JPH10151164A - Massaging machine - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a massage ensuring freedom from a troublesome operation as well as high effectiveness at all times. SOLUTION: This machine is equipped with treatment appliances 1 capable of giving two types of massages having different vertical motion components, and a travel mechanism 3 to change the vertical positions of the treatment appliances 1 relative to a human body. Furthermore, the machine is provided with a detection member 4 for detecting the vertical positions of the appliances 1 relative to the human body, and an operation limiting means 5 for limiting each of the two types of massages at the upper and the lower sides of the human body around a position corresponding to the heart as a boundary. Also, the machine is structured so that only effective massages are performed respectively at the upper and the lower sides of the position corresponding to the heart.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a massage machine, and more particularly to a massage machine provided with a massager capable of performing two kinds of massages having different vertical motion components of the massager.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In Oriental medicine, massaging a human body is preferably performed by massaging a bad part of the body so that blood flows to the heart through blood vessels. On the other hand, Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2-12098 discloses a massage that can perform a massage, in which a treatment element in contact with a human body can selectively perform two kinds of massages in which a vertical motion component is reversed.
It is shown in Japanese Patent Publication No.

[0003]

A "fir massage" massage that applies an upward force to the human body and a "fir massage" that applies a downward force to the human body.
According to the above publication, which can selectively perform fir massage, the two types of fir massage are switched depending on which part of the human body is massaged, so that blood flows to the heart through blood vessels. A massage that applies force in the direction can be obtained, but in the conventional one, the user has to perform an operation of switching between the above two types of fir massage according to the position of the treatment element in the vertical direction of the human body. In addition, the operation is cumbersome, and the user may mistakenly select a massage that is not an effective massage, and thus an effective massage cannot be obtained reliably and simply.

[0004] The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a massage machine which does not require complicated operations and which can always obtain an effective massage. .

[0005]

According to the present invention, there is provided a treatment element capable of performing two kinds of massages having different vertical movement components of a treatment element, and a relative position of the treatment element in a vertical direction with respect to a human body. A massager provided with a moving mechanism for changing the position of the treatment element, comprising a detecting member for detecting a vertical position of the treatment element with respect to the human body, and the above two types of fir on the upper side and the lower side of the human body at a position corresponding to the heart. It is characterized in that it comprises an operation restricting means for restricting each one of the massages. On the upper side and the lower side of the position corresponding to the heart, only effective fir massage can be performed.

[0006]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described. In addition, as a massage machine, a treatment part can be changed by moving a treatment element vertically in a human body by being incorporated in a backrest of a chair or in a bed, and the treatment element has different vertical movement components. If it is possible to perform a kind of fir massage,
Whatever may be used, for example, the one shown in the above-mentioned gazette can be used, so the description is omitted here. It is possible to suitably use one that can perform the two types of massage by “fir-down” by switching the rotation direction of a driving motor. As the detection member for detecting the vertical position of the treatment element with respect to the human body, an encoder provided in a moving mechanism for changing the relative position of the treatment element with respect to the human body in the vertical direction can be suitably used. FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of such a massage machine, in which 1 is a treatment element, 2 is a treatment element drive mechanism, 3 is a moving mechanism, 4 is a detection member, 5 is a treatment element drive mechanism 2 and a movement mechanism. An operation control circuit comprising a microcomputer for controlling the operation of 3, and an operation device 6 for giving an operation instruction.

The operation control circuit 5 determines that the vertical position of the treatment element 1 detected by the detection member 4 is lower than the position corresponding to the heart (15 positions at positions 0 to 36 at the left end in FIG. 1). If so, "fir down"
Preferably, even if there is a massage input of "Momi down", "Momi up" so that no massage is possible
If the vertical position of the treatment element 1 by the detecting member 4 is higher than the position corresponding to the heart, the massage is not preferably performed so as to prevent the massage massage of "burning up". It is configured to start the massage of "Momi-down" even if there is an instruction input of "Momi-up" massage.

FIG. 1 shows the operation control circuit 5 incorporating an automatic course function for sequentially performing various massage operations on the treatment element 1 according to a preset program.
The movement of the treatment element 1 when executing the automatic course function is shown, and the numerals 0 to 36 indicate the detection positions of the treatment element 1 on the detection member 4 as described above. Note that the treatment element 1 has a ring-shaped or roller-shaped form, and the “stretching operation of the back muscles” that moves the back of the human body by moving up and down by the moving mechanism 3 and the fir operation performed by the driving mechanism 2 in parallel. It allows the player to perform a “stretching movement of the back”, and “moving up” and “moving down”.

When the automatic course function is started by turning on the power, the operation control circuit 5 first activates the moving mechanism 3 to cause the treatment element 1 to perform the "back muscle stretching operation". This “stretching motion of the back muscle” is performed several times by reversing the moving direction at the upper and lower ends detected by the detecting member 4 (a in the figure), and a preparation signal for massage is given to the human body, and the subsequent stimulating massage is performed. To the human body.

Next, the operation control circuit 5 performs a "stretching operation of the fir back muscle" in a range from the upper end corresponding to substantially the neck of the human body to a position slightly above the position corresponding to the heart (b in the figure), and the next firs. Let the human body prepare for the massage, and then gradually change the position of the massage massage of `` Momi down '' within the range from the upper end corresponding to almost the neck of the human body to a point slightly above the position of the heart The treatment child 1 is caused to perform the treatment (C in the figure). Note that the position where the massage of “fir-down” is performed is shifted toward the direction of the heart, and the fir massage is not performed while returning to the upper end.

[0011] If the human body is loosened by performing the massage of "fir-down" on the upper part in this way, the "stretching operation of the back muscle" with the treatment element 1 strongly pressed against the human body (d in the figure) ) Is given to the whole body to give a strong stimulating massage to the whole body. Then, as a preparation for massaging the lower part from the heart, the “fir back muscle extension” (E in the figure) is performed from the upper end to the lower end to the relevant position of the heart, and then within the range from the relevant position to the lower end of the heart. Then, the massager 1 is caused to perform the massage massage of "burning up" while gradually changing the position downward from the heart toward the hips (f in the figure). Next, a strong “back stretching operation” is performed on the loosened portion from the waist to the heart (G in the figure) to give a strong stimulating massage.

[0012] Finally, in order to prepare the human body, the massage of the automatic course is performed by performing the "stretching operation of the fir back muscle" (j in the figure) and the weak "stretching operation of the back muscle" (r in the figure) in the range from the upper end to the lower end. finish.

[0013]

As described above, according to the present invention, when the massage is located above the position corresponding to the heart, the massage is "down," and when the massage is located below the position corresponding to the heart, the massage is " Since it is "flush", there is no troublesome operation or operation error, and an effective massage of constantly flowing blood toward the heart can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an operation explanatory diagram of an example of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block circuit diagram of the same.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Treatment element 2 Drive mechanism 3 Moving mechanism 4 Detecting member 5 Operation control circuit

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. The treatment element has different vertical motion components.
In a massage machine having a treatment element capable of performing seed massage and a moving mechanism for changing a vertical position of the treatment element with respect to the human body, a detection member that detects a vertical position of the treatment element with respect to the human body is provided. A massage machine comprising: a movement limiting means for limiting one of the two types of fir massages on an upper side and a lower side of a human body at a position corresponding to a heart.