Therapeutic device using pulsed and colored light
OwnerTony Cocilovoinventor
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Abstract
An improved non-coherent pulsed and colored light stimulation device used for therapeutic effects in living creatures. Pulsed/colored light is applied to local areas, or acupuncture macro or micro systems, by means of a small diameter optic fiber (10) housed in a pen-like handpiece (18) which makes application comfortable and precise. The light source is an adjustable rate strobe (4) with a housing attached to the front (6) which allows color gel slides (12) to be interchanged. The light passes through the slides (12) and through a length of jacketed flexible optic fiber (10) where it becomes visible again at the radiant tip (20) of the handpiece (18).
Claims19
A therapeutic light device comprising:
- (a) a pulsed light generator having a light emitting end;
- (b) a plurality of color gel slides;
- (c) a housing into which each said color gel slide may be inserted or removed;
- (d) a means of connecting said housing to the light emitting end of said pulsed light generator, whereby light passes through said color gel slides;
- (e) a flexible jacketed optic fiber of predetermined diameter and of sufficient length to accommodate use by a human, said flexible jacketed optic fiber having an applicator end and an illuminant tip;
- (f) a means of connecting said optic fiber to a hole in said housing, whereby colored light passes into said optic fiber;
- (g) an elongated handpiece, having a handpiece end which surrounds and encases the applicator end of said flexible jacketed optic fiber, leaving said illuminant tip of said optic fiber to protrude past said handpiece end of said handpiece sufficiently to accommodate treatment of living creatures, whereby said handpiece provides an enlarged means for holding said optic fiber conveniently.
A therapeutic light system comprising:
- (a) light source means for providing a pulsed non-coherent light;
- (b) color means for providing a first chromatic adjustment of said non-coherent light to provide a colored non-coherent light;
- (c) variation means including a plurality of different color gel structures, separately applied for providing a user-chosen selection among multiple said chromatic adjustments;
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- (d) optic fiber means for transporting said colored non-coherent light to a position immediately adjacent a living creature.
A method for using a therapeutic light system for treating a living creature, comprising the steps of:
- (a) providing a pulsed strobe light of user-selected intensity to provide non-coherent light;
- (b) setting said pulsed strobe light to pulse at a frequency of no more than ten pulses per second;
- (c) selecting a color gel slide from a group of said color gel slides each of different color;
- (d) passing said non-coherent light through said selected color gel slide to provide colored non-coherent light;
- (e) passing said colored non-coherent light into a first end of a flexible jacketed optic fiber;
- (f) passing said colored non-coherent light through said flexible jacketed optic fiber to a second end of said flexible jacketed optic fiber having an applicator end and an illuminant tip;
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- (g) passing said colored non-coherent light from said second end of said flexible jacketed optic fiber directly onto said living creature by said illuminant tip, said tip being in contact with tissue of the living creature.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.