Conductive Medical Tape for Press Needle Electrochemical Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional press needles in acupuncture and moxibustion have limited electrochemical effects due to small scope and unstable conductivity, preventing effective interaction with larger areas of the body, such as channels and collaterals, and are hindered by traditional cognitive biases in acupoint stimulation and non-conductive medical tapes.
Innovation Solution
The use of conductive medical tape with conductive adhesive and gummed cloth to fix and connect multiple press needles, allowing for efficient spontaneous electrochemical current interaction across a larger area, enhancing direct electrochemical effects and facilitating better blood circulation and yin-yang balance, while providing a convenient and safe conductive connection for clinical treatments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional medical tape is used to fix press needles, then the press needle can be fixed in place, but the conductivity is unstable and limited to small local area only
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the conductivity parameter of the medical tape from non-conductive to conductive by incorporating conductive adhesive and conductive fabric. This parameter change enables the tape to not only fix the press needle but also expand the electrochemical effect scope to larger areas including channels and collaterals, while maintaining stable conductivity across the entire tape surface.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses composite materials by combining conductive adhesive with conductive fabric to create a conductive medical tape. This composite structure provides both the fixing function and the electrochemical stimulation function, allowing multiple press needles to interact through their effect fields while maintaining reliable conductivity across large areas.
2Area of stationary object
If multiple press needles are used to expand treatment scope, then larger area coverage is achieved, but synergic interaction cannot be realized due to lack of conductive connection
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple press needles into a unified treatment system by using conductive medical tape to connect them. The conductive tape creates electrical continuity between multiple press needles, allowing their electrochemical effect fields to interact synergistically. This merging enables the combined effect of multiple needles to be greater than the sum of individual effects, achieving reliable synergic interaction across large treatment areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The conductive medical tape acts as an intermediary that facilitates interaction between multiple press needles. It provides a conductive pathway that allows electrochemical current to flow between needles, enabling them to work together as a coordinated system rather than isolated units. This intermediary connection is essential for achieving synergic interaction across distributed acupoints.
3Ease of manufacture
If traditional non-conductive tape is used, then simple fixation is achieved, but electrochemical interaction across channels and collaterals cannot be realized
Solution Approach 1:
The conductive medical tape performs multiple functions simultaneously: it provides mechanical fixation for press needles, serves as an electrical conductor for electrochemical current, and acts as a medium for expanding treatment scope to channels and collaterals. This multi-functionality maintains the simplicity of fixation while dramatically enhancing electrochemical treatment capability, allowing the same component to address both ease of manufacture and treatment versatility.
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
This solution achieves a more stable, stronger, and efficient electrochemical effect across a larger area, improving capillary permeability, blood circulation, and tissue activity, overcoming the limitations of traditional methods by enabling continuous interaction of multiple press needles and convenient conductive connections for household use.
Implementation Method 1
efficient spontaneous electrochemical current interacting press needle
Implementation Method 2
direct electrochemical effect and scope are limited to small electrochemical effect scope of one such press needle only
Data Source
AI summary
An efficient spontaneous electrochemical current interacting press needle that relates to an acupuncture press needle of traditional Chinese medicine is provided. The efficient spontaneous electrochemical current interacting press needle includes a press needle and a conductive medical tape that fixes the press needle and attaches other press needles. The conductive medical tape includes a conductive adhesive and a gummed cloth. The press needle is adapted to be fixed on the conductive medical tape that fixes the press needle and attaches other press needles. In addition, a connecting conductive medical tape and/or an external conductor connecting point that is capable of attaching two or more press needles is also provided.