Skin stimulator

• US 8,721,574 B2
• Filed: 09/02/2009
• Issued: 05/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: DTS MG Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: DTS Lab Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Han, Ki-soo
• Primary Examiner(s): Thanh, Quang D
• Application Number:
  US13/055,735
• Publication Number:
  US 20110172574A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,714 Days
• Field of Search: 601/112, 601/114, 601/118, 601/119, 601/120, 601/121, 601/122, 601/123, 601/125, 601/128, 601/134
• US Class Current: 601/119
• 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 37/0015 by using microneedles

Abstract

A skin stimulator which can be produced through a simple process in which a circular disc of a drum is formed by integrating a metal disc having needles on a circumferential surface thereof with a reinforcing resin material using insert injection molding and layering a plurality of metal discs and retainers, thus increasing productivity and economic efficiency, realizing stable operation and preventing foreign substances from being jammed in the drum, and which is configured such that, when pricking the skin with the needles, the needles do not give severe damage to the skin and can be prevented from being broken, thus being effectively used for a lengthy period of time, and in which each of the needles forms a polygonal cross-section of at least six sides instead of a circular cross section, so that, when pricking the skin with the needles, the contact surface of each needle relative to the skin can be reduced, thus minimizing the pain.

Claims

1. A skin stimulator, comprising:

a drum comprising a circular disc having a plurality of needles on a circumferential surface thereof, and a retainer spacing a plurality of circular discs apart from each other; and

a handle to which a drum shaft is held so that the drum shaft can be rolled, wherein the circular disc comprises a metal disc having the needles on a circumferential surface thereof and a plurality of locking holes formed therethrough, and is formed by integrating the metal disc with a reinforcing resin material using insert injection molding or heat fusion in which the surface of the metal disc is covered with the reinforcing resin material such that the needles are exposed outside the reinforcing resin material, the reinforcing resin material having a shaft hole at a center thereof so as to receive the drum shaft, and the retainer is provided with a depression formed in each side surface thereof and having a depth to receive thickness of the reinforcing resin material covering the surface of the metal disc, with a plurality of micro protrusions formed on an edge rim of the depression such that the micro protrusions are spaced apart from each other at regular intervals.

2. The skin stimulator according to claim 1, wherein each of the micro protrusions gradually tapers to a point in a direction of an inner end thereof.

3. The skin stimulator according to claim 1, wherein the micro protrusions comprise three to eight protrusions formed on the edge rim at regular intervals.

4. A skin stimulator, comprising:

a drum comprising a circular disc having a plurality of needles on a circumferential surface thereof and a retainer spacing a plurality of circular discs apart from each other; and

a handle to which a drum shaft is held so that the drum shaft can be rolled, wherein the circular disc of the drum is provided with a plurality of locking holes or a plurality of locking grooves formed therethrough, and the retainer is provided with a plurality of protrusions formed on each side surface thereof and inserted into the locking holes or the locking grooves.