Patents Assigned to James Heaney
  • Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation device
    Patent number: 4723552
    Abstract: By generating and applying topically, to a patient suffering pain in the areas in which the patient is experiencing pain, a train of electrical pulses having a stimulation region comprising contiguous, alternately positive and negative triangular pulses followed by a rest region of substantially constant amplitude, which may be zero, the time duration of the rest region being approximately 10 to 15 miliseconds, said stimulation region having a duration of from 2 to 20 miliseconds, optimal pain relieving effects are realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: James Heaney
    Inventors: Keith E. Kenyon, Thomas F. Conmy, Fred L. Pedersen