Ultrasonic Garment With Variable Intensity for Non-Invasive Cell Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for cancer prevention and detection are invasive, inconvenient, and lack a non-invasive, painless means for regular use, while cancer treatment is highly invasive and causes significant side effects due to high medication doses.
Innovation Solution
A garment with integrated ultrasonic transducers and generators that emit ultrasound at varying intensities for prevention, detection, and treatment modes, allowing for autonomous and automatic operation to prevent, detect, and treat cancer without disrupting daily life.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If mammograms are performed regularly for cancer detection, then detection effectiveness is improved, but user convenience and comfort deteriorate due to pain, inconvenience, and scheduling requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical compression and manual examination system of traditional mammography with an ultrasonic wave-based detection system. The ultrasonic transducers emit sound waves that penetrate tissue without mechanical contact, eliminating the pain and discomfort associated with compression while maintaining detection capability through acoustic imaging.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces ultrasonic waves as an intermediary medium between the detection device and the tissue. These waves serve as a non-invasive carrier of information about internal tissue structures, allowing detection without direct mechanical contact or compression that causes pain in traditional mammography.
2Reliability
If high doses of medication are administered for cancer treatment, then treatment effectiveness is improved, but side effects increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the fundamental parameter of treatment from chemical dosage to physical energy intensity. By using ultrasonic waves with adjustable intensity levels, the system can deliver targeted thermal and mechanical effects to cancer cells without introducing chemical substances that cause systemic side effects, thereby maintaining treatment effectiveness while eliminating harmful side effects.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies ultrasonic energy locally to the cancerous tissue through targeted transducer placement. The energy is concentrated at the treatment site through focused ultrasound beams, producing localized thermal and mechanical effects that destroy cancer cells while leaving surrounding healthy tissue unaffected, thus avoiding the systemic side effects of high-dose chemotherapy.
3Reliability
If intensive and invasive treatment methods are used, then cancer elimination is improved, but patient comfort and quality of life deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces invasive mechanical surgical intervention with non-contact ultrasonic energy delivery. The ultrasonic transducers emit sound waves that penetrate tissue and produce therapeutic effects through acoustic pressure and thermal heating, eliminating the need for incisions, anesthesia, and surgical recovery while maintaining cancer elimination capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses ultrasonic waves as an intermediary that delivers therapeutic energy without direct physical invasion. The waves transmit mechanical and thermal energy through tissue to the cancer target, achieving treatment without surgical instruments, needles, or other invasive devices that compromise patient comfort.
4Reliability
If ultrasound intensity is increased for treatment effectiveness, then cancer cell elimination is improved, but tissue damage and side effects increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs periodic pulsed ultrasound delivery with alternating treatment and rest periods. The ultrasonic energy is delivered in controlled bursts followed by intervals that allow normal tissue recovery and heat dissipation, enabling cumulative therapeutic effect on cancer cells while preventing excessive thermal damage to surrounding healthy tissue.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic adjustment of ultrasonic intensity parameters during treatment. The system continuously monitors tissue response and adapts the acoustic power, pulse duration, and duty cycle in real-time, increasing intensity when cancer cells are targeted while reducing it when normal tissue is encountered, thereby maximizing therapeutic effect while minimizing damage.
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
Enables effective, non-invasive cancer prevention and detection through regular use, reducing side effects by administering treatment over extended periods with lower doses, thus enhancing detection and minimizing discomfort and side effects.
Implementation Method 1
a transducer (12) integral with the flexible garment element (11), the transducer (12) being arranged to convert electrical signals from the electrical signal generator (14) into ultrasound
Implementation Method 2
at least one receiver arranged to receive waves from the transducer (12) after reflection by the part of the user's body and to transform these waves into electrical signals
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AI summary
The present invention concerns an article of clothing (10) intended to be worn by a user so as to cover a part of this user's body. This article of clothing (10) comprises a flexible clothing element (11) covering the part of the user's body and an electric signal generator (14) and at least one transducer (12) secured to the flexible clothing element (11). The at least one transducer is arranged to convert the electric signals from the electric signal generator (14) into ultrasound and to transmit the ultrasound generated by this transducer (12) to the part of the user's body covered by this flexible clothing element. The article of clothing is characterised in that the at least one transducer (12) is arranged to transmit ultrasound having at least two different acoustic intensities lying within at least two different intensity ranges. The present invention further concerns a method for controlling a user's biological cells, this method using the article of clothing as described above. This method includes the following steps: • selection of an acoustic intensity from at least two different acoustic intensity ranges; • powering of the transducer (12) so as to transmit ultrasonic waves according to the selected acoustic intensity; • transmission of ultrasonic waves by the transducer (12), these utrasonic waves having an acoustic intensity lying within the selected intensity range.