Blood Hyperoxygenation Device Radial Flow Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current medical devices are unable to effectively kill all pathogens and cancer cells in blood through hyperoxygenation and hyperthermia due to inadequate oxygen diffusion and temperature distribution, leading to incomplete treatment and potential harm to healthy cells.
Innovation Solution
A device that combines hyperthermia and hyperoxygenation using radial symmetry and optimized flow design to ensure uniform heating and oxygenation of blood, minimizing turbulence and eddies, thereby killing pathogens and cancer cells while preserving healthy cells.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional heating and oxygenation devices are used, then blood can be warmed or oxygenated for specific tasks, but the blood cannot be heated or oxygenated uniformly throughout all portions to kill all pathogens or cancer cells
Solution Approach 1:
The blood treatment process is divided into multiple heating zones with independent temperature control, allowing each segment to contribute to the overall uniform heating of blood. This segmentation enables precise control of temperature distribution across different portions of blood flow.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the heating element are designed with locally optimized heating characteristics to compensate for varying heat transfer conditions at different locations. This ensures that each local region contributes appropriately to achieving uniform overall temperature distribution in the blood.
2Reliability
If higher heat and oxygen levels are applied to kill pathogens and cancer cells, then treatment effectiveness improves, but beneficial blood components may be damaged or killed
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts temperature and oxygen concentration parameters within the blood flow to maintain them within a therapeutic window that is lethal to pathogens but safe for healthy blood cells. Real-time monitoring and control ensure parameters remain in the optimal range throughout treatment.
Solution Approach 2:
The heating and oxygenation parameters are made dynamic rather than static, allowing continuous adjustment based on real-time feedback from temperature sensors and oxygen level monitors. This enables the system to adapt to changing conditions and prevent damage to healthy cells while maintaining effectiveness against pathogens.
3Productivity
If blood flow through the device is increased to treat more blood, then treatment throughput improves, but turbulence and eddies may form causing non-uniform treatment
Solution Approach 1:
The device incorporates curved and streamlined flow paths that guide blood flow smoothly through the heating and oxygenation zones. The curved geometry of channels and chambers is designed to minimize flow separation and turbulence, maintaining laminar flow even at higher flow rates required for increased throughput.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The device achieves thorough killing of viruses and cancer cells by leveraging the synergistic effects of hyperthermia and hyperoxygenation, enhancing the treatment of blood-borne diseases and improving immune system reactivity with minimal cell damage.
Implementation Method 1
heating the blood to a controlled temperature between 105 degrees F. (40.55 degree C.) and 106.7 degrees F. (41.5 degree C.)
Implementation Method 2
oxygenate the blood with ozone to maximum saturation
Implementation Method 3
Ozone gas (O3), for example, has long been recognized as a nonpolluting purification treatment chemical
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AI summary
The described invention is a hyperthermia and hyperoxygenation medical apparatus for treating diseases of the blood and purification of stored blood supplies. The invention comprises a hollow chamber through which blood is made to flow. Within the hollow chamber are a heating element and a gas diffuser. As blood flows through the chamber, blood is heated to a preset limit while ozone or other beneficial gas is diffused into the blood by a diffuser with pores to a preset concentration. After heating and gasification, blood exits the hollow chamber and is either returned to the patient or returned to storage. The hollow chamber, heating element and gas diffuser are designed to maintain efficient, linear blood flow through the invention, in part by taking advantage of die radial symmetry of the hollow chamber and diffuser designs. Linear flow ensures uniform and controlled heating and gasification of the blood with negligible undesirable turbulence to the blood components.