Phototherapy patch
AssigneeForward Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorsYu-Chia Tsao, Yi-Wen Yang, Jung-Chien Chang
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Abstract
A phototherapy patch is disclosed, which includes: an adhesive layer, having a first surface and an opposite second surface; a pharmaceutical drug layer, disposed on the first surface of the adhesive layer; and a spontaneous emission layer, disposed over the pharmaceutical drug layer and capable of emitting therapeutic light by light illumination or a chemical reaction. Accordingly, the phototherapy patch according to the present invention has no power supply disposed therein, and thereby is suitable to be manufactured as a particularly thin and thus inconspicuous device.
Claims11
A phototherapy patch, comprising:
- an adhesive layer, having a first surface and an opposite second surface;
- a pharmaceutical drug layer, disposed on the first surface of the adhesive layer;
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- a spontaneous emission layer, disposed over the pharmaceutical drug layer and capable of emitting therapeutic light via light illumination;
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- wherein the spontaneous emission layer comprises a solar absorption layer and an organic emission layer, the solar absorption layer is capable of converting incident light into electrical energy to drive the organic emission layer to emit therapeutic light, and the organic emission layer is disposed between the solar absorption layer and the pharmaceutical drug layer.
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