JPS5933402Y2 - acupuncture sterilizer - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] The present invention relates to a device for sterilizing needles and chain canals used in acupuncture treatment.

Acupuncture needles used in acupuncture must be sterilized after each use.

Conventionally, acupuncture needles were often sterilized using ethanol or boiling water.

However, in the case of ethanol disinfection, certain viruses, such as hepatitis viruses, cannot be completely sterilized, and the disease can be transmitted through needles, which has been a problem.

Additionally, many of the people involved in acupuncture are visually impaired.
For such people, disinfecting with boiling water is extremely dangerous.

Currently, devices are available that utilize the sterilizing effect of ultraviolet rays to sterilize small medical instruments such as scalpels using ultraviolet lamps, and attempts have also been made to use such devices to sterilize acupuncture needles.

This disinfection device using ultraviolet irradiation generally consists of a box with a door, in which several straight tube ultraviolet lamps are installed side by side on the ceiling, and a mesh shelf is installed on which the objects to be disinfected are placed. The object to be sterilized is placed in a mesh shelf, the door is closed, and an ultraviolet lamp is turned on to irradiate the objects to be sterilized with ultraviolet rays from above.

The inside of the box is formed to reflect ultraviolet rays, but objects to be sterilized that have intricate shapes tend to have portions that are not irradiated with ultraviolet rays.

In the canal acupuncture method, which is currently widely practiced among acupuncture treatments, a chain tube is used that penetrates the needle body and supports the needle body. Even if it is placed in the ultraviolet irradiation sterilizer as described above, the inner surface of the through hole will not be exposed to ultraviolet irradiation.
It was almost impossible to completely sterilize the inside of chain pipes with this type of sterilizer.

In addition, in the above-mentioned ultraviolet irradiation sterilization device, due to the structure of the device, even if it is the outside part of the object to be sterilized, the part that will be on the lower side when placed is difficult to be irradiated with ultraviolet rays, so the needles to be sterilized are After irradiating the acupuncture needle with ultraviolet rays once, the acupuncture needle was turned over and irradiated with ultraviolet rays once more, a tedious procedure.

In view of the above circumstances, the purpose of the present invention is to provide an acupuncture sterilizer that can completely sterilize not only the needles but also the canal, especially the inside thereof, with a simple operation. be.

The acupuncture sterilizer of the present invention has a U-shaped ultraviolet lamp installed near the interior ceiling of the box, and spaced below a transparent perforated plate with small holes for needles and large holes for chain tubes in the transparent plate material. The support plate to which the support plate is attached is used as a chain, and the box is provided with a guide means for guiding the chain to a predetermined position on the bottom plate at the bottom of the solar column of the ultraviolet lamp, so that the chain is in this predetermined position. The hole for the chain pipe in the transparent porous plate is opened so that the chain pipe hole is located directly below the sunlight column of the ultraviolet lamp when the chain is guided by the guide means and placed at a predetermined position. It is characterized by the fact that

According to the acupuncture sterilizer of the present invention having the above configuration,
When acupuncture needles and chain canals are passed through the holes of a translucent perforated plate and then placed on a support plate and the chain is housed in a box, the needles and chain canals placed against the chain are always exposed to ultraviolet rays. It will be placed in the lower part of the lamp's sunlight column where the ultraviolet energy is high, and in this position the acupuncture needles and chain canal stand upright and are exposed to ultraviolet rays from above, so they can be irradiated with ultraviolet rays at a single degree, so that they overlap each other. Sterilization is carried out, and the inside of the chain pipe is also irradiated with ultraviolet rays from directly above, so it is completely sterilized.

In this way, the acupuncture sterilizer of the present invention uses only the lower part of the sunlight column of the ultraviolet lamp, and there are no needles or chains in the lower part of the lamp tube end to ensure complete sterilization. However, since the U-shaped ultraviolet lamp is used, the ends of the lamp tube are gathered to one side, reducing the dead space and making the entire device more compact.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows an acupuncture sterilizer according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, in which the needles are interlinked and the chain tube is propped up, with a part inserted into a predetermined position inside the case. .

The front surface of the rectangular parallelepiped-shaped box 1 is open, and a door 2 that can be opened and closed is attached to this part.

There are three U-shaped ultraviolet lamps 4 on the inner surface of the top plate 3 of the box 1.
It is fixed by two mounting brackets 5.

A power switch 6 and a limit switch 7 are provided on the front surface of the box 1 and at a position corresponding to the door 2.

A guide plate 9 is disposed on the bottom plate 8 of the box 1 so as to extend in the front-rear direction of the box 1.

The inner surfaces of the box 1 and the door 2 are made of stainless steel plates.

The chain link 10 has a main body made of a stainless steel plate in the shape of a rectangular parallelepiped box with the side plate and top plate removed, and a quartz plate made of quartz plate placed parallel to the chain base plate 11 at a distance from the chain base plate 11. It is formed by attaching a transparent porous plate 12.

This transparent porous plate 12 is provided with two types of holes: relatively small holes 13 for acupuncture and relatively large holes 14 for chain pipes.

The operation of the above device will be explained below.

The acupuncture needle 15 and chain tube 16 to be sterilized are passed through the needle hole 13 and the chain tube hole 14 of the chain 10, respectively, after fat and blood are wiped off with gauze or the like soaked in ethyl alcohol.
The linkage 10 is vertically placed on the linkage bottom plate 11.

The chain 10 supporting the needle 15 and the chain tube 16 is housed in the box 1 along the guide plate 9 from the front of the box 1.

Figure 2 shows the positional relationship between the linkage 10 and the box 1 when the linkage 10 is housed in the box 1, and the arrangement of the acupuncture hole 13 of the transparent porous plate 12 and the arrangement of the chain tube (L14). It indicates the condition.

The guide plate 9 of the box 1 is arranged so as to extend almost directly below the boundary between the glass tube of the ultraviolet lamp 4 and the tube end.

The total width l of the linkage 10 is formed to be slightly smaller than the distance between the side plate 17 on the curved side of the ultraviolet lamp 4 of the box 1 and the guide plate 9. 10 is inserted between the guide plate 9 and the side plate 17.

The chain 10 has a chain back plate 18 that is the back plate 1 of the box 1.
It is pushed in until it comes into contact with the inner surface of 8, and is exposed to ultraviolet rays at that position.

The transparent perforated plate 12 of the chain 10 is provided with acupuncture holes 13 and chain tube holes 14, and as shown in FIG. It is opened so that it can be located directly under the glass tube portion of the ultraviolet lamp 4 when it is placed at the above-mentioned predetermined position where it receives light.

After the chain 10 is housed in the box 1, the door 2 is closed and the power switch 6 is turned on, and the ultraviolet lamp 4 is turned on for 10 minutes by the action of a timer and then automatically turned off.

Note that unless the limit switch 7 is turned on, the ultraviolet lamp 4 will not light up even if the power switch 6 is turned on.

Therefore, the ultraviolet lamp 4 will not light up if the door 2 remains open.

Furthermore, it is designed so that a buzzer sounds during the 10 minutes of ultraviolet irradiation, allowing even visually impaired people to operate it safely.

When the ultraviolet lamp 4 is turned on, the needles 15 and the chain tube 1 that are leaning against the chain link 10 placed at the predetermined position are exposed.
6 is irradiated with strong ultraviolet rays from above, and also receives ultraviolet rays reflected from the inner surface of the box 1 and the linkage 10, so that the needle 15 and the chain tube 16 are sterilized over the entire outer surface.

The transparent porous plate 12 that supports the needles 15 and the chain tube 16 is made of quartz plate, so it transmits ultraviolet rays and allows the needles 1 to pass through.
5 and the portions of the chain tube 16 below the transparent porous plate 12 are also uniformly irradiated with ultraviolet rays.

As already mentioned, the chain tube 16 is supported so as to be vertically positioned directly below the positive column of the ultraviolet lamp 4, so the ultraviolet rays propagate through the chain tube 16 while being reflected, sterilizing and disinfecting the inside of the chain tube 16. do.

The ultraviolet lamp 4 used in the apparatus of this embodiment is selected to emit ultraviolet rays of approximately 2000 μW/cm'' at the bottom of the positive column. Since it becomes sterile in ~3 minutes, irradiation for 10 minutes is sufficient.

In the above embodiment, the side plate 17 and the back plate 18 of the box 1 are
Although a part of the guide plate 9 is used as a part of the means for guiding the guide plate 10, a guide means for determining the ultraviolet irradiation position may be provided independently.

However, if the stopper 10 is guided as in the above embodiment, the use of a U-shaped ultraviolet lamp makes it possible to downsize the entire device.

Furthermore, the arrangement of the holes in the transparent porous plate 12 that supports the acupuncture needles and chain canals is not limited to the above embodiments.
For example, depending on the size of the device, the type of acupuncture needles, etc., a chain tube may be provided only directly below the straight portion on one side of the ultraviolet lamp.

As explained in detail above, the acupuncture sterilizer of the present invention can completely sterilize even the inside of the needles and canals with a simple operation without any danger. This will be extremely convenient for those involved, especially those who are visually impaired.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing one embodiment of the present invention, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view showing one embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a plan cross-sectional view of a portion of the illustrated embodiment; 1...Box, 3...Top plate, 4...
...Ultraviolet lamp, 8...Bottom plate, 9...
・Information board, 10... Chinkotsu, 11...
Bottom plate, 12...Transparent perforated plate, 13...
... Acupuncture hole, 14 ... Chain canal hole, 17 ...
...Side board, 18... Back board.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A box equipped with a U-shaped ultraviolet lamp near the interior ceiling, a transparent perforated plate having a small acupuncture hole and a large chain tube hole, and a support provided below the transparent perforated plate at a distance from the transparent perforated plate. The box is provided with a plate and a chain that is removably arranged on the bottom plate of the box, and the box has one plate on the front.
A guide means is provided for guiding the acupuncture holder to a predetermined position at the lower part of the sunlight column of the ultraviolet lamp, and the chain tube hole of the transparent porous plate is arranged so that when the needle holder is guided by the guide means and placed at the predetermined position. An acupuncture sterilizer characterized in that the acupuncture sterilizer is located directly under the sunlight column of the ultraviolet lamp.