| US 7,108,689 C1 (0105th) | ||
| METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC TREATMENT OF THE SKIN, INCLUDING HAIR DEPILATION | ||
| Shimon Eckhouse, Haifa, Israel, and Hillel Bachrach, Needham, Mass., assignors to Lumenis Ltd., Yokneam, Israel | ||
| Reexamination Request No. 95/001,017, Dec. 7, 2007. | ||
| Reexamination Certificate for Patent 7,108,689, issued Sep. 19, 2006, Appl. No. 246,722, Sep. 19, 2002. | ||
| Continuation of application No. 09/505,998, filed on Feb. 17, 2000, now Pat. No. 6,514,243, which is a continuation of application No. 08/912,764, filed on Aug. 18, 1997, now Pat. No. 6,280,438, which is a continuation-in-part of application No. 08/508,129, filed on Jul. 27, 1995, now Pat. No. 5,720,772, which is a continuation-in-part of application No. 08/477,479, filed on Jun. 7, 1995, now Pat. No. 5,620,478, which is a continuation of application No. 08/473,532, filed on Jun. 7, 1995, now Pat. No. 5,755,751, which is a continuation of application No. 08/383,509, filed on Feb. 3, 1995, now Pat. No. 5,626,631, which is a continuation-in-part of application No. 07/964,210, filed on Oct. 20, 1992, now Pat. No. 5,405,368, said application No. 08/912,764 and a continuation-in-part of application No. 08/412,519, filed on Mar. 29, 1995, now Pat. No. 5,683,380. | ||
| Int. Cl. A61B 18/18; |
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| U.S. Cl. 606—9 |
| AS A RESULT OF REEXAMINATION, IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT: |
| Claims 1-31 are cancelled. |
| [1. A medical treatment device for application of light to the skin, comprising: a housing;
a flashlamp contained within said housing, said flashlamp producing incoherent light;
a power source for providing power to said flashlamp;
an optically transparent medium associated with said housing and adapted to transmit said light as a spatially dispersed field; and
a reflector within said housing to reflect said incoherent light from said flashlamp through said optically transparent medium to said skin when said device is placed in contact therewith.]
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