Patent ID: 6026327
Filing Date: 2000-02-15
Classification: A61N

Abstract:
Portable device for relief of pain and contractures and for skin rejuvenation comprising a head for applying electric pulses to the skin of a user and a handle held by the user's hand, wherein said head has the shape of a cylinder portion whose directrix has a convex shape and comprises at least one electrode for generating the electric pulses, located on the outer surface of said cylinder or at a constant distance from this outer surface, and a portion of which, at least, is located on each generatrix of said cylinder likely to be in contact with the user's skin, said head being always in contact with the user's skin through one of the generatrices of said cylinder portion comprising said electrode portion, whatever the tilting angle of the head against the users's skin surface,wherein said head for applying electric pulses comprises electrodes having opposite polarities at a given time, said pulses being produced between two electrodes having opposite polarities through the user's skin,wherein said head for applying electric pulses comprises a first set of electrodes having a given polarity at a given time and a second set of electrodes having a polarity opposite to the one of the first set at said given time, the electrodes of the given second set being arranged alternately with the electrodes of the first set, andwherein electrodes from said sets are parallel each other and perpendicular to the generatrices of said head having the shape of a cylinder portion.