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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2000
Filed:
Feb. 05, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Yasuo Fujii, Osaka, JP;
Assignee:
Family Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
601 99 ; 601100 ; 601102 ; 601103 ; 601111 ; 601116 ; 601126 ;
Abstract
A massaging apparatus includes: a massaging unit movable along the height of a user on the back side of the user; a drive unit for moving the massaging unit along the height of the user; and a control unit for controlling the drive unit so as to position the massaging unit, the control unit including a storage part for storing position data of massaging effective spots as specified position data, and an execution part for reading a data item out of the specified position data and positioning the massaging unit based on the data item thus read.