KR102038701B1 - Skin Treatment Device For Low Intensity Continuous Ultrasound - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a skin care device of a low intensity continuous ultrasound method. The skin care device of a low intensity continuous ultrasound method according to the present invention comprises: a device body unit; and an ultrasound irradiation unit connected to the device body unit and irradiating ultrasound for skin care. The ultrasound irradiated from the ultrasound irradiation unit is low intensity continuous ultrasound (LICU).

Description

Skin Treatment Device of Low Intensity Continuous Ultrasonic Method {Skin Treatment Device For Low Intensity Continuous Ultrasound}

The present invention relates to a low intensity continuous ultrasound skin care device, and more specifically, by applying a low intensity continuous ultrasound (LICU, Low Intensity Continuous Ultrasound) method of the existing high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU, High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (Low Intensity Focused Ultrasound) is a low intensity that can effectively solve various disadvantages and side effects that can be caused by the application, such as painful shortcomings, side effects such as burns, bruises, skin dents, and facial discoloration during the procedure. It relates to a skin care device of a continuous ultrasonic method.

The skin surrounds the body's surface and functions to defend and control physical and chemical effects from the outside. The skin is composed of epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous tissue and has attached organs such as pores and sebaceous glands.

The main function of the skin is to protect the biological and chemical various external substances from penetrating and to prevent the loss of moisture from the inside. However, the barrier function of the skin also makes it difficult to absorb the beneficial active ingredients contained in cosmetics or skin drugs.

The most important factor limiting the skin absorption process of the substance is the slow diffusion rate of the substance through the stratum corneum, and the ceramide-based intercellular lipid composition constituting the stratum corneum lipids plays a major role in maintaining and constructing the protective function of the skin. It is known to do. As a result, for several decades, various physical and chemical methods have been studied to overcome the barrier function of the skin and achieve effective transdermal absorption.

Chemical promoters include surfactants (e.g. Tween, fatty acid / ester compounds (e.g. oleic acid), terpenes (e.g. limonene), organic solvents (e.g. dimethyl sulfoxide) sulfoxide), ethanol (ethanol) and the like, there are reports that can be designed based on a variety of formulations, there is an advantage that it is easy to apply to a wide range of skin areas.

Physical methods include the application of various forms of physical energy to the skin to promote the absorption of drugs, typically using electrical energy (iontophoresis, electroporation, phonophoresis). ), A method of penetrating the stratum corneum by forming a temporary weakness in the stratum corneum such as a shock wave, a jet injection, a microneedle.

These physical methods follow different mechanisms but temporarily weaken the barrier function of the stratum corneum by the applied energy and effectively increase the absorption of the material compared to chemical promoters. Ultrasonic surgery is generally used among the physical methods.

On the other hand, in the skin care using ultrasonic waves, the skin care device 1 of the high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) method of the type as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is mainly used.

Referring to these drawings, the high intensity focused ultrasound skin care apparatus 1 according to the prior art includes a main body 10 and an ultrasonic irradiation unit 20 to which the high intensity focused ultrasound is irradiated.

The main body 10 is equipped with a far-infrared window 12, a step display LED 13, a whitening mode unit 14, a wrinkle mode unit 15, a power supply unit 16, etc., through which skin care can be carried out. have. The decoration part 11 is formed in the side of the main body part 10. The deco part 11 forms a place where the hands are grounded.

Accordingly, after operating the skin care device 1 by pressing the power supply unit 16, the whitening mode unit 14 or the wrinkle mode unit 15 is selected, and then the ultrasonic irradiator 20 faces the desired skin with the ultrasonic irradiator 20 As a high intensity focused ultrasound is irradiated through the skin care can proceed.

High-intensity focused ultrasound energy can be irradiated at a certain depth at regular intervals to induce fat cell destruction in the skin such as the abdomen and thighs, thereby providing the effect of managing obesity. It acts on SMAS (fascia layer-lifting related soft tissue which is an important target in surgery called facial elevation) among the main targets to promote contraction and collagen formation of the fascia layer, for example, to provide a face lifting effect.

At this time, the method using the skin care device 1 of the high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) type of the type as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 may be relatively safe as well as simple rather than surgical face lifting, but the following disadvantages Has

First, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) method is safe and simple compared to surgery, but the use of high-intensity focused ultrasound energy has a relatively painful disadvantage. In other words, a strong pain is inevitably generated at the point where the high intensity focused ultrasound energy hits.

Thus, when using a high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) skin care device (1) is performed to perform most of the procedure using the sleep anesthesia or anesthetic ointment, but the anesthetic ointment is known to take a considerable pain.

Second, since high-intensity focused ultrasound energy is used, side effects such as burns, bruises, skin depressions, and facial appearances may occur after the procedure. Due to the characteristics of the high-intensity focused ultrasound energy, the area where the ultrasound energy hits always includes problems such as burns.

Third, when lifting the face or neck using high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) method, there are a number of disadvantages that the face looks off and looks too fat. This is because high-intensity focused ultrasound energy is concentrated at a specific point, resulting in an unbalanced unbalanced peripheral area, which may cause a lot of problems such as skin depression and burns.

Korean Patent Office Application No. 10-2014-0009411 Korea Patent Office Application No. 10-2014-0085175 Korean Patent Office Application No. 10-2014-0095158 Korean Patent Office Application No. 10-2015-0077629

An object of the present invention, by applying the Low Intensity Continuous Ultrasound (LICU) method, various disadvantages and side effects that can be caused by the application of the existing High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) method For example, it is to provide a low-intensity continuous ultrasound skin care device that can effectively solve the side effects such as severe pain, surgical procedure burns, bruises, skin depression, face look off, and the like.

The object is an apparatus main body; And an ultrasonic irradiator connected to the main body of the apparatus and irradiated with ultrasonic waves for skin care, wherein the ultrasonic waves irradiated from the ultrasonic irradiator are low intensity continuous ultrasound (LICU). It is achieved by the skin care device of the intensity continuous ultrasonic method.

The low-intensity continuous ultrasound can be irradiated with low intensity continuous ultrasound energy densely and continuously to the treatment site.

An input unit provided at the apparatus main body; And a controller for controlling the operation of the ultrasonic irradiator so that the low intensity continuous ultrasonic energy can be densely and continuously irradiated based on the signal of the input unit.

The device main body may be detachably coupled to the power supply, and may further include a power supply docking unit configured to supply charging power to the device main body.

According to the present invention, various disadvantages and side effects that may be caused by the application of the existing high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) method by applying a low intensity continuous ultrasound (LICU) method, For example, there is an effect that can effectively resolve the side effects such as severe pain, procedure water burns, bruises, skin depression, the appearance of face off.

1 is a side view of a high-intensity focused ultrasound skin care apparatus according to the prior art.
2 is a front view of FIG. 1.
3 is a schematic configuration diagram of a skin care device of a low intensity continuous ultrasound method according to a first embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a control block diagram of a low intensity continuous ultrasound type skin care device of FIG. 3.
5A to 8B are actual photographs before and after skin care, respectively.
9 is a schematic diagram of a skin care device of a low intensity continuous ultrasound method according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention.

However, since the description of the present invention is only an embodiment for structural or functional description, the scope of the present invention should not be construed as being limited by the embodiments described in the text.

For example, since the embodiments may be variously modified and have various forms, the scope of the present invention should be understood to include equivalents for realizing the technical idea.

In addition, the object or effect presented in the present invention does not mean that a specific embodiment should include all or only such effects, it should not be understood that the scope of the present invention is limited by this.

In this specification, this embodiment is provided to make the disclosure of the present invention complete, and to fully inform the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. And the present invention is only defined by the scope of the claims.

Thus, in some embodiments, well known components, well known operations and well known techniques are not described in detail in order to avoid obscuring the present invention.

On the other hand, the meaning of the terms described in the present invention is not limited to the dictionary meaning, it will be understood as follows.

When a component is referred to as being "connected" to another component, it should be understood that there may be other components in between, although it may be directly connected to the other component. On the other hand, when a component is said to be "directly connected" to another component, it should be understood that there is no other component in between. On the other hand, other expressions describing the relationship between the components, such as "between" and "immediately between" or "neighboring to" and "directly neighboring to", should be interpreted as well.

Singular expressions should be understood to include plural expressions unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, and terms such as "include" or "have" refer to features, numbers, steps, operations, components, parts, or parts thereof described. It is to be understood that the combination is intended to be present and does not exclude in advance the possibility of the presence or addition of one or more other features or numbers, steps, operations, components, parts or combinations thereof.

All terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art unless otherwise defined.

Generally, the terms defined in the dictionary used are to be interpreted to coincide with the meanings in the context of the related art, and should not be interpreted as having ideal or excessively formal meanings unless clearly defined in the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the description of the embodiments, the same reference numerals are given to the same components, and in some cases, the description of the same reference numerals will be omitted.

(First embodiment)

3 is a schematic configuration diagram of a skin care device of a low intensity continuous ultrasound method according to a first embodiment of the present invention, Figure 4 is a control block diagram for a skin care device of a low intensity continuous ultrasound method of Figure 3, 5A to 8B are actual photographs before and after skin care, respectively.

Referring to these drawings, the low-intensity continuous ultrasound skin care device 100 according to the present embodiment by applying a low-intensity continuous ultrasound (LICU, Low Intensity Continuous Ultrasound) method by the existing high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) , To effectively solve the various disadvantages and side effects that may be caused by the application of the High Intensity Focused Ultrasound method, such as painful shortcomings, surgical procedure burns, bruising, skin dents, and face off It is.

The appearance of the low intensity continuous ultrasound type skin care apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment which can provide such an effect may be various, but will be described with reference to FIG. 1 for convenience. 1 is only one example, and the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.

1, the low intensity continuous ultrasound skin care device 100 according to the present embodiment includes a device body 110, an ultrasonic irradiation unit 120, and a controller 140 for control thereof. can do.

In this embodiment, the device body 110 may be provided in the form of a hand piece. That is, it can be shaped so that it can be gripped well by hand. The device main body 110 may be provided with a display 131 including an input unit 130.

Although not shown in detail, the device main body 110 is provided with a plurality of devices or parts requiring power. Therefore, they must be powered.

As a solution, the power supply line may be directly connected to the apparatus main body 110, but in this embodiment, the docking system is taken as an example.

To this end, the docking unit 150 for power supply may be provided in the skin care device 100 of the low intensity continuous ultrasound method according to the present embodiment. The power supply docking unit 150 is detachably coupled to the device body unit 110 and serves to supply charging power to the device body unit 110.

As mentioned above, since the structure of the docking system or the like is only one embodiment of the present invention, the docking system is not necessarily applied. However, when the docking system is applied, the ease of use is expected to be increased.

On the other hand, the ultrasonic irradiation unit 120 is connected to the device main body 110, and forms a place where the ultrasound is irradiated for skin care.

At this time, the ultrasonic wave irradiated by the ultrasonic irradiation unit 120 of the present embodiment is a low intensity continuous ultrasonic wave (LICU).

Such low intensity continuous ultrasound causes the continuous irradiation of low intensity continuous ultrasound energy on the site of the procedure, which may cause various disadvantages and side effects that may be caused by the application of the existing high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) method, such as severe pain. It can effectively solve side effects such as disadvantages, procedure burns, bruises, skin dents, and face off.

I will talk about this. As described above, various technical drawbacks of the existing high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) method are that the high intensity focused ultrasound energy is concentrated at a certain point.

However, in the present embodiment, the low intensity continuous ultrasonic energy is closely and continuously irradiated to overcome the disadvantages of the existing high intensity focused ultrasonic (HIFU) method.

For example, in terms of pain, the procedure can be performed without anesthesia or anesthetic ointment. By preventing energy from being concentrated at specific points, side effects such as burns, bruises, skin depressions, and facial discoloration can be significantly reduced.

At the same time, since the total amount of energy released per unit area is the same as before, it may be effective for lifting and strengthening facial and soft tissues.

It is also effective because it acts on the same principle for fat cell necrosis.

It is also effective in treating pores and fine wrinkles by activating the dermal dermal layer using low intensity continuous ultrasound (LICU). Indeed, pore treatment is an area that was not achieved by high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment, so excellent effects can be expected.

For example, when the body is performed using the low intensity continuous ultrasound (LICU) according to the present embodiment as shown in FIGS. 5A and 5B or the face is treated as shown in FIGS. 6A to 8B, a single procedure has a considerable superior effect. It has been proven that it can provide.

On the other hand, the skin care device 100 of the low intensity continuous ultrasound method according to the present embodiment is further provided with an input unit 130 and a controller 140.

The input unit 130 is provided in the apparatus main body unit 110. The input unit 130 may be provided as a button type or may be provided as a touch type. The display 131 is provided around the input unit 130. The current state is displayed on the display 131.

The controller 140 controls the operation of the ultrasonic irradiation unit 120 so that the low intensity continuous ultrasonic energy can be densely and continuously irradiated based on the signal of the input unit 130.

The controller 140 performing such a role may include a central processing unit 141 (CPU), a memory 142 (MEMORY), and a support circuit 143 (SUPPORT CIRCUIT).

The central processing unit 141 may be industrially applied to control the operation of the ultrasonic irradiation unit 120 so that the low intensity continuous ultrasonic energy may be densely and continuously irradiated based on the signal of the input unit 130 in the present embodiment. One of a variety of computer processors.

The memory 142 is connected to the central processing unit 141. The memory 142 may be installed locally or remotely as a computer readable recording medium, and may be readily available, such as, for example, random access memory (RAM), ROM, floppy disk, hard disk, or any digital storage form. It may be at least one memory.

The support circuit 143, SUPPORT CIRCUIT, is coupled with the central processing unit 141 to support typical operation of the processor. Such support circuit 143 may include a cache, a power supply, a clock circuit, an input / output circuit, a subsystem, and the like.

In the present embodiment, the controller 140 controls the operation of the ultrasonic irradiator 120 so that low intensity continuous ultrasonic energy can be densely and continuously irradiated based on the signal of the input unit 130. May be stored in the memory 142. Typically software routines may be stored in memory 142. Software routines may also be stored or executed by other central processing units (not shown).

Although the process according to the invention has been described as being executed by a software routine, at least some of the processes of the invention may be performed by hardware. As such, the processes of the present invention may be implemented in software running on a computer system, in hardware such as integrated circuits, or by a combination of software and hardware.

According to the present embodiment having the structure and action as described above, by applying the low intensity continuous ultrasound (LICU) method, various disadvantages and side effects that may be caused by the application of the existing high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) method, For example, it is possible to effectively solve side effects such as painful shortcomings, surgical procedure burns, bruises, skin depressions, and face off.

(2nd Example)

9 is a schematic configuration diagram of a low intensity continuous ultrasound skin care apparatus according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

The low intensity continuous ultrasound type skin care apparatus 200 according to the present embodiment may have a structure as shown in FIG. 9. That is, the low intensity continuous ultrasound skin care apparatus 200 according to the present embodiment may include a device main body 210, a rotation module 250 connected to the device main body 210, and a rotation module 250. It may include a functional arm module 220 rotatably mounted.

In this case, the ultrasonic arm 230 for irradiating low intensity continuous ultrasound (LICU) may be provided to the functional arm module 220, in addition to the vibration module 240 in the functional arm module 220. ) Can be equipped more. When the vibration module 240 is provided it can provide a massage effect by the vibration has the advantage of providing another effect.

Even if the present embodiment is applied, by applying the low intensity continuous ultrasound (LICU) method, various disadvantages and side effects that may be caused by the application of the existing high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) method, such as painful disadvantage, procedure number burn, It can effectively eliminate side effects such as bruising, skin dents, and facial discoloration.

As described above, the present invention is not limited to the described embodiments, and various modifications and changes can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, which will be apparent to those skilled in the art. Therefore, such modifications or variations will have to be belong to the claims of the present invention.

100: skin care device 110: device body
120: ultrasonic irradiation unit 130: input unit
131 display 140 controller
150: power supply docking unit

Claims (4)

An apparatus body portion; And
A rotation module connected to one side of the apparatus main body;
A functional arm module rotatably mounted on one side of the rotating module;
A vibration module provided in the functional arm module;
An input unit provided at the apparatus main body;
An ultrasonic irradiator provided in the functional arm module and irradiated with ultrasonic waves for skin care;
A controller for controlling the operation of the ultrasonic irradiation unit such that the low intensity continuous ultrasonic energy can be densely and continuously irradiated based on the signal of the input unit;
And a power supply docking unit detachably coupled to the device body and supplying charging power to the device body.
Ultrasound irradiated from the ultrasonic irradiation unit is a low intensity continuous ultrasound (LICU, Low Intensity Continuous Ultrasound), characterized in that the skin care device of the continuous low intensity type. delete delete delete

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