Multi-tip Moxibustion Device Scalp Hair Barrier
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing moxibustion devices have complex structures, high manufacturing costs, limited functionality to only local moxibustion, and cannot effectively treat areas like the head due to hair barriers, with inefficient physiotherapy effects and lack of scraping therapy integration.
Innovation Solution
A handheld multi-tip scraping and moxibustion device featuring heat-conducting and air-guiding tips with through-cavities, a moxa burning chamber, and an enclosure cloth for heat preservation, allowing for full-body scraping and moxibustion with adjustable burning speed and comfortable heat delivery, including to the scalp.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If existing moxibustion devices are used, then local moxibustion can be performed, but the device structure becomes complex and manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into multiple independent tips (9-13 tips) arranged in a specific pattern, each tip capable of independent moxibustion action. This segmentation allows the complex treatment function to be achieved through multiple simple, identical components rather than a single complex structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The device integrates multiple functions into a single tool: moxibustion heating, scraping therapy, and combing function. The tips serve dual purposes as both heating elements and scraping surfaces, eliminating the need for separate devices for each therapy type.
2Adaptability or versatility
If existing moxibustion devices are used, then moxibustion can be performed, but scraping therapy function is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The device merges moxibustion and scraping functions into a single integrated tool. The tips are designed to perform both heating and scraping operations simultaneously or sequentially, allowing practitioners to combine these two therapies in one treatment session without switching devices.
3Reliability
If heat energy is applied to the scalp, then therapeutic effect on head acupoints is achieved, but hair damage occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The tips are designed with specific local characteristics: a rounded distal end that gently pushes hair aside rather than cutting or damaging it, while the through-cavity structure directs heat precisely to the scalp. The scraping surface is positioned to contact the scalp only after hair is displaced, protecting hair from direct scraping contact.
4Adaptability or versatility
If moxa smog is spread extensively, then therapeutic coverage is improved, but patient comfort decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The device transitions from two-dimensional surface heating to three-dimensional targeted delivery through the through-cavity structure. Moxa smog is channeled through internal cavities and delivered directly to specific acupoint locations rather than spreading diffusely across the surface, concentrating therapeutic effect while minimizing excessive smoke exposure.
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 provides a practical, economical, and efficient solution for combined scraping and moxibustion therapy, improving treatment accessibility and comfort, with enhanced heat and air distribution for wide-ranging therapeutic benefits, including mental health and cosmetic applications.
Implementation Method 1
a moxa burning chamber communicating with the through-cavity so that the heat energy and evaporated moxa smog or aromatherapy essential oil in the moxa burning chamber can be discharged gradually through the pushing and scraping heat-conducting and air-guiding tips
Implementation Method 2
The heat energy and the moxa smog are transmitted to the skin through the tip (more specifically by a through-cavity internally provided within the tip), and the heat energy makes the patient feel pleasant and comfortable
Implementation Method 3
In the invention, an enclosure cloth may be used to wrap the scraping and moxibustion device such that only a tip surface is exposed. The enclosure cloth not only provides heat preservation and insulation to the scraping and moxibustion device
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AI summary
A handheld multi-tip scraping and moxibustion device, including: pushing and scraping air-guiding tips distributed on a panel each having a through-cavity; and a moxa burning chamber communicating with the through-cavity to enable heat and air in the moxa burning chamber to be discharged gradually for use through the pushing and scraping heat-conducting and air-guiding tips. The pushing and scraping air-guiding tips including a first set of pushing and scraping heat-conducting and air-guiding tips located in a middle portion of the panel and a second set of pushing and scraping heat-conducting and air-guiding tips located around the first set of pushing and scraping air-guiding tips, wherein the height of the first set of pushing and scraping heat-conducting and air-guiding tips is less than the height of the second set of pushing and scraping heat-conducting and air-guiding tips in order to form a multi-layered stepped air discharge.