APPARATUS FOR TREATING EPILEPSY Russian patent published in 2012 - IPC A61N1/36 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medical equipment. An apparatus comprises: two data retrieval electrodes placed on a tenth cranial nerve or cerebral portions, two stimulating electrodes placed on the tenth cranial nerve, a stimulation unit, a control unit. The stimulation unit comprises two series switchboards, an operating amplifier, a sigma particle, an analogue-to-digital converter, a microprocessor, a transmitter-receiver. A digital-to-analogue converter, a generator, a switchboard are series connected on a second output of the microprocessor. A magnetoelectric generator is connected to the microprocessor. A power element supplies the unit. The control unit consists of series transmitter-receiver, microcontroller. A real-time clock, a flash memory, USB microcircuit are parallel connected to the microcontroller. The power element supplies the unit. The control unit comprises a permanent magnet separated from the electric circuit by a screening wall in order to eliminate magnetism on the electric circuit.

EFFECT: invention provides higher clinical effectiveness ensured by adaptation of the apparatus to an epileptic seizure.

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