49 results about "Vibratory stimulation" patented technology

A device and method for stimulating a foot of a subject based on ambulatory feedback can impact various characteristics of the subject's gait. The device may include a pressure sensor, a switch or controller, and a vibrational stimulator. The switch or controller actuates the stimulator based on feedback from the pressure sensor. The controller can include algorithms to provide stimulation based on the pressure sensor input, as well as record data related to characteristics such as step or stride interval, step characteristics and other ambulatory-related information.

Devices, systems, and methods for promoting female sexual wellness and function. The devices, systems, and methods encourage clitoral engorgement using suction over the clitoris combined with vibratory stimulation.

A method for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in a human subject is provided. A first vibration stimulation member is introduced into a posterior part of a first nasal cavity of the human subject. By means of the first vibration stimulation member, vibrations are imparted to the posterior part of the first nasal cavity at frequency in a range of from 60 to 70 Hz. A second vibration simulation member is arranged between the trapezius muscle and the sternocleidomastoid muscle on a first side of the neck of the human subject; and by means of said second vibration stimulation member, vibrations are imparted to the first side of the neck at a frequency in a range of from 30 to 50 Hz.

Devices, systems, and methods for promoting female sexual wellness and function. The devices, systems, and methods encourage clitoral engorgement using suction over the clitoris combined with vibratory stimulation. In some embodiments, a device is capable of operation in an automatic attachment (autoattach) mode, in which detecting attachment of the device to user tissue (e.g. through detection of a positive pressure in a tissue-contacting chamber) automatically triggers starting a suction pump to secure the device in place. Suction settings such as a target negative pressure may be determined according to a dynamically-evaluated quality of a seal established between the device and user tissue. The quality of the seal may be determined by identifying drops in the absolute value of negative pressure that are not readily compensated for by the suction pump.

A method for acquiring, externally or internally, for utility purposes a subject's anatomical heart-sound information including (a) for a selected time period, applying continuous, near-sensor-mechanical-resonance, vibratory stimulation to an acoustic sensor placed on or within the subject's anatomy, and (b) during that time period, detecting, as direct indications of heart sounds, changes in the sensor's physical resonance properties produced by heart sounds arriving at the sensor.

Provided herein are a method and system are provided for the localization of clinically relevant electrophysiological signals necessary for the proper placement of the electrodes for nervous system stimulation. The system provides electrical and mechanical means to stimulate or excite neural structures in order to elicit specific neural responses. The method can include mechanical vibratory stimulation, cutaneous electrical stimulation, electrical stimulation of the peripheral nerves, or photic stimulation, and recording of local field potentials and extracting evoked potentials in response to stimulation. The method also includes extracting components of the evoked potentials that relate the signal in the evoked potentials to specific anatomical structures and localization of the source of the evoked potentials recorded so as to identify the location of the source relative to the recording electrode with high resolution by sampling the evoked potentials with a relative large (macro) electrode that is moved in small incremental steps.

Devices, systems, and methods for promoting female sexual wellness and function. The devices, systems, and methods encourage clitoral engorgement using suction over the clitoris combined with vibratory stimulation.

A device for vibratory stimulation on the human body comprises a support platform, a panel supported by the platform and forming a standing surface for a person using the device, and a vibrator for imparting to the panel a vibratory movement. Two standards are mounted to the platform at opposite sides of the panel, forming handles for the person standing on the standing surface between the standards to hold on. A sensor is provided for sensing the load on the panel or on the standards exerted by the person standing on the standing surface. A control unit is connected with the sensor and the vibrator for controlling the operation of the vibrator in dependence on the load sensed by the sensor.

A device for stimulating mechanosensory nerve endings can include: a housing having an internal chamber and first and second openings; optionally, a membrane covering the first opening of housing, said membrane being sufficient flexibility to vibrate upon receiving vibratory stimulation from a vibratory mechanism; and a coupling mechanism at the second opening configured for being fluidly coupled to the vibratory mechanism, wherein the entire device consists of magnetically unresponsive materials. The housing can be cylindrical, or any polygon shape. The membrane can be integrated with the housing or coupled thereto, such as with adhesive. Optionally, the membrane can be removably coupled to the housing. The membrane can be omitted such that the skin of a subject coupled to the device oscillates in response to the fluid vibrations.

A wearable tactile display device is disclosed wherein vibrating stimulation pins are located close to each other by means of underlying vibratory actuation piezoelectric bending elements arranged in a cantilever configuration partially overlapping over each other. Optionally, the plane in which the tips of stimulation pins protrude may be a curved surface providing with the ability to comply with a curved human body part such as a finger. Vibratory stimulation can be achieved at close spatial resolution by advantageously reducing the space between adjacent stimulation pins through their ability to engage with different adjacent piezoelectric cantilever bending elements when they are placed at different planes and at additional closer spatial resolution when they are placed at an angle to each other. The programmable controller employed in order to program the pattern of stimulation pin vibrations can be used for generating different amplitudes and frequencies of vibration.

A method for treatment of gastrointestinal disease by means of a vibration stimulation member is provided. The method comprises imparting vibrations to a nasal cavity if a human subject shows symptoms of constipation alone; imparting vibrations to an abdomen if the human subject shows symptoms of one or more of bloating, abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, or tenesmus; and / or imparting vibrations to intestines if the human subject shows symptoms of an inflammatory condition.

An actuator is disclosed for delivering mechanical vibrations to the body of a subject. The actuator includes a piezoelectric element, electrodes in electrical or wireless communication with an electrical source and the piezoelectric element to drive the piezoelectric element, a polymeric protective layer encapsulating the piezoelectric element and at least part of the electrodes, and an enclosure attached to the protective layer and defining a space between the protective layer and the enclosure allowing desired modes of vibration to develop across a surface of the protective layer that encapsulated the piezoelectric element. The actuator can include a skin attachment article having a mounting pad for attaching to the skin of the subject and for attaching the actuator and having a cover that overlies the actuator and the mounting pad when the article is attached to the skin of the subject.

Devices, systems, and methods for promoting female sexual wellness and function. The devices, systems, and methods encourage clitoral engorgement using suction over the clitoris combined with vibratory stimulation

Devices, systems, and methods for promoting female sexual wellness and function. The devices, systems, and methods encourage clitoral engorgement using suction over the clitoris combined with vibratory stimulation

A vibration motion prevention and treatment instrument of osteoporosis pertains to the field of the prevention and the physical rehabilitation treatment of osteoporosis and is mainly used in the prevention and the rehabilitation treatment of osteoporosis. The invention can attach the reciprocating swing vibration which takes a central point of a platform as a shaft center at the same time of driving the vibration platform to do vertical vibration, so as to allow the platform to be in a slight constant changing flexible unstable state in the horizontal plane. The users can continuously and initiatively adjust the posture at the same time of receiving passive vibration, so as to maintain body balance. The exercise of the nerve-muscle is further strengthened at the same time of obtaining the benefit of the vertical vibration in the process, so the exercise is systemic. The invention mainly solves the problems that the vibration transmissibility after the users receive the vibration and generate the vibration adaptation is lowered, the effective vibration stimulation is weakened, the beneficial effects of the passive receiving of the vibration on the nerve-muscle system are smaller, and the role for reducing osteoporosis and the fracture which are caused by non-violent falling down is limited.

Devices, systems, and methods for promoting female sexual wellness and function. The devices, systems, and methods encourage clitoral engorgement using suction over the clitoris combined with vibratory stimulation

Devices, systems, and methods for promoting female sexual wellness and function. The devices, systems, and methods encourage clitoral engorgement using suction over the clitoris combined with vibratory stimulation

Devices, systems, and methods for promoting female sexual wellness and function. The devices, systems, and methods encourage clitoral engorgement using suction over the clitoris combined with vibratory stimulation. In some embodiments, a device is capable of operation in an automatic attachment (autoattach) mode, in which detecting attachment of the device to user tissue (e.g. through detection of a positive pressure in a tissue-contacting chamber) automatically triggers starting a suction pump to secure the device in place. Suction settings such as a target negative pressure may be determined according to a dynamically-evaluated quality of a seal established between the device and user tissue. The quality of the seal may be determined by identifying drops in the absolute value of negative pressure that are not readily compensated for by the suction pump.

The invention discloses a human body spine health care device. According to the human spine health care device, pressure sensors are arranged to sense the pressure of different spine parts of a humanbody on a supporting body when the back of the human body leans against the supporting body, a controller analyzes the pressure sensed by each pressure sensor to judge whether the curvature of each spine part is normal or not, and spine physiological curvature abnormal conditions such as cervical vertebra and lumbar vertebra straightening and thoracic vertebra hyperosteogeny and kyphosis can be automatically monitored; and meanwhile, the controller drives a massage unit opposite to the spine part with the abnormal curvature to conduct vibration stimulation on the spine part with the abnormal curvature, active vibration stimulation can be conducted on the spine part with the abnormal curvature, and therefore the physiological curvature of the spine part can be gradually corrected. The humanbody spine health care device can be applied to seats, mattresses and other household articles for people to sit and lie down, an effective health care effect on the human body spine is achieved, thehuman body is helped to keep a good posture, and human body spine diseases are prevented.

Devices, systems, and methods for promoting female sexual wellness and function. The devices, systems, and methods encourage clitoral engorgement using suction over the clitoris combined with vibratory stimulation

The invention discloses an intelligent pillow with cervical curvature detecting and adjusting functions. A pressure sensor array is arranged below a neck pillow area of a pillow body; when the neck leans against the neck pillow area, the pressure of each part of the cervical vertebra on the neck pillow area can be detected, and the controller compares the detected pressure of each part of the cervical vertebra on the neck pillow area with the corresponding standard pressure, so that the abnormal curvature condition of each part of the cervical vertebra can be detected. Meanwhile, an inflatableand deflatable air bag array is further arranged below the neck pillow area, and when the curvature of the cervical vertebra part is abnormal, the controller can further conduct cyclic inflation anddeflation operation on the inflatable and deflatable air bags corresponding to the cervical vertebra part with the abnormal curvature so as to conduct vibration stimulation on the cervical vertebra part with the abnormal curvature, and therefore the curvature of the cervical vertebra part can be corrected gradually. After the intelligent pillow with the cervical curvature detecting and adjusting functions is used for a long time, the cervical vertebra part with abnormal curvature can be gradually corrected to a normal level.

A device for accelerating tooth movement under orthodontic treatment is disclosed. The device includes a vibrational source and a patient-specific tray. The device applies vibrational forces with prescribed frequency and intensity to the teeth under orthodontic treatment with traditional appliances, such as bracket-wire system or aligner. The patient-specific tray ensures the vibrational stimulations on the teeth to be moved. The level of stimulation intensity can be controlled by varying the preload on each of the teeth based on the clinician's prescription. The tray can be further modified to ensure continuous delivery of the desired vibrational forces on the teeth when they move during the treatment.

A method for reducing epileptic seizures in a subject includes the steps of providing a vibration motor coupled to a controller configured to control vibratory motion of the vibration motor, positioning at least one vibration motor on a limb of the subject, and generating a vibratory stimulation signal configured to stimulate proprioceptive nerves in the limb to trigger kinesthetic cues that stimulate nerves in cerebellar and pontine areas of the brain to suppress seizure activity.

A wearable tactile display device is disclosed wherein vibrating stimulation pins are located close to each other by means of underlying vibratory actuation piezoelectric bending elements arranged in a cantilever configuration partially overlapping over each other. Optionally, the plane in which the tips of stimulation pins protrude may be a curved surface providing with the ability to comply with a curved human body part such as a finger. Vibratory stimulation can be achieved at close spatial resolution by advantageously reducing the space between adjacent stimulation pins through their ability to engage with different adjacent piezoelectric cantilever bending elements when they are placed at different planes and at additional closer spatial resolution when they are placed at an angle to each other. The programmable controller employed in order to program the pattern of stimulation pin vibrations can be used for generating different amplitudes and frequencies of vibration.

The invention discloses a finger pulp stimulating fingerstall. The finger pulp stimulating fingerstall comprises a fingerstall body, wherein the fingerstall body comprises a fingerstall inner layer matched with fingers in shape and a fingerstall outer layer which covers the outer surface of the fingerstall inner layer, and a pressure stimulation device, a warmth sensation stimulation device, a vibratory stimulation device and a control device are arranged between the fingerstall inner layer and the fingerstall outer layer; the pressure stimulation device comprises a pressure generating deviceand a pressure sensor arranged on the pressure generating device, and the pressure generating device is arranged on the outer surface of the fingerstall inner layer; the warmth sensation stimulation device comprises a temperature sensor and a heating device electrically connected with the temperature sensor, and the heating device is arranged on the outer surface of the fingerstall inner layer; the pressure sensor, the temperature sensor and the vibratory stimulation device are in communication connection with the control device separately. According to the finger pulp stimulating fingerstall,variational sensory stimulation can be given to a hand by changing pressure, temperature and vibration frequency, so that the finger pulp stimulating fingerstall helps restore the motor function of the hand.

A device for stimulating mechanosensory nerve endings can include: a housing having an internal chamber and first and second openings; a membrane covering the first opening of housing, said membrane being sufficient flexibility to vibrate upon receiving vibratory stimulation from a vibratory mechanism; and a coupling mechanism at the second opening configured for being fluidly coupled to the vibratory mechanism, wherein the entire device consists of magnetically unresponsive materials. The housing can be cylindrical, or any polygon shape. The membrane can be integrated with the housing or coupled thereto, such as with adhesive. Optionally, the membrane can be removably coupled to the housing.

Devices and methods for assessing ulceration risk in a tissue. Some embodiments include a device having a scan head on an extension neck extending from housing and having range of motion relative to the housing. The scan head includes light-emitting system that alternately emits light at different selected wavelengths into the tissue, and a photodetector that generates an electrical signal based on the receive light. A processor calculates regional-perfusion-index (RPI) data based on the electrical signal. Some embodiments provide a tissue-vibration mechanism to help measure mechano-transduction induced recovery from vibratory stimulation for determining short-term metabolic deficit. In some embodiments, the scan head has a topological feature (such as one or more grooves, holes, bumps and / or ridges) that provides pressure-change stimulation for measuring vascular recovery from pressure changes. In some embodiments, the device includes accelerometers and / or pressure sensors to determine where the scan head is positioned relative to the patient's foot.

A method for acquiring, externally or internally, for utility purposes a subject's anatomical heart-sound information including (a) for a selected time period, applying continuous, near-sensor-mechanical-resonance, vibratory stimulation to an acoustic sensor placed on or within the subject's anatomy, and (b) during that time period, detecting, as direct indications of heart sounds, changes in the sensor's physical resonance properties produced by heart sounds arriving at the sensor.

The invention discloses a mechanical stimulation set and self-adaptation capsule casing device for treating sarcopenia. The mechanical stimulation set achieves the technical purpose that pressure is precisely applied to muscle tissue for vibration to treat sarcopenia. According to the adopted technical scheme, the mechanical stimulation set for treating sarcopenia comprises a vibrating device, a deformable trigger plate, an air source system and an air bag, the vibrating device can drive the deformable trigger plate to reciprocate to generate vibration stimulation to skin; the air source system can inject exhaust gas to the air bag, the air bag directly or indirectly applies pressure to muscle tissue, mechanical stimulation for vibrating and applying pressure to the muscle tissue is performed, micro-circulation of lower limb muscle tissue is improved, and the purpose of treating sarcopenia is achieved. The self-adaptation capsule casing device for treating sarcopenia comprises a leg sleeve, the leg sleeve is of a dual-layer structure, a cavity is formed between the inner layer and the outer layer, the mechanical stimulation set for treating sarcopenia is arranged inside the cavity,and the deformable trigger plate is attached to the inner layer of the leg sleeve.

The invention discloses a wearable respiration monitoring and correcting device for scoliosis and a method. The device comprises an upper computer, a piezoresistive sensor, a vibration stimulation module and a miniature integrated circuit; the miniature integrated circuit includes a single chip microcomputer, a Bluetooth communication module and a filtering and amplifying circuit; the piezoresistive sensor acquires the stretch of the muscle, the change of a skeleton position or the movement of the skin of a user, and outputs the stretch of the muscle, the change of the skeleton position or themovement of the skin in a form of electric signals; the filtering and amplifying circuit amplifies and then filters the electric signals; the single chip microcomputer acquires the filtered signals,and sends the filtered signals to the upper computer through the Bluetooth communication module after the filtered signals are processed; after acquiring the signals, the upper computer judges whetherthe posture of the user is correct or not, and sends a command whether vibration stimulation is needed or not to the single chip microcomputer through the Bluetooth communication module; and according to the command of the upper computer, the single chip microcomputer controls whether the vibration stimulation module works or not. The device can accurately monitor the thoracic cage and respiration conditions of a human body, can perform stimulating correction on the scoliosis, and achieves the goal of integrating monitoring, preventing and correcting.