RALPH, JAMES,OWEN, JEFFREY,SMALL, ALISON,MCLEAN, DAVID,GAILER, DANIEL
申请号：
ES11777037
公开号：
ES2551240T3
申请日:
2011.05.09
申请国别(地区):
ES
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
An animal stunning device for substantially inducing the unconsciousness and immediate insensitivity that allows the processing or handling of an animal in question, the apparatus that includes: A stunning station (10), into which a living animal in question is introduced to be treated or handled, the stunning station is arranged to place the animal in question in a confinement position, an applicator (60) to contact an application point (51) on the head (50) of the animal in question live, immediately superimposed a frontal part of the animal's brain, the applicator (60) that has a coupling conformation (61), to couple the microwave radiation through it to the head and to the front part of the brain of the animal in question , and a microwave generator (75) for generating and radiating microwave energy of an appropriate power level and frequency, characterized in that the applicator (60) is located and arranged to contact the point of application (51), when the animal is in the confinement position in the stunning station, and the apparatus further includes: a waveguide (76) coupled to the generator (75) microwave to receive and direct the microwave radiation to the applicator (60) located at an operating end (77) of the waveguide (76) to heat the front part of the brain of the animal in question below the point (51) of application in which the applicator contacts in use, and switching means (78), operable in order to suspend the application of microwave radiation that carries out the heating of the frontal part of the brain after a sufficient period of time to have raised the temperature of the frontal part of the brain of the animal in question and thus induce unconsciousness and insensitivity, where the switching means (78) is operable to interrupt the application of microwave radiation immediately after a period that is - sufficient only to rapidly induce insensitivity, and - insufficient (i) for the induced insensitivity to be irreversible, and (ii) to cause s
