RALPH, JAMES HENRY,OWEN, JEFFREY STEWART,SMALL, ALISON HOLDHUS,MCLEAN, DAVID WILLIAM,GAILER, DANIEL JOHN
申请号：
PL11777037
公开号：
PL2566338T3
申请日:
2011.05.09
申请国别(地区):
PL
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要：
Described are animal stunning apparatus and methods for inducing rapid unconsciousness and insensibility. The apparatus includes a stunning station in which a live subject animal is located in a confined position and an applicator contacts an application point on the live subject animal's head immediately overlying a frontal portion of the animal's brain and couples microwave radiation to the head. A microwave generator generates microwave energy of a suitable power level and frequency, and a waveguide directs the microwave radiation to the applicator. A switch discontinues the application of microwave radiation effecting heating of the frontal portion of the brain after a period of time sufficient to have raised the temperature of the frontal portion of the brain of the subject animal to thereby induce the unconsciousness and insensibility. The period is sufficient only to rapidly induce insensibility, and is insufficient for the insensibility induced to be irreversible, and insufficient to cause significant heating of deeper brain tissues and including the brain stem.
