Patent ID: 6296652
Filing Date: 2001-10-02
Classification: A61H

Abstract:
A drug-withdrawal-syndrome auricle-therapeutic device comprising:a controller including a CPU having I/O terminals, a data memory, a control logic circuit, and a display;an ear acupressure point-treating unit, wherein the ear acupressure point-treating unit includes an ear-like frame, a plurality of acupressure point electrode needles, an electrode needle control mechanism, and a housing, the ear-like frame having a solid body profiling a human ear with a plurality of through-going holes at locations corresponding to standard acupressure points of a human ear, the electrode needles extending through the holes to thereby be automatically positioned adjacent the standard acupressure points so as to provide therapeutic acupressure current to the acupressure points selectively provided by the controller, a first end of the electrode needles being electrically connected to the controller which is located outside the housing, the ear-like frame being connected to a first end of the housing and protruding beyond the first end of the housing;a voice prompting circuit and a background music circuit connected to the CPU via the I/O terminals to provide auxiliary auditory treatment via included sound generating devices; andan electrode needle control mechanism including an elastomer, a vibrating head, a push rod, and a spring, the electrode needle control mechanism being located at a second end of the housing, opposite to the ear-like frame wherein the I/O terminals of the CPU of the controller are connected to an impulse output circuit and a circuit for providing at least one of a massage, acupressure, auditory, or moxibustion treatment, commutation logic circuit, an output of the impulse output circuit being connected to pairs of different point electrode needles and the vibrating head via an output transformer, an output of a switching logic circuit synchronously controlling the output of the impulse output circuit and of the secondary output of the transformer in order to select a treatment mode for at least one of the electrode needle pairs and the vibrating head,wherein the device provides a programmable sequence of at least one of an acupressure, massage, auditory, or moxibustion treatment to at least one pair of acupressure points located on the inner surface of at least one of a subject's ears.