US 2010/0137760 A1Published application

Medical Apparatus For Treatment Of The Human Or Animal Body By Pressure Waves Or Shock Waves

OwnerManfred Schulz, Ernst H. Marlinghaus +3inventors

InventorsManfred Schulz, Ernst H. Marlinghaus, Josef Katona, Peter Christian Muelhauser, Pavel Novak

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Abstract

A medical apparatus for treatment of the human or animal body by pressure waves or shock waves has a device designed to generate the pressure waves or shock waves and having at least one applicator part and a pneumatic drive which, by means of a pressurized gas, repeatedly generates impacts on a proximal input face of the applicator part in order, with the applicator part, to generate pressure waves or shock waves that are applied from the applicator part into the body by way of a distal output face. The pressurized gas acts, in the form of individual gas pressure pulses, directly on the applicator part to generate the pressure waves or shock waves.

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Dependent claims

A medical apparatus for treatment of the human or animal body by pressure waves or shock waves, comprising

a device designed to generate said pressure waves or shock waves, said device having
at least one applicator part having a proximal input face and a distal output face, and
a pneumatic drive which, by means of pressurized gas, repeatedly generates impacts on said proximal input face of said applicator part in order, with said applicator part, to generate pressure waves or shock waves that are applied from said applicator part into said body by way of said distal output face,
wherein said pressurized gas acts, in the form of individual gas pressure pulses, directly on said applicator part to generate said pressure waves or shock waves.

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Facts

Application: 12/627,778Filed 30 Nov 2009
Priority: DE 20 2007 007 921.431 May 2007
Published: 3 Jun 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification12 codes

A61B 17/22004
Implements for squeezing-off ulcers or the like on inner organs of the body; Implements for scraping-out cavities of body organs, e.g. bones;…
A61B 17/1697
Instruments for performing osteoclasis; Drills or chisels for bones; Trepans: specially adapted for wire insertion
A61B 17/921
Impactors or extractors, e.g. for removing intramedullary devices: for intramedullary devices
A61H 23/008
Percussion or vibration massage, e.g. using supersonic vibration; Suction-vibration massage; Massage with moving diaphragms: using shock waves