Instrument for locating particular cutaneous points caused by viscerovascular reflex

• US 3,207,151 A
• Filed: 09/17/1962
• Issued: 09/21/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Masao Takagi
• Original Assignee: Masao Takagi
• Inventors: MASAO TAKAGI
• Application Number:
  US04/224,110
• Time in Patent Office: 1,100 Days
• US Class Current: 600/547
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0532 specially adapted for acupuncture or moxibustion
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/907 Acupuncture

Claims

1. AN INSTRUMENT FOR LOCATING PARTICULAR CUTANEOUS POINTS CAUSED BY VISCERO-VASCULAR REFLEX, INCLUDING A RESISTANCE-CAPACITANCE CIRCUIT SIMULATING THE IMPEDANCE OF THE SKIN, A STATIC ELECTRODE TO BE REMOVABLY FIXED TO A PORTION OF THE BODY WALL OF THE PERSON TO BE EXAMINED, AN EXPLORER ELECTRODE TO BE MOVED OVER SAID BODY WALL AND INCLUDING A PROBE ADAPTED TO CONTACT MINUTE CUTANEOUS POINTS, A COMPARING CIRCUIT COUPLED WITH SAID SIMULATING CIRCUIT AND SAID ELECTRODES FOR COMPARING INSTANTANEOUSLY THE IMPEDANCE OF SAID SIMULATING CIRCUIT AND THE IMPEDANCE BETWEEN SIAD TWO ELECTRODES, MEANS COUPLED WITH SAID COMPARING CIRCUIT FOR INDICATING THE RUSLTS OF SAID COMPARISON, AND AN ALTERNATING CURRENT SOURCE COUPLED WITH SAID TWO ELECTRODES FOR SUPPLYING CURRENT TO SAID TWO ELECTRODES TO APPLY SAID CURRENT TO SAID BODY WALL.