amplifier circuit through a series of diodes D7 - D15 to provide about a 1 kv pulsed DC output in a range of 20 K Hertz to 500 K Hertz and preferably 25 at 100 K Hertz.
• the pulsing is in a range of 2 Hertz to 1 K Hertz and preferably at 24 Hertz and occurs by circuit conductor 14 connecting between the output of diodes D7 - D15 and the first output voltage 12.
• This pulsed output is applied to the output circuit 21' to respective coils 25 and 0 27.
• the coils have an ionic air return electrical circuit.
• the high voltage appearing from the voltage amplifier circuit 19 is applied to coil 25 with one polarity and to the coil 27 with the opposite polarity.
• coils 25 and 27 place the conductors 21' in proximity to a field created 5 by a high potential which, in turn, is thought to accelerate the free electrons in the conductors 21' to, in turn, boost the flow of magnetic flux which flows from the terminals 3 and 5.
• coils 25 and 27 each comprise fifteen turns of copper of 6 mm diameter through which conductors 21' pass. The potential created by coil 25 will assist the flow of magnetic flux passing from the apparatus whilst the potential of coil 27 will assist the flow of flux returning to the apparatus.
• Figure 3 shows a graph of current-v-time showing the half wave 24 Hertz current which is applied across coil 23.
• Figure 4 shows a graph of magnetic flux H-v-time showing the flux which is carried in the conductor of coil 23 as a result of the current being applied to coil 23 as shown in Figure 3. The flux is therefore pulsed and is thought to be carried by the free electron pairs in the conductor coil 23 as explained previously.
• Figure 5 shows a graph of voltage-v-time showing the application of a 1 kV half wave 100 K Hertz pulsed signal across coils 25 and 27.
• the flux pulses shown in Figure 4 have been simulated on this graph to show that 1 kV pulses are in phased relationship therewith and pulsed at the same rate -
• a meter 29 and neons 31 are provided to give an indication of voltage and current flow.
• An LED 33 is provided in the voltage amplifier circuit 19 to indicate current flow into the voltage amplifier circuit 19.
• the current flow into the living body (patient) is in the order of 10 micro A to 5000 micro A.
• the magnetic flux at the electrodes is in the order of 10 micro gauss to 7000 micro gauss.
• the apparatus is connected with the living body (patient) by connecting copper electrodes with the terminals 3 and 5 and connecting those electrodes across the affected area of the living body.
• the electrodes must also be of the D-block transition metal in order to permit the required electron flow, hence they are of copper in one example of a D-block transition metal.
• the patient is treated for periods of time which have been found satisfactory during prior experimentation for similar treatments. Typically a period of approximately ten minutes is employed.
• Figure 6 is a block schematic diagram showing current flow from the inverter 11 to the power control circuit 13, through permanent magnet 17 and through coil 23, and from terminal 5, through a living body back to the apparatus via terminal 3. Current also flows from inverter 11 to the voltage amp 19 to drive the coils 25 and 27 to boost the flux flowing with the current. Thus, Figure 6 shows not only the current flow but also the flux flow out from terminal 5, and the flux returning through terminal 3.

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