DE29510124U1 - Device for color light therapy - Google Patents

Description

9133.8-D 1030-54-Gr-me 19 June 1995

Device for colour light therapy

The subject of the present innovation is a device for color light therapy according to the generic term of claim 1. Such a device has become known, for example, from the subject matter of DE-GM 88 04 442.4.

In this known arrangement, an attachment is screwed onto a known flashlight, which is designed as a lens in the form of an equilateral pyramid.

This lens is preferably made of glass and is colored to ensure a defined color emission.

However, experiments with such an arrangement have shown that the medical effect is insufficient, because the lens is made of ground glass, which does not introduce any defined natural vibrations into the body tissue being irradiated.

Furthermore, there is the disadvantage that it is not a natural substance, so that the energy of the light source is transmitted only insufficiently for medical purposes.

Furthermore, there is the further disadvantage that the glass lens is arranged at a direct distance from the light source, so that the glass lens heats up relatively strongly and undesirably heats the body tissue it comes into contact with.

This meant that the therapeutically undesirable heat radiation was superimposed on the desired colour radiation,

which led to insufficient therapeutic success.

The subject matter of DE 39 11 586 is another therapy device in which the light guide body is roughly rod-shaped and consists of a glass which is ground into a pyramid shape at the tip.

Although this well-known color light device avoids undesirable heat transfer to the body tissue to be treated, the use of a glass rod has the disadvantage that therapeutically desired light vibrations are not brought to the treatment site with sufficient efficiency.

The innovation is therefore based on the task of further developing a device of the type mentioned above in such a way that therapeutically desired light vibrations can be brought to the treatment site with a significantly higher degree of efficiency.

To solve the problem posed, the innovation is ensured by the technical teaching of claim 1.

The key feature of the innovation is that a crystal with a tip at its front end is used as the light guide.

The innovation concept includes various crystal shapes and types, such as rock crystal or quartz crystal and other types of crystal. 30

It is important for such types of crystals that they are described as solid, grown bodies with straight edges and flat surfaces.

The term quartz crystal or quartz glass therefore also includes rock crystal and other types of crystal.

In a first preferred embodiment, it is provided that a rock crystal is used as a light guide, which in its

natural broken form, always with six edges in the shape of a hexagonal prism and with a more or less central tip.

The purpose of this tip is to focus the light source on the area of the body to be treated.

In another embodiment, it is intended that a cylindrically cut rock crystal is used instead of a hexagonal rock crystal.

Instead of the rock crystal described here, quartz crystals can also be used, such as quartz glass, which is also cut hexagonally or round.

In order to change or increase the effect of the light, colored light filters can be inserted into the beam path of the light guide. These filters filter out unwanted wavelengths of light and only allow certain wavelengths of light to flow into the light guide.

It is important that, in addition to filtering out unwanted wavelengths of light, additional vibrations are also added to the light.

According to the innovation, structures are attached to the colored light filters that influence the light accordingly. The preferred structure is a six-bladed sun wheel on or in the material of the colored light filter, whereby the sun wheel can be arranged as a structure on the surface of the light filter or can also protrude into the surface of the light filter.

This sun wheel increases the concentration of light onto the bottom surface of the light guide.

It is intended that the light filter, which is designed as a retractable or pivotable coloured light disc, can also be turned, i.e. it can be positioned with the structure facing

Insert it pointing downwards or upwards into the beam path between the lamp and the base surface of the light guide body.

The technical teachings presented here therefore offer the significant advantage that a natural crystal is now being used as a light-conducting body for the first time, which has superior therapeutic properties. It is known that the crystal is naturally much better at conducting light than artificial glasses, plexiglass rods, etc. Furthermore, certain interactions of the light occur in the area of the crystalline structures of the rock crystal, which improves and strengthens the therapeutic effect.

The crystal according to the present innovation is also the only light guide body through which it is possible to bring UV components of the light to the treatment site.

In a preferred embodiment of the innovation, the light source is designed as a halogen cold light lamp and is powered by one or more batteries in a manner known per se.

In another embodiment of the innovation, it is provided that the light source is designed as an incandescent lamp.

In a third embodiment of the innovation, it is provided that the light source is designed as a light-emitting diode or as a light-emitting diode array.

In a fourth embodiment, the light source is designed as a laser, whereby different laser types can be used in

come into consideration.
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The subject matter of the present innovation arises not only from the subject matter of the individual protection claims, but also from the combination of the individual protection claims with one another.

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All information and features disclosed in the documents, including the summary, in particular the spatial configuration shown in the drawings, are claimed as essential to the invention insofar as they are new compared to the prior art, individually or in combination.

The innovation is explained in more detail below using drawings that merely show one way of carrying out the invention. The drawings and their descriptions reveal further features and advantages of the innovation that are essential to the invention.

Show it:
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Figure 1: Section through a device after the innovation,-

Figure 2: Top view of the tip of the light guide body; Figure 3: Top view of the colored light filter;

Figure 4: A side view of a modified light guide body;

Figure 5: Top view of the bottom surface of the light guide body according to Figure 4.

According to Figure 1, the device consists of a flashlight 1, which is provided with a screw base 2 so that any number of batteries or accumulators can be filled into the flashlight.

A clip 14 can be arranged on the screw base 2.

The front of the flashlight 1 is provided with a screw thread onto which an adjustable intermediate piece 6 is screwed. The intermediate piece S essentially consists of a tubular tube, preferably of a

Plastic material, with a flashing end being arranged in front of the light source 3 in the interior of the tube.

In the area of the intermediate piece 6, a slot 17 is arranged, through which a colored light filter 9 can be pushed into the beam path between the light guide body and the illuminant 3.

According to the innovation, the light guide body consists of a crystal 4, preferably a rock crystal, which is relatively irregularly formed, but always has six edges 13 that end in a common tip 5 (Fig. 2).

The crystal 4 is fitted into a receiving bore 11 of the intermediate piece 6 and is secured against slipping and displacement.

Its base surface 12 rests on a stop ring 10, which is either formed in one piece or in multiple pieces with the intermediate piece 6.

In this way, the base surface 12 of the crystal 4 is illuminated by the light through the aperture 8, which is bundled in the light guide body and distributed as a bundled beam via the tip 5 onto the treatment surface.

It is important that the colored light filter 9 can carry one or more structures 15 which lie in the beam path of the light source (Fig. 3).
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In the embodiment according to Figure 1 it is shown that the structure 15 is placed on the surface of the light filter 9 and protrudes beyond this surface.

In another embodiment, it can be provided that this structure is incorporated into the surface of the light filter.

The light filter 9 is reversible, i.e. it can be pulled out of the slot 17 in the direction of the arrow and put back in the reversed position.

so that the structure 15 points downwards directly towards the lamp 3.

Figures 4 and 5 show, as a further embodiment, a light guide body which is designed as a crystal 16, preferably as a quartz crystal. This quartz crystal is ground round, as shown in Figure 5.

In another embodiment, the slot 17 is expanded to be approximately circular-cylindrical, so that a transparent or clear ampoule filled with an active ingredient can be pushed into the beam path in such a hole. The light passing through the ampoule and the active ingredient absorbs the information and then enters the crystal.

Instead of a filled ampoule, another information carrier can be inserted into the beam path, such as hair, skin parts, powdered substances and the like. 20

Drawing guide

1 flashlight

2 screw base

3 bulbs

4 Crystal

5 Tip

6 Intermediate piece

7 screw threads

8 aperture

9 colored light filter 10 deflection ring 11 receiving edge

12 Floor area

13 Edge

14 clips

15 Structure 16 Crystal

17 Slot

18 Arrow direction

Claims (8)

Official registration number: G 295 10 124.5 9133.8/D 1030-59-ku Applicant: Anton Alois Hüsler 23.04.1996 PROTECTION CLAIMS 1. Device for colour light therapy, essentially consisting of a light source and a light guide body arranged in front of it, which emits the light in a defined manner and has a tip made of a grown crystal, characterized in that the light source is arranged with a light filter (9) as is the light filter (9) with the crystal (4) without direct heat-conducting contact. 2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that an intermediate piece (6) carrying the crystal (4) with the tip (5) and provided with a slot (17) for receiving a colored light filter (9) is fastened to the housing {1} in the region of the illuminant (3). 3. Device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the crystal (4), preferably formed as a rock or quartz crystal, is used in a naturally broken form, preferably as a six-sided prism. 4. Device according to one of claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the crystal (4) has a cylindrically ground shape. 5. Device according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the light source consists of an approximately cylindrical housing (4) and one or more lighting means (3) applied thereto. 6. Device according to one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that the colored light filters (9) on the have structures (15) on the surface or incorporated in the material and can be used on both sides. 7. Device according to one of claims 1 to 6, characterized characterized in that the lighting means (3) is an incandescent lamp, a halogen cold light lamp, a light-emitting diode or a laser or a combination of these lighting means. 8. Device according to one of claims 1 to 7, characterized characterized in that the intermediate piece (6) has an opening into which an ampoule filled with an active substance or another information carrier can be inserted into the beam path between the illuminant (3) and the crystal (4).