KR20120059171A

KR20120059171A - Acupuncture needle pipe having the function detecting the blood bessel

Info

Publication number: KR20120059171A
Application number: KR1020100120814A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 반천식
Original assignee: 인텔릭스(주)
Priority date: 2010-11-30
Filing date: 2010-11-30
Publication date: 2012-06-08

Abstract

PURPOSE: An acupuncture needle pipe is provided to enable a user to apply acupuncture to a patient by avoiding blood vessel. CONSTITUTION: An acupuncture needle pipe comprises a case(10), a focusing lens(20), a ultrasonic sensor part(30), a controller(40), an alarm generation part(50) and a power supply part(60). A guide hole is formed inside the case in the longitudinal direction. The focusing lens is formed in one side end of the case, communicates with the guide hole, and forms curved surface on the center thereof. The ultrasonic sensor part generates ultrasonic wave and detects reflected wave. The controller determines existence of blood vessel by using the property of the reflected wave. The alarm generation part generates an alarm sound when detecting blood vessel.

Description

Acupuncture having subcutaneous blood vessel detection function {ACUPUNCTURE NEEDLE PIPE HAVING THE FUNCTION DETECTING THE BLOOD BESSEL}

The present invention relates to an acupuncture having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function, and more particularly, to an acupuncture tube having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function capable of subcutaneous blood vessel detection so as to avoid a subcutaneous blood vessel during acupuncture.

As is well known, acupuncture is intended to exert a therapeutic effect by controlling the yin and yang of the human body in oriental science, and it is known that a practitioner inserts acupuncture points into the acupuncture points of the human body to control the groups related to yin and yang of the human body.

As shown in Figure 6, the needle is composed of a needle to sharpen the tip of the needle bar made of thin and long steel to have a sharp portion, and to hold by hand at the rear end, during needle acupuncture by inserting the needle into the needle tube The sharp edges of the skin through the blood clots to stimulate.

The acupuncture tube is used as an auxiliary device when the needle is released, and it is possible to more accurately set the position of the acupuncture points on which the needle is to be placed, and to prevent erroneous tacking by hand shaking.

On the other hand, as the treatment with acupuncture needles, such as resin needles are becoming more and more popular, the general public is also easily seeing the health promoting effect through self-tacking.

However, when the subcutaneous blood vessels are punctured by the sharp tip of the needles during acupuncture, pain and severe bruising occur.

In the case of subcutaneous blood vessels, it is difficult to recognize the subcutaneous blood vessels according to the constitution of a person, as well as the general public, so it is difficult to avoid them by tackling them.

An object of the present invention for solving the above problems is to provide a subcutaneous vessel having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function to avoid the subcutaneous vessels during acupuncture.

Acupuncture tube having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function of the present invention for achieving the above object, the guide hole is formed along the longitudinal direction in the interior so that the needle can be tacked; A focusing lens which is formed at one end of the case so as to contact the skin of the needle, and communicates with the guide hole and has a concave center portion; An ultrasonic sensor unit installed in the case adjacent to the focusing lens to generate ultrasonic waves so that the ultrasonic waves concentrated through the focusing lens are transmitted into the skin of the hour hand, and also detect the reflected waves reflected back; A control unit installed at one side of the ultrasonic sensor unit inside the case and determining whether there is a subcutaneous blood vessel below the hour hand point through characteristics of the reflected wave detected by the ultrasonic sensor unit; And an alarm sound generation unit formed at an end portion of the case opposite to the focusing lens and configured to generate an alarm sound when the subcutaneous blood vessel is detected at the hour hand position by the control unit.

Here, the ultrasonic sensor unit is composed of at least two piezoelectric elements, it is preferable that the piezoelectric elements are disposed at an angle along the periphery of the guide hole.

In addition, the ultrasonic sensor unit may be formed of a single piezoelectric element of a donut shape to be disposed concentrically with the guide through hole.

The apparatus may further include a power supply unit for supplying power to the ultrasonic sensor unit, the controller, and the alarm sound generator.

In addition, the power supply unit may be integrally formed inside the case using a battery power source.

In addition, the power supply unit may be formed independently from the case to supply power through a power supply line.

According to the acupuncture having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function of the present invention, the presence or absence of subcutaneous blood vessels is determined through the characteristics of the reflected wave after scanning the ultrasonic wave generated from the ultrasonic sensor unit at the selected needle point for tacking When the subcutaneous blood vessels are detected at the point, the alarm sound is generated through the alarm sound generator to avoid the subcutaneous blood vessels, thereby making the acupuncture more stable.

1 is a perspective view showing an acupuncture having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a side cross-sectional view of the acupuncture tube having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function taken along the line II-II of FIG. 1.
3 is a plan view illustrating the ultrasonic generator of the acupuncture tube taken along line III-III of FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 is a plan view showing a modification of the ultrasonic generator of the acupuncture tube shown in FIG. 3.
Figure 5 is a partial side cross-sectional view showing an operating state of the acupuncture having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and the same or similar components are denoted by the same reference numerals throughout the specification.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating an acupuncture tube having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a side cross-sectional view of the acupuncture tube having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function taken along the line II-II of FIG. 1.

1 and 2, the acupuncture tube 1 having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function according to the present embodiment includes a case 10, a focusing lens 20, an ultrasonic sensor unit 30, a controller 40, and an alarm sound. It is configured to include a generator 50 and a power supply (60).

The case 10 is formed in a cylindrical shape having a guide through-hole 15 along the longitudinal direction in the interior so that the hour hand can be made by inserting the needle 100 and has an interior accommodation space.

The focusing lens 20 is formed at one end of the case 10 to be in contact with the skin 200 (see FIG. 5) of the hour hand, and communicates with the guide hole 15 and is formed to form a concave curved surface.

The ultrasonic sensor unit 30 is installed inside the case 10 adjacent to the focusing lens 20 to generate ultrasonic waves so that the ultrasonic waves concentrated through the focusing lens 20 are transmitted into the skin of the hour hand. In addition, it is to detect the reflected wave reflected back.

FIG. 3 is a plan view illustrating the ultrasonic generator of the acupuncture tube taken along line III-III of FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is a plan view illustrating a modified example of the ultrasonic generator of the acupuncture tube shown in FIG. 3.

Referring to FIG. 3, the ultrasonic sensor unit 30 of the present embodiment includes four piezoelectric elements 31, and each piezoelectric element 31 is conformal along the guide aperture 15. Illustrates to be arranged adjacent to each other to form a.

However, the present invention is not necessarily limited thereto, and as illustrated in FIG. 4, the ultrasonic sensor unit 30 may increase the reception rate of the reflected wave reflected from the portion where the subcutaneous blood vessel 210 is located after the ultrasonic wave is generated. It may be made of a single piezoelectric element 31 of the donut shape to be arranged concentric with the guide through-hole 15 so as to be disposed.

Referring back to FIGS. 1 and 2, the controller 40 is installed on one side of the upper side of the ultrasonic sensor unit 30 inside the case 10, and the reflected wave detected by the ultrasonic sensor unit 30. The circuit is configured on the PCB 41 (PCB) substrate to determine the presence or absence of the subcutaneous blood vessel 210 under the hour hand point through the characteristic of.

On the other hand, the control unit 40 sets the response band of the reflected wave according to the presence of the subcutaneous blood vessel in advance, and determines the presence or absence of the subcutaneous blood vessel 210 according to the measured sensitivity of the reflected wave.

The alarm sound generating unit 50 detects the subcutaneous blood vessel 210 at the hour hand position by the control unit 40 through the speaker 51 formed at the upper end of the focusing lens 20 opposite the case 10. Make an alarm sound.

In addition, the power supply unit 60 is configured to supply power required for operation to the ultrasonic sensor unit 30, the control unit 40, and the alarm sound generating unit 50.

In this embodiment, the power supply unit 60 is integrally formed in the case to use the power of the battery 61 accommodated in one side of the control unit 40 of the case 10.

However, the present invention is not necessarily limited thereto, and it is obvious that the power supply unit 60 may be formed separately from the case 10 to supply power through a power supply line (not shown).

Figure 5 is a partial side cross-sectional view showing an operating state of the acupuncture having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, the acupuncture tube 1 having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function according to the present exemplary embodiment may be configured by intensively scanning ultrasonic waves generated from the ultrasonic sensor unit 30 through a focusing lens 20 at a needle point selected for tacking. The presence or absence of the subcutaneous blood vessel 210 is determined by the characteristics of the reflected wave after the reflection, and when the subcutaneous blood vessel 210 is detected, an alarm sounds through the speaker 15 of the alarm sound generator 50 to open the subcutaneous blood vessel 21. Avoid it and make the hour hand more stable.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications or changes can be made within the scope of the claims and the detailed description of the invention and the accompanying drawings. In addition, it is natural that it belongs to the scope of the present invention.

1: acupuncture 10: case
15: guide aperture 20: focusing lens
30: ultrasonic sensor unit 31: piezoelectric element
40: control unit 41: PCB
50: alarm sound generating unit 51: speaker
60: power supply 61: battery
100: saliva 200: skin
210: subcutaneous blood vessels

Claims

A case having a cylindrical shape in which a guide hole is formed along the length direction so that the needle can be tacked;
A focusing lens which is formed at one end of the case so as to contact the skin of the hour hand, and communicates with the guide through hole and has a concave shape in the center;
An ultrasonic sensor unit installed in the case adjacent to the focusing lens to generate ultrasonic waves so that the ultrasonic waves concentrated through the focusing lens are transmitted into the skin of the hour hand, and also detect the reflected wave reflected back;
A control unit installed at one side of the ultrasonic sensor unit in the case and determining whether there is a subcutaneous blood vessel under the hour hand point through characteristics of the reflected wave detected by the ultrasonic sensor unit; And
And an alarm sound generation unit formed at an end of the case opposite to the focusing lens and configured to generate an alarm sound when the subcutaneous blood vessel is detected at the hour hand position by the control unit.

In claim 1,
The ultrasonic sensor unit,
Consists of at least two piezoelectric elements,
And the piezoelectric elements have subcutaneous blood vessel detection that is conformally disposed along the guide aperture.

In claim 1,
The ultrasonic sensor unit,
A subcutaneous vessel having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function consisting of a single piezoelectric element in the form of a donut to be arranged concentrically with the guide aperture.

In claim 1,
Acupuncture having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function further comprises a power supply for supplying power to the ultrasonic sensor unit, the control unit and the alarm sound generator.

5. The method of claim 4,
The power supply unit has a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function integrally formed inside the case using a battery power source.

5. The method of claim 4,
The power supply part is acupuncture having a subcutaneous blood vessel detection function is formed independently from the case to supply power through a power supply line.