Method for artificially inducing urination, defecation, or sexual excitation

• US 3,941,136 A
• Filed: 11/21/1973
• Issued: 03/02/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Neuronyx, Inc. (Garnet Biotherapeutics Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Neuronyx, Inc. (Garnet Biotherapeutics Incorporated)
• Inventors: Bucalo, Louis
• Primary Examiner(s): Kamm, William E.
• Application Number:
  US05/418,106
• Time in Patent Office: 832 Days
• Field of Search: 128/404, 128/407, 128/408, 128/411, 128/412, 128/418, 128/419 E, 128/419 R, 128/419 S, 128/421, 128/422, 128/423
• US Class Current: 607/39
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36007 of urogenital or gastrointestinal organs, e.g. for incontinence control

Abstract

A method for artificially inducing urination, defecation, or sexual excitation in human beings or animals. By way of a suitable generator, supplied with power either from a battery or from a wall outlet, electrical pulses are created with a given voltage, frequency, and duration. These electrical pulses are applied at least to the region of the crotch and preferably both to the region of the crotch and to the sacral area beside the spine. For penile or clitoral erection the voltage does not exceed 20 V, while the frequency of the pulses can be 100-200 cycles per second, and the duration of each pulse may be on the order of 200 microseconds, with the generator generating a square wave. During operation it is possible to reduce the initial voltage from a range of 20 V. to a range of 10 V. which is adequate to maintain an erection once achieved.

Claims

1. In a method of artificially inducing one of a plurality of body functions, namely urination, defecation and sexual excitement, comprising the steps of applying at least to a region of the crotch which does not form part of an appendage electrical pulses which have for said one body function a given voltage, frequency and duration.

2. In a method as recited in claim 1 for promoting penile or clitoral erection and wherein the voltage is no greater than 20 volts while the frequency is at a range of 100-200 cycles per second, and the duration of each pulse is on the order of 200 microsecond.

3. In a method as recited in claim 2 and including the step of initially providing a voltage on the order of 20 volts until an erection is achieved and then reducing the voltage to the order of 10 volts for maintaining the erection.

4. In a method as recited in claim 1 and wherein the electrical pulses have a substantially square wave form.

5. In a method as recited in claim 1 and including the step of placing a pair of electrodes in engagement with said crotch region with said electrodes respectively being positive and negative electrodes.

6. In a method as recited in claim 1 and including the step of applying the pulses simultaneously at the crotch region and at the sacral area on one side of the spine.

7. In a method as recited in claim 6 and including the step of applying the pulses by way of positive and negative electrodes while situating one of said electrodes at the crotch region and the other at the sacral area.

8. In a method as recited in claim 6 and including the step of applying the pulses by way of a pair of electrodes while situating the latter electrodes at the crotch region and also applying the pulses by way of a second pair of electrodes while situating said second pair of electrodes at the sacral area on opposite sides of the spine, one of the pairs of electrodes being positive and the other pair being negative.

9. In a method as recited in claim 8 and including the step of situating the positive electrodes at the crotch region and the negative electrodes at the sacral area.

10. In a method as recited in claim 8 and including the step of situating the positive electrodes at the sacral area and the negative electrodes at the crotch region.

11. In a method as recited in claim 1 and including the step of situating at the back a generator unit from which the pulses are derived.

12. In a method as recited in claim 11 and including the step of strapping the generator unit onto the back.

13. In a method as recited in claim 11 and including the step of connecting the generator unit to a source of electricity and converting the source into the pulses by way of said generator unit.

14. In a method as recited in claim 11 and including the step of inserting the generator unit into the rectum.

15. In a method as recited in claim 1, for artificially inducing one of the body functions namely urination and defecation, and wherein the voltage is greater than 20 volts while the frequency is at a range of 100-200 cycles per second and the duration of each pulse is on the order of 200 microsecond.