Neuronetics, Inc.

Sequoia Systems, Inc.

Gerard E Bachand

Mark Edward Riehl

Kenneth Marc Ghiron

Leo P Carbonneau

Peter A Goodwin

The inventive technique include a system, method and device for treating a patient. The inventive system includes a magnetic field generating device created using a powdered ferromagnetic. The system further includes a circuit in electrical communication with the magnetic core, and a power source in electrical communication with the circuit. The ferromagnetic powder core may be manufactured by at least one of the following: machining, pressing, molding, gluing, and extruding. Also, the ferromagnetic powder core may have a distributed gap structure, where the gap structure operates to focus the magnetic field between pole faces of the magnetic device.

Magnetic core for medical procedures

Apparatus and method are provided for fault detecting in an electrical system such as a redundant or fault-tolerant system. A current receiving device connected in shunt or in series in such a system draws electric current from the electrical system being monitored. During normal operation, while current is still flowing properly through the system being monitored, an appropriate indication such as a continued series of pulses is generated, which is interpreted as indicating proper operation. If that current flow is cut off, indicating a fault condition, then the apparatus and method provide an appropriate signal (such as cutoff of the series of pulses) to a communication system which provides an appropriate indication to an external location. The current receiving device can be a relaxation oscillator together with another device which can be a pulse generator, an L-C energy transfer arrangement, a bridge circuit including an inductor, a two-winding inductor or a capacitor. The latter such device can be connected in shunt or in series with the electrical system being monitored. The relaxation oscillator is connected in shunt with the system being monitored. The communication device can, for example, be a photoemitter in combination with a photodetector, or could alternatively be a two-winding transformer.

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Cherry Valley, MA, United States of America

Gerard E Bachand