Re: Tesla like medical device on TV

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Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>

Hi Bob,

The patent (5,317,155 ) reads...

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Corona discharge apparatus

Abstract

A power amplifier for use in medical and veterinary testing and therapy. A 
tunable pulse-width-modulated signal generator is connected to a gating 
element to provide a digital waveform suitable for comprehensive control of 
the waveform shape and average output power provided by the apparatus. The 
digital waveform controls a power driver. Through use of a high-Q resonant 
circuit including a capacitor and a primary winding of a coil assembly, a 
voltage of about 150-400 volts is increased to about 10 kilovolts at the 
primary winding. The coil assembly has a secondary:primary turns ratio of 
10:1, resulting in a signal of about 100 kilovolts at the output of the 
secondary winding. This arrangement produces a corona discharge at a 
discharge pin connected to the secondary winding. A manual tuning 
embodiment and a self-tuning embodiment are disclosed.
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:-)))

Cheers,

         Terry



At 12:42 PM 1/16/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi Y'all,
>
>   Last week on a local television news (WB56 Boston)
>health watch segnment was featured a device called
>"Energex" that was used for the treatment of TMJ
>(Temporomandibular Joint) pain. That is the pivot
>point of the jaw.
>  The device looked like a hand held hair dryer with a
>two inch diameter tube (barrel) that had a recessed
>electrode that was outputting about a inch streamer
>that was within the confines of the exit hole.
>  The patient shown recieving a treatment in the video
>segment sits in the dental chair while the operator
>holds the device near the jaw pivot, quite similiar to
>getting an x-ray.
>  I contacted the newscaster for more info and was sent
>an email from where I found the web address as
>follows. http://www.orthosonix-dot-com  From the homepage
>you then select 'The Product "Energex"' for more
>details and a photo of the device and the control
>console. Also select 'clinical studies' for more info.
>The system 'manual' link is disabled, pity.
>  The newscast showed the discharge end that is not
>shown on the website but the site gives frequencies of
>operation- 460Khz that is pulsed at 660Hz.
>  To me, the output streamers looked very much like the
>discharge end of the ETP handheld vacuum tester. I
>wonder how the treatment actually works? Maybe by
>imparing the nerve cells that transmit pain signals??
>Yikes! Hmm, we could do whole body treatments-kidding!
>
>Bob Wroblewski (N1INU)
>Dracut, MA
>
>
>
>
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