KR100738490B1 - Extracorporeal radial shock wave medical device - Google Patents

Abstract

An extracorporeal radial shock wave medical device is provided to generate shock wave energy by a projectile colliding with a shock medium by the predetermined number of times. An extracorporeal radial shock wave medical device includes a housing(10), a projectile, a discharging unit(30), and a shock medium(40). The housing(10) has a predetermined receiving space, and is composed of a cap(11) and a body(12). The projectile is received in the housing(10) to be launched forward according to discharging pressure of compressed air. The discharging unit(30) is coupled to a rear of the housing(10) to discharge the compressed air to the projectile. The shock medium(40) is coupled to a front of the housing(10), and transmits shock waves generated by collision with the projectile to the outside.

Description

Extracorporeal Radial Shock Wave Medical Device

1 is an exploded perspective view showing an extracorporeal shock wave treatment device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a cross-sectional view of FIG.

Figure 3 is an exploded perspective view showing an extracorporeal shock wave treatment device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a cross-sectional view of FIG.

5 is a perspective view of the projectile according to the present invention.

6 is a perspective view of a deformable projectile.

<Explanation of symbols for main parts of the drawings>

10 housing 10a through hole

11: cap 12: body

20: projectile 21: braking groove

30 discharge part 40 impact medium

41: first rubber ring 42: second rubber ring

50: braking protrusion 100: extracorporeal shock wave treatment device

The present invention relates to an extracorporeal shock wave treatment device that is effectively used to treat the affected area by transferring the shock wave energy to the affected area. More specifically, the projectile collides with the shock medium at a predetermined number of times by the discharge air pressure applied from the discharge part to generate the shock wave energy. By the braking groove formed on the projectile and the brake protrusion formed on the inner edge of the body of the housing or the inner pipe tube, the projectile moving backward after the collision is braked at the initial position to generate stable shock wave energy having a constant wavelength. An extracorporeal shock wave therapy device is generated.

In addition to sports athletes who frequently suffer excessive inflammation or damage to joints, tendons, and ligaments due to excessive exercise such as baseball, soccer, golf, swimming, and marathon runners for a long time, as well as suddenly excessive exercise or excessive work In addition to general people who feel muscle pain, extracorporeal shockwave therapy is a simple way to cure diseases and chronic pain that are not easily improved by conservative therapy such as physiotherapy, drug therapy, or herbal therapy without surgery.

This shock wave therapy regimen delivers shock waves into the body by bringing the shock wave therapy device into contact with the painful procedure, promoting remodeling of blood vessels, descaling tendons, and stimulating or reactivating the tendon and surrounding tissues, The result is an effective treatment that can reduce pain and improve function.

The present invention is to provide a shock wave treatment device capable of performing such a shock wave treatment therapy.

An object of the present invention is to generate a shock wave energy by colliding the impact medium with a predetermined number of times by the discharge air pressure applied from the discharge portion as described above, the body of the braking groove and housing formed in the projectile or It is an object of the present invention to provide an extracorporeal shock wave therapy device that generates a stable shock wave energy having a constant wavelength by braking at a initial position by a braking protrusion formed at an inner edge of a rear portion of an inner pipe tube.

The present invention has the following features to achieve the above object.

Extracorporeal shock wave treatment device according to an embodiment of the present invention is a predetermined accommodation space is formed and the housing consisting of a cap and the body; A projectile housed in the housing so as to fire forward according to the discharge pressure of the compressed air; A discharge unit coupled to the rear of the housing to discharge compressed air to the projectile; And a shock medium coupled to the front of the housing and configured to transmit shock waves generated by collision with the projectile to the outside.

In addition, the extracorporeal shock wave therapy device according to another embodiment of the present invention is formed with a predetermined accommodation space and the housing made of a cap and body; An impact medium embedded in the cap of the housing; A discharge portion coupled to the rear of the housing to discharge compressed air into the housing body; A hollow inner pipe tube inserted into the body of the housing and communicating with the discharge part on one side and closely contacting the impact medium on the other side; And a projectile received in the inner pipe tube to be fired forward according to the discharge pressure of the compressed air.

Here, the outer periphery of the projectile is formed with a brake groove in the width direction, the brake protrusion is formed protruding at a certain point of the inner portion of the housing or the inner pipe pipe elasticity immediately after the impact with the impact medium due to friction of the brake groove and the brake projection (elastic force) The projectile, which is moved rearward, is braked at its initial position.

In addition, the discharge unit is an air compressor for compressing and storing the air, an air regulator for supplying compressed air by adjusting to the desired discharge pressure, and to control the discharge and discharge time of the compressed air to discharge the discharged air at the desired time It is configured to include an electronic solenoid valve, the through-hole is formed in the vicinity of the impact medium of the housing or the inner pipe tube so as to smoothly discharge the compressed air introduced to move the projectile forward.

In addition, the impact medium is further provided with a plurality of first rubber rings that are fixed to the outer edge of a certain point, so as to move smoothly inside the housing as much as the gap caused by the minute compression and relaxation during the collision between the impact medium and the projectile. The second rubber ring is further installed.

Hereinafter will be described in detail with the accompanying drawings for the extracorporeal shock wave therapy device according to the present invention.

(Example 1)

1 is an exploded perspective view showing an extracorporeal shock wave treatment device according to an embodiment of the present invention, Figure 2 is a cross-sectional view of Figure 1, Figure 5 is a perspective view of a projectile according to the invention, Figure 6 is a perspective view of a deformable projectile to be.

Referring to the drawings, the extracorporeal shock wave treatment device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention has a large accommodation space, and has a housing 10 including a cap 11 and a body 12 and according to the discharge pressure of compressed air. A projectile 20 accommodated in the housing 10 to be fired forward, a discharge portion 30 coupled to the rear of the housing 10 to discharge compressed air to the projectile 20, and the front of the housing 10. Is coupled to and composed of a shock medium 40 for transmitting the shock wave generated by the collision with the projectile 20 to the outside.

Wherein the housing 10 is composed of a cap 11 and the body 12, which may be integrated, but easy to replace or repair due to damage of the impact medium 40 or the projectile 20 therein It is preferred that it be configured so that it can be easily separated for.

In addition, a predetermined receiving space is formed in the body 12 to accommodate the projectile 20, the receiving space also includes a moving space that can move the projectile 20 to the impact medium 40.

In addition, the cap 11 of the housing is provided with an impact medium 40 is interpolated, the impact medium 40 is to transmit the shock wave energy generated by the collision with the projectile 20 to the affected part of the patient with a lesion do.

This is delivered by direct contact of the impact medium 40 to the affected area. In order to prevent the loss of shock wave energy, which is in contact with the outside of the thin clothing, directly in contact with the bare skin, or transmitted, the cream in the form of a gel After applying the shock wave may be applied.

In addition, as a deformable embodiment, a separate blocking member which prevents direct impact contact of the impact medium 40, fixes the impact medium 40, and transmits the generated shock wave energy to the affected part may be coupled to the outer edge of the end of the cap 11. Can be.

Accordingly, when the impact medium 40 is made of metal, direct contact with the affected part may be avoided, and damage to the impact medium 40 may also be prevented, thereby increasing durability.

Meanwhile, a plurality of first rubber rings 41 and a second rubber ring 42 are coupled to the impact medium 40 at an outer edge of a predetermined point, and the first rubber ring 41 is formed inside the housing 10. By inducing the shock medium 40 to be positioned at the correct center without biasing to one side, the impact medium 40 is accurately hitted when colliding with the projectile 20, thereby minimizing the loss of shock wave energy. It is designed to maximize the shock wave transmitted to the affected part by reducing it, and smoothly inside the housing 10 as much as the gap generated by the minute compression and relaxation of the second rubber ring 42 during the impact of the impact medium 40. To make it move.

On the other hand, the projectile 20 is instantaneously received by the discharge pressure of the compressed air is launched to the impact medium 40 is provided to generate the shock wave energy, in order to increase the impact force by the instantaneous acceleration, a relatively high specific metal series per unit volume It is preferable that it is a material of.

In addition, the discharge portion 30 for discharging the compressed air to the projectile 20 is coupled to the rear of the housing, the discharge portion 30 is adjusted to the desired discharge pressure and the air compressor for compressing and storing air It consists of an air regulator for supplying compressed air, and an electronic solenoid valve for controlling the discharge of compressed air to discharge the discharged air at a desired time.

Here, the air compressor is responsible for compressing the air and storing the compressed air, and in the case of the air regulator, to control the discharge pressure.

In addition, the electronic solenoid valve allows to adjust the number of times per second and the duration of the discharge pressure applied to the projectile 20.

Accordingly, after the projectile 20 is launched and collided with the impact medium 40 due to the discharge of compressed air, the projectile 20 is moved to the rear again by the repulsive force and the compressed air is discharged again to collide with the impact medium 40 again. It will continue to repeat while it works.

Accordingly, a constant shock wave is generated in the shock medium 40 to be transmitted to the affected part.

Meanwhile, a braking groove 21 is formed at an outer edge of the projectile 20 in a width direction, and a braking protrusion 50 is formed at a rear portion of the body 12 of the housing to protrude from the braking groove 21 and the braking protrusion 50. The projectile 40, which is moved rearward after the collision with the impact medium 40 due to friction, is braked at the initial position.

The brake groove 21 is to increase the frictional force with the brake protrusion 50, the width of the brake groove 21 is more effective than the longitudinal direction of the projectile (40).

The deformable braking groove 21 may be formed diagonally in both directions and may be formed diagonally in one direction.

In addition, the material of the braking protrusion 50 is preferably a synthetic resin material having high elasticity and high strength, and may be preferably densely formed inside the body 12 to increase friction with the braking groove 21.

Meanwhile, a plurality of through holes 10a are formed at a predetermined point of the housing 10 to minimize the resistance of air when the projectile 20 moves forward or backward, as well as to move the front part of the projectile. Preferably, the compressed air is configured to be discharged smoothly.

(Example 2)

3 is an exploded perspective view showing an extracorporeal shock wave therapy device according to another embodiment of the present invention, Figure 4 is a cross-sectional view of FIG.

The shock wave treatment device according to the present embodiment is formed with a predetermined receiving space and the housing 10 consisting of a cap 11 and the body 12, the impact medium 40 is embedded in the cap 11 of the housing, and A discharge part 30 coupled to the rear of the housing 10 for discharging the compressed air into the housing body 12, and interpolated into the body 12 of the housing and communicating with the discharge part 30 on one side and on the other side. A hollow inner pipe tube 60 in close contact with the impact medium 40 and a projectile 20 accommodated in the inner pipe tube 60 to be fired forward according to the discharge pressure of the compressed air.

This embodiment has a double pipe structure consisting of the housing 10 and the inner pipe pipe 60, unlike the above-described embodiment.

The inner pipe tube 60 is a bushing 70 is coupled to the outer periphery of a certain point fixedly installed in the housing 10, one side is in communication with the discharge portion 30 is configured to draw compressed air into the inside, The side is in close contact with the impact medium 40 and is configured to generate impact energy by colliding with the impact medium 40 with the projectile 20 provided in the inner pipe tube 60 as the compressed air enters.

As the material of the internal pipe tube 60, it is preferable that the copper pipe or stainless steel material is excellent in durability and corrosion resistance, but the present invention is not limited thereto.

In addition, the bushing 70 is composed of a first bushing 71 coupled to the outer periphery of the inner pipe tube 60, and a second bushing 72 coupled to the outer edge of the rear portion of the inner pipe tube 60. Through-holes 71a and 72a are formed in the first bushing 71 and the second bushing 72 so that one side portion and the other side portion communicate with each other so that the compressed air drawn into the inner pipe tube 60 can be discharged to the outside. It is composed.

In addition, the braking groove 21 is formed in the projectile 20 as in the above-described embodiment, and the braking protrusion 50 is provided at the inner edge of the inner pipe tube 60 so as to brake the projectile 20.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to one embodiment shown in the drawings, this is merely exemplary, and those skilled in the art will understand that various modifications and equivalent other embodiments are possible therefrom. .

Therefore, the true technical protection scope of the present invention will be defined by the technical spirit of the appended claims.

As described above, the present invention can generate shock wave energy by colliding the impact medium with a predetermined number of times by the discharge air pressure applied from the discharge portion.

In addition, by the braking groove formed on the projectile and the brake protrusion formed on the inner edge of the body of the housing or the inner pipe tube, the projectile moving backward by the elastic force (repulsive force) after the collision is braked at an initial position, thereby having a stable wavelength. It has the effect of generating shock wave energy.

Claims (7)

A housing having a predetermined accommodation space formed of a cap and a body; A projectile housed in the housing so as to fire forward according to the discharge pressure of the compressed air; A discharge unit coupled to the rear of the housing to discharge compressed air to the projectile; And an impact medium coupled to the front of the housing and configured to transmit shock waves generated by collision with the projectile to the outside. A housing having a predetermined accommodation space formed of a cap and a body; An impact medium embedded in the cap of the housing; A discharge portion coupled to the rear of the housing to discharge compressed air into the housing body; A hollow inner pipe tube inserted into the body of the housing and communicating with the discharge part on one side and closely contacting the impact medium on the other side; An extracorporeal shock wave therapy device comprising: a projectile received in the inner pipe tube to be fired forward according to the discharge pressure of the compressed air. The method of claim 1, The projecting body is formed at the outer edge of the projectile in a width direction, and a brake protrusion is formed at a predetermined point at the internal combustion rear of the housing to move backward by an elastic force immediately after collision with the impact medium due to friction of the brake groove and the brake protrusion. The extracorporeal shock wave therapy device, characterized in that the braking in the initial position. The method of claim 2, A braking groove is formed at the outer edge of the projectile in a width direction, and a braking protrusion is protruded at a predetermined point of the inner portion of the rear portion of the inner pipe tube so that the projectile moved backward after the collision with the impact medium due to friction between the braking groove and the braking protrusion is formed. Extracorporeal shock wave treatment device, characterized in that braking. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The discharge unit includes an air compressor for compressing and storing air, an air regulator for supplying compressed air by adjusting to a desired discharge pressure, and an electronic solenoid valve for controlling discharge of compressed air to discharge the discharged air at a desired time. Extracorporeal shock wave treatment device, characterized in that comprising a. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The shock wave treatment device, characterized in that the through-hole is formed in the vicinity of the impact medium of the housing or the inner pipe tube so as to smoothly discharge the compressed air introduced to move the projectile forward. The method according to claim 1 or 2, The impact medium is further provided with a plurality of first rubber rings fixed to the outer edge of a predetermined point, so that the impact medium and the projectile can move smoothly inside the housing as much as the gap caused by the fine compression and relaxation during the collision. Extracorporeal shock wave therapy device characterized in that the second rubber ring is further installed.

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