BE1030766A1 - BIO PHOTONIC STIMULATION DEVICE - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a photonic device for natural biostimulation and slimming comprising a system for cooling the treated parts and means capable of radiating a filtered photon flow of high intensity through the dermis and/or the hypodermis of a person or animal to produce photo cell stimulation effects.

Description

Photonic bio stimulation device

Object of the invention

The present invention relates to a device intended to promote, by means of photonic biostimulation, the natural improvement of dermal and hypodermal cells of people and animals.

This device also makes it possible to induce a natural reduction in hypodermic fat deposits.

Technology background

[0002] The skin comprises three superimposed layers, the epidermis, the dermis and the hypodermis. The epidermis is an epithelium comprising different types of cells. The dermis is a connective tissue made up of fibroblasts, collagen fibers and elastic fibers. The dermis contains the blood vessels and nerves of the skin. The hypodermis is a variety of connective tissue, adipose tissue. It is made up of cells very rich in fat, the adipocytes. These are united into lobules and separated by connective partitions.

[0003] Numerous non-invasive methods are known that are suitable for the aesthetic treatment of the skin and promote the reduction of cellulite.

[0004] Certain massage devices, while moving over the body, directly pinch the skin between two rollers and in this way break the fatty chains, performing a conventional massage technique called “palpate and roll”.

[0005] We also know invasive methods involving surgical intervention, such as liposuction. These methods make it possible to remove fatty deposits located in different regions of the body but have various disadvantages such as pain, irregularity of the treated surface and a risk to the patient's health.

[0006] Other invasive methods not involving surgical intervention are also known. These methods are characterized by subcutaneous injection of a physiological serum to obtain tumescence of the adipose tissue.

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[0007] Treatment by infrared radiation is also known.

In addition to its thermal effect which seems to block the lipogenetic action of insulin on the adrenergic receptors, it also seems to have the property, for wavelengths between 600 and 900 nm, of activating the B-3 adrenergic receptors which promote lipolysis by increasing VAMPc (Adenosine mono phosphate). Medical studies show that this type of photon increases the porosity of the surface of the adipocyte that receives them and allows rapid release of triglycerides.

[0008] Short wavelength IR radiation, between 600 and 1200 nm, has a stimulating effect on the production of collagen and on cell reproduction. Infrared light is captured by subcutaneous tissues.

It also produces other very interesting effects in dermotherapy.

This radiation has a biochemical action on the transit of Ket Na ions across cell membranes; it causes increased production of products like prostaglandins, the formation of ATP and stimulation of

Redox of the main enzymatic systems of biosynthesis.

This results in a reduction in pain, increased permeability of cell membranes, increased metabolic exchanges of cells and a significant increase in renewal of exposed cells.

Following our experience and current medical studies we will also mention in a non-exhaustive manner: the improvement of the texture of the dermis and

The hypodermis, the reduction of wrinkles and stretch marks, the induction of a very rapid slimming effect, the induction of pain-relieving effects, the induction of healing and anti-inflammatory effects, the prevention of skin cancers and reduction of post-treatment effects of chemotherapy, prevention and improvement of arthritis, degenerative diseases of the brain, joints, muscles, osteosynthesis, acne, pigment spots, etc.

Recent trials have allowed us to see a clear improvement in deafness through this simple photonic treatment.

Our studies and tests since 2005 carried out in collaboration with

3 BE2022/0051 the University of Louvain-la-Neuve and numerous specialized doctors allowed us to develop this device giving results significantly superior to what is currently on the market.

State of the art

[0009] We know from patent application US 2004/0093047 a system and a method for treating the body. This document proposes a skin treatment by applying laser radiation followed by a massage on a surface of the skin for the reduction of cellulite.

This radiation has a predetermined wavelength and therefore does not emit a broad spectrum of waves. In addition, during the proposed treatment, the skin is not cooled, this limits the temperature to which the dermis and hypodermis can be raised without burning the epidermis and limits, de facto, the power and depth of penetration. photons. In this document no massage is carried out simultaneously and concomitantly with exposure to radiation. In addition, the laser mentioned is not placed on the skin but kept at a distance.

[0010] We know from US 2004/0077977 a system and a method of treatments for the face and body. This document proposes a suction massage system combined with various types of power sources capable of raising the temperature of the skin. Such sources are typically lasers, infrared, ultraviolet, ultrasound and electromagnetic waves. This document does not, however, associate any simultaneous cooling of the skin with massage, nor the use of photonic filters to limit the absorption of photons by the water contained in the tissues (cells and lymph) and thus increase the depth of penetration of the photons.

[0011] We also know by J'Vita Spa Line, Vancouver, British

Columbia, Canada, http://www. spaline.ca/sil_lumicell.htm! , a non-invasive device allowing the combination of infrared or magenta radiation with a “palpate and roll” type subdermal massage. This device emits low-power radiation and does not have a simultaneous cooling system for the skin during massage.

[0012] We also know from the Alice® device of the company

Biorem, a non-invasive device emitting infrared radiation with multiple biophysical effects. However, this device does not have a cooling system, a mechanical massage device, or special photonic filters to limit the absorption of photons by the water contained in the tissues.

Characteristic of the invention

[0013] The particularity of the invention is that during the treatment it cools the treated part of skin by simultaneously sending a beam of electromagnetic waves located in the solar spectrum and preferably in natural light and/or infrared. .

This cooling can be done by air passing through a pipe and a nozzle fitted with a reflector in contact or without contact with the skin.

This cooling of the skin makes it possible to maximize the power and depth of penetration of the radiation into the tissues without damaging the dermis and even induces temperatures of the hypodermis higher than that of the dermis.

For example, equipped with 200W lamps, the device manages to send an energy flow of 15J/cm2 to the skin in 1s; something no other device can do without affecting the skin.

The photon spectrum used is obtained by specific optical filters in order to keep the best frequencies capable of inducing the desired photochemical effects to treat the tissues.

For hypodermic treatments, in order to avoid wasting the photon transformation by heating the water in the tissues passed through (most tissues are composed of more than 65% water), this spectrum will generally be located in the therapeutic spectral window located between 600 and 1200 nm where water has a very low photon absorption rate.

Before being in contact with the skin, this air also passes around the photonic emission means (lamp) cooling it.

[0014] The device and the method according to the invention make it possible to inject photons into the deep layers of the dermis and the hypodermis while maintaining the superficial layers, that is to say the epidermis, at temperatures equal to or lower than 43°C. These photons accelerate the reconstitution of cells and in particular collagen.

[0015] Concerning slimming, clinical studies were carried out via a prototype by a Belgian doctor, Dr Raphael

Blairvacq on a sample of 25 people with localized lipodystrophies. He applied treatment for five days, with one 40-minute session per day. The adjustment of the air flow and the infrared source has been adapted according to the sensitivity of each person. He studied fat loss by measuring reduction in waist or thigh circumference and by impedancemetry. The treatment was carried out on 25 patients with an average weight of 63.4 kg, a total body fat percentage of 30% and an average age of 41 years. The following results were observed: e Reduction in waist circumference, in cm: 5, 2, 8, 6, 4, 7, 2, 3 2, 2, 0.0, 3, e Reduction in thigh circumference, in cm: 1.5, 1.5, 2.75, 1.5, 4, 2.5, 1.5, 1, 3, 1, 1, 0.5.

Four people were seen again fifteen days after treatment. The result obtained was stable. An improvement in the appearance of the skin was observed.

Impedance measurements showed a clear increase in triglycerides circulating in the blood after treatment.

[0016] In addition to its slimming action, the benefits that the invention can provide are, in a non-exhaustive manner, the following: reduction of occasional pain by photonic stimulation of endorphins (joints, lower back pain, migraine, skin, fibromyalgia, spine .) or chronic pain (hip, shoulders, inflamed or infected muscles, etc.),

stimulation of cellular reconstruction (scars, wrinkles, colored spots). . Very conclusive studies have been carried out with doctors and physiotherapists.

Aims of the invention

The present invention aims to provide a photonic device for cellular improvement and reconstruction useful through the photonic effects that it naturally induces. It can, without replacing them, accompany almost all animal or human physiotherapy treatments. This device, with different photonic filters, also excels in rapid slimming and allows effective reduction of fatty deposits in a person or animal. This device does not present a health risk and is very easy to use. Other filters allow the reduction of pain or penetration into the bones in order to heal the joints.

Summary of the invention

[0018] The present invention relates to a phototherapy and/or slimming device for people or animals, comprising at least one tip on which a reflector is fixed for application on or near the skin of a person or an animal the appropriate photonic spectrum. Said at least one tip being connected by a pipe to means capable of cyclically varying the flow of air inside said tip, to cool the skin and, possibly, massage it and comprising means capable of sending photons in the dermis and/or hypodermis of a person or animal.

The above air cooling device can be supplemented or replaced by spraying a water spray on the skin or any other means.

[0019] The means capable of sending photons into the dermis and/or hypodermis of the person or animal are preferably chosen from means producing electromagnetic radiation of an intensity making it possible to send a maximum of photons in the body

7 BE2022/0051 without raising the temperature of the epidermis above 43°C. The aforementioned air flow can also be used to cool these radiation means.

[0020] The reflectors advantageously include side openings, allowing air circulation on the skin sufficient to limit the temperature of the epidermis of the person or animal to 43°C.

[0021] The cooling means can also be an electrical cooling device with a Peltier effect or by a cryogenic effect or by sprinkling a spray of water on the part of the epidermis located under the tip.

[0022] The means capable of varying the air pressure inside said nozzle may comprise a turboblower, and a pipe, connecting said turboblower to the nozzle, in which a ball or plug valve is inserted , driven in rotation by a motor.

The means capable of varying the pressure can also include a piston pump or a membrane pump, and a pipe connecting said pump to the nozzle.

[0024] The transmitter located in the tip can deliver part of the electromagnetic spectrum such as, but not only, that of the light spectrum, typically blue, UV, yellow or green radiation in order to treat certain skin diseases, or a part of the infrared spectrum.

The reflector fixed to the tip can advantageously have a shape adapted to the area to be treated on the person or animal, for example to wrap a limb.

[0026] The pressure or depression of the air is in principle constant in the nozzle during the treatment but the device also allows cyclical pressure variations: suction cycles followed by venting cycles, i.e. cycles overpressure followed by venting.

[0027] The present invention also relates to a method of thinning the skin of a person or animal, in which, simultaneously, a photonic source is moved onto a portion of the skin (for example the abdomen) of said person or animal. These photons pass through the dermis and/or hypodermis; said portion of the skin is massaged during and after the treatment, and at the same time said portion of the epidermis of the person or animal is cooled via the flow of air blown by the nozzle on the skin.

[0028] In this operating mode, the tip and its field of action are moved slowly but continuously.

The method can also include a static radiation step.

Brief description of the figures

[0030] Figure 1a is a sectional view of a tip of a device according to the invention.

Figures 1b and 1c show various reflectors of a device according to the invention.

Respectively.

[0031] Figure 2 is a block diagram of a first embodiment of a device according to the invention.

[0032] Figure 3a is a block diagram of a second embodiment of a device according to the invention.

[0033] Figure 3b shows the description of a reflector intended for lymphatic drainage using one of the devices described in Figures 2 and 3a.

Detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the invention

[0034] Figure 1a presents a schematic diagram of an embodiment of the device according to the invention in which a lamp 5 provided with a photonic filter 8 is installed in a cylindrical end piece 1 connected upstream of the lamp via a pipe 4 to a ventilation device 9 (suction or overpressure) typically a turbine. A rigid photonic reflector 2 is screwed onto the end piece downstream of the lamp 5.

Above the base of this reflector 2, small holes 10 are drilled so as to allow air to be expelled (or sucked in) into the environment even if the reflector 2 is placed on the skin 3.

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In its path 7, a free passage 6 allows air to pass around the lamp 5 while cooling it without excessive pressure loss. During treatment, this reflector is placed above or on the epidermis 3 of the person or animal and directs the radiation and the air flow towards the skin of the person or animal. The air circulation is resumed on the arrows 7. The reflectors are of any shape but preferably of cylindrical or conical shape and with a large diameter ranging from 1 cm to 20 cm.

A second special cooling system allows microdroplets of water to be sprayed onto the skin located under the reflector; it consists of a nozzle 14, connected to a pump 15 powered by a reservoir 16. Spraying is done on the skin via the nozzle 14 fixed on the face of the reflector.

Figure 1bA shows in the form of photos two pipes 4 equipped with a reflector 2. At the end of these pipes 4 we see a connection 4a intended to connect to one of the outlets of the blower 9 as well as an electrical connection 4 b intended to power the lamp.

Figures 1b B and C show different types of reflectors that can be attached to the end pieces 1.

As shown in fg1c, the air passage holes 10 can be replaced by balls 17 fixed at regular intervals in the bottom of the reflector 2 imposing a circulation of cooling air between these balls 17 and the surface of the skin 3 as a function of the depression or excess pressure prevailing in the interior space of the reflector 2.

The lamp 5 is provided with a filter 8 preferentially allowing part of the radiation from the lamp to pass, typically red and infrared, this range of radiation having the property of penetrating the tissues more deeply and reaching the hypodermis of the person or animal and be absorbed there by the adipocytes and the underlying tissues (tendons, muscles, etc.). Depending on the desired physiological reactions, different filters can of course be used.

[0037] To produce these effects, the radiating face of the lamp 5 is at

10 BE2022/0051 a few cm of the skin; it will generally have a power of 50 W without cooling the skin; however with the cooling of the skin, the latter can rise up to 300 w giving an energy of up to 30 joules sec/cm2 without altering the epidermis, which is very remarkable and innovative and allows, without alteration of the epidermis and in complete safety, for the photons emitted continuously to reach depths in the hypodermis much greater than anything that the devices found on the market can achieve. They then cause the desired photonic biostimulation effects.

[0038] Figure 2 is a block diagram of a first embodiment of a device according to the invention in which the reflector 2 pierced with its small ventilation holes 10 is fixed to the end piece 1 which is cyclically placed in depression (or overpressure) then at atmospheric pressure. The nozzle 1 is connected by a flexible pipe 4 to a suction (or blowing) machine 9, for example a turbine. This pipe 4 comprises, between the end piece 1 and the suction machine 9, a T-shaped connector, to which a portion of pipe is connected.

In this portion of the pipe, a valve 11 is installed. This valve 11 is made up of a ball or a bushel pierced with a hole, and allows or prohibits the passage of air depending on its position. A motor 12 rotates the ball or bushel, thus periodically bringing the interior of the pipe 4 to atmospheric pressure. The succession of depressions (or overpressure) and returns to atmospheric pressure is reflected in the interior space of the reflector 2 in contact with the skin and causes cooling and massage of the skin. The motor 12 rotates at an adjustable speed of between 10 and 60 revolutions per minute, which causes a cyclic variation of the pressure inside the emoout at a selectable frequency between 20 and 120 cycles/minute. Preferred operating frequency is 60 cycles/minute

[0039] Figure 3a is a photo of a second embodiment of a device according to the invention. Inside the device is located a blower 9 connected to a front mouth 19 which can blow air 7 and a rear mouth 18 which can suck air 7. On one or the other of these mouths can come , as in fig1, connect a pipe 4 connected to its nozzle 1. The air flow is ensured by a turboblower. This is controlled via a screen 20 by an electronic card to control the intensity of its speed and its variation. The same goes for controlling the lamp.

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[0040] Only one pipe at a time is connected to one of the 2 mouths. 18 or 19. An electronic card controlled via the screen 20 will then be able to operate the connected blower 9 so as to make it blow or suck air into the pipe 4 following the mouth where it is connected.

[0041] In normal care, if the pipe is connected to the front outlet 19, the turbo blower will provide a constant flow of air under pressure to the pipe. This flow will serve to cool the skin while the lamp will send its radiation onto it; this is the normal mode for biostimulation or slimming treatments.

[0042] To carry out a massage or remodeling treatment, this pipe can be connected to the rear suction mouth 18 and fitted with a reflector 2 without a circulation hole 10. By cyclically varying the suction and placing reflector 2 on the skin, we will be able to perform a depresso-massage on the skin and possibly move the released fats or massage the treated areas.

[0043] As shown in fig. 3b, if the pipe 4 is connected to the outlet 19 and we place on the tip 1, in place of the reflector, a nozzle 21 capable of concentrating and blowing the air tangentially to the skin and if we place in the tip 1 a lamp 5 equipped with a yellow filter 8 which can thin the lymph, we can push this lymph towards the lymph nodes in a perfect way by means of the air pressure and the mini wave that this breath produces on the skin . It is an ideal device for performing excellent lymphatic drainage.

[0044] Fig. 3c shows for information only a practitioner performing a treatment with the prototype.

Claims (20)

12 BE2022/0051 CLAIMS 1. Photonic biostimulation and slimming device comprising at least one tip (1) provided with a reflector (2) for applying a beam of photons to or above the skin (3) of a person or of an animal, said at least one tip (1) being connected by a pipe (4) to means (5) capable of emitting stochastic photonic electromagnetic radiation of a wide spectrum towards the skin filtered by an optical filter (8) and to simultaneously and concomitantly circulate a continuous or pulsed flow (7) of air through said tip (1) and the reflector (2), to cause a cooling effect avoiding any alteration of the epidermis (3 ) and therefore allowing photons to reach the deep hypodermis (8) without affecting either the epidermis (3) or the dermis (2). 2. _ Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the photonic sources (5) are preferably chosen from the means emitting electromagnetic waves located in the natural solar spectrum extending from visible light to infrared radiation, i.e. from 400 to 2000nm; they do not include radiation UV. 3. Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the spectrum of the filtered electromagnetic radiation from the source (5) is located in the near-infrared. 4. _ Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the spectrum of the filtered electromagnetic radiation is located in visible light. 5. Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the filtered electromagnetic radiation is a broad spectrum produced with LEDs or possibly several!asers. 6. Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the reflector (2) placed on or above the epidermis (3) of said person or animal comprises lateral openings (10) allowing, when the latter is applied to the skin, air circulation (7) in the reflector (2) sufficient to limit the temperature of the epidermis (3) of the person or animal to 43°C 7. _ Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the intensity of the radiation source (5) is automatically controlled by a contactless sensor (13) which analyzes the temperature of the skin (3) and stabilizes it at a temperature maximum of 43°C. 8. Device according to claims 1 and 6 characterized in that, if the reflector is placed on the skin, the flow of cooling air (7) can either be pulsed onto the skin or be sucked onto the skin by the ventilation holes (10.) 9. Device according to the 2 preceding claims characterized in that the two cooling systems (13 and 10) cited above are such that they make it possible to maximize the power radiated towards the skin (3) while limiting by cooling the the air (7) and the regulation (13) of the lamps (5), the temperature of the epidermis (3) at less than 43°C in order to ensure deep, optimal and safe natural biostir.ulation. 10. Device according to the preceding claims characterized in that a special optical filter (8) placed downstream of the radiation source (5) makes it possible, on the one hand, to keep only the useful frequencies adapted to the bio-photochemical stimulation effects desired and on the other hand to minimize the part of the frequencies of the radiation which could be absorbed by the water (rise in temperature) in the tissues crossed. 14 BE2022/0051 11. Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the photonic source (5) can operate cyclically (off-on) so as to leave a relaxation and cooling time between each spot and to limit the temperature of the epidermis (3) of the person or animal at 43°C while emitting photon pulses of higher energy than in continuous operation and penetrating deeper into the hypodermis, without any danger . 12. Device according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that a third means of cooling (14) of the epidermis (3) of said person or animal can be a sprinkling device (14-15-16 )) which sprays simultaneously with the photon radiation of the water on the part of the epidermis (3) located under the reflector (2). 13. Device according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the means (9) capable of producing in a continuous or pulsed manner the pressure and the flow rate of the air inside said nozzle (1) can comprise a turboblower or a piston pump or a speed-regulated diaphragm pump and a pipe (4), connecting said means (9) to the nozzle (1). 14. Device according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that. inserted between the above-mentioned means (9) and the nozzle (1), a ball or plug valve (11) with double outlets driven by a motor can induce, via cyclical venting, suction cycles or cyclic overpressure in the reflector. 15. Device according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the reflector (2) is presented in different shapes adapted to the treatment of the area to be treated. 15 BE2022/0051 16. Device according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the use of a reflector (2) in the form of a pinched nozzle (15) and a lamp (5) preferentially emitting yellow light and fluidifying the Iymph allows the device, if the nozzle is placed tangentially on the skin, to move the lymph towards the lymph nodes by the pressure of the air flow also blown tangentially on the skin by traveling on the lymphatic channels so as to push the Iymph towards the lymph nodes to achieve what is commonly called gentle lymphatic drainage. 17. Device according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that, after a treatment, to move and/or burn the hypodermic fat released by the photonic effects, a mechanical vibration transmitter or a system of vibration can be added to the device. electromuscular stimulation (EMS). 18. Device according to any one of the preceding claims characterized in that the biophotonic stimulation can be done dynamically by manually moving the tip provided with its reflector above or on the skin, or automatically by placing the tip on a static arm ( 16) to treat a specific area. 19. Device according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that a lotion containing the chemical compound HOH2C-CHOH-CHzOH will be applied to the skin to reduce the dispersion (scattering in English) of the radiation when it touches the skin and thus increasing the depth of penetration of the latter. 20. Device according to claim 1 characterized in that the air 7 pulses or sucked in licks 6 the lamp 5 and cools it, preventing it and the filter from cracking under the effect of the induced heat.