Eye Mask Migraine Device Integrating Green Light and TENS

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current migraine treatment methods, including medication, often have side effects and do not effectively address the frequency, duration, and intensity of migraines, while existing devices lack comprehensive solutions for providing green light therapy and TENS technology in a convenient and effective manner.

Innovation Solution

A migraine treatment device in the form of an eye mask that integrates green light therapy, TENS technology, heat therapy, music, and vibration massage, featuring a foldable structure with fixed and movable electrode pads, a green light emitting board, and a lithium battery, designed to reduce migraine symptoms without side effects.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If medication is used to treat migraines, then pain relief is achieved, but side effects and body harm occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepain relief effectivenessVSAvoidside effects and body harm
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces pharmacological treatment with a physical treatment system combining green light therapy and TENS technology. The green light emitting board emits green light to trigger the pupillary light reflex, while the TENS device delivers electrical pulses to the trigeminal nerve, substituting medication with a non-invasive physical therapy approach that avoids side effects.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent integrates multiple therapeutic functions into a single comprehensive treatment system. The device simultaneously provides green light therapy through the green light emitting board and TENS therapy through the electrode pads connected to the TENS device, creating a multi-functional treatment platform that addresses migraine from multiple mechanisms without requiring separate treatments or medications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If existing devices provide green light therapy or TENS technology separately, then treatment effectiveness is limited, but device complexity increases when integrating multiple functions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecomprehensive treatment effectivenessVSAvoiddevice structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges green light therapy and TENS therapy into a single integrated device. The green light emitting board and TENS device with electrode pads are combined in one unit, allowing simultaneous delivery of both therapies. This consolidation provides comprehensive treatment while maintaining manageable device complexity through unified design rather than separate devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The device is designed as a multi-functional system that performs both green light therapy and TENS therapy through a single apparatus. The green light emitting board and TENS device work together in one integrated unit, providing universal treatment capabilities for migraine without requiring multiple separate devices, thus balancing comprehensiveness with operational simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Ease of operation

If treatment devices are designed for comfort and convenience, then user compliance improves, but treatment precision and effectiveness may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser comfort and convenienceVSAvoidtreatment precision and effectiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs flexible electrode pads that can be comfortably positioned on the user's forehead. These flexible pads maintain good contact with the skin while allowing ease of adjustment and positioning, ensuring both user comfort and effective delivery of TENS therapy to the trigeminal nerve without compromising treatment precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Solution Approach 2:

The device incorporates adjustable features that allow users to customize the treatment parameters and positioning according to their needs. The flexible design and adjustable components enable the device to adapt to different users and treatment requirements, maintaining both ease of use and treatment effectiveness through dynamic adaptability rather than fixed rigid structures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

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 effectively reduces the number of migraine days, frequency, and intensity by providing targeted green light and electrical pulse therapy, enhanced by heat and vibration massage, with a flexible design for comfort and convenience.

Implementation Method 1

green light emitting diode (LED) lights may be evenly arranged on both sides of the green light emitting board

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectLight Emitting Diode: Light Emitting Diode

Implementation Method 2

using Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) technology to treat the trigeminal nerve in the forehead with electrical pulses can alleviate migraines

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectTranscutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation: Electrical Impedance Tomography

Data Source

PatentUS20240181253A1Migraine treatment device
Publication Date: 2024.06.06 HI-DOW IPHC INC
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AI summary

A migraine treatment device in the form of an eye mask is provided. The migraine treatment device includes a main body in the form of an eye mask structure. Fixed therapeutic electrode pads are provided on the inner side of the main body near the top. The inside of the main body is equipped with a green light-emitting board, which is evenly arranged with green LED lights on both sides. Additionally, the inside of the main body has a light-transmitting component that is compatible with the green light-emitting board and a lithium battery for supplying power to the migraine treatment device.