Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd.

Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.

Yuki Yoda

Shinji Tsutsui

Motoharu Muto

Masamichi Miyaguchi

Takayoshi Tanizawa

Daisuke Tsukada

Junji Nakamura

Yousuke Kurata

Takeo Iijima

Nobuyuki Nishitani

Yoshimi Takahashi

Taichi Hamatsuka

Takeo Iljima

Koji Terada

A chair-type massage machine includes a seat on which a user sits; a leg rest whose one end portion is pivotally connected with a front portion of the seat for pivotal movement up and down, the leg rest supporting calves of the user; a driving unit for pivotally moving the leg rest with respect to the seat; a footrest pivotally connected with the other end portion of the leg rest for pivotal movement up and down, the footrest supporting feet of the user; and a massage means provided to at least one of the leg rest and the footrest. Also, a stopper unit is provided for restricting a pivotal movement range of the footrest with respect to the leg rest, and a biasing unit is disposed for applying a biasing force to the footrest in either an upward or downward a direction of the pivotal movement.

Chair-type massage machine

A massage chair has a seating surface, a backrest and armrests at the opposite left and right sides. A covering member vertically displaceable to be opened and closed is provided on the upper surface of an armrest main body of each armrest. A massaging device is provided on at least either one of the lower surface of each covering member and the upper surface of the corresponding armrest main body. The massaging devices are driven with hands and arms tightly held between the lower surfaces of the covering members and the upper surfaces of the armrest main bodies, and the upper surfaces of the covering member serve as arm resting surfaces with the covering members closed and the massaging means not driven. There can be provided a massage chair whose arm resting positions are not restricted when the massage chair is not used to massage the hands and arms.

Massage chair

This massage machine comprises a seat, a leg-rest, a footrest, an electric extendable mechanism, a link mechanism, and a controller. The footrest is movably linked to a lower end of the leg-rest to be movable relative to the leg-rest, and is provided with air bagsconfigured to restrain a foot of the user. The electric extendable mechanism and the link mechanism are configured to move the footrest relative to the leg-rest. The controller gives the user a leg stretching mode, and in the leg stretching mode, the controller controls the electric extendable mechanism and the air bags such that the electric extendable mechanism moves the footrest relative to the leg-rest while the air bags restrains the foot of the user.

Massage machine

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