Patent ID: 6458073
Filing Date: 2002-10-01
Classification: A61F

Abstract:
A device for the treatment of erectile dysfunction or for penile exercise which includes:a vessel having an outer surface which is substantially cylindrical for at least part of its length, the vessel defining a vacuum chamber and having a mouth opening leading into the vacuum chamber, the vacuum chamber being shaped and dimensioned to accommodate a human penis in an erect state; and pumping means which includes an annular pumping member mounted on and extending concentrically around the cylindrical portion of the outer surface of the vessel intermediate the ends thereof so that an annular suction chamber is defined between the outer surface of the vessel and the pumping member and vessel being slidingly displaceable relative to one another which relative displacement changes the volume of the suction chamber; at least one pumping passage extending from the vacuum chamber, at a position intermediate the ends thereof, to the suction chamber; at least one exhaust passage extending from the suction chamber; first one way valve means which permits fluid flow from the vacuum chamber to the suction chamber via the, or each, pumping passage; and second one way valve means which permits fluid to be discharged from the suction chamber via the, or each exhaust passage to atmosphere.