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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:
Nov. 06, 2001
Filed:
Oct. 18, 1999
Ingo Müller, Klagenfurt, AT;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A massaging apparatus (,) comprising a housing (,) having a bottom wall (,) and a suction chamber (,) bounded by chamber walls (,) and a pump (,) for the generation of a partial vacuum inside the suction chamber (,) and thus forming a skin fold (,) which is drawn into the suction space inside the suction chamber (,), as well as at least one roller (,) to be placed onto a body area (,), comprises at least in an area of at least one wall (,), preferably a chamber wall (,), an apparatus part, preferably two cylinders (,), which is movable with respect to this chamber wall (,), and these cylinders (,) are movable, i.e. rotatable, with respect to the chamber wall (,) by the skin of the skin fold (,) drawn into the suction chamber (,), which results in only a comparatively low friction between the chamber wall (,) and the skin of the skin fold (,).
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