Method and system for soft tissue destruction

• US 8,273,037 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2008
• Issued: 09/25/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Syneron Medical Limited (Syneron Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Syneron Medical Limited (Syneron Incorporated)
• Inventors: Kreindel, Michael, Flyash, Lion, Vaynberg, Boris
• Primary Examiner(s): Brown, Michael A.
• Application Number:
  US12/076,524
• Publication Number:
  US 20080234609A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,651 Days
• Field of Search: 601/2, 601 6- 12, 601/46, 601/47, 602/13, 128/DIG.20
• US Class Current: 601/6
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 9/0057 Suction suction kneading A61H7/008
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 1/75 Intermittent or pulsating suction A61M1/63, A61M1/772 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2202/08 Lipoids
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/058 with ultrasound therapy
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2007/0008 Destruction of fat cells
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 7/00 Ultrasound therapy lithotripsy A61B17/22, A61B17/225; massage using supersonic vibration A61H23/00 ; using ultrasound for introducing media into the body A61M37/0092
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 7/02 Localised ultrasound hyperthermia hyperthermia in general A61F7/00

Abstract

A method and system for adipose tissue treatment. The system of the invention includes an applicator configured to apply negative pressure pulses to a skin surface when activated by a controller, where the negative pressure is created during a time interval in which the flow of water through the cell membrane is not significant. An intensity of the negative pressure is used that causes selective damage to fat cells.

Claims

1. A method for adipose tissue treatment comprising applying at least one negative pressure pulse to the skin surface, the negative pressure being created during a time interval in which flow of liquids through a cell membrane is not significant, and the intensity of the negative pressure causes selective damage to fat cells.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the time interval is at least 3 millisecond.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein significant damage to other tissues does not occur.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the pressure pulse is generated by a solenoid.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the pressure pulse is generated using compressed fluid.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein pressure pulse is created by vacuum pump.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein tissue heating is applied prior to the pulse of negative pressure.

8. The method according to claim 1 wherein tissue heating is applied essentially simultaneously with the pulse of negative pressure.

9. The method according to claim 6 wherein the heat source is an RF current.

10. The method according to claim 6 wherein the heat is generated from electromagnetic energy.

11. The method according to claim 6 wherein heat is generated from ultrasound acoustic energy.