Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Shinpei Otuka

Yukio Yamamura

Takafumi Hamabe

Kozo Kawai

Haruo Sugai

Toshio Kusunoki

Hiroshi Moriwaki

Shojiro Kawaguchi

Otohiko Terashima

Tutomu Ichinomiya

A massager for massaging user's body with a pair of massaging elements pressed thereto, which comprises a main shaft carrying the massaging elements operatively with the shaft, a driving shaft shiftable vertically with respect to the axis with rotatable means carried at both ends for driving the main shaft and massaging elements, and means for controlling movements of the massaging elements in both directions of the main shaft axis and perpendicular thereto and rendering the movements to be startable always from a predetermined position, that is, from the inner side to the outer side of the user's shoulders or from his shoulder side on the back towards his waist, whereby the massaging elements can start from an optimum position for an intended massaging effect, ensuring an excellent convenience of use and a highly effective massaging operation.

Massager

A massaging apparatus comprises a pair of massaging wheels obliquely and eccentrically attached to a main shaft, a shifting mechanism for shifting the massaging wheels and main shaft in the direction of the length of a chair back rest or a bed, and a spacing changing mechanism for changing the spacing between the massaging wheels. The apparatus is designed to detect the position of the pair of massaging wheels and the spacing therebetween. It further comprises position selecting switches associated with the neck, shoulders, back and waist of the human body. When any one of these position selecting switches is operated, the shifting mechanism and the spacing changing mechanism as well as the rotative direction of the main shaft are automatically controlled in accordance with the detected shifted position and spacing of the massaging wheels.

Massaging apparatus

An instrument for giving patting treatment to a user's shoulder or the like body part to promote blood circulation in stiffened muscle. In a housing of the instrument's body having an aperture, stationary electromagnet part defining an axial space is fixed aligning the space with the housing aperture and freely movable plunger is disposed to extend in the axial space so that, as electromagnetically attracted at an end inside the housing to a magnetized core end due to energization of coil of the stationary electromagnet part, the plunger extracts out of the housing with the other end located in the housing aperture and having a treating attachment with which the instrument is butted to the body part substantially vertically with its weight applying to the latter through the attachment, so as to raise the instrument's body relatively upward and, upon de-energization of the coil, the instrument's body falls down to hit upon the attachment to give the patting treatment to the body part. Continuous supply of intermittent source current to the coil performs continuous pattings.

Shoulder patting instrument

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Shinpei Otuka