Robotic Gun Handle System for Stable Shock Wave Therapy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing shock wave therapy systems require manual handling of a gun handle, leading to fatigue and instability, affecting the effective transmission of shock wave energy and requiring significant time and labor, especially when treating multiple body parts.
Innovation Solution
A shock wave robot therapy system with a mechanical arm and detachable gun handle that moves under host control, allowing for intelligent and stable mobile therapy without manual handling, utilizing a seven-degree-of-freedom flexible mechanical arm and a shock wave generator with a silencing shock absorption pipe.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a doctor manually holds the gun handle for shock wave therapy, then the therapy can be performed, but the doctor experiences fatigue and cannot maintain stable positioning for long durations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the manual mechanical holding system with an automated robotic arm system. The robotic arm mechanically holds and positions the gun handle, substituting human manual operation with automated mechanical positioning. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining stable positioning (improving reliability) while eliminating manual handling burden (improving ease of operation).
Solution Approach 2:
The robotic arm system performs self-positioning and self-holding of the gun handle without requiring continuous human intervention. The system serves itself by automatically maintaining the gun handle in the correct position throughout the therapy process, resolving the contradiction between stable positioning and manual handling burden.
2Reliability
If the gun handle is held in a fixed position for long time therapy, then positioning stability is maintained, but the system cannot treat multiple body parts efficiently
Solution Approach 1:
The robotic arm provides dynamic positioning capability, allowing the gun handle to be held stably at one position when needed while enabling smooth transitions to other positions for treating multiple body parts. This dynamic system resolves the contradiction by maintaining stability during treatment while enabling efficient repositioning between treatment areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The robotic arm performs periodic actions by alternating between stable positioning for therapy delivery and repositioning for treating different body parts. This periodic cycle of stable treatment followed by efficient repositioning resolves the contradiction between maintaining positioning stability and improving productivity for multi-area treatment.
3Ease of operation
If a passively supporting mechanical arm is used to hold the gun handle, then manual handling is reduced, but the system lacks mobility and requires repositioning for each treatment area
Solution Approach 1:
The robotic arm transforms the static passive mechanical support into a dynamic active positioning system. The robotic arm can automatically move to different positions and orientations to treat multiple body parts while maintaining stable gun handle holding, thus improving both ease of operation and productivity simultaneously.
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 frees the operator's hands, stabilizes the therapy process, reduces fatigue, enables multipoint cyclic therapy, and ensures effective and stable transmission of shock wave energy, enhancing the therapeutic effect and simplifying the operation.
Implementation Method 1
a shock wave generator arranged in the gun handle, and the front end of the gun handle is provided with a gun head used for contact with a patient's body surface
Implementation Method 2
a silencing shock absorption pipe which is installed in the housing and sheathed on the shock wave generator
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AI summary
The present invention provides a gun handle system and a shock wave robot therapy system. The shock wave robot therapy system comprises a host and a gun handle system installed on the host, the gun handle system comprises a mechanical arm installed to the host and a gun handle, wherein the tail end of the mechanical arm is provided with an end-of-arm tooling connector; and the gun handle is detachably installed to the end-of-arm tooling connector and can move under the drive of the mechanical arm, a shock wave generator is arranged in the gun handle, and the front end of the gun handle is provided with a gun head used for contact with a patient's body surface. The structure enables the mechanical arm to adapt to various types of end-of-arm toolings through different connectors and to identify and control different end-of-arm toolings through an identification device. Meanwhile, the structure enables the gun handle to realize automatic and mobile shock wave therapy under the drive of the mechanical arm.