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Title:
MASSAGE MACHINE AND MASSAGE CHAIR
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2001008996
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To obtain massage efficiency having a different strength without giving uncomfortable feeling by controlling hardness of treating members corresponding with a massage process in a massage machine having the treating members for giving the massage efficiency to a human body.

Treating members 1 of which operation gives massage efficiency to a human body are constituted in such a way that hardness of the treating members is controlled according to a massage process. The treating members 1 control tensile stress by changing distorted conditions of a spring 17 caused by rotation of a motor 10. When an operation body 13 is drawn together with a slide shaft 12 and action supporting members 15 are actuated expanding by an operation of a slanted surface 14, a treating touch body 16 is pushed from an inside to change its hardness to a hard condition. The hardness of the treating members 1 is kept in a soft condition (soft) at early and final stages of the massage process, and the hardness is changed to a hard condition (hard), at a middle stage of the massage process.


Inventors:
FUKUTANI MAKOTO
OWA MASATOSHI
MAKITA SATORU
HOJO HIROYUKI
MIYAGUCHI MASAMICHI
NISHIO FUMIHIRO
NISHIBORI YUICHI
SARUTA MASAFUMI
YODA HIROKI
TANIZAWA TAKAYOSHI
Application Number:
JP18101299A
Publication Date:
January 16, 2001
Filing Date:
June 28, 1999
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
MATSUSHITA ELECTRIC WORKS LTD
International Classes:
A61H7/00; (IPC1-7): A61H7/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Junji Ando (1 person outside)



 
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