Wearable Therapeutic Sleeve Multi-Technology Energy Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wearable devices for biological tissue treatment are limited in their ability to provide comprehensive, non-invasive, and autonomous energy delivery for various medical and aesthetic applications, such as pain relief, muscle stimulation, and fat reduction, often requiring direct operator intervention and lacking uniform energy distribution.
Innovation Solution
A wearable therapeutic sleeve device with a Main Unit, Safety wearable control, and a sleeve applicator part, utilizing multi-technology delivery methods like Radiofrequency, Laser Lipolysis, EMS/TENS pulses, and Pulsed Electro Magnetic Therapy, which allows for autonomous operation and real-time biofeedback-driven energy delivery, ensuring uniform skin heating and simultaneous treatment of multiple conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Weight of moving object
If current wearable devices are used for biological tissue treatment, then portability and wearability are improved, but treatment comprehensiveness and energy delivery capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple treatment technologies (Radiofrequency, Laser Lipolysis, EMS/TENS, PEMT, and Vibration) into a single wearable sleeve device. This merging of different energy delivery systems allows the device to provide comprehensive multi-condition treatment while maintaining portability, resolving the contradiction between device portability and treatment comprehensiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The wearable sleeve is designed with multi-functionality to perform various treatments including pain relief, muscle stimulation, skin tightening, and fat reduction. By incorporating multiple treatment modalities in one device, it achieves universal applicability for different medical and aesthetic conditions while remaining a portable wearable unit.
2Ease of operation
If operator intervention is required for treatment delivery, then treatment control precision is improved, but automation level and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The device incorporates real-time biofeedback monitoring that automatically adjusts energy delivery parameters based on physiological responses. This feedback mechanism enables autonomous operation while maintaining treatment precision, eliminating the need for continuous operator intervention and resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and automation level.
Solution Approach 2:
The wearable device is designed to autonomously monitor treatment parameters and self-regulate energy delivery without requiring operator intervention. The system performs self-diagnosis and self-adjustment, making the treatment process independent and easy to use while maintaining high automation capability.
3Device complexity
If non-uniform energy distribution is used in treatment, then energy delivery simplicity is improved, but treatment effectiveness and tissue response deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The device employs multiple independent energy delivery channels (RF electrodes, laser diodes, EMS electrodes, PEMT coils, and vibration elements) that can be selectively activated in different regions of the treatment area. This local quality approach ensures uniform energy distribution across the entire treatment zone by addressing specific regional requirements, resolving the contradiction between device complexity and treatment effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The treatment area is divided into multiple zones with dedicated energy delivery elements for each region. The segmented approach allows independent control of energy distribution in different areas, ensuring uniform coverage and effective treatment while managing system complexity through modular design.
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, autonomous, and multi-condition treatment of biological tissue, including pain relief, muscle stimulation, skin tightening, and fat reduction, with improved circulation and skin texture, without the need for direct operator intervention, achieving combined efficacy in skin tightening and fat reduction.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of RF electrodes configured to deliver radiofrequency energy to treat biological tissue
Implementation Method 2
a plurality of laser diodes configured to deliver laser energy to treat biological tissue
Implementation Method 3
a plurality of EMS/TENS electrodes configured to deliver electrical pulses to treat biological tissue
Implementation Method 4
a plurality of PEMT coils configured to deliver pulsed electromagnetic energy to treat biological tissue
Implementation Method 5
a plurality of vibration elements configured to deliver mechanical vibration to treat biological tissue
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AI summary
Some embodiments relate to a 2D array/chain of basic units where each basic unit is individually addressable. Each basic unit may include a rigid or semi-rigid plate—e.g. of electrically insulating material and an electrode (e.g. ball electrode)—for example, a ball-shaped electrode. The device may be used to treat biological tissue—e.g. to provide TEMS muscle stimulation.