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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2003
Filed:
May. 28, 1999
Stanley Cutler, Van Nuys, CA (US);
Gayle B. Gerth, Dana Point, CA (US);
Alton B. Otis, Jr., Port Townsend, WA (US);
Taylor Chau, Cerritos, CA (US);
Salton, Inc., Mount Prospect, IL (US);
Abstract
A massaging system includes a pad comprising with multiple zones sand vibratory transducers in the pad for vibrating the zones. Each transducer includes a motor and a mass element eccentrically coupled to the motor. The massaging system also includes a microcontroller having an input interface and an output interface, a program memory coupled to the microcontroller, and input elements coupled to the input interface for signaling the microcontroller in response to operator input. A motor driver coupled to the output interface and the vibratory transducers drives the vibratory transducers in response to the operator input, while firmware stored in the memory and executed by the microcontroller selectively operates the vibratory transducers in a tapping mode and a wave mode in response to the operator input.