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

该项目旨在为超过20亿美元的全球纹身市场提供一种革命性的新型、低疼痛、低创伤纹身系统。它建立在一个非常成功的先前IUK赠款，证明了超声波低疼痛纹身的概念证明。创新是非常新颖的。没有其他基于纹身机的方法来减少疼痛和皮肤创伤。人们已经使用了一些护肤霜，但由于多种原因存在问题，特别是在短期有效性方面，可能会影响纹身工作的质量，而且艺术家不能“开出”此类材料。低疼痛纹身的好处是为客户提供更好的体验，更长的坐姿时间，因此艺术家的效率更高，并且与疼痛相关的不必要的运动（挺举反应）更少。该设备还提供低皮肤创伤。这种效果允许更高质量的工作，因为纹身领域的红色要少得多。这些效果是通过针头的超声波运动实现的-千分之一毫米，每秒数千次，作为一个微观锤作用针头，分开皮肤，降低皮肤摩擦，并触发更少的疼痛感受器。关键目标是优化超声波低疼痛纹身设备的性能，称为TranQuill（r），以解决原型设备在以下方面的缺点：- 振动：这可能导致对用户的与振动相关的长期伤害。优化超声波频率，更重要的是，振幅。太多的振动会导致不理想的结果，太少的振动也不会产生在概念验证阶段证明的低疼痛纹身的有益效果。工业设计，以允许具有非常高的可取性的优质产品。与艺术家的合作，在原型阶段建立，将建立在确保世界领先的产品在市场准备状态下生产的基础上。

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.