Patents Examined by Danton DeMille
  • Patent number: 7122013
    Abstract: Provided is a device for massaging eyes comprising a mask received in a compartment and comprising annular left and right guards surrounding rear portions of left and right eye portions respectively, and left and right diaphragms in the eye portions respectively; a pneumatic-powered cylinder assembly for converting rotating motion into reciprocating motion; and a plastic tube interconnected the mask and the cylinder assembly. In operation, air having positive or negative pressure is built in the cylinder alternately prior to communicating to the eyes for massaging. There are provided protrusions around a rear portion of each guard. In another embodiment, there are provided left and right soft spacers attached to rear surfaces of the diaphragms respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Inventor: Hsing Chuan Liu
  • Patent number: 7118542
    Abstract: A method of processing a raw acceleration signal, measured by an accelerometer-based compression monitor, to produce an accurate and precise estimated actual depth of chest compressions. The raw acceleration signal is filtered during integration and then a moving average of past starting points estimates the actual current starting point. An estimated actual peak of the compression is then determined in a similar fashion. The estimated actual starting point is subtracted from the estimated actual peak to calculate the estimated actual depth of chest compressions. In addition, one or more reference sensors (such as an ECG noise sensor) may be used to help establish the starting points of compressions. The reference sensors may be used, either alone or in combination with other signal processing techniques, to enhance the accuracy and precision of the estimated actual depth of compressions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Zoll Circulation, Inc.
    Inventors: James Adam Palazzolo, Ronald D. Berger, Henry R. Halperin, Darren R. Sherman
  • Patent number: 7115104
    Abstract: An improved air pulse generator produces high frequency chest wall oscillations (HFCWO) and has an improved air pulse generator. The air pulse module has a reduced size and improved shape for ease of use by a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2006
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Van Brunt, John A. Kivisto, Donald J. Gagne
  • Patent number: 7112215
    Abstract: This present invention relates to a digitized control three-dimensional spinal orthopaedic device for cure injured spinal. The device comprises a bed body, a head-chest plate and a breech-leg plate. The bed body has a frame configuration, and comprises a top bed body and a bottom bed body. The head-chest plate is fixed on the top bed body. A traction means of the head-chest plate and an angle means of the breech-leg plate are fixed into the top bed body. The breech-leg plate is supported by a swinging arm. A left-to-right angle means is located under the breech-leg plate. A connecting shaft of the angle means is connected to the up-to-down swinging arm by a cross rod, so the head-chest plate is integrated with the breech-leg plate. The present spinal orghopaedic device can enable the bed body to go up and down automatically, the head-chest plate can vibrate and be drawn at a high or low speed, and the breech-leg plate moves up to down, rotates left to right and vibrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Shiyou Xiao
    Inventors: Shiyou Xiao, Zaijie Guan
  • Patent number: 7108664
    Abstract: A continuous passive motion device is provided having specific application to rehabilitative treatment of the elbow or shoulder. The device includes a motorized winch displacable in a first or second direction, a cord suspended from the winch by a variable extension length, which increases when the winch is displaced in the first direction and decreases when the winch is displaced in the second direction, and an arm harness associated with the cord. An arm of a patient is suspended from a suspension point on the cord and the motorized winch is activated to alternately displace the winch in the first and second directions, thereby providing a plurality of repetitive treatment cycles. Each treatment cycle moves the suspension point and correspondingly the elbow or shoulder from a lower treatment limit to an upper treatment limit and back to the lower treatment limit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2006
    Assignee: Breg, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey T. Mason, Mark E. Howard
  • Patent number: 7104967
    Abstract: An inflatable vest design for cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and for cardiac assist. The vest may include a belt that wraps around the chest of a patient, and a removable bladder that is placed against the chest and held in place by the belt. The inflatable bladder expands radially to first conform to a patient's chest, and to apply circumferential pressure to the thorax of the patient. By cyclically inflating the bladder, the vest can be used in CPR and cardiac assist treatments. In addition, alternative vest designs are disclosed showing removable bladders. These vest improvements lower the energy consumption and make smaller and portable cardiopulmonary resuscitation systems more practical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2006
    Assignee: Zoll Circulation, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil S. Rothman, Mark Gelfand
  • Patent number: 7097626
    Abstract: A massage tool for use in performing an ice massage including an anchor extending from the bottom of a base for extending into a mold for receiving a block of ice. The massage tool includes a handle by which the tool can be manipulated, which provides thermal isolation from the ice attached to the tool. The tool is weighted to reduce the amount of additional force needed to apply the desired pressure during the massage, thereby reducing hand and muscle fatigue of the therapist providing the massage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Inventors: John Louis, Herm Schneider
  • Patent number: 7094210
    Abstract: For medicine, sports and cosmonautics, a method of biomechanotherapy massage and therapeutic action on a human body performed both by heat and light waves and by mechanical waves which are sequential and parallel combinations of longitudinal and transverse modulated solitary waves of length from 0.005 to 0.1 m propagating along the body with speed from 0.01 to 12 m/s, where the solitary waves are formed on the body due to an impulsive action of separate thermovibratodes interconnected with a controlled link and acting on a human body with a temperature from 0 to 90° C., a specific pressure from 0.5·105 to 4·105 Pa and a shear thrust from 0.1 to 100 N. The proposed method of biomechanotherapy allows to increase efficiency of the therapeutic and sports massage and to improve results of an integral treatment of various diseases. Wave biomechanotherapy increases 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Inventors: Boris Sergeevich Saveliev, Vladimir Sergeevich Saveliev, Wladimir Wasilievich Skovorodnikov, Wladlen Ivanovich Zinkovich, Nikolay Nikolaevich Golev
  • Patent number: 7090649
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a skin management system, and in particular to a total skin management system and a total skin management method using the same which are capable of checking a state of skin and comprehensively managing a skin based on a type of skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Hwajin Cosmetics Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hyun Song Kang
  • Patent number: 7090650
    Abstract: The continuous passive motion exercise system enables human's joints to recover speedily to original functioning after injuries or surgeries, and thus shortens the period of time needed for joint rehabilitation. The present invention provides a force or torque monitoring device attached onto a continuous passive motion exercise mechanism to measure the driving force of the repeated joint flexing and extending motion, so as to evaluate the change of the viscosity and the stiffness of the injured joints through different rehabilitation periods. This monitoring device also monitor degrees of joint muscle's active contraction and thus slows down or stops the repeated motions of exercise mechanisms to improve safety concerns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Yeong-Jeong Ou, Jeng-Shie Chung, Meng-Kai Su, Jian-Je Jian
  • Patent number: 7081099
    Abstract: A foot massage unit has a four-head unit with a center common drive electric motor. The unit includes two symmetrically shaped gear cases. The first gear case comprises a symmetrical pair of gear housings in the shape of a twin disc having a bottom case and a top case and is positioned proximally to one of two power outputs of the motor. At the opposite side of the motor is positioned the second gear case comprising a symmetrical pair of gear housings of a bottom case and a top case. The driving shaft of the motor extends in opposite directions and is provided with two concentric worms. Externally of the gear cases are four rotating massage heads fixed to the corresponding shafts. Each head has a plate and a semispherical shaft bore formed in the plate, and two pressure balls at the farther opposite tips of the elongated plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: American Lighting Industry, Inc.
    Inventor: Lili Luo
  • Patent number: 7077815
    Abstract: A method for treating inflammatory musculoskeletal connective tissue disorders by exposing the sufferer to acoustic waves from a transducer immersed in liquid. The person is preferably placed between one and twenty feet from the wave source, and is preferably exposed to waves at a frequency of about 600 Hertz for approximately twenty five minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Inventor: Alphonse Cassone
  • Patent number: 7077814
    Abstract: A resuscitation device for automatic compression of victim's chest using a compression belt which exerts force evenly over the entire thoracic cavity. The belt is constricted and relaxed through a motorized spool assembly which repeatedly tightens the belt and relaxes the belt to provide repeated and rapid chest compression. An assembly includes various resuscitation devices including chest compression devices, defibrillation devices, and airway management devices, along with communications devices and senses with initiate communications with emergency medical personnel automatically upon use of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Zoll Circulation, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth H. Mollenauer, Darren R. Sherman, Steven R. Bystrom, Cameron Miner
  • Patent number: 7074200
    Abstract: This invention is an improved medical device for non-invasive pulsation, including counterpulsation or simultaneous pulsation, treatment of heart disease and circulatory disorder through external cardiac assistance. The device is a cuff which is affixed on a patient's lower body and extremities, and which constricts or expands by electromechanical activation, thereby augmenting blood pressure for treatment purposes. The cuff contains preferably fixed volume fluids such as gel, air, or water. The cuff envelops and is affixed to the patient's lower body and limbs. In an alternative embodiment, the cuff creates a fixed volume of air between the cuff and the patient such that the cuff creates a vacuum when expanding, thereby stimulating return of blood to the constricted region, permitting better and/or faster responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Inventor: Michael P. Lewis
  • Patent number: 7066896
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for developing ability in the neuromuscular system of a user coupled, at coupling sites adjacent selected musculature, to anthropomorphic members of the apparatus by moving the anthropomorphic members through repetitive cycles such that during each cycle a force exerted by the user on the anthropomorphic members, along predetermined prescribed paths of movement through a prescribed range of motion at a predetermined speed of motion, with the paths of movement, the range of motion and the speed of motion unaltered by the user, and with an applied force transmitted by the anthropomorphic members to the selected musculature at the coupling sites, while varying the applied force in response to variations in the further force so as to develop an ability in the neuromuscular system associated with the selected musculature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Inventor: Daniel R. Kiselik
  • Patent number: 7063675
    Abstract: A rotary device of a chair comprises that has a chair body having a seat. A resisting body extends from a rear end of the seat. An annular handle is installed on the resisting body. The chair body has a driving means mechanism which is installed at the seat. The driving mechanism means has a deceleration motor, a worm rod, a worm gear and a chain. The deceleration motor has a deceleration gear. One end of the deceleration motor has a driving spindle. After the driving spindle is connected with the worm rod, the worm gear will be driven to rotate. The worm gear has a protruded driving shaft. One end of the chain is engaged to the driving shaft, while another end of the chain is engaged to the resisting body. The worm gear indirectly drives the resisting body and the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Inventor: Chang Chun Hsu
  • Patent number: 7060085
    Abstract: An abdominal muscle and spine exercising device includes a frame having a top and a bottom surface with first and second bladders disposed on the top surface for bearing directly against thoraco-lumbar and lumbo-sacral vertebrae of a users spine in vectored directions in order to enhance an elliptical arch in the lower spine. A second arch projection is disposed on the bottom surface of the frame for enabling the frame and bladders to be rocked by the user in a transverse direction to a longitudinal axis of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Inventors: Richard A. Graham, Denise M. Pauck
  • Patent number: 7056295
    Abstract: A system applies cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to a recipient. An automated controller is provided together with a compression device which periodically applies a force to a recipient's thorax under control of the automated controller. A band is adapted to be placed around a portion of the torso of the recipient corresponding to the recipient's thorax. A driver mechanism shortens and lengthens the circumference of the band. By shortening the circumference of the band, radial forces are created acting on at least lateral and anterior portions of the thorax. A translating mechanism may be provided for translating the radial forces to increase the concentration of anterior radial forces acting on the anterior portion of the thorax. The driver mechanism may comprise a tension device for applying a circumference tensile force to the band. The driver mechanism may comprise an electric motor, a pneumatic linear actuator, or a contracting mechanism defining certain portions of the circumference of the band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Inventor: Henry R. Halperin
  • Patent number: 7056296
    Abstract: A resuscitation device for automatic compression of a victim's chest using a compression belt which exerts force evenly over the entire thoracic cavity. The belt is constricted and relaxed through a motorized spool assembly that repeatedly tightens the belt and relaxes the belt to provide repeated and rapid chest compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2006
    Assignee: Zoll Circulation, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren R. Sherman, Kenneth H. Mollenauer, Cameron Miner
  • Patent number: 7048700
    Abstract: A head support device includes a base including a horizontal portion and a pair of vertical members that are attached to and extend upwardly from the horizontal portion so that a first vertical member and a second vertical member are defined. A strap has a first end and a second end. The second end of the strap is attached to the second vertical member. A retracting mechanism draws the strap toward or releases the strap away from the first vertical member. The retracting mechanism is attached to the first vertical member. A portion of the strap positioned between the vertical members is moved upwardly away from the horizontal portion when the strap is drawn toward the first vertical member and is moved toward the horizontal portion when the strap is released away from the first vertical member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Inventor: Gregory M. Gustie