Revolutionising the multi-billion pound tattoo industry with low pain, low trauma high efficiency ultrasonics

该项目旨在为价值20亿美元的全球纹身市场提供一种革命性的、低痛苦、低创伤的纹身系统。它建立在非常成功的前IUK赠款的基础上，该赠款证明了超声波低疼痛纹身的概念。这项创新是非常新颖的。没有其他基于纹身机的方法来减轻疼痛和皮肤创伤。一些护肤霜已经被使用，但由于几个原因而存在问题，特别是在短期效果方面，可能会影响纹身作品的质量，以及艺术家不能给出这样的材料。低疼痛纹身的好处是改善了客户的体验，延长了坐着的时间，因此对艺术家来说效率很高，减少了与疼痛相关的不必要的运动(抽动反应)。该设备还具有较低的皮肤创伤。这种效果允许更高质量的作品，因为纹身区域的红色要少得多。这些效果是通过针的超声波运动实现的--千分之一毫米，每秒数千次，充当微小的锤子作用针，分离皮肤，降低皮肤摩擦，触发更少的疼痛感受器。主要目标是优化名为Tranquill(R)的超声波低痛纹身设备的性能，以解决原型设备在以下方面的缺点：-振动：这可能导致与振动有关的长期伤害使用者。-优化超声波频率，以及更重要的是，幅度。太多的振动会导致不良的结果，太少的振动将不会产生在概念验证阶段展示的低疼痛纹身的有益效果。工业设计允许非常高的期望的优质产品。将建立在原型阶段与艺术家的合作，以确保在市场就绪的状态下生产出世界领先的产品。

This project aims to deliver a revolutionary new, low pain, low trauma tattooing system for the \>$2bn global tattooing market. It builds on a highly successful previous IUK grant which demonstrated proof of concept of ultrasonic low pain tattooing. The innovation is highly novel. There are no other tattoo machine based approaches to reducing pain and skin trauma. Some skin creams have been used, but are problematic for several reasons, particularly in the short term effectiveness, the potential for compromising the quality of the tattoo work and that the artist cannot 'prescribe' such materials. The benefits of low pain tattooing are an improved experience for the client, longer sitting times and therefore great efficiency for the artist and less unwanted movement (jerk response) in relation to pain. The device also offers low skin trauma. This effect allows for higher quality work as there is much less redness in the tattoo field. These effects are achieved through the ultrasonic motion of a needle - 1000ths of a mm and thousands of times per second, acting as a microscopic hammer action needle, parting the skin, lowering in skin friction and triggering fewer pain receptors.The key objectives are to optimise the performance of the ultrasonic low pain tattoo device, called TranQuill(r), to address the shortcomings of the prototype device in terms of:- vibration: which may result in vibration-related long term injury to the user.- optimisation of ultrasonic frequency and more importantly, amplitude. Too much vibration leads to undesirable results and too little will not have the beneficial effects of low pain tattooing demonstrated in the proof of concept phase.Industrial design to allow for a premium product with very high desirability.Collaborations with artists, established in the prototype phase, will be built upon to ensure a world leading product is produced in a market-ready state.