DEVICES FOR PRESSING POINTS FOR USING SHAPE-MEMORY ALLOY

摘要

The device employs the expansive and contractive actions of a shape memory alloy occurring in heating and cooling to apply pressure on acupuncture points with periodic intermittences and obtain the same effect as in the finger pressure. The device includes press-contact point (1) fixed on the front tip of cylinder (2) having a fixed bias spring (3) on the inner upper part, the lower end of (3) being fixed on partition plate (5) fixing the upper end of shape memory alloy spring (4), whose lower end being fixed to the base plate (7) of outer cylinder (6) of synthetic resin. The base plate (7) has receptacle for connecting wires from power source to both ends of the spring (4).