Implant Packaging Container UV Reflector Hydrophilicity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Dental implants made from titanium or titanium alloys face challenges in maintaining hydrophilicity over time, leading to potential patient pain during implantation and contamination risks due to UV irradiation for hydrophilicity enhancement.
Innovation Solution
The implant packaging container incorporates a main body reflector and a UV light source to uniformly irradiate the dental implant with UV light, improving hydrophilicity and maintaining the implant in a sterilized state.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If UV light irradiation is performed before packaging to improve hydrophilicity, then hydrophilicity is improved, but significant deterioration in hydrophilicity occurs after a predetermined period and contamination risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging container is pre-equipped with a UV light source and reflector before the implant is packaged. This allows UV irradiation to be performed in advance within the sealed container, improving hydrophilicity before storage without requiring post-packaging handling that could cause contamination or deterioration.
Solution Approach 2:
A UV light reflector is introduced as an intermediary component within the packaging container. The reflector directs and concentrates UV light from the UV source onto the implant surface, enhancing the effectiveness of hydrophilicity improvement while keeping the system self-contained and preventing contamination.
2Stability of the object's composition
If UV irradiator is used to improve hydrophilicity, then hydrophilicity is improved, but contamination of the dental implant occurs in the course of taking the implant out of packaging
Solution Approach 1:
The UV light source, reflector, and implant are combined into a single integrated packaging container system. This merging eliminates the need for separate UV irradiation steps and external handling, allowing the implant to receive UV treatment while remaining sealed and protected from contamination throughout the entire process.
Solution Approach 2:
The packaging container itself provides the UV irradiation function through its built-in UV light source and reflector. The system serves itself by incorporating the necessary components to improve hydrophilicity without requiring external equipment or manual intervention that could introduce contamination risks.
3Strength
If oxide layer is formed on fixture surface, then bone bonding is improved, but hydrophilicity deteriorates after a predetermined period
Solution Approach 1:
The packaging container enables continuous UV light irradiation of the implant oxide layer while it remains sealed. This continuous action maintains and enhances hydrophilicity over time, preventing the deterioration that would otherwise occur with static oxide layer formation, and ensuring sustained biological compatibility throughout storage and implantation periods.
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 effectively enhances the hydrophilicity of the dental implant fixture, reducing patient pain and improving biological compatibility, while maintaining the implant in a sterilized state before placement.
Implementation Method 1
a UV light source disposed on the bottom portion and configured to emit UV light into the main body
Implementation Method 2
a main body reflector disposed on the inner wall of the main body and reflecting UV light emitted towards the cap
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to an implant packaging container comprising: a body portion comprising an inner wall that defines a space for containing an implant; a cap separably coupled to one side of the body portion; a securing portion for fixing the position of the implant inside the body portion; a bottom portion coupled to the body portion so as to face the cap; and a body portion reflector provided on the inner wall of the body portion so as to reflect ultraviolet rays emitted from near the bottom portion. In addition, the present invention relates to an implant packaging container wherein, before an implant is installed in the patient's jawbone, the hydrophilicity of a fixture is improved in a simple and efficient manner such that the biocompatibility of the fixture with a biological tissue is improved, the time necessary for coupling with the bone during implantation is shortened, thereby reducing the pain that the patient might feel, and the implant remains in a sterilized condition until being installed in the patient's jawbone.