Phototherapy apparatus preventing eye exposure and control method thereof
AssigneeMirint Co., Ltd.
InventorYong Ho KIM
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Abstract
A phototherapy apparatus includes a phototherapy apparatus body, a pair of probes inserted into a nasal cavity, a light generation unit configured to irradiate the nasal cavity with therapeutic light, at least one of the pair of probes being rotatably coupled to the phototherapy apparatus body, buttons configured to open tips of the pair of probes, a sensing unit configured to detect a manipulation of the button, and a control unit configured to control the light generation unit based on a sensing result of the sensing unit.
Claims10
A phototherapy apparatus comprising:
- a phototherapy apparatus body;
- a pair of probes inserted into a nasal cavity;
- a light generation unit configured to irradiate the nasal cavity with therapeutic light;
- buttons configured to open tips of the pair of probes, at least one of the pair of probes being rotatably coupled to the phototherapy apparatus body;
- a sensing unit configured to detect a manipulation of the button;
- and
- a control unit configured to control the light generation unit based on a sensing result of the sensing unit.
A control method of a phototherapy apparatus including a pair of probes inserted into a nasal cavity, the control method comprising:
- detecting a manipulation of buttons configured to open tips of a pair of probes;
- and
- controlling a light generation unit for irradiating therapeutic light based on a detection result.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.