Muscle fiber excitation system for preventing blood clot and muscular-skeletal decline

• US 20140343468A1
• Filed: 05/13/2014
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bertram Ezenwa
• Original Assignee: Bertram Ezenwa
• Inventors: Ezenwa, Bertram
• Application Number:
  US14/277,028
• Publication Number:
  US 20140343468A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 601/134
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 1/005 Moveable platform, e.g. vibrating or oscillating platform for standing, sitting, laying, leaning
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0157 portable
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1215 Rotary drive
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1418 Cam
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/164 Feet or leg, e.g. pedal
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/165 Wearable interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1664 linear
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1676 Pivoting
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/169 Physical characteristics of the surface, e.g. material, relief, texture or indicia
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2205/108 for the upper legs
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2209/00 Devices for avoiding blood stagnation, e.g. Deep Vein Thrombosis [DVT] devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/0254 with rotary motor

Abstract

The invention muscle fiber excitation system (MFES) targets improving muscular and skeletal systems and preventing blood clots. MFES consists of 2 shafts, each affixed with 2 CAMs featuring surround peaks and valleys surfaces, a platform with stiffener side and compliant other side, and 4 plungers at the corners. The shafts tied with timing bets through pulleys are driven with DC motor. As the CAMs rotate the peaks and valleys make contacts with the platform stiffener side causing the platform to telescope 1 mm to 4 mm displacements, transferring contact stress stimuli from platform stiffener to compliant human contact side at frequency that encompass muscle fiber excitation frequencies. Wearable and standing model tests show improved bone density, muscle contraction and blood flow, preventing blood pooling. There is no side effect compared to use of blood thinners for blood clot prevention. Wearable model is concealable compared to compression pneumatic device with user complaints.

Claims

1. Concurrent three dimensional multiple displacements and multiple frequencies (MFES) excitation input device, wearable with belts in single and cascaded units, over any anatomic location, and use while standing comprise of:

Donut-like shaped CAMs with surround varying peaks and troughs extremities asynchronously-tied to two shafts;

Electrically coupled to DC motor, control system and power source;

Drive timing belts through pulleys coupling the DC motor to one shaft, then the two shafts;

Telescoping platform having;

Four fast-recovery foam combination with stiffener landing surfaces for four CAMs rotating with the two shafts.

Compliant composite material for human standing, and another for wearing over body segments

Four plungers with the bar-like pillar block four channels for telescoping movement activities;

Support base having;

Two bar-like pillar block standoffs, with 4 bearings rotating 2 shafts and 4 channels for telescoping plungers;

2. Each CAM'"'"'s surround extremity profile of claim 1 makes:

Brief (quantum) contacts with the telescoping platform foam landing surfaces wherein causing multiple displacements limited to 1 mm to 4 mm within one cyclic revolution. Asynchronous quantum contacts with the telescoping platform with respect to other CAM peaks, troughs, ascend and descent quantum contacts with the telescoping platform wherein causing net pseudo random contact effect with the telescoping platform.

3. The four-CAM net asynchronous pseudo random quantum contacts with the telescoping platform of claim 1 result in non-deterministic stress response profile of the telescoping platform.

6. The combined effect of 1 mm to 4 mm nodal displacements of claim 2 and the stress from muscle contraction from muscle fiber excitation of claim 5 comparatively are equivalent to the stress on the bone during walking, ascending and descending stairs and considered safe for brittle bones and cartilages.

Demonstrated that even when muscle contraction intensities is low all motor units are still activated:

7. The MFES claim 1 can be used externally to activate motor units.

8. The MFES claim 1 can be used externally to recruit muscle contraction.

9. The MFES claims 2 and 3 for generating limited displacement nodes 1 mm to 4 mm for net stress delivery and claim 8 to elicit additive muscle contraction stress on the bone, in combination apply sufficient load on the bone matrix to improve bone mineral density.

13. The MFES claim 1 that the embodiment could be developed with and without wheel/s and handrail/s, suggests can be implemented to produce unique effect as part of bed, or chair.

14. The MFES claim 13 that the embodiment can be implemented to produce unique effect as part of bed, or chair, suggests MFES can be miniaturized to be hand-held and wearable systems.

4. In frequency domain the response of the non-deterministic telescoping platform stress profile encompass 20 Hz to 130 Hz, and 20 Hz to 250 Hz for muscle fiber twitch frequencies wherein the excitation frequencies.

5. The excitation frequencies of 20 Hz to 130 Hz that encompass muscle fiber twitch frequencies in claim 4 result in efficient muscle fiber excitation.

10. The MFES claim 5 of excitation frequency band 20 Hz to 130 Hz encompassing muscle fiber twitch frequencies for increased motor unit activation and muscle contraction, with continuous use will cause cyclic muscle contraction and release.

11. The MFES claim 10 with cyclic muscle contraction and release will cause spread of cyclic muscle contraction and release from application site to distal anatomic locations.

12. The MFES claim 11 with spread of cyclic muscle contraction and release from application site to distal anatomic locations will cause improved blood flow.