Eyeglass combination with permanent magnets

• US 6,406,419 B1
• Filed: 03/24/2000
• Issued: 06/18/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Salar Farahmand
• Original Assignee: Salar Farahmand
• Inventors: Farahmand, Salar
• Primary Examiner(s): Shaver, Kevin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Veniaminov, Nikita R
• Application Number:
  US09/535,454
• Time in Patent Office: 816 Days
• Field of Search: 600/15, 351/158, 351/52, 351/157, 351/123, 721/89, 243/1
• US Class Current: 600/15
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2/06 using magnetic fields produced by permanent magnets A61N2/12 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 11/00 Non-optical adjuncts; Attachment thereof G02C7/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02C 2200/02 Magnetic means

Abstract

This invention relates to the use of permanent magnets to improve the condition of the eyes, such as to provide relaxation, overcome tiredness, and create good feeling in the eyes. It is a combination of bi-polar magnets and eyeglasses in which circular magnets are mounted concentrically into the rims of eyeglasses and so placed immediately in front of the eyes for an optimum therapeutic effect. The magnets are solid cylinders with a large central hole mounted on intact or perforated eyeglass lenses; or thin flexible disks with either a large central hole or a plurality of small holes mounted directly on the eyeglass rims in place of lenses. The magnets, available commercially, are all bi-polar and vary in field strength from 400 to 1000 gauss. The use of the magnet-eyeglass combination should be from 10 to 20 minutes once or twice a day for an improvement in the eyes.

Claims

1. An eyeglass combination with permanent magnets for improvement of the eyes, said combination comprising:

an eyeglasses frame;

a pair of transparent lenses set in said eyeglasses frame; and

a pair of bi-polar permanent magnets mounted concentrically on said pair of lenses immediately in front of the eyes, each said magnet of said pair of magnets being a solid cylinder with a central axial-hole, having a negative pole on one flat face and a positive pole on an opposing flat face,

said permanent magnets providing the therapeutic effect of increasing the flow and oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood circulating in the region of the eyes and activating the minerals in the cells and tissues of the eyes and surrounding region.

2. The combination of claim 1 wherein the eyeglasses are spectacles.

3. The combination of claim 1 wherein the eyeglasses are goggles.

4. The combination of claim 1 further comprising a second pair of bi-polar magnets coaxial with, adjacent to and attached to said pair of magnets by magnetic force due to adjacent magnet faces having unlike poles, one negative and one positive, for a greater said effect.

5. The combination of claim 1 wherein each lens in said pair of lenses is perforated with a central hole around which each magnet of said pair of magnets is mounted.

6. The combination of claim 5 further comprising a second pair of bi-polar magnets coaxial with, adjacent to and attached to said pair of magnets by magnetic force due to adjacent magnet faces having unlike poles, one negative and one positive, for a greater said effect.

7. The combination of claim 1 wherein each said magnet in said pair of permanent magnets has a field strength in the range of 400 to 1000 gauss and is fabricated from a material selected from the group consisting of ferrite, ceramic and neodymium iron boron.

8. The combination of claim 1 wherein said magnets have ranges in cylinder outer diameter from about 1.15 inch to about 2.0 inch, in hole diameter from about 0.3 inch to about 0.7 inch, and in axial width from about 0.2 inch to about 0.4 inch.

10. The combination of claim 7 wherein the eyeglasses are spectacles.

11. The combination of claim 7 wherein the eyeglasses are goggles.

12. The combination of claim 7 wherein each said magnet in said pair of permanent magnets has a field strength in the range of 400 to 1000 gauss and is fabricated from a material selected from the group consisting of ferrite, ceramic and neodymium iron boron.

13. The combination of claim 7 wherein said magnets further have an outer diameter range from about 1.15 inch to about 2.0 inch, a hole diameter range from about 0.3 inch to about 0.7 inch, and a thickness range from about 0.07 inch to about 0.08 inch.

17. The combination of claim 11 as wherein each said magnet in said pair of permanent magnets has a field strength in the range of 400 to 1000 gauss and is fabricated from a material selected from the group consisting of ferrite, ceramic and neodymium iron boron.

9. An eyeglass combination with permanent magnets for improvement of the eyes, said combination comprising:

an eyeglasses frame; and

a pair of bi-polar permanent magnets mounted directly on rims of said eyeglasses frame immediately in front of the eyes, each said magnet of said pair of magnets being a circular disk-shaped flexible permanent magnet with a large central hole, having a negative pole on one flat face and a positive pole on an opposite flat face,

said permanent magnets providing the therapeutic effect of increasing the flow and oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood circulating in the region of the-eyes and activating the minerals in the cells and tissues of the eyes and surrounding region.

14. An eyeglass combination with permanent magnets for improvement of the eyes, said combination comprising:

an eyeglasses frame; and

a pair of bi-polar permanent magnets mounted directly on rims of said eyeglasses frame immediately in front of the eyes, each said magnet of said pair of magnets being a curved circular disk-shaped flexible permanent magnet with a plurality of uniformly distributed small holes, having alternating negative and positive poles throughout its area,

said permanent magnets providing the therapeutic effect of increasing the flow and oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood circulating in the region of the eyes and activating the minerals in the cells and tissues of the eyes and surrounding region.

15. The combination of claim 14 wherein the eyeglasses are spectacles.

16. The combination of claim 14 wherein the eyeglasses are goggles.

18. The combination of claim 14 wherein said magnets further have an outer diameter ranging from about 1.15 inch to about 2.0 inch, a multiple hole diameter ranging from 0.05 inch to 0.08 inch, and a thickness ranging from about 0.07 inch to about 0.08 inch.