Versatile High Voltage Power Supply for Multiple Light Sources
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current high power laser and light source medical treatment devices are optimized for specific types of lasers or light sources, leading to design compromises when trying to accommodate multiple light sources, resulting in suboptimal treatment delivery.
Innovation Solution
A dermatologic laser/light source treatment system with a versatile high voltage power supply and user interface that allows for flexible operation of multiple light sources, including lasers, flash lamps, and LEDs, with a hand piece management unit and detection circuit for safety and control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a system is designed to accommodate multiple light sources, then versatility is improved, but design compromises result in suboptimal treatment delivery for each light source
Solution Approach 1:
The power supply system is designed to universally support multiple light source types (lasers, flash lamps, LEDs) through a single integrated console. The system automatically detects the connected light source type and configures appropriate operating parameters, enabling one device to perform multiple treatment functions without requiring separate optimized systems for each light source type.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adapts its control parameters and operating modes based on the detected light source type. The power supply adjusts voltage, current, and pulse duration settings in real-time according to the specific requirements of each light source, ensuring optimal treatment delivery for each modality while maintaining a unified platform.
2Reliability
If separate consoles are designed for each light source type, then treatment optimization is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple light source support capabilities into a single integrated console, merging previously separate systems for lasers, flash lamps, and LEDs. This consolidation reduces the total number of devices needed in clinical settings while maintaining optimized treatment delivery through automatic parameter configuration and detection circuits.
3Ease of operation
If a universal power supply is designed for multiple light sources, then ease of operation is improved, but achieving optimal operation for each light source becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The power supply system incorporates automatic detection circuits that identify the connected light source type and self-configure the appropriate operating parameters without requiring manual intervention. The system serves itself by automatically adapting to different light sources, eliminating the need for operators to manually adjust complex parameters while ensuring optimal performance for each modality.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for providing light treatments to a patients skin, which could include both dermal and epidermal regions. The system and method utilize multiple hand pieces where each hand piece can deliver light from a different light source. The system and method provide for control over the different light source corresponding to the different hand pieces based on whether the hand pieces are held in storage positions in a hand piece management unit. A control unit of the system provides operates to cause a user interface display to communicate information to a user based on the positions of the different hand pieces. Further, the system and method can provide a user with access to different aspects of the systems operation based on the positions of the hand pieces.