Device for use in reflexotherapy

• US 20060091584A1
• Filed: 12/06/2005
• Published: 05/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nicholai Grigorievich Lyapko
• Original Assignee: Nicholai Grigorievich Lyapko
• Inventors: Lyapko, Nicholai Grigorievich
• Application Number:
  US11/295,350
• Publication Number:
  US 20060091584A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 264/237
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 15/0092 hand-held A61H15/0085 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2015/0035 multiple on the same axis
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1695 Enhanced pressure effect, e.g. substantially sharp projections, needles or pyramids
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2037/0023 Drug applicators using microneedles
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 37/0015 by using microneedles
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 2043/181 encapsulated
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 2043/189 the parts being joined
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 2043/3639 hand operated
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 33/20 Opening, closing or clamping
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 43/18 incorporating preformed parts or layers, e.g. compression moulding around inserts or for coating articles B29C43/206 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 43/224 having a profiled section, e.g. tubes, rods
• CPC Class Codes: B29C 43/28 incorporating preformed parts or layers, e.g. compression moulding around inserts or for coating articles
• CPC Class Codes: B29K 2705/00 Use of metals, their alloys or their compounds, for preformed parts, e.g. for inserts
• CPC Class Codes: B29L 2023/00 Tubular articles B29L2024/00 takes precedence ; catheters B29L2031/7542

Abstract

A reflexotherapy device to stimulate reflex points of the human body provides reliable and integral fastening of needles within an elastic base member to achieve a stable position of needles under any conditions of utilization of the device, and to carry out both static and dynamic impact on extensive areas of reflex zones. The device comprises elastic base member 1 with needles 2 fastened therein, each needle being provided with thickened end 3, and sharpened end 4 protruding from base member 1. In one embodiment the needles are fastened in the course of curing of the integral structure, and in another embodiment the position of needles 2 is fixed, so that thickened ends are disposed between two layers to be joined together.

Claims

1. A method of the manufacture of an applicator for reflexotherapy comprising an elastic base member and needles embedded therein, the method comprising the steps of setting the needles in the holes of one half of a die, placing the elastic base member consisting of one or two layers adjacent to the thickened ends of the needles and squeezing the elastic base member between halves of the die, then bringing the temperature of the die up to the level providing the required plastic state of the elastic base member, cooling the die and removing the applicator as an integral elastic structure with the needles embedded therein and projecting beyond the service face thereof.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the elastic base member consists of two layers, the needles are so set in the holes of one half of the die that the sharpened ends thereof extend through the first layer of the elastic base member, while the thickened ends are disposed between the first and the second layers of said member.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the face of one half of the die is convexo-concave with at least some of the needles being set in the holes on the concave portions of the face, whereby the concave portions are filled with the material of the elastic base member in the plastic state under heating and squeezing to thereby produce protrusions enclosing the respective portions of the needles.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the face of one half of the die is convexo-concave with at least some of the needles being set in the holes on the concave portions of the face, whereby the concave portions are filled with the material of the elastic base member in the plastic state under heating and squeezing to thereby produce protrusions enclosing the respective portions of the needles.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the elastic base member is a rectangular plate.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the elastic base member is a rectangular plate.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the elastic base member is a rectangular plate.

8. The method of claim 4, wherein the elastic base member is a rectangular plate.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the elastic base member is a hollow circumferentially continuous cylindrical roller, or a plate formed into a cylinder with the opposite edges butt-jointed, the roller being fixed on a bushing rotatably mounted on an axle or a shaft.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein the elastic base member is a hollow circumferentially continuous cylindrical roller, or a plate formed into a cylinder with the opposite edges butt-jointed, the roller being fixed on a bushing rotatably mounted on an axle or a shaft.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the needles are set on the roller in a spaced relationship along at least two circumferential lines.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the elastic base member is comprised of at least two hollow circumferentially continuous cylindrical rollers, or plates each formed into a cylinder with the opposite edges butt-jointed, the rollers being fixed in a spaced relationship, each on at least one bushing rotatably mounted on an axle or a shaft.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein the butt-joints of the plates lie on the generatrix of the cylinder or form a slanting or curly line.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the elastic base member is a unit-molded roller fixed on a shaft or rotatably mounted on an axle.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the needles are set on the roller in a spaced relationship along at least two circumferential lines.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein at least two circumferential lines of the needles extend adjacent a circumferential groove in the roller.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the elastic base member is composed of at least two unit-molded rollers fixed on a shaft or rotatably mounted on an axle in spaced relationship.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein the axle bearing the bushings or the unit-molded roller or rollers is extending at both ends thereof beyond the end faces of the applicator, or is provided with a holder having a handle and is fixed to the holder, or is provided with at least two arms supported by a rest and is fixed to the arms.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein the shaft, on which the bushings or the unit-molded roller or rollers are fixed, is extending at both ends thereof beyond the end faces of the applicator, or is mounted for rotation in a holder having a handle or in at least two arms supported by a rest.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the elastic base member is configured to fit the body area to be subjected to reflexotherapy and is provided with coupling members for joining the edges of the base member, the needles being set over the whole or a portion of the base member.