KR102237442B1 - Apparatus for implanting hair follicle - Google Patents

Abstract

An apparatus for implanting hair follicles comprises: a standby part in which the hair follicles with the end of hair is fixed are accommodated; a casing which is connected to the standby part and has an insertion part disposed on the scalp side into which the hair follicles are inserted; and a coil member which is disposed in the casing to surround the insertion part. Accordingly, the apparatus for implanting hair follicles inserts the hair follicles accommodated in the standby part through the insertion part to the scalp depending on the direction of a current applied to the coil member, or separates the hair follicles inserted to the scalp to the standby part through the insertion part.

Description

Hair follicle transplant device {APPARATUS FOR IMPLANTING HAIR FOLLICLE}

The following embodiments relate to a hair follicle implantation device.

Regarding the surgical treatment of hair loss symptoms, starting from the initial scalp transplantation, a punch transplantation method was applied in the US in the 1950s. Later, in 1988, as the method of separation of hair follicles using a microscope was announced in the United States, a follicular group transplantation was applied. In the United States, hair follicle group transplantation using a slit was developed, and in Korea, follicle group transplantation using a transplanter was developed.

In the case of the slit method, wounds may occur due to improper procedures, the possibility of damaging the hair follicles is high, it is difficult to control the implantation depth, and there is a high possibility of causing inflammation due to poor hair follicle insertion. In the case of using a hair transplanter, the hair follicle damage is small and the operation time can be shortened, thereby improving the engraftment rate.

Hair follicle group transplantation can be divided into hair follicle collection and hair follicle transplantation according to the stage. According to the hair follicle collection method, the scalp tissue is excised in the shape of a long strip on a horizontal line, and the occipital scalp is collected, and then the incision-type sectioning is performed to separate the hair follicle group units. It can be classified as a non-incisional hair follicle group extraction method that is removed in units. In the case of initial section harvesting, the scalp is not wide enough to relax, so the scalp should be collected as narrow as possible in order to minimize the scar pulling phenomenon.

In the case of the follicle group unit extraction method, there may be individual gaps in the collection process, so the development and application of a collection robot is required to minimize this. In the case of section harvesting, a single thin line-shaped scar occurs, the engraftment rate is relatively high, it takes relatively little time and cost, and the density of the extraction site is maintained, making it suitable for mass transplantation. Small spots cause minimal scarring and recovery speed is fast, but the engraftment rate is relatively low and time and cost are relatively high, so a small amount of transplantation is suitable.

Artificial hair transplantation was introduced around the 1980s, but side effects such as foreign body reactions, inflammatory reactions, fibrosis, and low engraftment rate were raised. As the 1990s passed, artificial hairs that could be transplanted through a hair transplanter were gradually secured with the improvement of artificial hair preparations and stability. It has been developed and is approved as a medical device in Europe and the like, and it has been confirmed that side effects have been significantly reduced. However, artificial hair transplantation is non-permanent, has a high rate of spontaneous loss, and causes some serious inflammation and infection, so it has not been approved in some countries such as the United States.

Accordingly, there is a need for a hair transplant technology that can reduce the time and cost required for hair transplantation, and secure a high engraftment rate and safety.

Korean Registered Patent Publication No. 10-1496046

The present invention is to solve the above-described problems, and a casing having a standby portion in which a hair follicle having a fixed end of the hair is accommodated therein, an input portion connected to the standby portion and disposed on the scalp side into which the hair follicle is inserted, It includes a coil member disposed in the casing to surround the input unit, and inserts the hair follicles accommodated in the standby unit into the scalp through the injection unit according to the direction of the current applied to the coil member, or the hair follicles inserted into the scalp into the standby unit through the injection unit. It is an object of the present invention to provide a device for transplanting hair follicles to separate.

The subject of the present invention is not limited to the problems mentioned above, and other problems that are not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

In the hair follicle transplantation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention for solving the above problems, a waiting part in which a hair follicle having a fixed end of the hair is accommodated therein, and an input part connected to the waiting part and disposed on the scalp side into which the hair follicle is inserted Includes a formed casing and a coil member disposed in the casing to surround the input unit, and inserts the hair follicles accommodated in the standby unit into the scalp through the input unit according to the direction of the current applied to the coil member, or inserts the hair follicles inserted into the scalp into the scalp It is separated into the atmosphere through the wealth.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the input portion of the casing is connected to an outer side spaced apart from the center of the adjacent cross-section of the standby portion, is disposed on the adjacent cross-section of the standby portion so as to be adjacent to the injection portion, and has a cylindrical shape. A disk-shaped rotating member connected to a rotating shaft protruding inwardly from the center of the adjacent cross section so as to be rotatable inside the standby unit is provided inside the casing, and the rotating member is at a plurality of positions spaced radially from the center of rotation. Arranged and the hair follicles are insertable and have a plurality of alignment holes that are sequentially opened through the inlet when rotating, and the hair follicles moved from the standby unit and inserted into the alignment holes are aligned by rotation of the rotating member. As the balls and the input units are sequentially overlapped, they may be discharged to the input units one by one.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the distance between the rotating member and the inner wall of the waiting unit is disposed adjacent to the rotating member and fixed to the end of the rotating shaft, and separates the rotating member from the remaining space of the waiting unit, and the hair passes through the inner wall of the waiting unit. A separating member is provided inside the casing, and the separating member has an end of a spiral hair follicle transfer path formed along an inner wall of the waiting portion side of the casing and a hair follicle transfer hole that is connected so that the follicle is movable. And, the alignment hole overlapped with the hair follicle transfer hole and the alignment hole overlapped with the injection portion may be different from each other.

According to the present invention, the hair follicle can be implanted or separated from the scalp or implant structure only by changing the current direction, so that an easy procedure can be performed and the required time can be significantly shortened. In addition, since the hair follicles can be inserted one by one without overlapping by the alignment holes formed in the rotating member, a plurality of hair follicles are sequentially moved along the hair follicle transfer path and inserted through the rotating member to ensure continuity of the procedure. The preparation time between transplants of individual hair follicles can be minimized.

However, the effects of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned effects, and other effects not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

1 is a schematic cross-sectional side view of a hair follicle implantation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a schematic top cross-sectional view of the hair follicle implantation device of FIG. 1.
3 is a perspective view schematically showing an exemplary hair implant structure into which a hair follicle and a hair can be inserted using the hair follicle implantation apparatus of FIG. 1.
4 schematically shows a process of inserting a hair follicle implantation device into an inlet of the hair implant structure of FIG. 3 implanted on the scalp.
5 schematically shows a process of inserting a hair follicle and a hair into the hair implant structure of FIG. 4 through a hair follicle implantation device.
6 schematically shows a process of separating the hair follicle implantation device by placing the hair follicle and the hair inserted in FIG. 5 inside the hair implant structure.

Advantages and features of the present invention, and a method of achieving them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail together with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but will be implemented in various forms different from each other, and only these embodiments make the disclosure of the present invention complete, and common knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention pertains. It is provided to completely inform the scope of the invention to the possessor, and the invention is only defined by the scope of the claims.

In the embodiments of the present invention, unless otherwise defined, all terms including technical or scientific terms used herein are the same as those generally understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention belongs. It has meaning. Terms as defined in a commonly used dictionary should be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the related technology, and unless explicitly defined in the embodiments of the present invention, an ideal or excessively formal meaning Is not interpreted as.

The shapes, sizes, ratios, angles, numbers, etc. disclosed in the drawings for explaining the embodiments of the present invention are exemplary, and thus the present invention is not limited to the illustrated matters. In addition, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that a detailed description of related known technologies may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. When'include','have','consists of' and the like mentioned in the present specification are used, other parts may be added unless'only' is used. In the case of expressing the constituent elements in the singular, it includes the case of including the plural unless specifically stated otherwise.

In interpreting the constituent elements, it is interpreted as including an error range even if there is no explicit description.

In the case of a description of the positional relationship, for example, if the positional relationship of two parts is described as'upper','upper of','lower of','next to','right' Or, unless'direct' is used, one or more other parts may be located between the two parts.

When an element or layer is referred to as “on” another element or layer, it includes all cases where another layer or other element is interposed directly on or in the middle of another element. The same reference numerals refer to the same elements throughout the specification.

The size and thickness of each component shown in the drawings are illustrated for convenience of description, and the present invention is not necessarily limited to the size and thickness of the illustrated component.

Each of the features of the various embodiments of the present invention may be partially or entirely combined or combined with each other, and as a person skilled in the art can fully understand, technically various interlocking and driving are possible, and each of the embodiments may be independently implemented with respect to each other. It may be possible to do it together in a related relationship.

Hereinafter, a hair follicle implantation apparatus according to the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 to 6, the hair follicle implantation apparatus 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a casing 210, a coil member 220, a rotating member 230, and an operation member 240. Includes.

The casing 210 includes a waiting part 212 in which the hair follicle 20 is accommodated in which the end of the hair is fixed and magnetic force is transmitted, and an input part connected to the waiting part 212 and disposed on the scalp side into which the hair follicle is inserted. (211) is formed. The coil member 220 is disposed in the casing 210 to surround the input part 211. As the hair, artificial hair or natural hair formed of a material such as synthetic resin may be used. Hair follicles attached or fixed to the ends of the hair may be formed of a material such as a metal through which magnetic force passes. Accordingly, when the hair follicles are disposed in the input portion 211 surrounding the coil member 220 and the adjacent standby portion 212, the hair follicles move inside the coil member 220 according to the direction of the current applied to the coil member 220. You can move in the direction of penetration.

Depending on the direction of the current applied to the coil member 220, the hair follicles 20 accommodated in the standby unit 212 are inserted into the scalp through the input unit 211, or the hair follicles 20 inserted into the scalp are inserted into the input unit 211 ) Through the standby unit 212.

The input portion 211 of the casing 210 may be connected to an outer side spaced from the center of the adjacent end face 214 of the waiting portion 212. It is disposed on the adjacent end surface 214 of the waiting part 212 so as to be adjacent to the input part 211, and a rotation shaft protruding inward from the center of the adjacent end surface 214 so as to be rotatable inside the cylindrical waiting part 212 ( A disk-shaped rotating member 230 connected to 215 may be provided inside the casing 210. The rotating member 230 is formed separately from the casing 210 and is rotatably connected to a rotating shaft 215 protruding from an adjacent end surface 214 forming the casing 210 to rotate with respect to the casing 210. The input unit 211 may be disposed at an eccentric position from the center of the waiting unit 212.

The rotating member 230 is disposed at a plurality of positions spaced from the center of rotation in the radial direction, and the hair follicle 20 can be inserted and has a plurality of alignment holes 231 that are sequentially opened through the input unit 211 when rotating. can do. As the hair follicle 20 moved from the waiting part 212 and inserted into the alignment hole 231 is sequentially overlapped by the rotation of the rotating member 230, the alignment hole 231 and the injection unit 211 are sequentially inserted. Can be discharged to (211). Each of the hair follicles 20 is inserted into the alignment hole 231 formed in the rotating member 230 and discharged one by one into the input unit 211, so that two or more hair follicles are discharged at the same time or in the input unit 211 or the waiting unit 212. It can prevent the phenomenon of congestion.

It is disposed adjacent to the rotating member 230 and fixed to the end of the rotating shaft 215, and separates the rotating member 230 from the rest of the space of the waiting part 212, but the hair 30 between the inner wall of the waiting part 212 A separating member 216 formed to have a space through which) may pass may be provided inside the casing 210. The separating member 216 is disposed so as to be in contact with the opposite side of the adjacent end surface 214 of the rotating member 230, and may be formed to cover a portion of the center of the rotating member 230 except for an outer portion. That is, the separating member 216 is formed to cover only a part of each alignment hole 231 as shown, thereby preventing the hair follicle 20 injected into the alignment hole 231 from escaping toward the waiting part 212 The hair 30 fixed to the 20 may be smaller than the size of the hair follicle 20 and a larger gap than the thickness of the hair 30 may be provided so that the hair 30 may extend toward the waiting part 212.

The separating member 216 has a hair follicle transfer hole 216a that is connected to the end of the spiral hair follicle transfer path 218 formed along the inner wall of the waiting part 212 side of the casing 210 so that the hair follicle 20 is movable. can do. The hair follicle transfer path 218 may extend toward the inner wall of the casing 210 along the outer circumferential surface of the transfer shaft 217 extending rearward from the center of the separating member 216. The hair follicle transfer path 218 may be arranged at intervals through which one hair follicle can pass. The side ends of the hair follicle transfer path 218 may be formed to be spaced apart from the inner wall of the casing 210 with a thickness greater than the thickness of the hair 30. Accordingly, the hair 30 extending from the hair follicle 20 passing through the hair follicle transfer path 218 can follow the helically moving hair follicle 20 without clogging. The alignment hole 231a overlapped with the hair follicle transfer hole 216a and the alignment hole 231b overlapped with the input portion 211 may be different from each other. As illustrated in FIG. 2, as an example of the rotation member 230 having four alignment holes 231 formed, the user rotates the operation member 240 so that the input unit 211 rotates as the rotation member 230 rotates. The alignment hole 231b overlapping with and the alignment hole 231a overlapping with the hair follicle transfer hole 216a formed in the separating member 216 are continuously replaced. In the illustrated state, after the hair follicles 20 are discharged from the alignment hole 231b disposed on the left side to the input unit 211, the alignment hole 231b becomes empty. At this time, when the rotation member 230 is rotated 90 degrees clockwise by the operation member 240, the empty alignment hole 231b moves to the position of the upper alignment hole 231a. At this time, the new hair follicle 20 that has passed through the hair follicle transfer hole 216a of the separating member 216 by moving along the hair follicle transfer path 218 may be introduced into the empty upper alignment hole 231a. Thereafter, the hair follicle 20 is moved clockwise by the sequential rotation of the rotating member 230, and the hair follicle 20 moved to the position of the alignment hole 231b on the left may be discharged to the input unit 211. .

The configuration of the hair follicle implantation device 200 has been described above, and hereinafter, an exemplary structure of a hair implant structure capable of implanting the hair follicle 20 using the hair follicle implantation device 200 described above will be described in detail.

Referring to FIG. 3, the hair implant structure 100 includes a receiving member 110 into which a hair follicle is inserted through an inlet 111 that is opened upward, and is fixed to the outer surface of the receiving member 110 and inserted into the skin. It includes a seating member 120 having a protrusion 122 for fixing the position at the time.

The receiving member 110 is formed such that one end and the other end of the inlet 111 are adjacent to each other, and when an external force is applied, the one end and the other end adjacent to each other are spaced apart from each other to be formed of an elastic material so that the hair follicle can be inserted and separated. I can. The receiving member 110 may include a junction 112 in which the inlet 111 is disposed adjacent to each other in a state in which there is no external force, and an extension 113 in which the inlet 111 is spaced apart from each other. Each of the bonding portions 112 and the extension portions 113 are alternately disposed to form a sidewall of the receiving member 110, and each of the bonding portions 112 and the extension portions 113 may be disposed opposite to each other. The entire hair implant structure 100 may be formed of the same elastic material, or only the receiving member 110 may be formed of an elastic material, and the seating member 120 may be formed of another hard material. In particular, when there is no external force, the receiving member 110 can maintain a state where one end and the other end are adjacent to each other so that the inlet 111 is narrowed, and the inlet 111 is expanded by an external force applied from the inside of the inlet 111 to the outside. It can be formed to be. The receiving member 110 may be formed of a silicone polymer having an elastic material, an elastic polymer, or other synthetic resin having elasticity that does not cause inflammation in the human body.

The protrusions 122 are disposed at one end and the other end adjacent to each other of the inlet 111, and are spaced apart from the outer surface of the receiving member 110 so as to protrude outward when one end and the other end of the inlet 111 are adjacent to each other, When one end and the other end of the inlet 111 are spaced apart from each other, the outer surface of the receiving member 110 may be in contact. When there is no external force, the bonding portion 112 of the receiving member 110 may maintain a state spaced apart from the inner surface of the seating member 120. Meanwhile, irrespective of whether an external force is applied, the expansion portion 113 of the receiving member 110 and the inner surface of the seating member 120 may always be fixed to each other. When the input port 110 is expanded by applying an external force, the joint 112 of the receiving member 110 and the inner surface of the seating member 120 may come into contact with each other.

The receiving member 110 has a cylindrical shape when one end and the other end adjacent to each other of the inlet 111 are spaced apart from each other, and the seating member 120 is fixed to the receiving member 110 so as to surround the lower outer circumferential surface of the receiving member 110 , When one end and the other end of the inlet 111 are adjacent to each other, the protrusion 122 protruding upward among the upper corners may be spaced apart from the outer circumferential surface of the receiving member 110.

The receiving member 110 is formed integrally with the seating member 120, has a bottom surface 123 that blocks the inner space into which the hair follicle is inserted from the skin, and the inlet 111 of the receiving member 110 when the skin is inserted May be exposed to the outside of the skin.

As described above, the overall shape and connection relationship of the exemplary hair implant structure 100 has been described. Hereinafter, the hair follicle and hair are transplanted to the hair implant structure 100 implanted on the scalp through the hair follicle implantation device 200. Explain the process in detail.

4 to 6, after fixing the scalp of the hair implant structure 100, the inlet 111 may be expanded as shown in FIG. 4 by using the hair follicle implantation device 200. Referring back to FIG. 1, the narrow inlet 111 is expanded by using the tip 213 formed in the inlet 211 of the hair follicle implantation apparatus 200, and the casing 210 on the inlet 211 side is inserted inward. It may be inserted into the hair implant structure 100. In the absence of a separate external force, the receiving member 110 may maintain a narrowed state of the inlet 111 due to the self-elasticity of the hair implant structure 100 and pressure by the surrounding skin. When the insertion port 111 is expanded to the hair follicle transplant device 200 for hair follicle transplantation, the surrounding skin is deformed within a certain range without damage, thereby securing a space in which the hair follicle can be injected.

After expanding the inlet 111 using the hair follicle implantation device 200, the hair follicle 20 and the hair 30 can be inserted into the inner space of the receiving member 110 of the hair implant structure 100 as shown in FIG. 5. have. When a current is applied to the coil member 220 in a corresponding direction, a magnetic field is applied to the hair follicle 20 that was waiting in the alignment hole 231 of the rotating member 230 and passes through the inlet 211 to pass through the hair implant structure ( 100) Can move inward. As shown in FIG. 6, when the hair follicle 20 is inserted so that it contacts the bottom surface 123 and then the hair follicle implantation apparatus 200 is recovered, the receiving member 110 is restored to the narrowed state of the inlet 110, so that the hair follicle ( 20) may be maintained in a fixed state inside the receiving member 110.

After transplantation of the hair follicles 20 and the hair 30 to the hair implant structure 100, if hair replacement is required for reasons such as cutting or damage of the hair 30, style change, etc., using the hair follicle implantation device 200 Hair can be replaced simply by removing the previously transplanted hair follicles and hairs through magnetic force, and then inserting the new hair follicles and hairs to be replaced.

As described above, by using the hair follicle transplant device 200 for hair follicle and hair transplantation, the hair follicle can be transplanted to the scalp or implant structure only by changing the current direction, or can be separated from it, enabling an easy procedure and significantly reducing the time required. It can be shortened. In addition, the hair follicles can be inserted one by one without overlapping by the alignment holes 231 formed in the rotating member 230, so that elaborate implantation is possible, and a plurality of hair follicles 20 are sequentially moved along the hair follicle transfer path 218 By being introduced through the rotating member 230, it is possible to ensure continuity of the procedure and minimize the preparation time between transplantation of individual hair follicles.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, the present invention is not necessarily limited to these embodiments, and various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention. . Accordingly, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the technical idea of the present invention, but to explain the technical idea, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described above are illustrative and non-limiting in all respects. The scope of protection of the present invention should be interpreted by the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope equivalent thereto should be construed as being included in the scope of the present invention.

210: casing
220: coil member
230: rotating member
240: operation member
200: hair follicle implantation device
10: scalp
20: hair follicle
30: hair

Claims (3)

A casing in which an end portion of the hair is fixed and a hair follicle capable of transmitting magnetic force is accommodated therein, and an input portion connected to the waiting portion and disposed on the scalp side into which the hair follicle is inserted; And
It includes a coil member disposed in the casing so as to surround the input portion,
Hair follicle transplant, characterized in that the hair follicles accommodated in the standby unit are inserted into the scalp through the insertion unit according to the direction of the current applied to the coil member, or the hair follicles inserted into the scalp are separated into the standby unit through the injection unit. Device.
The method of claim 1,
The input portion of the casing is connected to an outer side spaced apart from the center of the adjacent cross section of the waiting portion,
A disk-shaped rotating member connected to a rotation shaft protruding inwardly from the center of the adjacent cross-section so as to be rotatable inside the cylindrical standby portion and disposed on the adjacent end face of the standby portion to be adjacent to the inlet portion is inside the casing Is provided in,
The rotating member is disposed at a plurality of positions spaced from the center of rotation in a radial direction, the hair follicle is inserted, and has a plurality of alignment holes that are sequentially opened through the insertion portion when rotating,
The hair follicle transplantation apparatus, characterized in that one by one, as the hair follicles moved from the waiting part and inserted into the alignment hole are sequentially overlapped with the alignment hole and the injection part by rotation of the rotating member.
The method of claim 2,
The casing is provided with a separating member disposed adjacent to the rotating member and fixed to the end of the rotating shaft, separating the rotating member from the remaining space of the waiting part, but having a space between the inner wall of the waiting part and allowing the hair to pass through. It is provided inside,
The separating member includes an end of a spiral hair follicle transfer path formed along an inner wall of the waiting portion side of the casing and a hair follicle transfer hole connected so that the hair follicle is movable,
The hair follicle transplantation apparatus, characterized in that the alignment hole overlapped with the hair follicle delivery hole and the alignment hole overlapped with the input portion are different from each other.

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