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Device for inducing sleep

  • US 3,160,159 A
  • Filed: 01/04/1960
  • Issued: 12/08/1964
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/04/1960
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A PORTABLE APPARATUS FOR ARTIFICIALLY INDUCING SLEEP BY THE ACTION ON THE BRAIN OF ELECTRIC CURRENT PULSES, COMPRISING ELECTRODES ADAPTED TO BE SECURED ON THE PATIENT'"'"''"'"'S HEAD;

  • AN ELECTRONIC PULSE GENERATOR FOR PRODUCING SQUARE PULSES;

    AND MEANS CONNECTED TO RECEIVE THE OUTPUT OF THE GENERATOR FOR DEVELOPING A DIRECT-CURRENT COMPONENT AND SUPERIMPOSING SAID SQUARE PULSES ONTO SAID DIRECT-CURRENT COMPONENT FOR APPLICATION TO SAID ELECTRODES, SAID LAST-MENTIONED MEANS INCLUDING A CATHODEFOLLOWER CONNECTED ELECTRON TUBE HAVING A CATHODE RESISTOR ACROSS WHICH THE ELECTRODES ARE CONNECTED FOR TRANSMITTING THE PULSES TO THE PATIENT'"'"''"'"'S HEAD.

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