Patent ID: 8298162
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: A61B,A61N

Abstract:
1. A system for treatment of a skin fold with adipose tissue therein, the system comprising: a) an electronic pulse generator that delivers electronic pulses to first and second applicators; b) each applicator having a conical housing with a narrow end and an opposed wide end, a shock wave generator positioned in each said conical housing closer to the narrow end than said wide end, each shock wave generator being a substantially flat coil disposed transverse to a central longitudinal axis of its respective conical housing, each shock wave generator configured to generate a non-focused shock wave on the skin fold, each conical housing having a planar resonance membrane disposed at the wide end thereof, each non-focused shock wave going directly from its respective flat coil to its respective resonance member; and c) wherein when the first and second applicators are positioned directly opposite each other with one on either side of the skin fold, each non-focused shock wave creates a cavitational zone that starts out from its respective resonance membrane shaped as a cone and an interferential energy zone is formed where the shock waves clash within the skin fold, each cavitational zone and the interferential energy zone destroying the adipose tissue.