Palomar Medicaltechnologies, Inc.

Ls Private Joint-Stock Company

Mikhail Inochkin

Peter O Gnatyuk

Vycheslav V Togatov

Andrei Vyacheslavovich Belikov

Sergei Borisovich Birjuchinsky

Leonid Ivanovich Akopov

The invention provides a power supply or drive circuit for a pulsed flashlamp which utilizes a two-core component having common windings as both an inductor for arc mode drive and for breakdown triggering of the lamp. Discharge of a capacitor through the inductor and lamp is controlled by a high-speed semiconductor switch which is turned on and off by a suitable control, current flowing from the inductor through a one-way path including the lamp when the switch is off. The control maintains the ratio of the power variation through the lamp to the average power through the lamp substantially constant. The controls may also be utilized to control output pulse shape. Novel protective features are also provided for circuit components during turn on periods for the switch.

Flashlamp drive circuit

Flash lamp drive circuit

The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for permanently or temporarily removing human hair, for miniaturizing the same or for changing the color thereof. This apparatus can also be used for coagulating blood vessels, veins or a selective injury of the derma collagen in order to regenerate the same. This apparatus uses one or more incandescent lamps () in which the radiation spectrum () can be modulated in order to heat slowly and efficiently the derma () and in order to heat locally the hair follicles (). This apparatus also includes an optical system that converts the blue-green portion of the spectrum of the incandescent lamps () into a red region of the spectrum, that provides a highly efficient concentration of converted radiation from the incandescent filament () of the lamps () on the area of biological tissues to be treated, and that ensures a repeated recirculation towards the skin () of the radiation scattered by the same.

Device for the therapeutic and cosmetic photo-processing of biological tissue and method for using the same

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St. Petersburg, Russia

Mikhail Inochkin