Daito Electric Machine Industry Company Limited

Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Shinsaku Shimizu

Tetsuya Ishikawa

Yuhichiroh Murakami

Fumitaka Ishiguro

Koichi Numata

Yasushi Sasaki

Shige Furuta

Shigeki Noda

Tamotsu Sakai

Ken Tamaki

Kazuhiro Maeda

Seijirou Gyouten

Ichiro Shiraki

Etsuo Yamamoto

Yasushi Sone

Ying Liu

Mikitaka Aoki

Zhenhai Zhang

Bolin Wang

Teruo Mihara

There is provided a leg massager that massages a user's leg by a position-adjustable massaging system for selectively massaging massage target areas of the leg. The leg massager includes: a lower massaging system that massages a massage target area of the user's leg L including at least user's foot F; an upper massaging system that massages an upper massage target area located above the massage target area which is massaged by the lower massaging system; a driving mechanism that drives the upper massaging system and the lower massaging system; and a rockably supporting portion that supports the upper massaging system for rocking motion about its horizontal axis.

Leg massager

There is provided a massage device for performing a grabbing massage such as to grab a to-be-massaged area. The massage device () comprises: a kneading massage member () having a kneading massager () at its front end; and a grabbing massage member () having a grabbing massager () at its front end, which is disposed on the base end side of the kneading massage member (), and, the grabbing massage member () is designed to perform a grabbing massage by moving the grabbing massager of the grabbing massage member () close to and away from the kneading massager ().

Massage device

A massaging apparatus has two massaging systems arranged proximate to each other for performing more elaborate massage on target body areas. The massaging apparatus includes a first massaging member pair for massaging target areas; a second massaging member pair, provided independently of the first massaging member pair, for massaging target areas; a rotation shaft rotatably driven; a paired first conversion mechanisms, each disposed on a corresponding one of the first massaging members, for converting rotation of the rotation shaft into mutually approaching and separating movements of the first massaging members; and a second conversion mechanism for converting rotation of the rotation shaft into mutually approaching and separating movements of the paired second massaging members. The second massaging member pair is disposed between the paired first massaging members, and the second conversion mechanism is disposed between the paired first conversion mechanisms.

Massaging apparatus

Provided is a massage machine enabling an effective massage treatment by a pair of left and right massage members even for users having various sizes or thicknesses of treatment regions. A massage machine according to the present invention includes: a pair of left and right massage members provided so as to hold a treatment region; a rotating shaft provided so as to laterally penetrate the left and right massage members; a drive unit for rotationally driving the rotating shaft; and a conversion part for converting a rotating force of the rotating shaft to a massage operation by the massage members, and in this massage machine, there is provided a horizontal movement mechanism for causing at least one of the pair of left and right massage members to move in a horizontal direction along the rotating shaft by rotating the rotating shaft to thereby make an interval between the pair of left and right massage members variable.

Massage machine

A massage apparatus in which both a massage mechanism and a warm-cool air supply section are housed inside a backrest. The massage apparatus includes a backrest for supporting a user's back; and a massage mechanism disposed inside the backrest for producing massage action on user's back. The backrest has a front side with a two-layer structure. A warm-cool air supply section is provided that is capable of feeding warm or cool air into an interlayer region of the two-layer structure. The massage mechanism can be moved up and down along the lengthwise direction of the backrest. The warm-cool air supply section is located outside of a movement area which is the range of up-and-down movement of the massage mechanism.

Massage apparatus

In a back massaging apparatus capable of projecting a massaging mechanism forward and returning the same to an original normal position, a motion amount is to be sufficient. The back massaging apparatus provided in a chair-type massaging machine includes: a massaging mechanism having: left and right paired massaging members each of which is provided with a treatment unit performing a massaging operation; and a drive unit transmitting a massaging operation to the massaging members; and a projection amount variable mechanism which moves the massaging members so that a projection amount of the treatment unit in the back and forth direction is varied.

Back massaging apparatus

A massage device for performing a kneading massage including paired left and right massage members, each having a treatment element, and a massage mechanism for operating at least one of the paired massage members to cause the treatment elements to move close to and away from each other in the horizontal direction to produce kneading actions. The massage member has an arm member extending substantially perpendicularly to the approaching/separating direction, and the treatment element is disposed at the front end of the arm member so that an extended line L extending along the protruding direction of the arm member passes through the interior of the treatment element.

Massage device and chair-type massage apparatus equipped with the massage device

There is provided a massage device capable of producing innovative and comfortable massage effect by massaging a target body part over a wide area in its lengthwise direction with substantially rectilinear motion of a pressure-applying point. The massage devicecomprises a pair of treatment membersarranged face-to-face with each other at a spacing large enough for insertion of part of human body; a holding mechanismfor holding and pressing the body part in sandwich style by moving at least one of the paired treatment members or both of themin the direction of width of the body part set in place between the paired treatment members; and a moving mechanismfor moving the treatment memberin the direction of length of the body part while maintaining the holding condition of the treatment membereffected by the holding mechanism

Lower-leg massage device

The back kneading device mounted in the chair-type massage apparatus comprises: the massage mechanism including paired right-hand and left-hand massage members having the treatment element for massage and the driving section for transmitting massage action to the massage member; the base member for supporting the massage mechanism, with the massage member pointing forward; the vertical movement mechanism for moving the base member in the vertical direction in the backrest; and the protruding-amount varying mechanism for moving the massage member so that protrusion amount of the treatment element in the front-rear direction can be varied.

Back kneading device and chair-type massage apparatus equipped with the back kneading device

There is provided a chair-type massage apparatus which, while having a low-height backrest, affords an adequate massage effect without forcing a user to take an uncomfortable position. The chair-type massage apparatuscomprises: the seat; the base framefor supporting the seaton a floor; the backrestdisposed at the rear of the seatfor the support of user's back; and the massage sectionincorporated in the backrest, for performing a massage on a user sitting on the seat, and further includes the up-and-down meansfor switchably changing the height of the backrestvertically within a range between the housing position where the lower part of the backrestis stored under the seatand the protruding position where the lower part of the backrestis raised to an upper location.

Chair-type massage apparatus

There is provided a massage apparatus capable of providing optimum massage effects even with variations in thickness of to-be-treated area such as a lower leg from user to user. The massage apparatusincludes a massage sectionhaving a stationary massage memberand a movable massage member, a rotary shaftdisposed so as to pass through the base end of the movable massage member, a driving sectionfor rotatably driving the rotary shaft, a pair of right-hand and left-hand changer sectionsfor changing a rotational force of the rotary shaftinto an action of movement of the movable massage membertoward and away from the stationary massage member; and a breadth adjustment mechanismcapable of positioning movement of the stationary massage memberin directions toward and away from the movable massage member

An objective is to perform a leg massage under appropriate temperature conditions. The lower leg massage apparatuscomprises: a pair of right and left insertion recessesin a vertically-extending continuous form, into which are inserted feet F and calves C of a user; a first massage mechanismdisposed within an upper part of the insertion recess, for massaging the inserted calves C, and a second massage mechanismdisposed within a lower part of the insertion recess, for massaging the inserted feet F. Further provided are a cover bodyof a two-layer structure which is disposed in the insertion recessso as to cover the first massage mechanismand the second massage mechanism, and a warm air/cool air supply sectionfor supplying a warm or cool current of air to a region between the two layers constituting the cover body

Lower leg massage apparatus

The chair-type massage apparatus is characterized in that, when placed with its back facing a room wall, it can be located near the wall and, when its seat is made movable back-and-forth, the leg kneading device mounted at the front of the seat can be used without being obstructed by the back-and-forth movement. The chair-type massage apparatuscomprises the seat, the base frame, and the backrestreclinably mounted at the rear of the seat. During reclining, the upper end of the backrest moves vertically along one vertical line. The leg kneading device is mounted at the front of the seat. The base frame has the seat moving mechanismfor moving the seat at least in the front-rear direction, and the seat has the position changing mechanismfor effecting positional change of the leg kneading device relative to the seat while maintaining the relative distance.

A back kneading device capable of causing a massage mechanism to protrude forward and return to an original normal position is provided with no increase in size and complexity in construction. The back kneading device mounted in a chair massage apparatus includes the massage mechanism having a pair of right-hand and left-hand massage members, a base member for pivotally supporting the mechanism at its lower end, a vertical movement mechanism for imparting a vertical motion to the base member, an advancing and retracting mechanism for rockably driving the massage mechanism, and a rock restricting mechanism for an adjusting an angle of rotation of the massage mechanism so that, when the device is in an upper position, an upper end of the massage member protrudes forward, whereas, in a lower position, a lower end thereof protrudes forward.

Back kneading device mounted in chair-type massage apparatus and chair-type massage apparatus equipped with the back kneading device

A massage chair with a foot massaging device, which includes a seat unit, a backrest unit, and the foot massaging device located at a front portion of the seat unit, can make the structure simpler, the weight lighter, and the cost lower all at once. The massage chair is provided under the seat unitwith a back-and-forth motion mechanismjoined to the foot massaging device, and when the back-and-forth motion mechanismprotrudes forward, the foot massaging deviceadvances to a using position U which is located in front of the seat unitand at which a lower leg of a user can be massaged, while when the back-and-forth motion mechanismretracts backward, the foot massaging deviceis housed in a housing position P formed under the seat unit

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Higashiosaka, Japan

Shinsaku Shimizu