Seiken Co., Ltd.

Masatoshi Takeuchi

Takayasu Hamagaki

A nonwoven fiber abrasive disk is formed with a hole in the center, from flexible fibers randomly oriented in all three dimensions. The abrasive disk has compressed regions that radiate out from the center to the perimeter, with uncompressed abrasive regions located between them. The fibers in the compressed regions are densely pressed together and hardened with bonding adhesive introduced into the gaps between those fibers, such that the disk thickness in those regions is less than that in the uncompressed abrasive regions. The abrasive regions of the disk, which are thicker than the compressed regions, protrude out to form the abrasive surface.

Nonwoven fiber abrasive disk

In an air mat apparatus comprising a mat body having a plurality of defined air chambers, there is an air source for feeding air to each of the air chambers of the mat body and a changeover valve connected between the mat body and the air source for controlling the air feed from the air source to each of air chambers. An air-containing elastic layer is laid on the upper surface of the mat body. The air-containing elastic layer has such an elasticity and is provided with numerous voids which can suck air into the inside and which are open to the outer air so that the air-containing elastic layer is made to discharge and suck air when the air chambers are inflated and deflated whereby compulsory ventilation is achieved between the mat body and the body surface of the user. The present invention relates to an air mat apparatus which is mainly laid on a bed or chair or wound round a hand or leg in order to promote the blood circulation of the body surface to prevent bedsores or to massage the waist, back, hand, leg or the like.

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Anan, Japan

Masatoshi Takeuchi