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A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| 7292893 | Apparatus and method for the treatment of infectious disease in keratinized tissue The invention provides methods for the treatment of keratinized tissue infected with a pathogen. The invention utilizes electromagnetic energy, particularly microwave energy, as a treatment means to reduce the amount of or eliminate the pathogen from the keratinized... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7187329 | Antenna, dielectric substrate for antenna, and wireless communication card An antenna of this invention has a ground pattern and a planar element having a cut-out portion from an edge portion farthest from a feed position toward the ground pattern side, and the ground pattern and the planar element are juxtaposed with each other. By provid... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7081859 | Antenna unit having a wide band A UWB antenna has an upper dielectric, a lower dielectric, and a conductive pattern sandwiched therebetween. The conductive pattern has a feeding point at a substantially center portion of a front surface. The conductive pattern has a reversed triangular portion hav... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7075483 | Wide bandwidth antenna An antenna according to this invention comprises a ground pattern; and a planar element that has a feed point and whose edge portion opposite to the ground pattern has a trimmed portion that makes a distance with the ground pattern vary and is composed of at least e... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7071877 | Antenna and dielectric substrate for antenna This invention relates to a dual band antenna having a novel shape, which enables miniaturization and bandwidth widening. The antenna includes a dielectric substrate for an antenna including a layer of a planar element having a side edge portion constituted by eithe... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7024239 | Pulsed electromagnetic energy treatment apparatus and method An apparatus and method for the treatment of chronic wounds using electromagnetic energy. The apparatus includes a generator and at least one applicator. The generator can produce electromagnetic energy and the applicator can apply the electromagnetic energy produce... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7015769 | System and method for automatic tuning of a magnetic field generator An automatic tuning system for a magnetic field generating tuned circuit includes a processor configured to maintain the resonant frequency of a tuned circuit equal to a reference frequency. The tuned circuit is driven by a power amplifier whose output provides an a... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6952605 | Pneumatic release mechanism for a patient contacting article A patient contacting assembly comprising a patient contacting member that secures to the surface of a patient by means of an adhesive disposed between the patient contacting member and the patient. A channel is defined through the patient contacting member to enable... | 10/04/2005 |
| 6701185 | Method and apparatus for electromagnetic stimulation of nerve, muscle, and body tissues An electromagnetic stimulation device which is comprised of a plurality of overlapping coils which are able to be independently energized in a predetermined sequence such that each coil will generate its own independent electromagnetic field and significa... | 03/02/2004 |
| 6675047 | Electromagnetic-field therapy method and device A method of electromagnetic field therapy consists in that an organ or a whole organism is locally acted upon with a pulsed electromagnetic field with a radio pulse packet repetition frequency within a range of from 0.1 to 100 Hz with spacing of 0.01 Hz, ... | 01/06/2004 |
| 6574504 | Method for cosmetic treatment of the skin and the scalp using electromagnetic waves and essential oils A method for synergetic amplification of the standard effects of an essential oil with beneficent properties for the skin, the scalp, the nails and the hair, which consists in applying on the zone to be treated the desired essential oil or mixture of esse... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6463336 | Active bandage suitable for applying pulsed radio-frequencies or microwaves to the skin for medical purposes An active RF or microwave bandage, that incorporates any of various disclosed configurations of pliable planar microstrip or slotline antenna structures, is conformable to a selected area of the skin of a patient for use in therapeutically treating soft t... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6334069 | Pulsed electromagnetic energy treatment apparatus and method A method of and apparatus for the treatment of chronic wounds using pulsed electromagnetic energy provides a constant, known and replicable dosage output which remains unaffected by the capacitance of the patient's body. The apparatus is simple to operate... | 12/25/2001 |
| 6047215 | Method and apparatus for electromagnetically assisted liposuction An improved method and apparatus for facilitating removal of fat from obese, or lipodystrophic patients, by external application of electromagnetic energy. After infiltrating the proposed zone with intumescing solution, radio frequency or microwave electr... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5800494 | Microwave ablation catheters having antennas with distal fire capabilities A variety of improved antenna arrangements for ablation catheters and methods for constructing catheter with these antenna arrangements are described. In various apparatus aspects of the invention, the catheter includes an elongated flexible tubular membe... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5101836 | Flexible low profile microwave array for hyperthermia of superficially located tumors A low profile flexible microwave radiating array includes a base structure on which are positioned a plurality of rigid platforms which support individual antenna elements. In one embodiment the support platforms are generally cubical in configuration wit... | 04/07/1992 |
| 4926881 | Portable battery powered electromagnetic therapy applicator An improved portable battery powered therapy applicator which applies a high frequency electromagnetic field to a living tissue for promoting hematogenous effects. The applicator is in use to be attached to the skin of a patient and has a casing encapsula... | 05/22/1990 |
| 4702262 | Electromagnetic applicator for localizing hyperthermia heating in a system An electromagnetic applicator (10) is provided for heating internal biological tissue, such as cancerous tumors, where applicators generate an electromagnetic field propagating across a gap (20) for forming a relative maximum power density adjacent the in... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4632127 | Scanning microwave hyperthermia with feedback temperature control An electromagnetic or microwave hyperthermia method includes an antenna and a noncontacting temperature sensor such as an infrared sensor or a radiometer which together scan a predetermined path over the surface of tissue to be treated. The temperature se... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4632128 | Antenna apparatus for scanning hyperthermia An arrangement for heating includes an antenna which has at least one convolution of conductor centered on an axis. The antenna is adapted for receiving electrical power for heating a surface. A noncontacting temperature sensor is centered on the axis of ... | 12/30/1986 |
| 4605012 | Applicator for supplying radio-frequency energy to and from an object An applicator for supplying radio-frequency energy (rf energy) to or from a high-loss material, preferably live tissue, to which a delimiting face of the applicator is to be applied in flat relationship, a double line being provided for transporting the e... | 08/12/1986 |
| 4589422 | Electromagnetic medical applicators An electromagnetic medical applicator for heating tissue comprises a patch resonator (1) on a substrate (4) of dielectric material backed by a ground-plane (3), and having a layer (7) of dielectric material overlying the resonator inter alia to effect imp... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4587978 | Apparatus for high-frequency hyperthermia An apparatus for high-frequency hyperthermia wherein a pair of electrodes having round holes and thereby annularly shaped are attached to the surface of the body of a patient so as to interpose therebetween an affected part located in the depth of the bod... | 05/13/1986 |
| 4068292 | Electrostatic shield for diathermy treatment head Method and apparatus for minimizing or preventing the deleterious skin heating effects associated with conventional short wave diathermy treatment. The disclosed method includes attenuation of the electrostatic field transmitted by the applicator head and... | 01/10/1978 |
| 3978864 | Electrotherapeutic treatment head An electrotherapeutic treatment head is disclosed for use with a drive circuit which applies pulses of electrotherapeutic energy to the treatment head. The head includes a hollow housing in which is mounted a spiral coil, the coil being flat in the plane ... | 09/07/1976 |
