Method of making a body member for use in a genital stimulator

• US 4,663,102 A
• Filed: 03/25/1985
• Issued: 05/05/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1982
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Biosonics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Biosonics, Inc.
• Inventors: Schwartz, Harold L., Katz, Philip, Brenman, Henry S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Silbaugh, Jan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tentoni, Leo B.
• Application Number:
  US06/715,433
• Time in Patent Office: 771 Days
• Field of Search: 264/222, 264/225, 264/226, 264/227, 264/DIG. 30, 128/788, 425/2
• US Class Current: 264/222
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 2005/418 by electrical stimulation
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 5/41 Devices for promoting penis erection penis implants A61F2/26; massage of the genitals A61H19/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 21/00 Massage devices for cavities of the body , e.g. nose, ears and anus for the genitals A61H19/00; Vibration or percussion related aspects A61H23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/10 with further special therapeutic means, e.g. electrotherapy, magneto therapy or radiation therapy, chromo therapy, infrared or ultraviolet therapy
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36007 of urogenital or gastrointestinal organs, e.g. for incontinence control
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 264/30 Use of anatomy in making a mold or using said mold

Abstract

A stimulator for penile erection comprises a body member which may be inserted into the rectum of a user, the body member being so shaped as to closely conform to the topological configuration of the rectum from the anal area to a site adjacent to the prostate gland. Within the body member is electrical circuitry for generating a neutrally stimulating electrical signal. Electrodes, placed at particular locations on the surface of the body member, apply the signal to the user. At least one of the electrodes closely contacts the prostate gland when the body member is operatively disposed, at a region or spot on the prostate gland previously determined to be sensitive to electrical stimulation. Also disclosed is a method for making the aforesaid body member by taking an impression of the rectum of the user, and a method for inducing penile erection which includes the steps of locating sensitive regions or spots on the prostate gland, and applying electrical stimulation directly to those spots so as to induce erection.

Claims

1. A method of making a body member for use in a genital stimulator, comprising the steps of inserting into the rectum of a subject a flexible, chemically inert sheath, injecting into said sheath an amorphous mass of hardenable molding material, permitting said material to become semi-rigid, partly withdrawing said sheath so as to partly distend the anal area and to form an impression thereof in said molding material, allowing said molding material to fully harden, withdrawing said sheath and the material contained therein, stripping said sheath from said hardened material, and molding the body member from the impression provided from said hardened material.

2. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein said molding material consists essentially of material of the kind commonly used to make dental impressions.

3. A method in accordance with claim 1, wherein said step of molding the body member is so performed as to create a cavity within said body member.

4. A method in accordance wtih claim 3, wherein said last mentioned step consists of molding said body member using a core, the core forming said cavity.