WO2001049366A1

WO2001049366A1 - Electronic acupuncture device and method of generating stimulus signal emulating acupuncture

Info

Publication number: WO2001049366A1
Application number: PCT/CN2000/000002
Authority: WO
Inventors: Wenxue Hong
Original assignee: Harbin Kangway Electronic Acupuncture Medical Supplies Co. Ltd.
Priority date: 2000-01-05
Filing date: 2000-01-05
Publication date: 2001-07-12
Also published as: AU1961900A

Abstract

Electronic acupuncture device, comprising input means, central processing unit (CPU), amplifying and driving means, booster circuit, output means and display means. Stimulus signal emulating the Chinese acupuncture is generated in the form of FM and AM according to the corresponding between acupuncture and polarity of the signal.

Description

Intelligent Shen, acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic instrument and electric acupuncture method generating method imitating traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture technique

The invention relates to a medical instrument developed by combining modern engineering technology and traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture theory with acupuncture techniques extracted from thousands of years of traditional Chinese medicine clinical practice, and a method for generating electrical stimulation signals corresponding thereto. In particular, computer-based therapies and electrical stimulation signal generation methods using fuzzy theory and artificial intelligence methods.

Background technique

At present, domestic and foreign electroacupuncture (moxibustion) therapy instruments generally adopt the following forms and each of them has some shortcomings and deficiencies, for example, 1. Low-frequency pulse type: The occurrence of low-frequency pulses is achieved by simple electronic circuits. It can only output a simple, non-changing electrical pulse signal, which has the disadvantage of being easily adapted by the human body. 2. Acoustic and electrical signal type: Its signal is generated by using a music chip or receiving broadcast music signals and driving the transformer to obtain an output signal. Although this type of signal solves the problem of human fitness to some extent, there is no way to use pure random acoustic and electrical signals. To ensure the reproducibility of treatment, the disadvantage of using one acoustic and electrical signal to achieve good results for all diseases. 3. "Ya". Tablet model: It uses a customized single-chip computer to generate more complex regular output signals. Although it improves the degree of automation, there are no needles that will prove to be extremely effective and conform to the natural laws of human body adjustment. The stabbing technique is integrated.

At the same time, the problems with the output electrode of this type of treatment instrument are: 1. The general method of using ¾ needle is to pierce the needle into the skin and then connect the output electrode of the instrument. This method is generally only applicable to hospitals or specially trained personnel. It is impossible for non-professionals to adopt this method: 2. On the other hand, compared with traditional needles, an outstanding feature of electroacupuncture is that it has two electrodes in order to form a pathway and generate stimulation. The current electroacupuncture devices (including metal electrodes and non-metal electrodes) are separated. The separation of the electrodes makes it necessary to generate two stimuli at the same time when treating with an electroacupuncture device. A current flows between the two electrodes. For safety reasons, almost all electroacupuncture devices do not allow two electrodes to cross the heart area. Sometimes, in order to obtain a result similar to a milli-needle one-point stimulation, a larger electrode size is made to reduce the unit current density to obtain a weak stimulation intensity at the location of a large-area electrode. Nonetheless, the existence of current alone cannot distinguish between sensation through current and current stimulation after stimulation. In addition, the use of two electrodes makes it difficult to treat acupoints according to traditional experience.

The purpose of the invention

An object of the present invention is to provide an intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic instrument which imitates the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method. A single-chip computer or a personal computer constitutes a signal generator hardware platform (this platform can be an arbitrary waveform generator or a pulse signal generator); another object of the present invention is to provide a hardware platform using the hardware Method for generating electrical stimulation signal with amplitude or frequency and polarity corresponding to traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method; Another object of the present invention is to provide an electrical stimulation electrode suitable for use in the therapeutic apparatus.

Disclosure of invention

The present invention utilizes the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture technique to map the electrical signal parameters: it proposes to imitate the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture technique to generate the electric acupuncture technique, and applies the concept of fuzzy sets to describe the intensity of the electrical stimulation signal, and uses different intensity sub-sets The method of superimposing random quantities is used to solve the problem of electrical signals stimulating the human body. The technical solution of the present invention includes:

An intelligent electric acupuncture treatment instrument includes: an input device for inputting a user's control instruction; a storage device for storing a control program, an output program, empirical data corresponding to a traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method, and a free central Processing the intermediate results generated by its processing; a central processing unit (CPU) system that generates, according to the instructions input by the input device and the programs and data stored in the storage device, corresponding to the human sensory stimulation of the traditional acupuncture method Electrical stimulation signal; amplifying driving circuit for power amplifying the electrical stimulation signal output from the central processing unit and outputting it to the booster; booster for boosting the amplified electrical signal output from the amplifier driver to achieve The amplitude value of the signal required for the subject to perform the stimulation; the stimulus output device, which is the output device of the therapeutic device, applies the generated boosted electrical stimulation signal to the desired part of the subject: a display device, which Used to display the working status of the therapy device.

In addition, when the electrical stimulation signal generated by the central processing unit is a digital signal corresponding to the amplitude change, an analog-to-digital converter may be provided in the IW of the central processing unit and the amplifier driving circuit to convert the digital signal. Into an analog signal. The analog signal is a three-level sawtooth wave signal with a large peak value corresponding to the three parts of the sky, the human, and the earth in the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method. The sawtooth wave signal may be any one of bipolar or unipolar stepped ΪΗ sawtooth wave, stepped inverted sawtooth wave, stepped triangular wave, or a combination of waveforms in various sequences. In addition, a random signal is superimposed on the sawtooth wave signal as a regular signal to solve the human body's adaptability to electrical signals. Among them, the three maximum peak amplitudes of three kinds of sawtooth wave signals corresponding to the traditional Chinese medicine heaven, human and earth are in the range of 40-80V, 90-140V, 150-200V. The waveforms of the carrier waves that are referred to by the various types of angular waves, etc., as described in the meaning, that is, the AM carrier I should be '

In addition, when based on the FM principle, the FM signal output by the central processing unit is a stimulus signal (of three types) with a specific frequency corresponding to the three parts of the sky, the person, and the ground of the traditional Chinese medicine method. Different specific frequencies map different output intensities. The specific frequencies are 2HZ, 15HZ, 50HZ, 100HZ, 100HZc

A method for generating an electric stimulation signal mimicking traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, which generates an amplitude-modulated electric stimulation signal, and is used in an electric acupuncture treatment instrument. The electric acupuncture treatment instrument includes: an input device for inputting control instructions, including storage Device and central processing unit (CPU) for processing a central processing unit system for generating electrical stimulation signals, a digital-to-analog converter for converting digital signals into analog signals, and for amplifying the electrical stimulation signals output from the central processing unit A driving circuit for boosting the amplified electric signal to achieve a booster that satisfies the amplitude value of the signal required for the electrical stimulation of the subject, and an output device. The method includes the steps of controlling a program: starting, initializing the whole machine, judging which fuzzy language variable interval corresponding to the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method, automatically inputting the required modulation waveform parameters, and sending them to digital / analog conversion If there is no need to superimpose a random signal, directly send the waveform data to the D / A converter: Determine whether the small step width of the waveform meets the required width. If it is not wide enough, generate waveform data according to the waveform parameters and continue to widen. If it is wide enough, it is judged whether the number of small steps of the waveform meets the required number. If it is not enough, it continues to generate waveform data according to the set waveform parameters and sends it to the D / A converter. If the required number is satisfied, then The process of generating a waveform unit is completed. If the same signal needs to be continuously generated, the waveform parameters are updated, a new cycle is entered according to the above steps, and a sawtooth wave electrical stimulation signal is generated repeatedly. The sawtooth wave signal includes any of a variety of bipolar or unipolar step TH sawtooth waves, step inverted sawtooth waves, step triangle waves, etc., or a combination of waveforms in various sequences. In addition, it includes the following steps: After the modulation waveform parameters required by the Hi-motion input, determine whether a random signal needs to be superimposed, and if necessary, generate a random number and superimpose the regular waveform parameters to process the generated results to a digital-to-analog converter. If you don't need to play: ¾ Add random signal and directly send the waveform data to the D / A converter. In addition, when it is judged in the step of judging the small step width of the waveform that the small step width does not satisfy the required width, the result is directly fed back to the D / A converter.

In addition, in the above method, the intensity of the electrical stimulation signal generated is described by seven fuzzy linguistic variables corresponding to the seven intensity levels of the signal. In addition, the stepped inverted sawtooth wave corresponds to the traditional pressing method of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, and the stepped positive sawtooth wave corresponds to the traditional pressing method of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture; and the intensity of the electrical stimulation signal waveform corresponds to the traditional Chinese medicine The acupuncture method of inserting and inserting, the polarity of the electrical stimulation signal corresponds to the twisting method of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture.

A method for generating an electric stimulation signal that mimics traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture is used in an electric acupuncture therapy instrument. The electric acupuncture therapy instrument includes: an input device for inputting control instructions; including a storage device and a central processing unit (CPU) Central processor system for generating electrical stimulation signals; for converting digital signals into analog Digital-to-analog converter of pseudo-signal; Amplifying driving circuit for amplifying the electrical stimulation signal output by the central processing unit; Boosting the amplified electrical signal to achieve the amplitude value of the signal required for electrical stimulation of the subject A booster; and an output device; characterized in that the method includes control program steps: start, initialize the whole machine, automatically input waveform segmentation parameters, determine the need for processing based on the shape of the waveform, and add if necessary After that, it is necessary to determine whether the waveform amplitude has reached the maximum value. If it does not reach the maximum value, it will continue to be added next time; if subtraction is required, it is necessary to determine whether the waveform amplitude value has reached the minimum value after the subtraction operation. ; If it is necessary to keep the original value or reset the new value or return to the initial state, it will be processed according to the judgment result. If a random signal is superimposed according to the set waveform, a random number will be generated and superimposed. The result will be sent to the number / modular. Converter, if there is no need to superimpose random signals, directly send the waveform data to the digital-to-analog converter; Whether a waveform is completed. If it is completed, go to the step of automatically inputting waveform segmentation parameters and continue the conversion. If completed, the waveform construction process is completed. After updating the waveform parameters, restart a new wave construction process. , Sawtooth wave electrical stimulation signals are generated repeatedly.

An electrode applied to a medical electroacupuncture device, K includes: two or more electrodes electrically connected to two or more electrical output terminals of the electroacupuncture device S, which are structurally combined into one, The insulated electrodes are exposed on the outer surface of the integrated body, and the two or more electrode points or faces in the exposed part are at a distance of 0.1 mm to 30 mm from each other, and the electrodes are electrically insulated from each other through an insulating layer.

Brief description of the drawings

Figure 1 is the mapping relationship between the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture technique and the signal parameter I'nj based on the amplitude modulation principle: Figure 2 is the mapping relationship between the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture needle entry and exit operation domain and the electrical signal change domain.

Figure 3 is a mapping diagram between traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture techniques and electrical signal parameters based on the frequency modulation principle; Figure 4 is a schematic diagram of the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method of burning volcanoes;

FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method for clearing the sky;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the membership function of a fuzzy language variable disk of the amplitude of the electrical stimulation signal;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a waveform generator of an embodiment of the electric energy acupuncture treatment instrument based on the AM principle of the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 8 is a circuit diagram of a waveform generator part of the embodiment of the intelligent electric acupuncture therapy apparatus of the present invention; FIG. 9 is a circuit diagram of an output signal driving circuit of the intelligent electric acupuncture therapy apparatus of the embodiment of the present invention: FIG. Method flow chart of bipolar stepped inverted, positive sawtooth wave and combination wave of random signal, and stepped triangular wave with positive and negative polarity of superimposed random signal, inverted sawtooth wave;

Figure 11 is a bipolar stepped, forward sawtooth wave and its combined wave that generate no superimposed random signal, and A flowchart of a method for superimposing positive, negative stepped triangular waves, positive and reverse sawtooth waves of a random signal; FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a method of generating a triangular wave and a sawtooth wave directly output from a digital-to-analog converter; Method flow chart of continuously changing triangle wave and integral wave;

14 (1)-(24) are waveform diagrams of a part of electrical stimulation signals generated by a waveform generator portion of the intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic apparatus of the present invention;

15 (25)-(39) are waveform diagrams of another part of the electrical stimulation signal generated by the waveform generator part of the intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic apparatus of the present invention.

FIG. 16 is a schematic diagram of a waveform generator of an embodiment of the intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic apparatus based on the frequency modulation principle of the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 17 is a circuit diagram of a waveform generator pulse signal generator of the embodiment shown in FIG. 16; FIG. 18 is a flow chart of acupuncture control of an intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic instrument based on the frequency modulation principle;

FIG. 19 is a flowchart of the program execution of the intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion treatment instrument based on the frequency modulation principle;

Figure 20-a is a waveform diagram of the electroacupuncture method of the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method based on the frequency modulation system; Waveform diagram of the method; Figure 21 is an external view of an embodiment of the integrated electrode of the present invention;

22a-22o are schematic top views of contacts of different embodiments of the integrated electrode of the present invention.

The best way to implement the invention

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in conjunction with embodiments of the present invention.

In order to facilitate the understanding of the present invention, the correspondence between traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture and electrical stimulation is described before describing the embodiments.

1. Mapping relationship between Chinese classical acupuncture technique and electrical signal parameters

Traditional acupuncture single-type methods mainly include lifting, inserting, twisting, panning, rubbing, scraping, etc. Among them, lifting and twisting are the most commonly used. A combination of single techniques can be used to generate multiple acupuncture techniques. In order to emulate the engineering realization of classical Chinese acupuncture techniques, these techniques must be mapped from the acupuncture technique domain to the electrical signal parameter domain, and a one-to-one correspondence must be established. Figure 1 and Figure 2 show the mapping relationship between the two domains of the intelligent acupuncture therapy instrument based on the AM principle. As can be seen from the figure, the lift in the traditional needling method based on the amplitude modulation principle corresponds to the amplitude of the electrical signal, and the twist corresponds to the polarity of the electrical signal. Diseases (fast) and slow (slow) of traditional acupuncture in and out of the needle correspond to how fast the electrical signal changes.

Figure 3 shows the mapping relationship between the two domains of the intelligent acupuncture therapy instrument based on the frequency modulation principle. As can be seen from the figure, the insertion depth in the traditional needling method corresponds to the frequency of the electrical signal. 1. Electric acupuncture method generation method imitating traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method

In the following, the most typical Chinese classical acupuncture method is used to burn mountain fire and cool through the sky to introduce the corresponding electric acupuncture method. The production method of electroacupuncture in other classical Chinese acupuncture methods is the same. Figures 4 and 5 are explanatory diagrams of the acupuncture method for burning mountain fire and cooling through the sky.

It can be seen from Fig. 4 that in the method of firing the mountain and firing the needle, the place where the skin is penetrated is first divided into three parts: heaven, person, and earth according to the depth of the skin penetration. The human body presses slowly for nine times, and finally penetrates into the ground and presses slowly for nine times, repeating the operation.

It can be seen from Fig. 5 that the penetrating cold needle method first divides the punctured skin into the skin according to the depth of penetration into the sky, the human and the earth. Press the button slowly in the person's department six times, and then mention that the sky department presses slowly in the heavens six times, repeating the operation.

AM principle

Burning a mountain fire: General knowledge: The depth of penetration into the skin corresponds to the intensity. In the implementation of the amplitude modulation principle, the corresponding amplitude is used for interpolation, and the different amplitudes correspond to different depths. Therefore, the three parts of Heaven and Earth use three different amplitudes to correspond to them. The value waveform is nine consecutive times. The waveform constructed in this way achieves the purpose of simulating a mountain fire.

Through the sky: General knowledge can be seen: The depth of the skin peptides corresponds to the intensity. In the realization of the amplitude modulation principle, the corresponding amplitude value is used for interpolation, and the different amplitudes ffi correspond to the depth. Therefore, the three parts of Heaven and Earth use three different amplitudes to correspond to them. This amplitude waveform is six consecutive times. The wave shape of this structure realizes the quasi-cooling I I on the base.

FM principle

Burning a mountain fire: If the above method of burning a mountain fire is simplified, only the three lines of heaven and earth are considered, and different frequencies correspond to different intensities. Needle-like simulation of mountain burning can be realized in a frequency range.

Through the sky: If the above-mentioned through the sky needle method is simplified, only the three lines of heaven and earth are considered, and different frequencies correspond to different intensities. In a certain frequency range, it is possible to achieve a cool needle simulation.

2. Solving the problem of adaptability of electrical signal stimulation

We use the method of superimposing random signals on regular signals to solve the problem of adapting electrical signals to stimulate the human body. AM principle

Using the concept of fuzzy sets, the amplitude range is divided into seven sub-concept sets. Each concept represents a different intensity. In order to solve the problem of adaptability to electrical stimulation of the human body, a random signal that does not exceed a sub-concept range is superimposed on the AM wave. In this way, the output signal is regular overall, but each signal is random. of. Adopt This method solves the problem of adaptability to human stimulation in most electroacupunctures.

FM principle

The frequency domain is divided into three sub-concept sets, each of which represents a different stimulus intensity. In order to solve the human electrical stimulation adaptability problem, a random perturbation signal is superimposed on the sub-concept membership function equal to a frequency point corresponding data, and finally one is obtained. Pulse output signal with regular changes and no repetition.

The corresponding relationship between the traditional acupuncture method of traditional Chinese medicine and the electric stimulation signal described above is realized by the intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic apparatus of the present invention.

The embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The same reference numerals in the drawings identify the same or similar parts. The structure of an embodiment of the intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic apparatus of the present invention is shown in FIG. 7 and includes: an input device 1 for inputting a user's control instruction: a microcomputer system 2 including a storage device and a CPU, where A device for storing a control program, an output program, empirical data corresponding to a traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method, and intermediate results generated by processing by a central processing unit, the central processing unit being loaded according to the input. 1 the inputted instructions and stored in the storage device The programs and data described above generate an electrical stimulation signal corresponding to the human sensory stimulation of the traditional acupuncture method; an input-to-digital converter 4 for converting the digital signal into an analog signal; an amplification driving circuit 5, It is used to power amplify the electrical stimulation signal output from the microcomputer system 2 and output it to the booster 6; the booster 6 boosts the amplified electrical signal output from the amplifier driver 5 to meet the electrical stimulation of the human body The amplitude value of the required signal; the stimulus output device 7 which is the output electrical device of the therapeutic device and will generate the boosted electrical stimulation Number applied to the body site of the desired effect: a display device 3 for displaying the operating state of the treatment instrument, which is based on the principle of the AM mode of operation. The input device 2 can be a keyboard or other devices capable of inputting instructions. FIG. 8 is a circuit diagram of an embodiment based on an arbitrary waveform generator in the intelligent electro-acupuncture acupuncture treatment instrument shown in FIG. 7. FIG. 9 is a circuit diagram of an embodiment of the amplifier driver 5, which is a dual output amplifier circuit using the TDA2822M. Based on the hardware platform described above, its hardware working principle is: the data of the output electrical signals can be generated in real-time or non-real-time (the data can be calculated by the computer in real time or read from the RAM (ROM)), the data The signal is sent to the D / Λ converter 4 to become an analog electrical signal, which is then amplified by the power and sent to the step-up transformer 6, and finally the output electrical signal is sent to the stimulation electrode 7. It can be seen here that the waveform of the output electrical signal depends on the data, and different data can be obtained in different shapes, so this is an arbitrary waveform generator hardware platform (generator). Can also be used as a pulse signal generator

Among them, the analog signal is a three-level sawtooth wave signal whose maximum peak amplitude value corresponds to the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method of the heaven, the human, and the earth, and is divided into three amplitude values. The peak amplitude is 80V, 140V, 200Vo. The sawtooth wave signal is bipolar or unipolar, any of the stepped positive sawtooth wave, the stepped reverse sawtooth wave, the stepped triangular wave or any of them. Sequentially combined waveforms. And a random signal is superimposed on the regular sawtooth wave signal to solve the human body's adaptability to electrical signals.

The control procedure of the method for generating the electric stimulation signal of the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method in the above embodiment is shown in the figure.

As shown in FIG. 1, the method includes the following steps: Start, initialize the whole machine, determine which fuzzy language variable interval corresponding to the traditional Chinese medicine method, and automatically input the required modulation waveform parameters (waveform amplitude, stepped sawtooth wave). Step width, number of steps, etc.), sent to the digital-to-analog converter; determine whether the small step width of the waveform meets the required width. If it is not wide enough, generate waveform data according to the waveform parameters and continue to widen: if it is wide enough, Then it is judged whether the number of small steps of the waveform meets the required number. If it is not enough, the waveform data is continuously generated and sent to the digital-to-analog converter according to the set waveform parameters; if the required number is satisfied, the generation is completed. In the process of a waveform unit, if it is necessary to continuously generate a sample-like signal, the waveform parameters are updated, a new cycle is entered according to the above steps, and a sawtooth wave electrical stimulation signal is generated repeatedly. The sawtooth wave signal includes any of bipolar or unipolar stepped positive sawtooth wave, stepped reverse sawtooth wave, stepped triangular wave, etc. or their combined waveforms in various orders, as shown in FIG. 14 (1 1)-(20). In addition, as shown in FIG. 10, after the waveform parameters are automatically input, it is determined whether a random signal needs to be superimposed, and if 'required, a random number is generated and superimposed with a regular waveform parameter, and the generated result is sent to a digital-to-analog converter; Without superimposing a random signal, the waveform data is directly sent to a digital-to-analog converter to generate a waveform as shown in (])-one (10) in FIG. 14. In addition, as shown in FIG. 12, when it is determined that the small step width does not satisfy the required width in the step of determining the small step width of the waveform, the junction is directly fed back to the digital / analog converter to generate, for example, (21 ) ― (24) and the waveforms shown in (25)-(26) in FIG. 15.

In addition, in the above method, the intensity of the generated stimulus signal is described by seven fuzzy language variables corresponding to the seven intensity levels of the signal. In addition, the stepped inverted sawtooth wave corresponds to the traditional pressing method of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, and the stepped positive sawtooth wave corresponds to the traditional pressing method of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture; and the intensity of the electrical stimulation signal waveform corresponds to the traditional Chinese medicine The acupuncture method of inserting and inserting, the polarity of the electrical stimulation signal corresponds to the twisting method of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture.

FIG. 13 shows a method for generating an electrical stimulation signal that mimics traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, which includes control program steps: start, initialize the whole machine, automatically input waveform segmentation parameters, and judge the need to do and process according to the waveform shape. If addition is needed, it is necessary to determine whether the waveform amplitude has reached the maximum value after the addition operation. If the maximum value is not reached, the addition is continued next time. If subtraction is required, it is necessary to determine whether the waveform amplitude value has been reached after the subtraction operation. The minimum value, if it does not reach the minimum value, D will continue to decrease once; if the original value needs to be maintained or a new value is set or returned to the initial state, it will be determined according to the judgment result; if a random signal needs to be superimposed according to the set waveform, it will be generated Random numbers are superimposed, and the result of 4 is sent to a digital-to-analog converter. If random signals are not superimposed, the waveform data is directly sent to the digital-to-analog converter. Then, it is determined whether a waveform is complete. If it is complete, then Go to the step of automatically inputting the waveform segmentation parameters and continue the conversion; if it is completed, end the waveform construction process; after updating the waveform parameters, restart the new wave construction process, and generate electrical stimulation signals repeatedly, for example, The waveforms shown in (27)-(39) in Figure 15.

The structure of another embodiment of the intelligent electric acupuncture therapeutic apparatus of the present invention is shown in FIG. 16 and includes: an input device 1, a microcomputer system 2, a display device ¾ 3, an amplification driving circuit 5, a stimulation output device 7, and It works in a way based on the AM principle. FIG. Π is a circuit diagram of an embodiment based on an arbitrary waveform generator in the intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic apparatus shown in FIG. 16. Among them, Tongguan Sl and S2 are used as the input device 1, the integrated circuit PIC12C509 is used as the microcomputer system 2, the light-emitting diode is used as the display device 3, the transistor (TIP122) and the resistor R1 connected thereto, etc. to constitute the amplifier driving circuit 5, and the transformer T1 is used as The booster 6 also has an electrical stimulation output port 7. This instrument can be made into one output or multiple outputs. Its hardware works as follows: The microcomputer system 2 runs the software to generate a constant-amplitude variable-frequency signal, which is amplified by the amplifier drive circuit 5 and then boosted by the booster T1 to a suitable voltage value. It is fed to the output electrode through the number of outlets 7 to stimulate the patient. . It can be seen that the stimulus intensity signals mainly use pulse waveforms with different amplitudes and different frequencies to generate different intensities. Within a certain frequency range, for a specific waveform, a high output frequency results in high intensity, and a low frequency results in low intensity. Among them, the signal output by the central processor corresponds to the three parts of the sky, the human, and the earth respectively in the traditional Chinese medicine method: · ·: No! Rate of stimulation signals. They are 2lk, 1 511 /., 5011 /> l OOI lz, 仃 in 1000Hz :::::, where different specific frequencies map different output intensities.

In the above embodiment, the process of needle control is shown in FIG. 18 and includes the following steps: start; the whole machine is initialized; needle selection is performed; the corresponding needle method area is transferred according to the selected result; Display the working status; determine whether the start key is pressed, if not pressed, wait for the device to be pressed, if pressed, enter the stitching process; determine whether the needle selection key is pressed, if not pressed, enter the execution stitch method The process returns and repeats the operation; if the stitch selection key is pressed, it enters the stitch down process and returns to the stitch selection to change the stitch. The stitching waveform output process is shown in Figure 19 and includes the following steps: Start; initialize the stitching data on the whole machine; call a random frequency generation subroutine to determine the random signal used; call the waveform control output subroutine to output Electrical stimulation acupuncture signal; judging whether the acupuncture waveform output is over, if not, continue to call a subroutine for random frequency generation; if it is over, the program returns and waits for the next time Operation. Figures 20--a and 20--b are waveform diagrams of FM electrical signals corresponding to the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method generated by the above embodiment. Figure 20--a corresponds to the "burning volcano" of the traditional needle method, and Figure 20-b corresponds to the "through the sky" of the traditional needle method.

The shape of the electrodes on the medical electro-acupuncture device is shown in Figure 21, which is an integrated structure in the shape of a round rod that is easy to hold. It can also be a flat rod or other similar shape. The electrode points are exposed on the top of the rod. The electrodes are structurally combined into one body, and the mutually insulated electrodes are exposed on the outer surface of the integrated body. The distance between the electrode points or the electrode surface in the exposed part is between 0.1 mm and 30 pictures, and the electrodes pass through the insulating layer. Electrically insulated from each other. The exposed part of the electrode is a concentric circle, the center of the circle is one electrode 2, and the circumference is the other electrode 3. They have an insulating layer 1, as shown in ^ 22-b. In addition, the exposed part of the electrode can also be made into a shape corresponding to each of the shapes shown in | | 22 a. In these figures, reference numeral 1 indicates an insulating layer, reference numeral 2 indicates one electrode, and reference numeral 3 indicates another. electrode. For example, the circumferential portion may be a uniform or non-uniform intermittent arc that is electrically connected to each other; the exposed portion of the electrode is a circle or one portion of the two arcs is an electrode, and the other portion of the arc is another electrode; the exposed portions of the electrodes are arranged side by side That is, the two electrodes are on both sides of the electrical insulator; the integrated structure is in the shape of a sheet or a strip, and the exposed part of the electrode may be on any surface or any edge of the sheet body, and the electrode points close to each other may be two points, two faces, two A circle or a combination of multiple points, faces, circles, and arcs; the integrated structure is a rotatable roller or disc, two points, two lines, two arcs, two faces, or multiple points on the roller or disc where the two electrodes are exposed The combination of line, surface, circle, and arc; the pole material can be gold buckle, and ik can be a non-gold buckle conductive material.

Industrial applicability

The intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion therapy instrument is a medical instrument invented by combining modern industrial i: technical methods and traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture theories with the acupuncture method condensed by children for thousands of years. ¾ The core of the acupuncture therapy instrument is: 逑 ϊ'4 generator hardware platform based on a single-chip computer or personal computer (this platform can be an arbitrary waveform generator or a pulse signal generator) ; Using the principle that the amplitude or frequency of the signal corresponds to the classical Chinese acupuncture method, and the polarity of the electrical signal corresponds to the twist of the middle-classical classical acupuncture method, respectively, to achieve amplitude-modulated or frequency-modulated imitation of classical Chinese acupuncture. The ¾-needle method of the method; The concept of the fuzzy set is used to describe the intensity of the electrical stimulation signal, and the problem of adaptability of the electrical signal to stimulate the human body is solved by using a method of superimposing random quantities on different intensity sub-sets; an integrated non-invasive electrode is used As a tun stimulator. The experiment proves that the electric acupuncture method which is based on the Chinese traditional acupuncture method based on the hardware platform proposed by the present invention achieves the effect of the traditional Chinese instrument acupuncture method.

Claims

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1. An intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion treatment instrument, characterized in that it comprises:

An input device for inputting a user's control instruction;

A central processing unit (CPU) system, which includes a storage device for storing a control program, an output program, empirical data corresponding to traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, and intermediate results generated by the central processing of its processing, and a central processing unit (CPU) ), Which generates an electric stimulation signal corresponding to the human sensory stimulation of the traditional acupuncture method according to an instruction input by the input device and the program and data stored in the storage device;

Amplifying driving circuit, which is used to amplify the electric stimulation signal output by the central processor and output it to the booster;

A booster, which boosts the amplified ¾ signal output from the amplifier driver to reach the amplitude value of the signal required to perform electrical stimulation on the subject;

A stimulation output device, which serves as an output device of the therapeutic apparatus and outputs the generated boosted electrical stimulation signal to be applied to a desired part of the subject;

The display device is used for displaying the working state of the therapeutic apparatus.

2. The intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion treatment apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: when the electrical stimulation signal generated by a central processing unit is a digital signal corresponding to a change in amplitude, The central processor and the amplifier driving circuit are provided with an analog-to-digital converter for converting the digital signal into an analog signal.

3. The intelligent acupuncture and moxibustion therapy instrument according to claim 2, wherein the analog signal is divided into three parts corresponding to the three parts of the sky, the person, and the earth of the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture maximum peak amplitude value, respectively. A three-level sawtooth signal within the range of amplitude values.

4. The intelligent ¾ acupuncture treatment instrument according to claim 3, characterized in that said sawtooth wave signal is bipolar or unipolar various step IT. Sawtooth wave, stepped reverse sawtooth wave, step Any one of the triangle waves or their combined waveforms in various orders.

5. The intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic apparatus according to claim 4, characterized in that a random signal is superimposed on the sawtooth wave signal as a regular signal to solve the human body's adaptability to electrical signals.

6. The intelligent electric acupuncture treatment instrument according to claim 4 or 5, characterized in that the three maximum peak amplitude ranges of the three sawtooth wave signals corresponding to the heaven, the human and the earth of the traditional Chinese medicine are 40- 80V, 90-140V, 150- 200V.

7. The intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the signal output from the central processor is a kind of frequency corresponding to the three parts of heaven, man and earth of traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture. Different specific frequency stimulation signals.

8. The intelligent electric acupuncture treatment instrument according to claim 7, characterized in that different output frequencies are mapped using different specific frequencies, wherein the specific frequency of the stimulation signal corresponds to the strength of the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method. .

9. The intelligent electric acupuncture and moxibustion therapeutic apparatus according to claim 8, characterized in that the specific frequency is 211 '/ ,, 1 511 /., 5011' / ', Li 1/8 1 000H' / 屮::: frequencies.

10. A method for generating an electrical stimulation signal that mimics traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, which is used in an electric acupuncture therapy instrument. The electric acupuncture therapy instrument includes: an input device for inputting control instructions _: including a storage device and a central processing unit ( CPU) CPU system for generating electrical stimulation signals: digital-to-analog converter for converting digital signals to analog signals; amplification drive for amplifying the stimulus signals output by the central processor ¾ way: A booster that boosts the amplified electrical signal to achieve the amplitude value of the signal required to perform electrical stimulation on the subject; and an output device; characterized in that the method includes a control program step: The machine initializes to determine which fuzzy language variable fit interval corresponding to the traditional Chinese medicine method, and automatically inputs the required modulation waveform parameters and sends them to the D / A converter; determines whether the small step width of the waveform meets the requirements If it is not wide enough, the waveform data is generated according to the waveform parameters to continue to widen; if it is wide enough, it is judged whether the number of small steps of the waveform meets the requirements ^: If it is not enough, it will continue to generate waveform data according to the set waveform parameters and send it to the D / A converter; if the required number is met, the process of generating a waveform unit is completed. If it is necessary to continuously generate the same Update the waveform parameters according to the above]; · Enter a new cycle step by step, and repeatedly generate any of bipolar or unipolar staircase ΤΠ sawtooth wave, step reverse sawtooth wave, step triangle wave Species or their combined waveforms in various orders.

Π. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the steps of: after automatically inputting the required modulation waveform parameters, determining whether a random signal is required; if necessary, generating a random number and superimposing processing with a regular waveform parameter, The generated result is sent to a digital-to-analog converter; if random signals are not superimposed, the waveform data is directly sent to the digital-to-analog converter.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein in the step of determining the small step width of the waveform, it is determined that the small step width does not satisfy the required width, and the result is directly fed back to the digital-to-analog converter.

13. A method for generating a ¾ stimulation signal that mimics traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture, which is used in an electric acupuncture therapy instrument, the electric acupuncture therapy instrument includes: an input device for inputting control instructions; including a storage device and a medium A central processing unit (CPU) for generating an ajij excitation signal; a digital-to-analog converter for converting a digital signal into an analog signal; an amplifier driving circuit for amplifying an electrical stimulation signal output by the central processor; A booster that boosts the amplified electric signal to achieve a magnitude of a signal required to perform electrical stimulation on a subject; and an output device; characterized in that the method includes a control program step: Initialize the machine, automatically input the waveform segmentation parameters, and determine the processing and processing according to the waveform shape. If addition is required, determine whether the waveform amplitude reaches the maximum value after the addition operation. If it does not reach the maximum value, continue to add next time; if necessary After subtraction, it is necessary to determine whether the amplitude of the waveform has reached the minimum value after the subtraction operation. If it does not reach the minimum value, the subtraction will be continued next time. If the original value needs to be maintained or a new value is set or returned to the initial state, the judgment result will be processed; If the set waveform requires a random signal plus ¾, a random number is generated and superimposed, and the result is sent to a digital-to-analog converter. If it is not necessary to superimpose a random signal, directly send the waveform data to a digital-to-analog converter; and then determine whether a waveform is complete. If it is complete, go to the step of automatically inputting waveform segmentation parameters and continue the conversion; if it is complete, Then the waveform construction process is completed; after the waveform parameters are updated, a new wave signal construction process is started again, and a sawtooth wave electrical stimulation signal is generated again and again.

14. The method according to any one of claims 10-12, characterized in that the intensity of the generated electrical stimulation signal is described by seven fuzzy linguistic variables corresponding to seven intensity levels of the signal.

15. The method according to claim 14, characterized in that the stepped inverted sawtooth wave corresponds to the traditional pressing and slow lifting method of traditional Chinese medicine needle method, and the stepped positive sawtooth wave corresponds to the traditional pressing and slow lifting method of traditional Chinese medicine needle method.

16. The method according to claim 15, characterized in that the amplitude of the electrical stimulation signal waveform corresponds to the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method, and the polarity of the electrical stimulation signal corresponds to the traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture method.

17. An electrode applied to a medical electroacupuncture device, characterized in that: two or more electrodes interconnected with each electric output port of the electroacupuncture device are structurally combined into one body and mutually insulated The electrodes are exposed on the external surface of the integrated body, and the two or more electrode points or faces in the exposed part are at a distance of 0.1 _mm to 30 _mm from each other, and the electrodes are electrically insulated from each other through an insulating layer.

The integrated electrode according to claim 17, wherein the integrated structure is round or flat rod-shaped, and the electrode point is exposed at the top of the rod.

19. The integrated electrode according to claim 18, characterized in that the exposed part of the electrode is a concentric circle, the center of the circle is one electrode, the circumference is another electrode, and the circumference part can be a uniform or non-uniform discontinuity that is electrically conductive to each other. Arc.

The integrated electrode according to claim 18, wherein the exposed part of the electrode is a circle or two circles, a part of the arc is one electrode, and the other part of the arc is another electrode.

21. The integrated electrode according to claim 18, wherein the exposed portions of the electrodes are arranged side by side, that is, the two electrodes are on both sides of the electrical insulator.

22. The integrated electrode according to claim 17, characterized in that: the integrated structure is in the shape of a sheet or a strip, and the exposed part of the electrode may be on any outer surface or any edge of the sheet-shaped body, and close to each other. The electrode point can be a combination of two points, two faces, two circles, or multiple points, faces, circles, and arcs.

23. The integrated electrode according to claim 17, wherein: the integrated structure is a rotatable roller or disc, and the outer portions of the two electrodes are two points on the roller or disc, A combination of two lines, two arcs, two or more points, lines, faces, circles, and arcs.

24. The integrated electrode according to claim 17, further characterized in that the electrode material can be a metal or a non-metal conductive material.