WO2009050753A1 - Appareil pour effectuer des travaux cutanés esthétiques par un traitement électrique - Google Patents
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- the present invention refers to an apparatus for effecting permanent deformation of skin tissues for beauty or decoration.
- the invention refers to an apparatus apt to allow effecting permanent deformation of skin tissues through the use of electric currents.
- the fulguration in particular, is the only technique in which the electrode does not touch the body of the patient since the high voltage between the electrode and the body of the patient itself causes an electric arc when the two parts are close enough to beat the resistance or the impedance relating to the dielectric rigidity of the mean between them that is usually air, but that could even be different elements conveyed towards the working area in order to make stable and even the electric arc.
- Electrosurgical generators are known which are optimized to perform fulguration or different electrosurgical operations, in which are optimized the voltage, the frequency, the power and the current's wave forms, such as the ones described in patents CAl 175110, US4188927 or US4559943, which, however, disclose complicate and expensive solutions, mainly suitable for surgical use.
- Object of the present invention is to propose an apparatus for effecting permanent deformations of skin tissues apt to produce much less painful and intrusive scarifications with respect to the ones obtained with the present branding technique, having great accuracy and producing innovative aesthetic skinworks.
- Further object of the invention is to propose an apparatus for the treatment of the human body by using electric currents which is suitable to be used in a safe way also by non-medical or unskilled personnel.
- Another object of the present invention is to propose an apparatus for effecting permanent deformations of skin tissues which could be used to perform light aesthetic or therapeutic operations, such us tattoos or cheloids removal.
- an apparatus for effecting permanent deformations of skin tissues comprising a rod for electric sparks, or electrode, fed by a generator of electric signals whose parameters can be set within determined safety values.
- the apparatus also comprises a push button for commanding the electric sparks between said rod and the tissue to be deformed, said button being advantageously integral to the rod, along the side surface of it.
- the maximum values of the voltage of the electric arc generated by said rod, and the related power can be determined and controlled through a micro-processor control unit which is part of said generator. Said control unit provides to cut the connection of the generator with the power supply network while performing the scarification operation.
- the entity of the scarification produced with the above apparatus can be adjusted in order to obtain ornamental skin effects of the desired shape and dimensions, or to perform destruction and/or removal of specific part of skin tissues, always under the power level which could cause damages to the human organism, in view of a safe use of the device for beauty or decoration even by unskilled people.
- figure 1 shows a block diagram of the main components of an apparatus according to the present invention
- figure 2 shows a further block diagram relating to one of the components of fig.i;
- figure 3 shows a circuitry scheme relating to a component of the apparatus of the invention.
- FIG. 1 it is pointed at as a whole with 10 a block diagram in which are schematically shown the components, and their functional links, of an apparatus for effecting scarifications of skin tissues.
- the apparatus mainly comprises a rod or electrode, 11, for generating an electric arc, said rod being electrically supplied by a generator of high voltage signals, schematically indicated with 12, composed of a supply unit, 13, an internal battery, 14, with its recharge circuit, 15, an electronic control unit, 16, and a power circuit, 18, apt to directly supply the rod 11.
- the generator 12 further comprises a cut-off switch, 19, for separating the supply unit 13 from the remaining units of the generators, said switch being controlled by the control unit 16 for opening when the rod 11 emits its electric arc.
- Said control unit 16 is composed, as we can see in detail in fig.2, of a central microprocessor 20, a control panel 21, a display 22 showing various working parameters, a sensor 23 for detecting the current absorption of the power circuit 18, which, as schematically shown in fig.3, comprises a high rating transformer, 24, whose primary winding, 25, can be supplied with an interrupted galvanic current at a specific frequency by using a transistor, 26, which, properly operated by the control unit 16, cut the circuit comprising said winding 25 which leads to the battery 14.
- a button, 27, activating the emission of the electric arc from the rod is placed in the present embodiment, on the side surface of the rod 11 itself.
- the intensity of the electric arc produced by the rod 11 is adjusted by varying the duty cycle of the interrupted current, 28, supplying the transistor 26 of the positive voltage booster circuit 18. It has to be noticed that, anyway, the intensity of the electric arc cannot exceed a safety maximum limit automatically controlled by the unit 16 with the aid of the sensor 23 of the current absorbed by said circuit 18.
- a further parameter of the apparatus that is the frequency of the interrupted galvanic current 28, said frequency being automatically set, at the apparatus powering on, to a specific value, of some kilohertz, preferably about 3000 Hz that, according to performed tests, has been recognized as a value apt to cause the best distribution of the electric arc one the skin, able to produce painless and easy to cicatrize scarifications.
- the skin deformation takes place simply pushing the button 27 and bringing the rod 11 close enough to the skin to let the electric arc flash, in correspondence to the zone where you want the scarification to begin; after that the rod is moved, keeping it at the same distance from the skin, along the path or the area suitable to obtain the desired scarification shape.
- the apparatus of the invention is particularly suitable to perform skin treatments through electric currents in a way absolutely safe and painless, treatments which are apt to produce innovative types skinworks and dermographies.
- the apparatus of the present invention produces in the skin a chemical effect with a superficial, more or less wide, scarification assuring the proper coagulation without destruction of the surrounding blood vessels and tissues.
- the apparatus for specific applications, could work with pre-set parameters, without the need of providing adjusting and control panels.
- the voltage, the on-off timing, the frequency and the intensity of the interrupted current could be previously combined in a set of programmes apt to perform specific decorations.
- the apparatus could further comprise a variable amount of rods; each of them being prepared to perform a specific kind of scarification and each of them could be connected to its own power circuit or all of them to the same power circuit used in turns.
- the rod could also be provided with interchangeable and single use terminal spacers apt to make easier to maintain the right distance between the rod and the skin.
- the button commanding the apparatus can be variously shaped and it can be located in any position reachable by the operator, even as a foot control lever.
- More changes could concern the design features of the control unit, which can be vary versatile, or even the work parameters could be vary different as regards the frequency and voltage of the various electric components affecting the arc with respect to the ones above shown as an example.
- the voltage of the arc could be, as a function of the desired effects, positive or negative with respect to the tissue under scarification.
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Abstract
L'invention porte sur un appareil pour effectuer des déformations permanentes décoratives de tissus de peau, pour corriger des défauts ou en tous cas dans un but esthétique, qui comprend une électrode destinée à émettre des décharges électriques, alimentée par un générateur de signaux électriques d'un courant galvanique interrompu de basse tension et de basse fréquence. L'appareil est mis en fonctionnement à partir d'un bouton approprié après le réglage de divers paramètres commandant la totalité de la décharge électrique. La simplicité du générateur et la présence de moyens de sécurité fiables permettent d'effectuer un type innovant de travaux cutanés de façon très simple en garantissant la sécurité totale de la personne sous traitement.
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