476 results about "Acupuncture needles" patented technology

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method of weight loss involving acupuncture includes the steps of placing a plurality of EBS acupuncture needles at a plurality of predetermined locations of the body corresponding to acupuncture meridians; and energizing each of the plurality of EBS acupuncture needles to treat the body at the location of the EBS needle insertion.

The present invention is directed toward an acoustic, piezoelectric, electric, electro-mechanical or pneumatically driven surface drum driver, in mechanical engagement with a biopsy or acupuncture needle device and a method for its use for diagnosis of small e.g. 100 microns, tumors via the production of magnetic resonance elastographic images (MRE), without artifact production, in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. In a second embodiment, the invention is directed toward an acoustically, pneumatically, piezoelectrically, electrically and/or electro-mechanically driven acupuncture needle, useful for simulating manual single-needle acupuncture treatments via a non-manually manipulated acupuncture needle; and further to a device and process for determination, using twin pneumatically driven surface drivers, of organ stiffness, e.g. brain stiffness, which can be quantified so as to be useful in elucidating and quantifying brain cognitive state, e.g. normal, mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or Alzheimer's dementia (AD).

The invention discloses a detecting micro-needle with a strengthened Raman and a fluorescence signal and a preparation method of the detecting micro-needle. The detecting micro-needle is characterized in that a medical acupuncture needle is used a basis for preparation. A metal nanometer material layer and a high molecular material layer with a strengthened Raman and a fluorescence signal cover the surfaces of the needle body and the needle tip part of the micro-needle. The detecting micro-needle structure comprises a micro-needle with a mercapto and amination surface, a metal nanoparticle layer and a high molecular material layer. The metal nanoparticles with a diameter of 20-1000nm coat the surface of the acupuncture needle by a covalent bond or a static adsorption effect. The high molecular layer covers the protecting metal nanoparticles in the outmost layer. Raman and fluorescence detection of in vitro samples and sampling and minimally invasive sampling and Raman and fluorescence detection in organism can be carried out based on the features of the detecting micro-needle. A novel rapid and super-sensitive detecting method for in vivo and in vitro experiment research, clinical diagnosis and large sample screening is provided by the invention.

A one-hand operated acupuncture dispensing system to administer acupuncture treatment at an acupoint point is described. The system includes an acupuncture needle, a clip and a guide tube to house the needle and the clip for securing and releasing the needle inside the guide tube. The tube prevents the clip from separation from the tube after the needle is dispensed. The clip is shaped to allow the acupuncture needle to exit the guide tube at an angle. The clip and/or guide tube can provide color coding. An alternate to the system includes a cap that joins with a guide tube housing an acupuncture needle. This alternate system also includes a clip that secures and releases the needle. In this alternate system, the cap, as well as the clip and/or guide tube can provide color coding.

A porous acupuncture needle includes a needle portion for puncturing the outer skin of human body, and an operation portion for being held and handled by a user. The needle portion includes a needle body, a porous layer formed by a plurality of micropores on the surface of the needle body, and a charge layer covering on the surface of the porous layer. When performing acupuncture, the affinity provided by the charge layer makes the human tissues to attach to the needle portion more easily. Moreover, during twirling the needle, the porous layer also increases the capability to affect the surrounding tissues and therefore the stimulation to the acupuncture point.

The invention relates to an optical fiber acupuncture needle which comprises an acupuncture needle body and an optical fiber, wherein the optical fiber is distributed in the acupuncture needle body. The top of the optical fiber is a conical sharp end, a micro-pore is formed in the tail end of the acupuncture needle body, the top of the optical fiber is located at the opening position of the micro-pore, the laser of the optical fibers enters the acupuncture position through the micro-pore, and meanwhile an electrical signal and an optical signal of the acupuncture position are collected through the acupuncture position. The optical fiber acupuncture needle is easy to manufacture and use and low in price and can further monitor the therapeutic effect in the acupuncture process in real time so as to well guide the therapeutic process.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medical instruments, particularly to an acupuncture needle. The acupuncture needle comprises a needle handle, a needle body, a magnet ring, a magnetic sheet, scale marks, a fixing bolt and a screw hole, wherein the needle body is fixedly connected with the lower end of the needle handle, the other end of the needle body is a needle point, the magnet ring is provided with a first center hole, and is sleeved with the needle body in a sliding manner and fixed on the needle body; the magnetic sheet is provided with a second center hole and used for accommodating the magnet ring; the side surface of the second center hole is in smooth contact with the outer side surface of the magnet ring; the scale marks are arranged on the needle body from the needle point above, and the fixing bolt and the screw hole are formed in the magnet ring. During the use, a specific acupuncturing part can be positioned through the second center hole of the magnetic sheet, the acupuncture depth can be set according to specific treatment conditions, the magnet ring is fixed in the position of a corresponding scale mark on the needle body, then acupuncture and moxibustion can be performed, accuracy control to the acupuncture depth can be achieved, adverse effects caused by over deep needle insertion or over light needle insertion can be prevented, besides, the magnet ring and the magnetic sheet are used in the invention, so that the needle body can be magnetized, and a magnetic therapy effect can be achieved at the same time during acupuncture.

The invention discloses a numerical control acupuncture simulation manual therapeutical instrument which comprises a needle clamping mechanism, an insertion component, a rotating component and a control system for controlling the insertion component to complete insertion motions and controlling the rotating component to complete rotating motions. The numerical control acupuncture simulation manual therapeutical instrument further comprises an ejection mechanism for ejecting an acupuncture needle to penetrate in an acupuncture point. On the basis that a rotating and inserting mechanism is arranged, the ejection mechanism is additionally arranged, and the needle is aligned to the acupuncture point to be ejected during the acupuncture process, thus painless needle inserting is realized; and moreover, needle inserting and subsequent therapies are comprehensively simulated to realize conventional acupuncture manipulation, problems of poor curative effect and low efficiency which are caused by inexperienced operators can be avoided, and the stimulation amount of acupuncture manipulation can be unified and standardized, so that acupuncture gradually tends to accurate quantitative indexes, and the individual difference of manual operation is avoided, thus the personal error of an acupuncture clinical research treatment result is eliminated; and when being used, the acupuncture simulation manual therapeutical head stimulates the manipulation of known specialists, realizes intelligent simulation, is convenient and simple, and is high in therapeutical efficiency.

The invention discloses a comprehensive treatment device integrating acupuncture, moxa-moxibustion, medicinal moxibustion, cupping and massage and a use method. The comprehensive treatment device integrating acupuncture, moxa-moxibustion, medicinal moxibustion, cupping and massage comprises a cup body, an air exhaust device, a needle warming moxibustion device, a medicine spraying device, a needletwirling device and a special acupuncture needle. Automatic needle twirling, needle warming moxibustion, external medicine spraying, cupping and massage are integrated for comprehensive treatment, and the curative effect is obviously superior to that of single application.

The invention discloses a mobile phone adjusting and control interactive point joining acupuncture system based on a cloud platform. The system comprises the cloud platform, a mobile phone terminal system and a point joining acupuncture system. Starting/stopping and parameter control are performed in a wireless mode. A user downloads treatment parameters from the cloud platform through a mobile phone terminal and controls the point joining acupuncture system through wireless signals of WiFi or Bluetooth or the like of the mobile phone terminal, point joining acupuncture heads of the point joining acupuncture system are placed at acupuncture points for point joining treatment on skin, and finally the somatosensory effect equivalent to the effect that acupuncture needles are punctured into the human body is achieved, so that the treatment effect is achieved. In the acupuncturing process, a doctor does not need to be on the scene, and meanwhile the user can precisely control the current output quantity according to self-conditions in the acupuncturing process.

The acupuncture needle is covered with one protecting tubular or bag-shaped film of medical rubber or other flexible medical packing material. The protecting film tube or bag is greater than the needle, flexible and foldable, and has no influence on acupuncture manipulation. The acupuncture needle and the protecting film are packed in outer package and are sterilized. The acupuncture needle is punctured into body directly or through the protecting film bag. The present invention has the advantages of no contamination to the needle, simple operation, etc.

The invention discloses an automatic acupuncture needle tubing packaging machine, which comprises a circular feed mechanism, a tube pushing mechanism, a needle pushing mechanism, and a sheet delivery mechanism. The circular feed mechanism in which a group of V-shaped grooves, a material transfer plate, a first linear driving mechanism and a second linear driving mechanism are matched is designed;and the tube pushing mechanism, the needle pushing mechanism, and the sheet delivery mechanism are arranged beside the circular feed mechanism. After an acupuncture needle and a plastic tube are parallelly fed into the first V-shaped groove, the material transfer plate transfers the acupuncture needle and the plastic tube stage by stage to the next V-shaped groove, and in the stage-by-stage transfer process, the needle pushing mechanism pushes the needle stage by stage through needle pushing rods with different lengths, so that the acupuncture needle is gradually inserted into the plastic tube to reach a proper position; and under the cooperation of the sheet delivery mechanism, the needle pushing mechanism and the tube pushing mechanism, a plastic sheet is inserted into the plastic tube to clamp and position the needle body finally. By the matching of the group of V-shaped grooves and the material transfer plate, and a design of pushing the needle stage by stage, the tubing packagingis stable and reliable, and the machine is suitable for acupuncture needles with different lengths.

The invention belongs to the technical field of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, and particularly relates to a needle warming apparatus with a disinfecting function for acupuncture, which aims at solving the problems that the needle application cannot be enabled to be performed for the human body under a bacteria-free condition, a plurality of needles cannot be warmed simultaneously, thestructure is simple, the function is single, and the use is inconvenient. The needle warming apparatus is characterized by comprising a supporting bottom plate, wherein the outer wall of two sides ofthe bottom of the supporting bottom plate are respectively provided with a supporting column in a welding manner, the quantity of the supporting column is four, the outer walls of the bottoms of the four supporting columns are respectively connected with a supporting plate in a welding manner, and the outer wall of the bottom of the supporting plate is connected with an antiskid liner plate in a welding manner. By adopting the needle warming apparatus, the acupuncture needle inside the apparatus can be disinfected, a voltage of an ultraviolet lamp tube can be adjusted, so that an energy-savingenvironmental protection purpose can be achieved, the sterilizing effect can be improved, the acupuncture needle can be enabled to be warmed under a sealing condition, and the acupuncture needle canbe applied to the human body under a bacteria-free condition.

The invention discloses an acupuncture method and device combining ultrasonic vibration with traditional acupuncture, and relates to the technical field of ultrasonic treatment. The method comprises the steps that ultrasonic waves excited by a frequency conversion ultrasonic wave function generator are transmitted to an acupuncture needle, the syringe needle of the acupuncture needle generates longitudinal vibration or torsional vibration or bending vibration or longitudinal and torsional compounding vibration under the effect of ultrasonic waves, and by controlling the ultrasonic modal, the ultrasonic dosage, the ultrasonic frequency, the ultrasonic intensity, ultrasonic waveforms, acting time and the like, acupuncture points are stimulated to generate a certain physiological reaction toachieve the treatment effect. The device comprises the frequency conversion ultrasonic wave function generator, a time delay, a piezoelectric transducer, an amplitude transformer and the acupuncture needle; according to the method and device, no large-amplitude motion needs to be performed by means of the acupuncture needle, only micro-meter-scale vibration amplitude is generated under ultrasonicvibration, the problems of fainting during acupuncture treatment, needle sticking in acupuncture, needle bending, needle breaking, hematoma and the like during traditional needle manipulation are reduced, the problem that the effect of an existing ultrasonic acupuncture simulation method is not obvious is solved, and the good practical value is achieved.

A patch type acupuncture needle to facilitate blood circulations in a restricted area of a human body by utilizing an induced magnetic field is provided. The patch type acupuncture induced magnetic needle set of the current application is comprised of; 1) a spring needle of total height 3.1 mm and thickness 0.18 mm, 2) an annular magnet with inner-diameter of 2.2 mm, outer diameter of 7.0 mm, thickness of 2.1 mm and has magnetic strength of 650 Gauss, 3) a circular cap of outer diameter 7.5 mm, inner diameter 7.3 mm and cap wall height 2 mm, and 4) an adhesive plaster which has a round seat of inner-diameter of 7.5 mm for receiving the magnet cap. Half of the spring needle is wound and half is straight. The spring needle is located in the inner hole of the annular magnet. The straight tip of the spring needle protrudes out of the inner hole about 1 mm.

The invention relates to a self-disinfecting acupuncture needle which comprises a housing, a housing cover in rotary connection with the housing through a rotary shaft and a needle body located in the housing. A needle body cavity vertically through is arranged in the housing, a needle handle fixator moving vertically is arranged at the top of the needle body cavity, the needle body is arranged in the needle body cavity, the needle handle end of the needle body is arranged in the needle handle fixator, one end of the needle handle fixator is located outside the housing, the other end of the needle handle fixator is located in the needle body cavity, two ends of the needle handle fixator are respectively provided with plugs, medicine storage sponge is arranged on the side wall of the lower portion of the needle body cavity, a liquid collecting chamber is arranged below the medicine storage sponge, the opening of the liquid collecting chamber is communicated with the needle body cavity, and a scraping plate is arranged at the lower edge of the opening of the liquid collecting chamber. The medicine storage sponge absorbed with a disinfectant is built in the acupuncture needle, the needle body is disinfected in the acupuncture process, the redundant disinfectant is scraped off from the needle body and is collected in the liquid collecting chamber, and the self-disinfecting acupuncture needle is controllable in depth and ensures the acupuncture safety.

The present invention discloses an acupuncture tubular needle which comprises an acupuncture needle and a sleeve thereof. The acupuncture needle is composed of a needle handle and a needle body fixed on the needle handle; the needle handle comprises a pressing part, a projection part connected with the pressing part, a twisting part and a contracting part for fixing the needle body; and a flat bottom groove is disposed at the connection part of the twisting part and the projection part. The needle handle of the acupuncture needle provided by the present invention is provided with a long twisting part, so a doctor can conveniently hold the needle, conveniently twist, lift and insert the needle after acupuncture, and thus accurately position the insertion depth of the acupuncture needle. Salient points positioned through coordination of the tube wall of the sleeve and the flat bottom groove are completed by stamping instead of injection molding, thereby reducing precision requirements of processing techniques.

The invention belongs to the technical field of moxibustion supplies, and particularly relates to a self-controlled moxibustion device. The device includes a mechanical arm, a moxa stick installation box filled with a moxa stick is detachably installed on the mechanical arm, the moxa stick is placed in the moxa stick installation box, the moxa stick includes a moxa stick body, a heat radiation body made of heat conduction materials penetrates through the moxa stick body in the axial direction of the moxa stick body, and the heat radiation end of the heat radiation body stretches out of the lower end of the moxa stick body and is exposed at the lower end of the moxa stick installation box; the moxa stick installation box is provided with a distance sensor and a temperature sensor, wherein the distance sensor can detect the distance between a body surface acupuncture point and the heat radiation end of the heat radiation body and the temperature sensor can detect the moxibustion temperature output by the heat radiation end of the heat radiation body, and the mechanical arm, the distance sensor and the temperature sensor are all connected with a controller. The self-controlled moxibustion device has the advantages that the acupuncture needle function and the moxa stick hot smoking function are combined, dust generated by the combustion of the moxa stick can be isolated, special dust removal is not needed, and automatic control over the distance between the body surface acupuncture point and the top point of the heat radiation moxa stick and the hot smoking temperature of the heat radiation moxa stick is achieved.

The present invention provides an acupuncture needling training checking device and method. The device comprises silicone rubber, circuits, contacts, a counter, an angle device, a receiver, a transmitter, a display screen, a character-voice converter, a master control chip, a horn and a USB interface. A model of human body is composed of silicone rubber, the model of human body is embedded with multiple layers of circuits for simulation human body channels, and the contacts are arranged at corresponding human body acupoints on the circuits. The model of human body is made of the silicone rubber, is good in simulation effect, is provided with functions of depth and angle of needling, the number of times of needling location and acupoint cognition, and displays the functions to allow beginners to repeatedly train acupoint cognition, needling manipulation and acupoint needling main points, allow the beginners to be skilled in the needling manipulation and needling taboo to avoid occurrence of needling accidents and allow the beginners to master the needling to reach a good operation capability and avoid occurrence of accidents so as to lay a solid foundation for clinical practice work and store the data to a mobile medium for facilitate usage.

The invention relates to an anti-acupuncture venous indwelling needle. The anti-acupuncture venous indwelling needle comprises a catheter component, a needle tubing component and an infusion connector connected with the catheter component. The catheter component comprises a catheter base and a catheter. A cavity is formed in the catheter base. The needle tubing assembly comprises a needle base and a puncture needle. An anti-acupuncture component is arranged between the catheter base and the needle base and comprises a protection base internally provided with a through hole. A stop piece cavity and a lower through hole in the tail portion of the through hole are formed in the through hole. The acupuncture needle sequentially penetrates through the through hole, the cavity in the catheter base, and the catheter. A spring groove is formed in the through hole in the radial direction. A spring in the compressed state and a stop piece are arranged in the spring groove. One end of the spring abuts against the protection base, and the other end of the spring abuts against the stop piece. The stop piece can enter a cavity of the stop piece and prevent the acupuncture needle from penetrating through the through hole. The anti-acupuncture venous indwelling needle is simple in structural design, can prevent the acupuncture needle from penetrating out secondarily on the aspect of functions, effectively prevents the needle tip from puncturing medical staff, and is free of the defects of efficacy loss, deformation and blockage.

The invention belongs to the field of medical nursing, and particularly relates to an acupuncture and manipulation integrated treatment device. The solution is provided for solving the problems that existing acupuncture and nursing activities are not easy to manage, and the comfort degree of patients is low during manipulation nursing. The device comprises a bed, and an acupuncture and sterilization device is installed on the bed and comprises a first induction ring, an acupuncture needle, a second induction ring, a fixing base, an ultraviolet sterilization lamp, a sterilization box, a display screen and a protective cover. The fixing base is inserted in the fixing base and is of a cylindrical hollow structure, the second induction ring is embedded in the fixing base, the acupuncture needle is inserted in the fixing base, the needle tip portion of the acupuncture needle is inserted into the sterilization box, the first induction ring is embedded in a handle of the acupuncture needle, the protective cover is hinged to the lateral side of the sterilization box, the display screen is installed on the lateral side of the sterilization box, and the ultraviolet sterilization lamp is installed in the sterilization box. By means of the acupuncture and manipulation integrated treatment device, acupuncture and nursing activities can be convenient to manage, and the comfort degree of manipulation is improved.

The invention discloses a needle warming and awakening disinfecting device for traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture. The needle warming and awakening disinfecting device comprises a box, sliding grooves are formed in the bottom ends of the left side and the right side of an inner cavity of the box, sliding blocks are embedded into inner cavities of the sliding grooves, a supporting plate is welded between the two sliding blocks, the supporting plate is driven by a driving mechanism to vertically move, the center of the top end of the supporting plate is connected with a micro gear motor through a screw, and a rectangular column is welded to the output end of the micro gear motor. According to the needle warming and awakening disinfecting device, acupuncture needs of different specifications can be placed through first through holes and second through holes and can be classified to be stored, the acupuncture needles are prevented from pricking people, and meanwhile the device is convenient to carry, flexible to use and high in practicality. A heating bar is used for heating, the acupuncture needles can be sterilized, the function of warming the needles can be achieved, the acupuncture needles can be further sterilized through an ultraviolet sterilization lamp, the cleanliness of the acupuncture needles can be guaranteed, the phenomenon of superinfection is avoided, and thetreatment security is ensured.

The invention relates to an automatic widening device for an automatic acupuncture needle handle winding machine, which is characterized by consisting of a widening mechanism and a driving mechanism, wherein the widening mechanism mainly comprises a needle dropping channel (4), needle supporting plates (2) and needle ejection plates (3) which are longitudinally arranged; the needle supporting plates (2) are positioned on the lower part of the needle dropping channel (4) and are flexibly and slidably connected in a direction vertical to a needle blank (5); the needle ejection plates (3) are positioned above the needle supporting plates (2) and are flexibly and slidably connected in the direction vertical to the needle blank (5); the needle supporting interval (9) among the needle supporting plates (2) and the needle ejection plates (3) is larger than the radius of the needle blank (5) and smaller than a value which is two times the diameter of the needle blank (5); and the driving mechanism respectively drives the needle supporting plates (2) and the needle ejection plates (3) to alternately and flexibly slide. The automatic widening device has the advantages of replacing the conventional manual widening, greatly improving the automation degree and production efficiency of the acupuncture needle handle winding machine, reducing labor intensity and production cost, along with ingenious concept, reasonable structure and reliable work.

The invention discloses an automatic sorting mechanism for acupuncture needles. The automatic sorting mechanism mainly comprises a first-stage needle sorting wheel structure and a second-stage needle sorting wheel structure which are combined with each other, wherein the first-stage needle sorting wheel structure consists of a first needle sorting wheel and a first motor; the second-stage needle sorting wheel structure consists of a second needle sorting wheel and a second motor; the first needle sorting wheel consists of a cylindrical first barrel; a first needle sorting groove is formed on the outer edge of the first barrel along the axial direction; a first annular groove is formed on the outer edge of the first barrel along the circumferential direction; the cross section of the firstneedle sorting groove has a dovetail groove shape; the structure of the second needle sorting wheel is similar to that of the first needle sorting wheel; the second motor can be a stepping motor or aservo motor; the first needle sorting wheel and the second needle sorting wheel are arranged parallel to each other; a first bearing plate is obliquely arranged in the space between the rear half part of the first needle sorting wheel and the front half part of the second needle sorting wheel; and a first sensor for detecting the acupuncture needles is arranged at one end of the first bearing plate corresponding to the second needle sorting wheel. The automatic sorting mechanism for the acupuncture needles is reliable and stable.

An automatic acupuncture device includes: a case; a motor or an electromagnet; a needle driver, configured to move linearly under the force of the motor or electromagnet to drive an acupuncture needlein a needle gadget into a human body, the needle gadget comprising a needle tube and an acupuncture needle inside the needle tube; a needle gadget chamber configured to house the needle gadget; and alocking-releasing structure that is configured to lock the needle gadget so that it will not fall out of the needle gadget chamber during acupuncture treatment, and also configured to release the needle gadget from the needle gadget chamber after acupuncture treatment. A needle gadget is provided for use with the acupuncture device, so that the acupuncture needle will not be exposed in air outside the needle tube before or after acupuncture. The acupuncture process is automatic, safe, without complicated manual operation.