Bionic Hand Integrating Vital Sign Sensors for Therapeutic Touch
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current therapeutic robotic hands are inadequate for providing therapeutic warmth and support, and they lack the capability to monitor vital signs, making them unsuitable for intensive care units, palliative care, and individuals living alone.
Innovation Solution
A bionic hand equipped with a pulse meter, thermometer, oximeter, microprocessor, and display panel that measures and displays vital signs, providing therapeutic touch and moral support, with motorized movement to adjust its grip and position.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a robotic hand is designed for therapeutic touch, then it can provide moral support and reduce anxiety, but it lacks the capability to monitor vital signs
Solution Approach 1:
The robotic hand integrates multiple functions including therapeutic touch, pulse monitoring, temperature monitoring, and oxygen saturation monitoring into a single device. This allows the device to provide both emotional support through therapeutic touch and medical monitoring through integrated sensors, eliminating the need for separate monitoring equipment.
2Productivity
If a robotic hand is designed for prosthetic use or daily life assistance, then it can perform physical tasks, but it cannot provide therapeutic warmth and human connection
Solution Approach 1:
The robotic hand incorporates specific localized features such as heating elements in the palm and finger areas to provide therapeutic warmth where human contact occurs. The design focuses therapeutic capabilities on the contact zones while maintaining overall structural functionality for physical tasks.
3Loss of information
If multiple monitoring functions are integrated into the robotic hand, then vital signs can be monitored, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The pulse sensor, temperature sensor, and oxygen saturation sensor are merged into a single integrated monitoring system within the robotic hand. This consolidation reduces the number of separate components and simplifies the overall system architecture while maintaining comprehensive monitoring capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
A single microprocessor unit controls all monitoring functions and therapeutic operations, serving as a universal control system that manages pulse monitoring, temperature monitoring, oxygen saturation monitoring, and therapeutic touch operations through one integrated control architecture.
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AI summary
A therapeutic touching device that increases the moral support, makes a person more positive, accelerates the healing process and makes individuals feel happier, and shows vital signs. The device includes a pulse meter that is on the touching device and positioned to touch the patient's hand, a thermometer that allows the measurement of the patient's temperature, and an oximeter that allows the measurement of the oxygen level in the patient's blood. A microprocessor provides data collection and evaluation via the pulse meter, thermometer and oximeter, checks whether the pulse, temperature and oxygen data can be collected, provides a warning if the pulse, temperature and oxygen data are below or above a certain value, and enables the touching device to be moved by motors. A display panel controlled by a microprocessor provides the display of pulse, temperature and oxygen data and provides warnings to the user.