Patent ID: 6122547
Filing Date: 2000-09-19
Classification: A61H,A61N

Abstract:
A consolidated electrical-lead-acupuncture-needle means for performing acupuncture therapeutics in human or animal wherein a first electrical lead member means for conducting electrical current to said human or animal is a physical continuation of an electricity-conducting shaft member of a needle trocar member means for penetrating the skin of said human or animal, and wherein a first electrical lead member means for variably adjusting and changing the length of said shaft member beyond a first opening of a cannular handle member of said needle trocar member means incrementally extends and retracts said shaft member into a bore of said cannular handle member comprising:said first electrical lead member means for conducting electricity which is a physical continuation of said electricity-conducting shaft member;said cannular handle means;said electricity-conducting shaft member of said needle trocar member which is a physical continuation of said first electrical lead member means;a first stopper means for encumbering said electrical lead means beyond said bore of said cannular handle means;a second stopper means for encumbering second electricity-conducting shaft member beyond a second opening of said cannular handle means;a third stopper means for encumbering said shaft member and electrical lead beyond said bore of said cannular handle means; andadhesive means for reversibly affixing said consolidated electrical-lead-acupuncture-needle means to the skin and integument of said person or animal.