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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1997
Torahiko Nonoue, Kakogawa, JP;
Yoshiya Furuie, Himeji, JP;
Takahiro Yuchi, Kanzaki-gun, JP;
Takeya Matsushita, Kasai, JP;
Yasuhiro Jikiba, Kasai, JP;
Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A massage machine is provided which is adapted for effective massage by initiating a pair of therapeutic fingers into a lateral movement toward or away from each other approximately simultaneously with the start of an upward or downward movement of the fingers. The massage machine comprises the therapeutic fingers arranged on the backrest of a chair, bed or the like for supporting the back of the person to be massaged, lift means for moving the therapeutic fingers upward and downward longitudinally of the backrest, means for laterally moving the therapeutic fingers toward and away from each other, and control means for initiating the therapeutic fingers into a movement toward or away from each other by the laterally moving means approximately simultaneously with the start of an upward movement of the fingers by the lift means and for initiating the fingers into a movement toward or away from each other by the laterally moving means approximately simultaneously with the start of a downward movement of the fingers by the lift means.