Patent Application
20220061748
This application claims the priority of Taiwan Patent Application No. 109129204, filed on Aug. 26, 2020, titled “MALE SEXUAL FUNCTION DETECTOR AND DETECTION SYSTEM”, and the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of a male sexual function detector, and particularly, to a male sexual function detector via physical stimulation. The present disclosure relates to a male sexual function detection system comprising the male sexual function detector.
Male sexual function mainly comprises two sexual responses: an erectile response and an ejaculation response. The sexual responses may be caused through psychological or physical stimulation. The psychological stimulation comprises visual stimulation, auditory stimulation or self-imaging. The physical stimulation is the physical stimulation of male genitals. In most cases, the psychological stimulation may cause the erectile response of the male genital, but the ejaculation response may not be caused under normal physiological conditions, while the physical stimulation may cause both the erectile response and the ejaculation response.
Under busy life and work stress, men often suffer from male sexual dysfunction. Therefore, literatures have reported that the prevalence of male sexual dysfunction is greater than 50%. It is obvious that there are many males suffering from male sexual dysfunction. In prior arts, a method for examining male sexual function mainly use the questionnaires, such as international index of erectile function and erection hardness score. The results of these questionnaires come from subjects' subjective cognition of their own sexual function, and the cognition is presented on a psychological scale. Since such questionnaires involve subjective judgments of subjects, it is impossible to accurately examine male sexual function through psychological scales.
In fact, male sexual function may also be examined by physical quantity detection. The physical quantity detection comprises the examination of blood flow in the penile artery at each time point, maximum erection length of the penis, sustained erection time, delay time before ejaculation, and a contraction pressure of urethral cavernous muscle during ejaculation. Therefore, more accurate examination results may be obtained through physical quantity detection as compared to the psychological scale of the questionnaires.
However, since sexual life is a private act, it is very difficult for medical staffs to obtain the results of these physical quantities. In addition, the male sexual function detector in the prior art performs examination by means of magnetic valve measurement, pressure measurement, or camera measurement. However, such male sexual function detector in the prior art may not provide a physical stimulus to the male genitals, not to mention the quantification and normalization of physical stimulation. Therefore, most of the subjects may only achieve the erectile response, but not ejaculate response. Thus, the male sexual function detector in the prior art may not examine the physical quantities related to ejaculation, and the prior art does not disclose a method for determining whether the obtained measured value is normal, either.
From the above, it is obvious that the male sexual function detector in the prior art may not quantify and standardize the sexual stimulation during men's sexual activity. As a result, medical staffs have to rely on the questionnaires to determine male sexual function, and the accurate examination results may not be obtained.
Therefore, the development of a male sexual function detector capable of examining the physical quantities to accurately examine male sexual function is an urgent problem in the art.
In order to solve the above-mentioned problem that the male sexual function detector in the prior art may not accurately examine and physically quantify the male sexual function, one object of the present disclosure is to provide a male sexual function detector which may cause the penis to generate the erectile response and the ejaculation response by use of a physical stimulation element, and examine blood flow in the penile artery at each time point, maximum erection length of the penis, sustained erection time and delay time before ejaculation, and a contraction pressure of urethral cavernous muscle during ejaculation, and erection time before ejaculation by use of a detection element to obtain the accurate results of male sex function examination.
Another object of the present disclosure is to provide a male sexual function detection system, which may receive a wireless signal from a detection unit by an electronic device, and perform signal processing and noise reduction computing to obtain a processed electronic signal, and then analyze and rate the results by uploading the processed electronic signal to a cloud database, to obtain male sexual function examination results which may be sent back to the subjects.
To achieve the above-mentioned objects, the object of the present disclosure is to provide a male sexual function detector. The male sexual function detector comprises a first housing, a second housing, a third housing, a detection element, a waterproof cable socket, a physical stimulation element, a waterproof cable, a bearing, a drive assembly, and a circuit board. The first housing is a hollow housing and comprises an inlet end, a first accommodating space, and a first fastening. The inlet end is disposed at one end of the first housing. An inner peripheral wall of the first housing defines the first accommodating space. The first accommodating space communicates with the inlet end. The first fastening is disposed at another end of the first housing opposite to the inlet end.
The second housing is a hollow housing and comprises a second accommodating space, a second fastening, and a third fastening. An inner peripheral wall of the second housing defines the second accommodating space. The second fastening is disposed at one end of the second housing and matches the first fastening. The third fastening is disposed at another end of the second housing opposite to the second fastening.
The third housing comprises a third accommodating space, a bottom, and a fourth fastening. An inner peripheral wall and an inner bottom wall of the third housing define the third accommodating space. The fourth fastening is disposed at one end of the third housing opposite to the bottom, and the fourth fastening matches the third fastening.
The detection element is disposed inside the first housing. The detection element comprises a casing and a detector. The casing encapsulates the detector. The casing is a ring-shaped hollow structure and is disposed along the inner peripheral of the first housing. An outer peripheral wall of the casing abuts against the inner peripheral wall of the first housing. The detector comprises at least one pressure sensor or at least one Doppler sensor. The at least one pressure sensor or the at least one Doppler sensor is encapsulated in the casing.
The physical stimulation element is disposed inside the second housing. The physical stimulation element comprises a cup body and a silicone cup. The cup body comprises an open end, a cup pedestal, and a fourth accommodating space. The cup pedestal is disposed opposite to the open end of the cup body and is located on an outer bottom wall of the cup body. The cup pedestal has an inner peripheral wall and an outer peripheral wall. The inner peripheral wall of the cup pedestal defines a fifth accommodating space. The fourth accommodating space is formed between an inner peripheral wall and an inner bottom wall of the cup body.
The silicone cup is accommodated in the fourth accommodating space of the cup body. The silicone cup comprises an open end, a plurality of protrusions, and a six accommodating space. The open end of the silicone cup is adjacent to and communicates with the open end of the cup body. Each of the protrusions is disposed between the open end of the cup body and an inner bottom wall of the cup body. Each of the protrusions extends from an inner peripheral wall of the silicone cup toward a central axis of the silicone cup. A free end of each of the protrusions defines the six accommodating space.
The waterproof cable is disposed on the inner peripheral wall of the second housing and the inner peripheral wall of the third housing. The waterproof cable is electrically connected to the pressure sensor or the Doppler sensor.
The bearing is disposed inside the third housing. The bearing comprises a flange-typed linear bearing. The flange-typed linear bearing comprises a base and a projection. The base is perpendicularly connected to the projection of the flange-typed linear bearing. The base is accommodated and fixed in the fifth accommodating space of the cup pedestal. The projection of the flange-typed linear bearing comprises a axle hole inside the projection of the flange-typed linear. The axle hole of the projection of the flange-typed linear bearing extends from one end of the projection of the of the flange-typed linear bearing toward the base.
The drive assembly is disposed within the third accommodating space of the third housing. The drive assembly comprises a power supply and at least one circuit board. The power supply electrically is connected to the waterproof cable. The at least one motor is electrically connected to the power supply. The at least one motor is disposed adjacent to the physical stimulation element and opposite to the detection element. The at least one the motor comprises a rotation axis and the rotation axis penetrates the axel hole of the projection of the flange-typed linear bearing; and
The at least one circuit board comprises an integrated circuit. The at least one circuit board is disposed on the inner peripheral wall of the third housing and electrically connected to the waterproof cable.
In one embodiment, the casing further comprises a soft silicone pad and an elastic silicone layer. The soft silicone pad is a ring-shaped hollow structure and disposed around the inside of the first housing. An outer peripheral wall of the soft silicone pad abuts against the inner peripheral wall of the first housing. The elastic silicone layer is a ring-shaped hollow structure and disposed around an inside of the soft silicone pad. An outer peripheral wall of the elastic silicone layer abuts against an inner peripheral wall of the soft silicone pad. The at least one pressure sensor or the at least one Doppler sensor is embedded in the elastic silicone layer.
In one embodiment, the bearing further comprises a waterproof bearing disposed between the physical stimulation element and the at least one motor. The waterproof bearing comprises a axle hole, an inner bearing, an outer bearing and a waterproof seal. The axle hole of the waterproof bearing is formed in the inner bearing. The projection of the flange-typed linear bearing penetrates the axel hole of the waterproof bearing. The outer bearing is located outside the inner bearing and an outer peripheral wall of the outer bearings abuts against the inner peripheral wall of the third housing. The waterproof seal is disposed between the inner bearing and the outer bearing.
In one embodiment, the at least one motor comprises a rotary motor.
In one embodiment, the at least one motor further comprises a linear motor, and the linear motor is disposed adjacent to the rotary motor.
In one embodiment, the drive assembly further comprises two crankshafts, two linkages, and at least two slide rails. The two crankshafts are disposed oppositely and adjacent to the inner peripheral wall of the third housing. Each of the crankshafts is connected to the linear motor. The two linkages are disposed oppositely and adjacent to the inner peripheral wall of the third housing. An axis of each of the linkages is parallel to an axis of the male sexual function detector, and one end of each of the linkages is respectively connected to a corresponding one of the crankshafts. The at least two slide rails are disposed on the inner peripheral wall of the third housing, and each of the slide rails is respectively connected to the linear motor.
In one embodiment, the male sexual function detector further comprises a positioning member. The positioning element is disposed on an outer peripheral wall of the first housing.
In one embodiment, the male sexual function detector further comprises at least one through hole. The at least one through hole is defined by a bottom of the third housing.
In one embodiment, a number of the pressure sensor or the Doppler sensor is three. One of the pressure sensors or one of the Doppler sensors is disposed opposite to the positioning member of the first housing. Based on a baseline formed by the positioning member and the opposite pressure sensor or the Doppler sensor, each of the other two pressure sensors or each of the other two Doppler sensors is respectively disposed at the two sides of the baseline and located between the positioning member and the pressure sensor or the Doppler sensor which is opposite to the positioning member.
In one embodiment, the cup pedestal of the cup body further comprises a first hollow structure. The first hollow structure penetrates from an outer peripheral wall of the cup pedestal to the inner peripheral wall of the cup pedestal. An axis of the first hollow structure of the cup pedestal is perpendicular to the axis of the male sexual function detector, and the first hollow structure is penetrated by a fastening pin.
In one embodiment, the male sexual function detector further comprises at least one waterproof cable socket. The at least one waterproof cable socket is disposed on the inner peripheral wall of the first housing, the inner peripheral wall of the second housing, or a combination thereof. The at least one waterproof cable socket is electrically connected to the waterproof cable.
In one embodiment, each of the protrusions of the silicon cup is disposed opposite to each other.
In one embodiment, the waterproof seal of the waterproof bearing is a folding fan type-waterproof part.
In one embodiment, the base of the flange-typed linear bearing further comprises a second hollow structure. An axis of the second hollow structure of the base is perpendicular to the axis of the male sexual function detector. The second hollow structure communicates with the first hollow structure of the cup pedestal. The second hollow structure is penetrated by the fastening pin which matches the second hollow structure.
In one embodiment, a number of the at least one circuit board is two, and each circuit board is disposed on the inner peripheral wall of the third housing.
In one embodiment, the flange-typed linear bearing is a round flange-typed linear bearing.
In one embodiment, one of the at least one circuit board further comprises a Bluetooth module.
The present disclosure further provides a male sexual function detection system. The male sexual function detection system comprises the male sexual function detector described above, an electronic device, and a cloud database. The electronic device comprises a user interface and an integrated software element. The integrated software element is disposed in the electronic device. The integrated software element comprising a receiving unit, a transmission unit, and a processing unit. The receiving unit receives a wireless signal of a stimulus intensity command and receives electronic signals of penile hardness and pulsation transmitted by the circuit board of the male sexual function detector. The transmission unit transmits the wireless signal of the stimulus intensity command to the male sexual function detector. The processing unit performing signal processing and noise reduction computing on the electronic signals of penile hardness and pulsation to generate a processed electronic signal, wherein the processed electronic signal is transmitted to the user interface and the cloud database through the transmission unit.
The cloud database is a server and comprises an established initial database and a rating system. The cloud database receives the processed electronic signal transmitted by the transmission unit of the electronic device and generates a rating result. The rating result is transmitted back to the receiving unit of the electronic device via wireless transmission and displayed on the user interface.
In one embodiment, the processed electronic signal comprises a measured value of the penile hardness and a measured value of the pulsation.
In one embodiment, the measured value of the pulsation comprises an average stimulus intensity per unit time, an average duration of erection, an average pressure during erection, a maximum pressure during erection, total erection time before ejaculation, a contraction pressure of urethral cavernous muscle during ejaculation, erection time before ejaculation, or a combination thereof.
As mentioned above, the male sexual function detector of the present disclosure may provide physical stimulation of rotation and reciprocating twitch for a front end of the penis by use of the physical stimulation element and the drive assembly, so that the penis may generate the erectile response and the ejaculation response. In addition, the object of examining the blood flow in the penile artery at each time point, maximum erection length of the penis, sustained erection time, delay time before ejaculation, a contraction pressure of urethral cavernous muscle during ejaculation, and erection time before ejaculation to obtain the accurate results of male sex function examination at the same time may be achieved by the detector element. Moreover, the waterproof cable socket of the male sexual function detector of the present disclosure may be used to easily remove the first housing and the second housing to clean the physical stimulation element. Furthermore, the waterproof bearing of the male sexual function detector of the present disclosure may prevent liquid from infiltrating the rotary motor, the linear motor and the circuit board in the third housing.
In addition, the male sexual function detection system of the present disclosure may transmit the results examined by the male sexual function detector of the present disclosure to the cloud database through the electronic device, and perform normalization, analysis, and rating in the cloud database. Then the rating results may be sent back to the user interface of the electronic device, so that subjects may obtain accurate examination results and rating results timely.
In order to explain the technical solutions of the present disclosure more clearly, the following will briefly introduce the drawings used in the description of the embodiments or the related art. Obviously, the drawings described below are only some embodiments of the present disclosure. For those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained based on these drawings without making creative efforts.
The following describes the embodiment of the present disclosure through specific examples. Those skilled in the field can understand other advantages and effects of the present disclosure from the content disclosed in the present specification. However, the exemplary embodiments disclosed in the present disclosure are merely for illustrative purposes and should not be construed as a limiting the scope of the present disclosure. In other words, the present disclosure can also be implemented or applied by other different specific embodiments, and various details in the present specification can also be modified and changed based on different viewpoints and applications without departing from the concept of the present disclosure.
The description of the following embodiments refers to the accompanying drawings to illustrate specific embodiments according to the present disclosure. The directional terms mentioned in the present disclosure, such as “upper”, “lower”, “both” sides”, “top”, “bottom”, “inner”, “outer”, “axial”, etc., refer only to the direction of the accompanying drawings. Therefore, the directional terms used in the present disclosure are used to describe and understand the present disclosure, rather than to limit scope of the present disclosure.
Unless otherwise described herein, the singular forms “a” and “the” used in the specification and the appended claims of the present disclosure comprise plural entities. Unless otherwise described herein, the term “or” used in the specification and the appended claims of the present disclosure comprises the meaning of “and/or”.
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The second housing 20 is a hollow housing and comprises a second accommodating space, a slot 21, and an inner thread 22. An inner peripheral wall of the second housing 20 defines the second accommodating space, and the second accommodating space communicates with the first accommodating space of the first housing 10. The slot 21 is disposed at one end of the second housing 20, and the slot 21 matches the hook 12, so that the second housing 20 and the first housing 10 are detachably connected to each other. The inner thread 22 is disposed on another end of the second housing 20 opposite to the hook 12.
The third housing 30 comprises a third accommodating space, a bottom 31, an outer thread 32, and six through holes 33. An inner peripheral wall and an inner bottom wall of the third housing 30 define the third accommodating space. The outer thread 32 is disposed at another end of the third housing 30 opposite to the bottom 31, and the outer thread 32 is matched with the inner thread 22 of the second housing 20, allowing the third housing 30 and the second housing 20 to be detachably connected to each other. Each through hole 33 is defined by the bottom 31 of the third housing 30, allowing the third accommodating space to communicate with an outside of the third housing 30, to balance the air pressure inside and outside the male sexual function detector 1.
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The silicone cup 62 is disposed in the fourth accommodating space of the cup body 61, and the fourth accommodating space may accommodate the silicone cup 62. The silicone cup 62 comprises an open end 621, five sets of protrusions 622, and a sixth accommodating space 623. The open end 621 is adjacent to the open end 611 of the cup body 61 and communicates with the open end 611 of the cup body 61. Each set of protrusions 622 is equally spaced apart from each other between the open end 621 of the cup body 61 and an inner bottom wall of the cup body 61. Each set of protrusions 622 comprises eight protrusions 622 disposed opposite to each other, and each of the protrusions 622 extends from an inner peripheral wall of the silicone cup 62 toward a central axis of the silicone cup 62. A free end of each of the protrusions 622 defines a six accommodating space 623.
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The linear motor 93 is a double-headed motor and is disposed on one side of the rotary motor 92 opposite to the waterproof bearing 81. Each of the crankshafts 94 is respectively disposed oppositely and located adjacent to the inner peripheral wall of the third housing 30 and connected to the linear motor 93. Each of the linkages 95 is disposed oppositely and located adjacent to the inner peripheral wall of the third housing 30. An axis of each of the linkages 95 is parallel to the axis of the male sexual function detector 1, and one end of each linkage 95 is respectively connected to a corresponding one of the crankshafts 94. Each of the steel ball slide rails 96 is disposed oppositely and adjacent to the inner peripheral wall of the second housing 20. One end of each steel ball slide rail 96 is connected to one end of each linkage 95 opposite to each crankshaft 94. Each of the steel ball slide rails 96 is disposed on the inner peripheral wall of the third housing 30 and is respectively connected to the linear motor 93. When the power supply 91 supplies power, the linear motor 93 may be driven to rotate the crankshafts 94 and drive the linkages 95 to push the steel ball slide rail 96, so that the silicone cup 62 in the cup body 61 may reciprocate along the axis of the male sexual function detector 1, and the male sexual function detector 1 provides a physical stimulation mode with reciprocating twitch. In addition, the rotation speed of the linear motor 93 may be adjusted through different input currents to generate physical stimulation mold with different intensities. In the present embodiment, based on different powers, five different physical stimulation intensities may be generated.
Each circuit board 100 is disposed on the inner peripheral wall of the third housing 30 and is electrically connected to the waterproof cable 70, so that the circuit board 100 is connected to the pressure sensor 43, and the currents inputting in the rotary motor 92 and the linear motor 93 are regulated by the circuit board 100. The circuit board 100 may comprises an integrated circuit and a Bluetooth module for wireless signal transmission.
When a subject uses the male sexual function detector 1 of the present disclosure, the subject may insert a penis 400 into the male sexual function detector 1 through the inlet end 11 of the first housing 10, so that the penis 400 is covered by the elastic silicone layer 42 of the detection element 40 and the silicone cup 62 of the physical stimulation element 60. The power supply 91 is then activated to make the silicone cup 62 of the physical stimulation element 60 rotate and reciprocate to stimulate a front end of the penis 400. After using, the subject may separate the first housing 10 from the second housing 20 by removing the hook 12 of the first housing 10 and the slot 21 of the second housing 20. The cup pedestal 612 may then be separated from the projection 822 of the round flange-typed linear bearing 82 by removing the fastening pin penetrating the first hollow structure of the cup pedestal 612 and the projection 822 of the round flange-typed linear bearing 82.
The second housing 20 may then separate from the third housing 30 by loosing the inner thread 2222 of the second housing 20 and the outer thread 32 of the third housing 30 to clean the silicone cup 62 of the physical stimulation element 60. In addition, the silicone cup 62 of the physical stimulation element 60 is a consumable and should be replaced regularly to avoid elastic fatigue or deformation which may affect the test results. Furthermore, the waterproof bearing 81 of the present disclosure allows the third housing space of the third housing 30 where the rotary motor 92 and the linear motor 93 are disposed to achieve the waterproof effect, and prevent liquid from infiltrating the rotary motor 92, the linear motor 93 and the circuit board 100.
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The cloud database 300 is a server. The server comprises an established initial database and a rating system. In the present embodiment, the establishment of the initial database comes from the recruitment of 30 self-identified subjects with normal sexual function, who are examined by the male sexual function detection system to obtain a normal pressure range for erection. Then, 100 men are randomly recruited, and the percentiles are established for the following measured values or ratios. The measured values comprise an average stimulus intensity per unit time, an average duration of erection, an average stimulation power ratio during erection, an average pressure during erection, a maximum pressure during erection, total erection time before ejaculation, an average stimulation power ratio during erection before ejaculation, and a contraction pressure of urethral cavernous muscle during ejaculation. Subjects using the male sexual function detector 1 of the present disclosure may obtain the percentile of all the measured values as a rating, and the measured values may be stored in the cloud database 300, so that the data may be expanded to make subsequent rating results more accurate.
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The measured values of penile hardness and pulsation are transmitted to the user interface of the electronic device 200, so that the subject may obtain the examination results of the measured values of penile hardness and pulsation through the user interface. In addition, as shown by the arrow D in
Therefore, the male sexual function detector and the male sexual function detector system of the present disclosure may detect the physical quantity of male sexual function through the physical stimulation element 60, and upload the processed electronic signals to the user interface and the cloud database 300 through the transmission unit of the electronic device 200 for analysis and rating. The rating result may be transmitted back to the subjects to achieve the objective of objectively and accurately detecting male sexual function.
The above embodiments only illustrate the male sexual function detector and the male sexual function detector system of the present disclosure, and are not used to limit the present disclosure. A person skilled in the art can modify and change the above-mentioned embodiments without departing from the concept and scope of the present disclosure. Therefore, the claimed scope of the present disclosure should be determined based on the claims of patent disclosure.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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| 109129204 | Aug 2020 | TW | national |
