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FACIAL NERVE STIMULATOR

  • US 3,620,219 A
  • Filed: 05/07/1969
  • Issued: 11/16/1971
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/07/1969
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A facial stimulator including a frame to be worn on the face of a user and including a forward section adapted to extend across the front of the face and forming a bridge adapted to rest on and be supported by the bridge of the nose, said frame including two side sections adapted to project rearwardly at opposite sides of the user'"'"''"'"'s head and adapted to rest on and be supported by the two ears respectively of the user, said frame including hinges connecting forward ends of said two side sections to opposite ends respectively of said forward section of the frame for relative swinging movement of the two side sections between rearwardly projecting active positions and forwardly and inwardly swung inactive positions, a plurality of electrode structures carried by said side sections of the frame and adapted to engage different portions of the user'"'"''"'"'s face and to electrically stimulate different facial nerves and the muscles controlled thereby, means for delivering a series of intermittent electrical impulses to said electrode structures of a value to cause substantial intermittent movements of the facial muscles, a plurality of mounting arms connected at first locations to said side sections of the frame and projecting to outer free ends of the arms and carrying said electrode structures at locations on the arms spaced from said first locations in the direction of said free ends, said arms being formed of material which is stiff but deformable to different conditions in a relation adapted to locate the individual electrode structures at any of a plurality of different positions relative to said side sections and on the face of a user, and which material is of a composition to remain by its own stiffness in said different conditions to which it may be deformed, and to thereby hold said electrode structures in any of said different positions thereof until the arms are again forcibly deformed, and fixed connections securing said arms rigidly and essentially nonadjustably to said side sections of the frame at said first locations so that the primary adjustment for relocating said electrode structures is by said bending of said arms.

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