Athermapeutic apparatus

Claim 1

AN ULTRA SHORT WAVE ATHERMAPEUTIC APPARATUS FOR ADMINISTERING THERAPEUTIC TREATMENTS TO A PATIENT, SAID APPARATUS COMPRISING: OSCILLATION GENERATING MEANS FOR PRODUCING CONTINUOUS HIGH FREQUENCY ELECTRICAL OSCILLATIONS OF PREDETERMINED FREQUENCY; SEPARATE PULSE GENERATING MEANS FOR PRODUCING A SERIES OF ELECTRICAL PULSES, EACH HAVING A DURATION WHICH IS VERY SMALL COMPARED TO THE INTERVAL BETWEEN PULSES; FIRST CONTROL MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF IMPEDANCE ELEMENTS AND A SWITCH OPERABLE TO SELECT THE NUMBER OF SUCH ELEMENTS ASSOCIATED AT ANY TIME WITH SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS, AND SAID FIRST CONTROL MEANS BEING OPERABLE TO ESTABLISH AT A PREDETERMINED TIME VALUE, THE DURATION OF EACH OF THE PULSES PRODUCED BY SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS; SECOND CONTROL MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF IMPEDANCE ELEMENTS AND A SWITCH OPERABLE TO SELECT THE NUMBER OF SUCH ELEMENTS ASSOCIATED AT ANY TIME WITH SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS, AND SAID SECOND CONTROL MEANS BEING OPERABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY ADJUST TO ANY ONE OF A PLURALITY OF PREDETERMINED TIME VALUES, THE INTERVAL BETWEEN THE INITIATION OF EACH OF THE PULSES PRODUCED BY SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS; POWER AMPLIFYING MEANS OPERABLE TO AMPLIFY THE OSCILLATIONS PRODUCED BY SAID OSCILLATION GENERATING MEANS; SAID OSCILLATION GENERATING MEANS ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO AND OPERABLE TO DELIVER ITS OUTPUT HIGH FREQUENCY OSCILLATIONS AS SIGNAL EXCITATION TO SAID POWER AMPLIFYING MEANS; SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS ELECTRICALLY CONNECTED TO AND OPERABLE TO DELIVER ITS OUTPUT PULSES AS ESTABLISHED BY SAID FIRST AND SECOND CONTROL MEANS AS ENERGIZATION TO SAID POWER AMPLIFYING MEANS; SAID POWER AMPLIFYING MEANS UPON RECEIVING THE RESPECTIVE OUTPUTS OF SAID OSCILLATIONS GENERATING MEANS AND SAID PULSE GENERATING MEANS HAVING AS OUTPUT, A SERIES OF HIGH-FREQUENCYMODULATED ELECTRICAL PULSES; AND APPLICATOR MEANS COUPLED TO AND RESPONSIVE TO THE OUTPUT OF SAID POWER AMPLIFYING MEANS FOR GENERATING AND INTRODUCING INTO THE BODY OF A PATIENT IN RECEPTIVE PROXIMITY THERETO, PULSED ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATIONS HAVING A PREDETERMINED FREQUENCY, A PREDETERMINED PULSE DURATION, AND A PREDETERMINED PULSE REPETITION RATE; AND A TUNABLE CIRCUIT COMPRISING A PAIR OF IMPEDANCE ELEMENTS ONE OF WHICH IS VARIABLE AND OPERABLE TO TUNE SAID APPLICATOR MEANS TO THE SAME RESONANT FREQUENCY AS SAID POWER AMPLIFYING MEANS.