TH104873A - Vibration and sound bathtub system - Google Patents

Abstract

DC60 (12/06/52) The acoustic vibration system consists of a body piece with several transducers mounted on it, operating in a power-to-energy relationship. The transducers receive input signals with different wave characteristics and simultaneously drive the body piece to produce both vibrational experiences generated by tactile stimulation and acoustic experiences generated by auditory stimulation.

Claims (14)

OCR 14SR 1. A vibrating and sound-generating bath device consisting of a body filled with water and several transducers mounted in an energy-transfer relationship with the body. The transducers receive different input signals to simultaneously drive the body, creating at least one vibrating and one sound experience with wave-like characteristics. The vibrating experience is a tactile stimulus generated by the water in the body, while the sound experience is an auditory stimulus generated outside the water, resulting in an auditory stimulus. 2. A vibrating and acoustic bath device of the type described in Patent 1, in which the body is tuned to enhance at least one of the wave characteristics of the vibrational experience. 3. A vibrating and acoustic bathroom device of claim 1 in which the vibrational experience exhibits non-melodious wave characteristics, significantly unique. 4. The vibrating and acoustic bath device of the claim under paragraph 1, where at least one transducer is positioned vertically significantly above the water level in the body, and where at least one transducer is positioned vertically significantly below the water level, and where at least one transducer above the water level provides an acoustic experience, and at least one transducer below the water level provides a vibrating experience. 5. A vibrating and acoustic bath device of the type described in Patent 1, which contains at least four transducers, with the first pair of transducers arranged around the first axis of the body and the second pair of transducers arranged around the second axis of the body, which is significantly perpendicular to the first axis. 6. A vibrating and acoustic bath device of the type described in Patent 5, which contains at least six transducers, of which at least two transducers are used exclusively for the acoustic experience and at least four transducers are used exclusively for the vibrating experience. 7. The vibrating and acoustically producing bathroom device of claim 6, where at least two transducers used exclusively for the acoustic experience are arranged on opposite sides of the first axis. 8. The vibrating and sounding bathroom device of claim 7, in which at least four transducers used exclusively for the vibrating experience are arranged, one transducer in each quadrant defined by the first and second axes. 9. Bathroom fixtures of a type that generate vibration and sound as per claim 8, where the body piece is defined as a bathtub. 10. Bathroom fixtures that generate vibration and sound under claim 9, where the bathtub contains a headrest for the bather's head which is significantly lower than the rim of the bathtub. 11. The bathroom fixtures that generate vibration and sound under claim 10, where the basin is bounded by the foot wall, head wall, and two side walls, with the foot wall on opposite sides of the second axis from the head wall, and the two side walls extending between the head and foot walls on opposite sides of the first axis. 12. A vibrating and sound-generating bathroom device consisting of a body for filling with water and several transducers mounted in an energy-transfer relationship with the body. The transducers receive input signals with distinct and separate acoustic and vibrational wave characteristics. These transducers simultaneously drive the body to create a sound experience corresponding to the acoustic wave characteristics, resulting in auditory stimulation, and a vibration experience corresponding to the vibrational wave characteristics, resulting in tactile stimulation. 13. A vibrating and sound-generating bathroom device consisting of a body for filling with water. A first transducer unit is installed in an energy-relationship relationship with the body and receives an input signal with acoustic wave characteristics. A second transducer unit is installed in an energy-relationship relationship with the body and receives an input signal with vibrational wave characteristics different from acoustic wave characteristics. The first and second transducer units drive the body to simultaneously generate a vibrational experience corresponding to the vibrational wave characteristics and an acoustic experience corresponding to the acoustic wave characteristics, resulting in separate and distinct tactile and auditory stimuli. 14. A vibrating and sound-generating bathroom device consisting of a water-filled body where, when filled with water, the water level defines a boundary relative to the body, with the lower part being completely filled with water. A first set of transducers is positioned in an energy-dependent relationship with the body significantly above the water level and receives an input signal with acoustic wave characteristics. A second set of transducers is positioned in an energy-dependent relationship with the body significantly below the water level and receives an input signal with vibrational wave characteristics distinct from acoustic wave characteristics. The first and second sets of transducers simultaneously drive the body to generate a vibrational experience corresponding to the vibrational wave characteristics and an acoustic experience corresponding to the acoustic wave characteristics, resulting in distinct and separate tactile and auditory stimuli.