JP2003290268A - Thermal/potential therapeutic apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermal/potential therapeutic apparatus in which thermotherapy and potential therapy can be safely and surely implemented at the same time by taking efficient measures to cope with the reduction of electromagnetic waves. <P>SOLUTION: When constituting a thermal/potential therapeutic apparatus 1 by integrating a thermotherapeutic unit and a potential therapeutic unit by a connection mechanism 4 for simultaneously performing the thermotherapy and the potential therapy, a commercial power source type thermotherapeutic unit 2 and a battery type potential therapeutic unit 3 are used as said thermotherapeutic unit and potential therapeutic unit, the potential therapeutic unit 3 is equipped with an electromagnetic wave reduction mechanism for reducing electromagnetic waves discharged from the potential therapeutic unit 3, and the electromagnetic waves discharged from a casing 3a of the potential therapeutic unit 3 are reduced by half to a level to eliminate trouble with respect to a controller part built in a casing 2a of the proximately located thermotherapeutic unit 2 without fail. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a thermotherapy / potential therapy device in which a thermotherapy unit and a potential therapy unit are integrated to perform thermotherapy and potential therapy at the same time.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As a home therapy device, a heat therapy device used for heat therapy and a potential therapy device used for potential therapy have been known. Further, a thermotherapy / potential therapy device in which a thermotherapy unit and a potential therapy unit are integrated so that the thermotherapy and the potential therapy can be performed by one device is also known.

As a conventional example of such a heat / potential treatment device, for example, a heat treatment unit of a commercial power supply system,
There is one that integrates a commercial power supply type potential treatment unit that boosts AC 100 V to a predetermined high-voltage DC potential.
In this conventional thermal / potential therapy device, the controller part of the thermotherapy unit and the controller part of the potential therapy unit are centrally arranged on one circuit board, or the two controller parts are closely arranged in the same housing. I am.

[0004]

In the conventional thermal power / potential therapy apparatus of the commercial power source type, the potential therapy unit is composed of the controller section and the electric floor board, and the controller section and the electric floor board are separated by a certain distance. The electromagnetic wave reduction mechanism is provided on the electric floorboard side to prevent the effect on the human body of the user being treated, but the controller section is not provided with the electromagnetic wave reduction mechanism. However, even if the controller section is provided with an electromagnetic wave reducing mechanism, the electromagnetic wave reducing function of the electromagnetic wave reducing mechanism does not reach a desired level.

Therefore, when the thermal treatment unit and the potential treatment unit are used at the same time in the above-mentioned conventional thermal / potential treatment device of the commercial power supply system, the controller unit of the potential treatment unit is used when performing the thermal treatment and the potential treatment at the same time. As a result of the electromagnetic wave component contained in the commercial power source being further amplified in the process of converting the commercial power source (AC 100 V) used as the power source to the direct current and the step-up process, the high level electromagnetic wave emitted from the controller unit of the electric potential treatment unit is heated. There is a great possibility that the control unit such as the microcomputer, IC, and gate array in the controller unit of the treatment unit may be undesirably affected. Therefore, it is extremely difficult to simultaneously perform the thermal treatment and the electric potential treatment in the above-described conventional commercial power source type thermal / potential treatment device.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a thermotherapy / potential therapy device which is capable of simultaneously and safely carrying out thermotherapy and potential therapy by taking effective electromagnetic wave reduction measures.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention relates to a thermotherapy / potential therapy device in which a thermotherapy unit and an electropotential therapy unit are integrated to perform thermotherapy and electropotential therapy simultaneously. As the thermal treatment unit and the potential treatment unit, a commercial power source type thermal treatment unit and a battery-powered potential treatment unit are used, and an electromagnetic wave for reducing the electromagnetic wave emitted from the potential treatment unit is applied to the potential treatment unit. It is characterized in that a reduction mechanism is provided.

The electromagnetic wave reducing mechanism has a conductive member wound around a step-up transformer built in the electric potential treatment unit, a lead wire having one end connected to a current collecting point of the conductive member, and the lead wire. It is preferable that the other end is connected to the circuit board of the potential treatment unit including the ground pattern to be connected, in order to efficiently reduce the electromagnetic waves emitted from the step-up transformer that is the electromagnetic wave generation source.

The conductive member is a copper foil band,
It is preferable in that the electromagnetic wave emitted from the step-up transformer is securely captured by winding the step-up transformer around the step-up transformer and the electromagnetic wave reducing mechanism is compactly configured.

The conductive member is a mesh-shaped conductive metal member. By mounting the conductive member around the step-up transformer, electromagnetic waves emitted from the step-up transformer can be reliably captured and the electromagnetic wave reducing mechanism can be made compact. It is preferable for the constitution.

In the battery type electric potential treatment unit, a DC voltage of 2.4 to 10 V applied from a battery is boosted by the boosting transformer to 300 to 3000 V, 3 to 100 KH.
It is preferable to generate a high-voltage high-frequency pulse having a negative potential of z in order to obtain a good electromagnetic wave reducing effect described later.

A connecting mechanism for detachably supporting one of the housing of the thermotherapy unit and the housing of the thermotherapy unit is provided so that "the housing of the thermotherapy unit and the housing of the electric potential treatment unit are integrated. In the state
Simultaneously performing thermal treatment and potential treatment on one user "," thermotherapy and potential treatment on one user with the casing of the thermotherapy unit and the casing of the potential treatment unit separated from each other " Various modes of use such as "simultaneous implementation", "performing thermal treatment and electric potential treatment to each of two users in a state where the housing of the thermotherapy unit and the casing of the electric potential treatment unit are separately separated" are desired. It is preferable in that it can be taken according to

[0013]

According to the present invention, as a potential treatment unit to be combined with a commercial power source type thermal treatment unit to form a thermal / potential treatment device, a battery type potential treatment unit is used instead of the commercial power source type potential treatment unit. Therefore, the electromagnetic waves emitted from the electric floor plate of the electric potential treatment unit and the electromagnetic waves emitted from the housing containing the controller unit of the electric potential treatment unit are significantly reduced as compared with the case of using the electric potential treatment unit of the commercial power supply system. . Moreover, since the electric potential treatment unit is provided with an electromagnetic wave reducing mechanism for reducing the electromagnetic wave emitted from the electric potential treatment unit, the electromagnetic wave emitted from the housing containing the controller unit of the electric potential treatment unit is supplied by the commercial power supply system. It is remarkably reduced as compared with the case of using the electric potential treatment unit. Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to provide a hyperthermia / potential therapy device capable of simultaneously and safely performing thermotherapy and potential therapy by taking efficient electromagnetic wave reduction measures.

[0014]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. 1 (a) and 1 (b) are a top view and a side view, respectively, showing an overall configuration of a thermotherapy / potential therapy device according to a first embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1A, the thermal / potential therapy device 1 of the present embodiment includes a thermal therapy unit 2, a potential therapy unit 3, and a connecting mechanism 4 that integrates them.

As the heat treatment unit 2, for example, a heat treatment unit of a commercial power supply (AC100V) system of "heating temperature range; 30 ° C to 50 ° C, timer operating time range; 1 to 8 hours" is used. . As shown in FIG. 1 (b), the thermotherapy unit 2 is composed of a housing 2a and a thermal sheet 2b connected thereto,
A circuit board (not shown) forming the coat roller portion is housed inside the housing 2a.

As shown in FIG. 1A, a power switch for turning on / off a power source, a START switch for starting treatment, and a heating temperature are provided on the surface of the housing 2a of the thermotherapy unit 2. A heating switch 1 and a heating switch 2 for selecting a desired heating temperature from an equally divided range of 30 ° C. to 50 ° C., and a temperature display lamp (1, 2) showing the selected heating temperature. , 3, 4, 5), and a timer setting switch for setting a desired timer operating time from the timer operating time range of 1 to 8 divided into a plurality of times, and a time representing the set timer operating time. Display lamps (1, 2, 4, 8) are provided. In addition, since a heating element (not shown) corresponding to each of the heating switch 1 and the heating switch 2 is embedded at a predetermined position inside the heating sheet 2b, "the upper limit temperature 50 is 50 when two heating elements are used at the same time. It is possible to take any use form from the use form "set at 0 ° C" to the use form "set at a lower limit temperature of 30 ° C by using one heating element".

As the potential treatment unit 3, "3 based on the DC voltage of 2.4 to 10 V supplied from the battery is used.
Battery-powered electric potential treatment unit for generating high-voltage high-frequency pulse having negative electric potential of 0 to 3000 V, 3 to 100 KHz "
In the present embodiment, for example, “55 based on a 6V DC voltage supplied from a battery as a power source is used.
A battery-powered potential therapy unit that generates high-voltage high-frequency pulses with a negative potential of 0 V, 5.4 KHz "shall be used. As shown in FIG. 1B, the potential treatment unit 3 includes a casing 3a and an electric floorboard 3b connected to the casing 3a. Inside the casing 3a, a circuit board forming a coat roller portion (see FIG. (Not shown).

On the surface of the housing 3a of the electric potential treatment unit 3, as shown in FIG. 1 (a), a slide type POWER / switch which also serves as a power switch and a timer operating time (30 minutes or 15 minutes) setting switch. A status display lamp (30 min, 15 min, OF) that displays the switching status of the TIMER switch and POWER / TIMER switch.
F) and a CHECK terminal for checking whether or not a pulse output is actually output from the output terminal. It should be noted that the plurality of holes provided in the lower left portion of FIG.

The connecting mechanism 4 is provided at the center of the upper surface of the electric potential treatment unit 3 as shown in FIG. 1A for inserting and fitting the hyperthermia treatment unit 2, and is almost the same as the thermotherapy unit 2. The guide portion 5 having the same cross-sectional shape, the engaging member 6 arranged to extend inside and outside the peripheral wall 5a of the guide portion 5 of the electric potential treatment unit 3 as shown in FIG. Spring 7 for urging and pushing toward
A disengagement knob 8 for pushing downward in FIG.
An elongated hole 3c formed on the upper surface of the housing 3a of the electric potential treatment unit 3 for exposing the upper end portion of the disengagement knob 8;
The thermal treatment unit 2 for fitting the through holes 3d, 3e formed in the housing 3a for penetrating the vertical portions 6a, 6b of the engaging member 6 and the tip of the vertical portion 6b of the engaging member 6, respectively. 2 and a fitting groove 2c formed on the lower surface of the housing 2a. When the thermotherapy unit 2 is slid to the left in FIG. 2, the tip end of the vertical portion 6b of the engaging member 6 is fitted into the fitting groove 2c.
It will be fitted in c.

The thermal / potential treatment device 1 of this embodiment is further provided with an electromagnetic wave reduction mechanism for reducing the electromagnetic waves emitted from the potential treatment unit 3 in the potential treatment unit 3. As shown in FIG. 3, the electromagnetic wave reducing mechanism includes a copper foil 10 as a conductive member that is wound around a booster transformer 9 built in the electric potential treatment unit 3,
The lead wire 11 whose one end is connected to the current collecting point of the copper foil 10 by soldering, for example, and the lead wire 11 as shown in FIG.
And the circuit board 13 of the electric potential treatment unit 3 including the ground pattern 12 connected to the other end of the. In this embodiment, the copper foil is used as the conductive member 10 in order to reliably capture the electromagnetic waves emitted from the step-up transformer 9 and to make the electromagnetic wave reducing mechanism compact. A conductive metal member may be used.

Next, the thermal / potential therapy device 1 of the present embodiment.
The effect of reducing the electromagnetic wave will be described by comparing with the conventional heat / potential therapy device.

First, for comparison, a handy electromagnetic wave measuring instrument commercially available under the trade name of "Magnatec 60" was attached to the surface of the casing and the electric floorboard of the electrical potential treatment unit of the commercially available AC type warming potential therapeutic instrument. (Hereinafter, simply referred to as "electromagnetic noise measuring device"), the emitted electromagnetic waves were measured a plurality of times, and the average values of the obtained measured values were 25 mG and 10 mG, respectively, as shown in FIG. there were. Next, an electromagnetic wave emitted by contacting an "electromagnetic noise measuring device" with the surfaces of the casing and the floor plate of the AC type electric potential treatment device marketed by the applicant of the present application under the trade name of "B-KIT 680V". Was measured multiple times, the average of the obtained measured values was 15 m as shown in FIG. 5, respectively.
G was 2 mG.

On the other hand, the thermal / potential therapy device 1 of this embodiment
When the potential treatment unit 3 is not provided with the above-mentioned electromagnetic wave reduction mechanism, an “electromagnetic noise measuring device” is brought into contact with the surfaces of the casing 3a and the electric floorboard 3b of the potential treatment unit 3 to emit a plurality of electromagnetic waves. As a result of repeated measurement, the average value of the measured values is 1 as shown in FIG.
It was 0 mG and 0 mG. The reason why the electromagnetic wave emitted from the electric floorboard 3b of the electric potential treatment unit 3 becomes a low level without the possibility of affecting the human body is a battery that supplies a low voltage and a direct current voltage (DC6V) having no electromagnetic wave component as a power source. And that the frequency of the output pulse boosted by the boosting transformer is 5.4 KHz, which is higher than the frequency of 100 Hz or less, which is said to affect the human body.

As is apparent from the above measurement results, the thermotherapy / potential therapy device 1 of this embodiment in which the potential therapy unit combined with the thermotherapy unit is changed from the AC type to the battery type.
According to this, it is possible to surely reduce the electromagnetic waves emitted from the electric floorboard 3b of the electric potential treatment unit 3 to a level that does not hinder the human body to be treated.

Further, an "electromagnetic noise measuring device" is brought into contact with the surface of the housing 3a of the electric potential treatment unit 3 in a state where the electric potential treatment unit 3 of the thermal / electric potential treatment device 1 of the present embodiment is provided with the above-mentioned electromagnetic wave reducing mechanism. When the emitted electromagnetic wave was measured a plurality of times, the average value of the obtained measured values was reduced to 5 mG as shown in Table 1.

As is clear from the above measurement results, according to the thermal / potential therapy device 1 of the present embodiment in which the potential therapy unit 3 is provided with the electromagnetic wave reducing mechanism, it is released from the housing 3a of the battery-powered potential therapy unit 3. It is possible to further reduce the electromagnetic wave generated by half to surely reduce the electromagnetic wave to a level that does not hinder the controller section built in the housing 2a of the thermotherapy unit 2 arranged in proximity.

Therefore, the hyperthermia / potential therapy device 1 of this embodiment can safely and reliably simultaneously perform hyperthermia treatment and potential treatment by taking effective electromagnetic wave reduction measures.

Further, the thermal / potential therapy device 1 of the present embodiment.
In the above, since the connection mechanism 4 which detachably supports the housing 2a of the thermotherapy unit 2 is provided to the housing 3a of the electric potential treatment unit 3, "the housing 2a of the thermotherapy unit and the housing 3a of the electric potential treatment unit are integrated. State 1
Simultaneously performing thermal treatment and potential treatment on a human user "," Temperature treatment and potential treatment on one user in a state where the casing 2a of the thermotherapy unit and the casing 3a of the potential treatment unit are separated from each other " And "carrying out heat treatment and potential treatment to two users in different places with the housing 2a of the thermotherapy unit and the housing 3a of the potential treatment unit separated from each other". It becomes possible to take various usage forms such as the above as desired.

The thermal / potential treatment device 1 of the first embodiment has a structure in which the casing 3a of the electric potential treatment unit 3 is made larger than the casing 2a of the thermotherapy unit 2 and the casing 2a is placed on the casing 3a. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and instead, the housing of the thermotherapy unit may be made larger than the housing of the electric potential thermotherapy unit, and the housing of the electric potential therapy unit may be placed on the housing of the thermotherapy unit. Good.

Further, in the thermothermal / potential therapy device 1 of the first embodiment, the lead wire 11 is directly connected to the ground pattern 12, but if necessary, a capacitance of 0. A ceramic capacitor or film capacitor of about 001 to 0.1 μF may be inserted.

[Brief description of drawings]

1A and 1B are respectively a top view and a right side view showing a configuration of a thermotherapy / potential therapy device according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing a configuration of a connection mechanism provided in the thermotherapy / potential therapy device of the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a configuration of an electromagnetic wave reducing mechanism provided in the thermal / potential therapy device according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of a potential treatment unit of the thermal / potential treatment device according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing electromagnetic wave measurement values of the heat / potential therapy device of the first embodiment and a conventional heat / potential therapy device for explaining the electromagnetic wave reducing effect of the heat / potential therapy device of the first embodiment. is there.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Heat / potential therapy device 2 Hyperthermia treatment unit 2a housing 2b Thermal sheet 2c Mating groove 3 Electric potential treatment unit 3a housing 3b Electric floor board 3c oblong hole 3d, 3e through hole 4 connection mechanism 5 guidance 5a Perimeter wall 6 Engagement member 6a, 6b Vertical part 7 spring 8 Engagement knob 9 Step-up transformer 10 Copper foil (conductive member) 11 lead wire 12 Earth pattern 13 circuit board

Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A thermal / potential therapy device comprising a thermal therapy unit and a potential therapy unit integrated for performing thermal therapy and potential therapy simultaneously, wherein the thermal therapy unit and the potential therapy unit are:
A commercial power source type thermal treatment unit and a battery type electric potential treatment unit are used respectively, and the electric potential treatment unit is provided with an electromagnetic wave reduction mechanism for reducing electromagnetic waves emitted from the electric potential treatment unit. Thermal / potential therapy device. 2. The electromagnetic wave reducing mechanism includes a conductive member wound around a step-up transformer built in the electric potential treatment unit, a lead wire having one end connected to a current collecting point of the conductive member, The thermal / potential therapy device according to claim 1, comprising a circuit board of the potential therapy unit including a ground pattern to which the other end of the lead wire is connected. 3. The thermal / potential therapy device according to claim 1, wherein the conductive member is a copper foil band. 4. The thermal / potential therapy device according to claim 1, wherein the conductive member is a mesh-shaped conductive metal member. 5. The battery type electric potential treatment unit boosts a DC voltage of 2.4 to 10V applied from a battery by the step-up transformer to 300 to 3000V, 3 to 100K.
The hyperthermia / potential therapy device according to any one of claims 1 to 4, which generates a high-voltage high-frequency pulse having a negative electric potential of Hz. 6. The housing of the thermotherapy unit and a connection mechanism for detachably supporting one of the housing of the thermotherapy unit with respect to the other are provided. The thermal / potential therapy device described.