Abstract:
A massage unit of a massage device moves upward and downward along a backrest of a chair. A pair of therapeutic arms are pivotably supported on a pair of pivot arms projecting forward when viewed from the backrest. Therapeutic fingers on the therapeutic arms have massage balls disposed on them. The pivot arms are driven to move the therapeutic arms in three dimensions, i.e., up and down, left and right, forward and back, so that a patient is massaged by the massage balls. An angle detector detects the angle of the therapeutic arms relative to the pivot arms. The magnitude and change in the output of the detector is used to determine the portion of the patient's body that is being contacted by the massage balls at any time.
Abstract:
A massage chair capable of massaging even the foot by utilizing a whirlpool formed by the spouting of water is disclosed, in which the chair can be moved back and forth, its seatback can be reclined, and the instep and the sole of the foot can be massaged. The massage chair includes a supporting structure 20 and a seat 10. The seat 10 consists of a seat cushion 11 mounted and secured upon the supporting structure 20, and a seatback 12 upstanding on a rear edge of the seat cushion 11. A massaging mechanism 50 is internally installed within the seatback 12, and a seat moving mechanism 40 moves the seat cushion 11 back and forth. A foot bath tub 30 is formed on the supporting structure 20 in front of the seat cushion 11, and the foot bath tub 30 has water spouting holes 31, 32 and 33 on its bottom, on its side walls and on its rear wall respectively, and has a water spouting shower device 34 above it.
Abstract:
The device is intended to make massages of the left side of the user's back independently from the right side of the user's back, with the added possibility of regulating the intensity of such massage also independently in the modes of kneading, tapping vertical displacement. It has four independent motors (1, 3, 10 and 12) governed by a control unit (18) and which transmit the rotation to respective excentric (2, 4, 11 and 14) or centered (22) axes which are connected to conventional massage applicating elements (5 and 14). Said axes (2, 4, 11 and 14) or (22) include sensors (17) which inform on the angular position. The device is also provided with two motors (9 and 16) for the vertical displacement which are also connected to the control unit (18).
Abstract:
A roller massaging mechanism of a type having a pair of right and left massaging rollers mounted on an intermediate portion of a rotary shaft in a slanted fashion relative to an axis of the rotary shaft, and includes a switching member for selectively switching the position of the pair of right and left massaging rollers into one of a kneading position where the pair of massaging rollers are slanted opposite to each other and a non-kneading position where the massaging rollers are slanted parallel with each other. When the massaging rollers are caused to assume the kneading position by the switching member, a kneading massage operation is performed, while when the massaging rollers are caused to assume the non-kneading position, a massage operation other than the kneading massage operation such as a finger pressure-like massage or a tapping massage is performed
Abstract:
An automatic multifunction massager is applied to a massager chair having a backrest and a seat. A massaging unit is disposed inside the backrest of the massager chair, and has a massaging mechanism for optionally carrying out a patting motion and a massaging motion through a pair of left and right massaging rolls, and a lifting mechanism for supporting and moving the massaging mechanism up or down. A rolling unit is disposed inside the seat of the massager chair, and has a rotary cylinder incorporating a driving mechanism, and a plurality of rotatable roller groups disposed on the peripheral face of the rotary cylinder. The chair may also have a footrest with rolling unit provided therein.
Abstract:
Drive mechanism in an automatic massaging apparatus arranged to smoothly effect operational switching for a pair of massaging rollers which carry out a massaging operation and a percussion operation, and which reduces mechanical noise which occurs when carrying out either operation. The drive mechanism comprises two independently rotatable gears which respectively rotate with forward and reverse rotation of a main drive shaft which is rotated by a reversing actuating motor. Two different bearing-supported subordinate shafts are respectively engaged with the gears. Resilient members are respectively inserted between a first subordinate gear and a gearbox, and between a rotational gear and the gearbox. A connecting rod and a connecting member are arranged in such a way as to connect each of the massaging rollers to a respective end of each of the subordinate shafts.
Abstract:
An electromotive massage apparatus for beating and kneading body comprises clutch means with a movable gear and pulley blocks in association with said clutch means. Said movable gear which is slidable according to revolution of a motor engages with either of pulley blocks and then transmit said revolution to the gear engaged pulley block. This gear engaged pulley changes said revolution into reciprocating motion by means of eccentric members and further transmit the reciprocating motion to a pair of oscillating yokes. Accordingly, said oscillating yokes which are cooperable with the gear engaged pulley block are oscillated pivotally with respect to axes for pivotal movement, so that vibrators beat and knead body as the motor rotates.