Dome-Shaped Light Therapy Device Scalp Conformity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional Low Level Light Therapy (LLLT) devices face challenges in delivering light effectively to the scalp due to hair absorption and reflective properties of the skin, leading to inconsistent dosing and energy loss.
Innovation Solution
The development of a light therapy device with a dome-shaped design featuring an array of panel assemblies, each equipped with illumination assemblies that can be independently biased to conform to the shape of the scalp, ensuring direct light delivery to the skin while minimizing absorption and reflection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional LLLT devices are used to treat hair with photobiomodulation, then therapeutic effects can be achieved, but hair absorption and skin reflection cause inconsistent dosing and energy loss
Solution Approach 1:
The device divides the illumination system into multiple independent panel assemblies arranged in a dome configuration. Each panel assembly contains multiple illumination assemblies that can be independently positioned and oriented. This segmentation allows the light to be delivered from multiple angles and positions, ensuring that light reaches the scalp through different paths, thereby compensating for absorption by hair and reflection from skin, and achieving more consistent dosing across the treatment area.
2Reliability
If a dome-shaped device with multiple panel assemblies is used to deliver light directly to the skin, then dosing consistency and energy absorption are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The panel assemblies are designed to be movable and adjustable rather than fixed. Each panel assembly can be independently positioned and oriented to conform to the contours of the user's head and scalp. This dynamic configuration allows the device to adapt to different users and treatment requirements, achieving consistent light delivery to the skin while managing structural complexity through modular, reconfigurable components.
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 allows for consistent and standardized dosing of LLLT, maximizing energy absorption by the target tissue, and enabling convenient, frequent, and effective hair growth treatments.
Implementation Method 1
each illumination assembly includes an optical assembly having a proximal end optically coupled to a light source
Implementation Method 2
One major application of Low Level Light Therapy (LLLT) is to treat hair with photobiomodulation in the wavelengths of 614-624 nm, 668-684 nm, 751-772 nm, and 813-846 nm that has been proven to reduce inflammation in the scalp, stimulate the release of growth factors in the hair follicle, up-regulate the production of ATP
Implementation Method 3
one or more light guides therebetween, each of said illumination assemblies being coupled to the dome to allow the optical assembly to extend past and within the dome towards the body organ
Implementation Method 4
a dome forming a contoured shape, said dome formed by an array of panel assemblies, where an interior space of the contoured shape is adapted for placement over the body organ
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a light therapy apparatus, system, and method to deliver light to a body organ, e.g., to directly contact the skin such as a scalp, via one or more light guides in therapeutic dosages from one or more light sources operating in a variety of wavelengths. One or more illumination assemblies may be fixedly coupled to two or more panel assemblies operably coupled to a substructure. The panel assemblies may be acted upon by one or more actuators to move the panel assemblies resulting in conformal contact with the body organ from a first position to a second position. The actuator may comprise a cable coupled to a motor, the cable operably coupled to each panel assembly, so that upon activation of the motor, the panel assemblies each move inwardly in an independent direction with respect to each other to conform to the body organ.