Patent ID: 9302119
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: A61N

Claim Text:
1. A light-beam therapeutic apparatus comprising: an apparatus body portion including at least a light source, a light guide rod configured to guide light from the light source, a connecting socket to which an end portion of the light guide rod faces, a cooling fan configured to cool the light source, an electronic component configured to perform control for a therapy, and a control display panel configured to display the contents of the therapy set by operating the electronic component; and a therapeutic portion including a light guide portion having a plurality of bundled optical fibers, and a pad portion at which the optical fibers are spread out adjacent to one another in a flat-panel shape, wherein an end portion of the light guide portion of the therapeutic portion includes a light-receiving plug to be inserted into the connecting socket of the apparatus body portion, the optical fibers positioned at the pad portion are subjected to exposing processing, the pad portion includes a protecting surface layer portion formed of a bag member filled with transparent and highly flexible high-molecular gel, the protecting surface layer portion protecting the optical fibers at the pad portion, each of the optical fibers has a two-layer structure including a core layer on an inner side thereof and a clad layer on an outer periphery thereof, the clad layer of each of the optical fibers having a group of broken portions which are broken by the exposing processing, and the group of broken portions are a plurality of round or oval holes formed in each of the clad layers and are configured to be arranged so that when the optical fibers are spread out adjacent to one another in the flat-panel shape each of the round or oval holes forming the group on an optical fiber are aligned in rows with each of corresponding round or oval holes forming the groups on the adjacent optical fiber so that exposing or irradiating light is homogeneously directed to a patient through the plurality of round or oval holes.