KR20170010622A

KR20170010622A - Functional clothing

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Publication number: KR20170010622A
Application number: KR1020150102498A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 김영선
Original assignee: 김영선
Priority date: 2015-07-20
Filing date: 2015-07-20
Publication date: 2017-02-01

Abstract

The present invention relates to a functional garment, and more particularly, to a functional garment having a conductive electrode inside a garment contacting with a body,
The obesity type and the obesity degree are calculated based on the user information and the obesity index inputted from the communication terminal having the user interface and the stretch sensor installed at the waist portion and the hip portion of the clothes,
The present invention relates to a functional garment capable of effectively managing health by differentiating a low-frequency pulse electric stimulation site according to an obesity type and a low-frequency pulse electric stimulation intensity according to an obesity index based on an obesity index.

Description

Functional clothing

The present invention relates to a functional garment, and more particularly, to a functional garment comprising a conductive electrode provided in a garment to be worn by a person in daily life, and a functional garment for measuring a living body signal or giving an electric stimulus through the conductive electrode to effectively decompose body fat or treat a pain This is a technical proposal.

In particular, by applying the above-described technology to a garment such as a body-shaped undergarment, it can be a technique for a functional garment that can more effectively and substantially correct a body shape.

Obesity is related to the occurrence of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular disease and the like. Treatment of obesity can also reduce the above diseases.

In general, visceral obesity is more related to the disease. However, visceral fat is not removed well by exercise.

It is known that low frequency electric stimulation is applied after long - term treatment for the reduction of fat in very small parts such as visceral fat.

The low frequency is heat generated, and the triglyceride is decomposed into glycerol and free fatty acid and is removed through the microcirculation. It excites the sympathetic nerve which is closely related to the lipolysis to cause an endocrine reaction to promote fat cell degradation, It is known that stimulation affects the potential difference at the cell membrane level, promoting metabolism and promoting lipolysis.

Studies have shown that stability and acupuncture stability associated with long-term electrical stimulation do not significantly change the mechanical and biological properties of acupuncture after treatment and have no effect on cytotoxicity.

The electrode of the low frequency electrode was connected to the tip of the needle inserted into the abdomen, and the first fat decomposition step was performed for 40 minutes at 25 Hz, the second elasticity maintenance step was performed for 10 minutes at 50 Hz, and the third fat excretion step was performed for 10 minutes at 166 Hzfh for 10 minutes The effect of reducing body weight, waist circumference, waist / hip ratio, body mass index, and body fat mass was reduced without herbal medicine treatment, aggressive diet or exercise therapy.

However, in cases where the obesity is not high enough to require treatment, it is difficult to go to a hospital and receive acupuncture. As a result, obesity and normal people are more effectively and conveniently exercised, such as daily walking, A system that can manage the system is required.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for measuring a bio-information from a body of a patient, which is not a hospital, and providing functional clothing capable of managing health by applying electrical stimulation to the body based on measured bio- .

In order to measure accurate biometric information from a moving body, it is the conductive electrode that attaches to the body, which is important in connecting the measuring instrument to the body. If contact is unstable, accurate biometric information can not be measured.

In addition, a lot of body-type undergarments for body-shape correction are made, but it is hard to remove the body fat of the body fundamentally, and it is hard to have a fundamental body-type correction effect.

In the case of the present invention, a limited low-frequency pulse electric stimulation channel of a healthcare device uses a method of polarizing one channel because it is difficult to effectively stimulate a desired part of the body.

A conductive electrode in the form of a protrusion instead of an electric needle is formed to form a conductive electrode on a wide area of the body and to form a branch channel for each part connected to the conductive electrode, By assigning the channel to a limited channel, it is possible to intensively give electric stimulation to a desired site or measure biometric information.

The conductive electrode in the form of a protrusion is formed inside the highly elastic garment, and the protrusion portion is brought into close contact with the body, so that the biometric information can be accurately measured and electric stimulation can be provided even in a moving state.

In addition, it is connected to a communication terminal having a user interface through a device interface of the healthcare device, so that a user can easily select a desired site through a communication terminal to give low frequency pulse electrical stimulation, or various sensor information and obesity index based on an obesity index It is possible to determine the type of obesity through automatic determination of the position of the low-frequency pulse electrical stimulation or inform the user of the information, thereby effectively eliminating the pain at the desired site or achieving the body fat decomposition effect.

The functional garment of the present invention is characterized not only by the body correction effect but also by the elasticity of the clothes and the conductive electrodes formed in the garment by decomposing the body fat of a desired body part or by automatically selecting low frequency pulses It is a functional apparel that can manage health in everyday life.

Fig. The overall system configuration of the functional garment of the present invention
Fig. An exemplary distribution of conductive electrodes for electrical stimulation and bio-information measurement of the functional garment of the present invention
3. An exemplary method of polarizing a conductive electrode channel of a functional garment of the present invention
FIG. An example of a low frequency stimulation channel assignment according to the obesity type of the functional garment of the present invention
Figure 5. An example of a body fat measurement channel allocation according to the obesity type of the functional garment of the present invention
6. Examples of measurement of waist and hip circumference using the stretch sensor of the functional garment of the present invention

Fig. Fig. 2 is a diagram showing the overall system configuration of the functional garment of the present invention.

The functional garment of the present invention is equipped with a conductive electrode for electric stimulation and measurement of a living body signal in the inside part contacting with the body, and for correcting body shape using a high resilience material.

The conductive electrodes are formed and connected to the inside of the functional clothes 150 and the connectors 153 provided in the functional clothes 150.

The healthcare device 100 includes a body fat measurement unit 120 for measuring the body fat by a control operation of the control calculation processing unit 101 and a low frequency generation unit 103 for generating a low frequency pulse electric stimulation signal, A WHR measuring section 106 for measuring the waist and hip circumference ratios from the stretch sensor 151 at the waist portion of the functional garment 150 and the stretch sensor 152 at the hip portion, And a device interface 112 for transmitting and receiving user information to and from the communication terminal 131 having the communication interface 132.

The body fat measurement unit 120 includes an AC oscillation unit 121 for generating a sine wave signal from a square wave from the control calculation processing unit 101, a voltage-current converter 122 as a floating current source circuit, A voltage detection unit 123 for converting the DC measurement data into digital data, and an A / D converter 124 for converting the DC measurement data into digital data.

The low frequency pulse generating unit 103 may have a random number generating unit 104 for irregular frequency modulation. If the body is stimulated at the same frequency, it will not respond to the low-frequency electric stimulation after a certain time due to the learning effect. To prevent this, the random number generator 104 modulates the frequency or randomly changes the position of the electric stimulation .

The conductive electrode selection switching circuit 107 is controlled under the control of the control calculation processing unit 101 to apply a low frequency pulse to the conductive electrode attached to the functional clothes 150 or to measure the body fat amount by measuring the voltage by flowing a body fat measurement current .

FIG. 2 is a view showing the distribution of conductive electrodes for measuring electrical stimulation and biometric information of the functional clothes of the present invention.

Obesity type can be divided into upper body obesity type (a), lower body obesity type (b), and mixed type obesity type (d).

In the case of the upper body obesity type (a), it can be classified into the upper convex type (a1), the lower convex type (a2), and the Nansan type (a3).

The upper body obesity type (a) is a case where the accumulation amount of fat in the upper body such as the back and abdomen is large. As fat accumulates near the internal organs, the rate of adult disease is higher than that of lower body obesity (b).

Lower body obesity type (b) is a case where a lot of fat is accumulated on the lower body such as the buttocks, thighs, and the like. Most of the women belong to this form.

Lower body obesity (b) is also expressed as obesity, obesity, and obesity.

Mixed obesity (d) is an obesity that increases both the size and number of fat cells. In this case, it is a very dangerous state because it is highly obese. Since childhood, the body weight is abnormally high, and as adults become less active and increased nutrition, obesity becomes worse.

According to the obesity type as described above, a low-frequency pulse electric stimulus can be applied to the body part conductive electrode at the corresponding position.

3 is a diagram illustrating a method of polarizing a conductive electrode channel of a functional garment according to the present invention.

In order to give a low-frequency pulse, a positive electrode and a pair of electrodes are required. When this is defined as one channel, a normal low-frequency stimulator provides at least one channel to two channels, and a professional channel has many channels .

With the limited low-frequency pulse electrode channel of the healthcare device 100, the conductive electrodes 301 and 302 can be polarized to a plurality of electrodes in order to apply low-frequency stimulation to each part of the body as desired or to measure biometric information.

FIG. 2 (b2) shows an example in which one channel conductive electrode of FIG. 2 (a) is polarized to four electrodes. A conductive wire 306 is formed on the insulating member 310 on the inner surface 311 of the functional clothes 150 and an insulating member 310 is formed on the conductive wire 301 except for the portion where the conductive wire 301 and the conductive wire 301 are connected.

FIG. 2 (c2) shows an example in which the electrodes are polarized by a plurality of electrodes. The conductive electrodes 301 and 301 protrude in the form of protrusions so that the protruding portions are closely contacted with the body by the functional garment 150 of elastic material so that the biometric information measurement and the electric stimulation can be efficiently performed, The conductive electrodes 301 and 301 may be distributed to a plurality of body regions on the inner surface 311 and selectively connected to the healthcare device 100 through the connector 108 to perform biometric measurement or electrical stimulation.

4 is a diagram illustrating an example of assigning a low frequency stimulation channel according to the obesity type of the functional garment of the present invention.

In the example of the present invention, three low frequency pulse stimulation channels are allocated according to obesity type.

FIG. 4 (a) is an example of allocating channels for body parts to mixed obesity type, (b) is an upper body obesity type, and (c) is an example of lower body obesity type.

FIG. 4 (d) is a diagram illustrating an example of channel assignment for the upper body obesity type b of FIG.

5 is a diagram illustrating an example of allocating a body fat measurement channel according to an obesity type of the functional garment of the present invention.

The connector 108 and the conductive electrode selection switching circuit 107 which are connection contacts of the conductive lines 303, 304 and 306 connected to the conductive electrodes 301 and 302 located at respective parts of the body are connected by the control calculation processing unit 101.

The conductive electrodes 301 and 302 can be used for low frequency pulse electrical stimulation by control as described above, and can be used as an electrode for body fat measurement.

6. Fig. 8 is an example of measurement of waist and hip circumference using the stretch sensor of the functional garment of the present invention. Fig.

Stretch sensors 151 and 152 are sensors that apply a change in resistance due to deformation of an object.

Resistance R = resistivity q * of the material (width of the object L / width of the object A). The waist circumference and the hip circumference can be obtained by obtaining dL and dA from the change value of R according to the deformation of the object.

Waist / hip circumference ratio WHR = 0.7 ~ 0.8, and the upper body obesity type (Figure 4, (b)). WHR = 0.9 ~ 1.0 is apple-shaped and lower body obesity (Figure 4, (c)).

This waist / hip circumference ratio (WHR) can determine the position of the low-frequency pulse electrical stimulus. Indicators for various disease risks can also be calculated from WHR.

The body mass index (BMI = body weight / height * height kg / m) is calculated from the weight information and the key information, which are user information inputted through the communication terminal 131 having the user interface 132 of FIG. 1, The intensity of the low-frequency pulse electric stimulation can be adjusted according to the obesity degree.

In addition, the user's information key can be used to calculate the obesity degree by the calculation method of the standard body, and the electric strength of the low frequency pulse electrical stimulation can be adjusted according to the non-obesity degree.

100: Health care device
130: User communication terminal
150: Functional Clothes
120: Body fat measurement unit
310, 602: Insulation member
301, 302: conductive electrode
311,601: General fibers
151, 152, 603: Stretch sensor

Claims

A functional garment having a conductive electrode for electrical stimulation and bio-signal measurement in the inner part contacting the body;
A communication terminal having a user interface;
A healthcare device having a device interface for transmitting and receiving user information and control information from a communication terminal, and a low frequency pulse generator for varying a low frequency current position and a low frequency current intensity according to an obesity type and an obesity index according to an obesity index;

Characterized in that the functional clothing and the healthcare device are connected to a connector to measure bio-information and provide a low-frequency pulse electrical stimulation to a specific body part.

The method according to claim 1,

A functional garment characterized by branching a conductive electrode of one channel composed of a pair of a positive electrode and a negative electrode to a projection type electrode to facilitate measurement of a living body signal and electric stimulation on a wide body part.

The method according to claim 2,

Characterized in that the protruding conductive electrode is made of conductive silicone.

The method according to claim 2,

Wherein the protruding conductive electrode is a metallic electrode made of aluminum, gold, silver plating or an alloy.

The method according to claim 1,

A stretch sensor was attached to the waist and hips of the functional garment to determine the type of obesity based on the waist circumference and the hip circumference ratio,
A functional garment characterized by providing low frequency pulsed electrical stimulation to the body part according to obesity type.

The method according to claim 1,

A functional garment characterized by attaching a stretch sensor to a waist portion of a functional garment and utilizing an obesity index based on a waist circumference to determine whether or not the obesity is a service obligation, thereby providing a low frequency pulse electric stimulation intensively to the abdominal region.

The method according to claim 1,

Wherein the body weight index is calculated from the user's body weight and key information input from the communication terminal through the user interface and the intensity of the low frequency pulse electric stimulation is varied according to the obesity index according to the BMI index.

The method according to claim 1,

Wherein the standard weight is calculated from the gender and the key information of the user input from the communication terminal through the user interface and the intensity of the low frequency pulse electrical stimulation is varied according to the obesity index according to the standard weight indicator.

The method according to claim 1,

Wherein the healthcare device further includes a body fat measurement unit for measuring a partial body fat amount of each part of the body to calculate an obesity type from the fat mass distribution and concentrating the low frequency pulse electric stimulation on the body part.

The method according to claim 1,

A functional garment having a shape correcting effect by the elasticity of the silicone rubber while the high elastic silicone rubber is used as an insulating member and the conductive wire between the conductive electrode and the connector is treated with an insulating member.

12. The method of claim 10,

Wherein the conductor between the conductive electrode and the connector is comprised of a highly conductive fiber.

12. The method of claim 10,

Wherein the conductor between the conductive electrode and the connector is comprised of a highly conductive silicone material.