RU2673630C1 - Shock-impulse device - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: medical equipment.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medical equipment. Device sets the mechanical effects on the human body, mainly in the spine, as well as on muscle tissue, and which contains a speed-controlled electric drive, on the shaft of which a crank mechanism is mounted. Frequency of effects in the apparatus self-adjusts to the frequencies of natural elastic oscillations of the connective-muscular tissues, and the amplitude of the effects is regulated in manual mode by changing the length of the arm of the crank mechanism. Self-adjusting of the frequency of effects by the device is realized by connecting the speed controller of the electric drive to an intelligent sensor that measures the frequency of natural elastic vibrations of soft tissues.

EFFECT: device allows to reproduce the mechanical effects on the spine and muscle tissue provided by an experienced specialist.

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Description

The present invention relates to reconstructive medicine and is aimed at reproducing mechanical effects on the spine, which carries out an experienced doctor chiropractor.

In manual therapy, electromechanisms are known that are used for mechanical effects on human tissue. The most common vibration massage devices. For example: Bersenev’s vibrating apparatus, Tonus massager, VMP-1 vibrating apparatus, Charodey vibro massager, Nozomi massager, Okulov vibrating apparatus and many other apparatuses that are both analogs and prototypes of the apparatus proposed.

All of these devices are deprived of the ability to determine the response of tissues to their effects. The absence of the specified function of the devices does not allow them to be configured for exposure similar to the effects of an experienced doctor.

The aim of the invention is to measure the response of human tissues to the effects of the apparatus. In turn, these measurements allow the device to reproduce the effects that an experienced doctor has.

The indicated goal in pulse-impulse devices is achieved by equipping them with smart sensors that record the amplitude and frequency of elastic vibrations of the ligamentous muscle tissues that arise as a result of such an action and the introduction of a regulator connected to the outputs of the sensors that controls the frequency of the effects.

The indicated goal is realized by the apparatus, the circuit of which is shown in Figure 1.

Impulse-shock apparatus contains:

- an electric motor 1 with a frequency regulator 2,

- on the motor shaft mounted crank mechanism (KShM) 3, with an adjustable shoulder 4,

- on the crank crank on the bearing 5 mounted rubber wheel 6,

- the engine housing on the human body is fixed by a vacuum holder 7,

- intelligent accelerometers 8 are mounted on the human body, which record the amplitude and frequency of elastic vibrations of the ligamentous muscle tissue,

- the sensors are connected to the inputs of the microprocessor 9, the output connected to the controller 2.

The device has the following modes:

- setting the amplitude of the shock,

- self-tuning of the frequency of shock pulses,

- static mode or pressure

The amplitude of the shock pulses is adjusted by adjusting the length of the arm of the KShM 4. The shoulder is adjusted based on information about the amplitude of the natural elastic vibrations from the sensor recorded as a result of a single impact by the device. In this case, the engine performs one rotation of the shaft and stops pressing on the spine. This effect causes elastic vibrations in the spine with a certain amplitude. This amplitude is compared with the amplitude caused by the exposure, conducted by an experienced specialist. If the amplitude of the oscillations caused by this action of the mechanism is less than the amplitude caused by the influence of a specialist, then the shoulder increases and the strength of the static effect increases. With this effect, the frequency of elastic natural vibrations of the tissues is also fixed. The primary value of the engine speed is set such that corresponds to the frequency of natural vibrations of human tissues.

During the operation of the mechanism, the patient relaxes the muscles, increases the elasticity of soft tissues. This leads to a decrease in tissue stiffness, and therefore to a decrease in the frequency of their own elastic vibrations. In order for the apparatus to perform shock effects with frequencies equal to its own, the engine speed controller is connected to an intelligent sensor in which the frequency of elastic vibrations is recorded. In the speed controller, the engine speed changes depending on the frequency of natural oscillations. The device constantly adapts to the frequency of elastic natural vibrations of tissues.

Thus, it is shown that the proposed apparatus implements manual adjustment of the amplitude of the master strokes and the adjustment of the strength of the static effect, and the frequency of the strokes adjusts to the natural frequencies of elastic vibrations of the soft tissues of a person.

Known elements in the proposed apparatus are:

- speed-adjustable electric drive

- crank mechanism.

The distinctive features of the proposed apparatus should include:

- an adjustable shoulder of a crank mechanism

- the introduction of intelligent sensors of parameters of elastic natural vibrations of soft tissues.

Due to the distinguishing features, in conjunction with the well-known, it is possible to determine the response of tissues to shock, self-tuning of the shock effects of the apparatus on the frequencies of natural vibrations is achieved. Thus, the apparatus reproduces effects on body areas similar to the effects of an experienced chiropractic doctor. Additionally, the apparatus implements the objective duration of the procedure, which ends with a sufficiently reduced natural frequency of elastic vibrations.

As a result of a search by sources of patent and scientific and technical information, the totality of features characterizing the proposed device was not found. Thus, the present invention meets the eligibility criterion of "new." Based on a comparative analysis of the proposed technical solution with the well-known, it can be argued that between the totality of the signs and the functions performed by them and the goals achieved, there is an unevident cause-effect relationship. The technical solution in the proposed simulator does not follow explicitly from the prior art and, therefore, meets the eligibility criterion of "inventive step.

Claims (1)

A shock-pulse apparatus containing a speed-adjustable electric drive, on the shaft of which a crank mechanism is installed, characterized in that the shoulder length of the crank mechanism is adjustable, the drive speed regulator is connected to an output of an additional smart sensor for elastic elastic vibrations of soft tissues the human body, while the smart sensor is configured to be mounted on the human body, the length of the crank arm being changed so that the amplitude of the natural elastic vibrations of the tissues caused by the action of the apparatus is similar to the amplitude of the natural vibrations of the tissues, which are a reaction to the effect of chiropractor.

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