CN1152659C

CN1152659C - Chair type massage apparatus

Info

Publication number: CN1152659C
Application number: CNB991053486A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 久米正夫; 年; 山内丰; 森田芳年
Original assignee: Sanyo Electric Co Ltd
Current assignee: Sanyo Electric Co Ltd
Priority date: 1998-04-30
Filing date: 1999-04-30
Publication date: 2004-06-09
Anticipated expiration: 2019-04-30
Also published as: KR100304385B1; JPH11309189A; KR19990082757A; CN1233460A; TW381017B

Abstract

The invention relates to a seat massaging device, which switchs or releases the rotating limitation of treatment arm according to the massaging portion so as to enhance the massaging effect. The seat massaging device is to mount the massaging units elevating along the backrest of the seat, and the massaging unit is rotatably configured frontward protruded treatment arm from the view of backrest; and mounting a pair of treatment fingers for pushing the patient's affected portion in the front end of the massaging arm. The device comprises a rotating lock means whose location corresponds to the patient's affected portion for the massaging of treatment fingers and fix the rotating position of treatment arm; and the lock releasing means for releasing the fixture of treatment arm.

Description

Chair massage machine

Technical field

The present invention relates to a kind ofly under the state of being sat down, affected parts such as shoulder, waist are implemented the chair massage machine of massage by therapist.

Background technology

Figure 13 shows an example of existing massage appliance.This massage appliance is installed on massage unit 2 along the backrest 31 of chair 30 in the mode of liftable and on the saddle of establishing 32.In the following stated, observe by backrest 31, be called the place ahead with the side of taking one's seat, and be called the rear with its rightabout.

Have a pair of treatment up and down at massage unit 2 leading sections and refer to that 10,11 treatment arm 12 by pivot suspension (12a) in central part, and this treatment arm 12 refers to 10 towards preceding outstanding direction pushing by spring (not shown) with the treatment of upside.

By these mechanisms, make two pairs of treatments refer to that 10,11 adherences under by the state at the back of therapist, move up and down massage unit 2, and implementing the rubbing motion, strike and beat motion, and then reaching massage effect.

Summary of the invention

As above-mentioned, in the prior art, treatment refers to 10,11 concavo-convex according to by the back of therapist up and down, and articulates (12a) treatment arm 12 with rotary way, so that continue and contact side by side.This mechanism produces effect when the more smooth back of massage, but when the massage shoulder, the treatment of upside refers to that 10 rotate treatment arm 12, therefore has the treatment of side on massage institute necessity of shoulder to refer to that 10 can not be pressed on the anxiety of shoulder fully.By identical reason, when the massage waist, also there is the treatment of side under massage institute necessity to refer to that 11 can not be pressed on the anxiety of waist fully again.

In view of this, the applicant envisions when massage shoulder or waist, and the rotation freely of limit treatment arm 12 is to improve massage effect.

The present invention's purpose is to switch according to the place of massage the restriction and the releasing of the rotation of the freedom for the treatment of arm, and then improves massage effect.

The invention provides a kind of chair massage machine, backrest (31) along chair (30) liftably is provided with massage unit (2), and this massage unit (2) is provided with rotatable and from the forwards outstanding treatment arm (12) of backrest (31), again, have a pair of treatment of pushing up and down in the leading section of this treatment arm (12) and refer to (10) by the affected part of therapist, (11), it is characterized in that: be provided with at treatment arm (12) and rotate locked mechanism (4) and locking cancel system (7), this rotates locked mechanism (4), it refers to (10) corresponding to treatment, (11) should massage by the affected part place of therapist, to the treatment arm (12) the turned position fix; Locking cancel system (7), it removes the fixing of this treatment arm (12).

Chair massage machine is along the backrest 31 of chair 30 and massage unit 2 liftably is set, and this massage unit 2 be provided with rotationally by backrest observe and towards the place ahead outstanding treatment arm 12, have a pair of treatment of pushing up and down in the leading section of this treatment arm 12 again and refer to 10,11 by the affected part of therapist.

Be equipped with corresponding to treatment at treatment arm 12 and refer to that 10,11 should be by massage by the affected part place of therapist and the rotation locked mechanism 4 of the turned position of fixation for treatment arm 12 and the fixed locking cancel system 7 of removing this treatment arm 12.

By the desirable affected part of therapist massage shoulder or waist etc. the time, make locked mechanism 4 work of rotating, and the turned position of fixation for treatment arm 12.In order to massage back etc., and operation locking cancel system 7, and then remove fixing of this treatment arm 12.By this, in massage during the back, can be relatively it is concavo-convex and treatment arm 12 is freely rotated, and then make to treat up and down and refer to that 10,11 adherences are in by therapist.Again, when massage shoulder and waist, but the rotation of fixation for treatment arm 12, and can as in the past,, not make treatment refer to break away from affected part in shoulder, waist, thus can realize sufficient massage effect to all sites.

Description of drawings

Fig. 1 is for showing the summary lateral view of massage appliance;

Fig. 2 is the axonometric chart by the forward observation massage unit;

Fig. 3 is an axonometric chart of being observed massage unit by the rear;

Fig. 4 is the back view of pedestal;

The back view that Fig. 5 A, Fig. 5 B concern for the position that shows pedestal and stopper element, Fig. 5 A shows the not state of drawing cable, Fig. 5 B is the state that shows torsion spring flexural deformation drawing cable;

Fig. 6 is for showing the axonometric chart of the state that cable erection refers in a treatment;

Fig. 7 A, Fig. 7 B are the side view of treatment arm, and Fig. 7 A is that the treatment of demonstration upside refers to be connected to the turned position by the treatment arm of the shoulder of therapist, and Fig. 7 B is that the treatment of demonstration downside refers to be connected to the turned position by the treatment arm of the waist of therapist;

Fig. 8 is the axonometric chart of arm locking connecting rod and movable platen;

Fig. 9 rotates the arm locking connecting rod of locked mechanism and the front elevation of movable platen for formation;

Figure 10 is the side view of the rotation locked mechanism of Fig. 9;

Figure 11 A, Figure 11 B, Figure 11 C, Figure 11 D are for showing the side view of the action that constitutes the arm locking connecting rod that rotates locked mechanism and movable platen, the state that Figure 11 A moves for the turned position that the treatment phalangeal process that shows to downside goes out, the turned position that Figure 11 B goes out the treatment phalangeal process of downside for demonstration, the state that Figure 11 C moves for the turned position that the treatment phalangeal process that shows to upside goes out, the turned position that Figure 11 D goes out the treatment phalangeal process of upside for demonstration;

Figure 12 is the axonometric chart of locking cancel system;

Figure 13 is for showing the summary lateral view of existing massage appliance;

Figure 14 A, Figure 14 B, Figure 14 C are for showing the side view of another embodiment that constitutes the movable platen that rotates locked mechanism and anvil piece, Figure 14 A shows the not locking condition of treatment arm, the turned position that Figure 14 B demonstration goes out the treatment phalangeal process of downside, the turned position that Figure 14 C demonstration goes out the treatment phalangeal process of upside.

The specific embodiment

Below, use accompanying drawing that an example of the present invention is described in detail in detail.

Fig. 1 is the side view of massage appliance 3.With identical in the past, the chair 30 of massage appliance 3 has backrest 31, but and chimeric in the saddle 32 free lifting ground that extend along this backrest 31 massage unit 2 is arranged.

Fig. 2 is an axonometric chart of being observed massage unit 2 by the front side, and Fig. 3 is an axonometric chart of being observed massage unit 2 by rear side.Side at the pedestal 20 that sheet bending is constituted is extruded with the

roller

33,33,33,33 that is embedded in saddle 32, and offers two

saturating windows

22,22 in the front of this pedestal 20.Swing arm 21 is given prominence to by each saturating window 22, and in these swing arm 21 pivot joints (12a) treatment arm 12 is arranged.Treatment arm 12 refers to the treatment of upside by spring (not shown) the 10 outstanding directions pushings towards the place ahead, and in the leading section of treatment arm 12 a pair of treatment is installed up and down and refers to 10,11.

Rear side in pedestal 20 is provided with gear-box 50, and is extruded with rubbing axle 51 and is positioned at striking of side under this rubbing axle 51 by the side of this gear-box 50 and beat spools 52.Rubbing axle 51 links with the angle that tilts a little with the articulated section of swing arm, and strikes and beat axle 52 and link by connecting rod 53 and swing arm 21.

Be provided with motor (not shown) in the gear-box 50, if this revolution rubbing axle 51, then two

swing arms

21,21 reciprocally approaching, leave, and implement the rubbing motion.Beat axle 52 if rotate to strike, then two

swing arms

21,21 strike and beat motion.And the internal structure of gear-box 50 and to make two swing arms, 21,21 mechanisms approaching, that leave by the rotation of rubbing axle 51 be prior art, its detailed description of Therefore, omited.

[the automatic rotation of treatment arm]

In gear-box 50 carriage 54 is installed, and the screw rod 55 that extends up and down is screwed together in this carriage 54.Make massage unit 2 liftings by the rotating drive of screw rod 55.

In the present invention, make massage unit 2 liftings, and arrive corresponding to the time by the position of the shoulder of therapist or waist in massage unit 2, make

treatment arm

12,12 automatically rotate up to treatment refer to 10,11 touch the position of shoulder or waist till.Below, this mechanism is described.

Fig. 4 is the back view of automatic rotation mechanism 6 of being located at the back side of pedestal 20, and the record of omitting gear-box 50 and roller 33.As shown in Figures 3 and 4, be provided with a pair of

support cable

60,60 that extends up and down, and,

stopper element

61,61 be installed on the upper and lower end parts of this

support cable

60,60 corresponding to the position that rises or descend and finish on the massage unit 2 in the rear side of pedestal 20.This rising or decline end position correspond respectively to by the shoulder of therapist or waist.And

support cable

60,60 not to be located at pedestal 20, and be located at the massage appliance body.As shown in Figure 3, the stopper element 61 of top and the bottom forms the notch part 62 towards the place ahead opening respectively.As following, in these notch part 62 chimeric torsion springs 23 that massage unit 2 is arranged.

Upper and lower end parts in the back side of pedestal 20 is provided with and makes

foot sheet

24,24

torsion spring

23,23 of central part down on pedestal 20, and the lower end of the

foot sheet

24,24 of each torsion spring 23 is connected on the coupling member 63.Horizontal range under this

foot sheet

24,24 between end is wide than the left and right sides width of the notch part 62 of stopper element 61.On pedestal 20, the top and the below of saturating

window

22,22 are provided with the

roller

64,64,64,64 that has groove, and are connected with the end of cable 65 on the

coupling member

63,63 of the

foot sheet

24,24 that is linked to upside torsion spring 23 respectively.Above-mentioned

support cable

60,60 runs through coupling member 63,63.Each cable 65 is linked to the treatment of respectively treating side under the arm 12 via the roller that has

groove

64,64 that is positioned at end on the pedestal 20 and refers near 11.

Similarly,, be connected with

cable

66,66 by

coupling member

63,63, and this cable 66 is linked to the treatment of respectively treating side on the arm 12 via the

roller

64,64 that has groove and refers near 10 in the torsion spring 23 of downside.

Fig. 6 is the axonometric chart by the swing arm 21 on the right side of front side observation Fig. 3.Be provided with two

pulleys

25,26 in the inboard overlapping of swing arm 21, and above-mentioned cable 65 is linked to the treatment for the treatment of side under the arm 12 and refers near 11 after being wound in inboard pulley 26.Therefore, if cable 65 is pulled to the A direction of Fig. 6, then the treatment of upside refers to that 10 rotate down.

Similarly, be linked to the pulley 25 of cable 66 side outside being wound on the swing arm 21 of torsion spring 23 of downside after, the treatment that is linked to side on the treatment arm 12 refers near 10.Therefore, if this cable 66 is pulled to the B direction of Fig. 6, then the treatment of downside refers to that 11 rotate up.

If massage unit 2 is risen, then shown in Fig. 5 B, the torsion spring 23 of upside is embedded in the notch part 62 of stopper element 61.As above-mentioned, the distance under the

foot sheet

24,24 of torsion spring 23 between end is wide than the width of the notch part 62 of stopper element 61, so torsion spring 24 is resisted elastic force and produced flexural deformation, and then the distance between the lower end narrows down.As above-mentioned, draw cable 65, and make the treatment of upside refer to that 10 rotate down.

Because the stopper element 61 of upside is located at corresponding to the position of the shoulder of therapist, so when massage unit 2 arrived correspondences by the position of the shoulder of therapist, the treatment of upside referred to that 10 rotate towards shoulder.

Similarly, massage unit 2 arrives corresponding during by the position of the waist of therapist, and the treatment of downside refers to that 11 rotate towards waist.That is in the position that massage unit 2 rises or descends and finish, treatment refers to that 10,11 rotate towards the position that should massage.

[locked mechanism of treatment arm]

Shown in Fig. 2 and Fig. 7 A, Fig. 7 B, be provided with across swing arm 21 and treatment arm 12 and rotate locked mechanism 4.Shown in Fig. 7 A, rotate locked mechanism 4 and refer to that in the treatment of upside 10 rotate and when being contacted with by the shoulder of therapist down, and shown in Fig. 7 B, refer to that in the treatment of downside 11 rotate and when being contacted with by the waist of therapist up, the rotational angle of fixation for treatment arm 12.A fixing end by connecting rod 41 that arm is locked of the rotational angle of treatment arm 12 is articulated in treatment arm 12, and the other end can be locked in swing arm 21 with engaging or break away from and implement.The treatment arm 12 that rotates according to the lifting of massage unit 2 by automatic rotation mechanism 6 can prevent terminating in careless rotation in the massage by rotating locked mechanism 4.

Fig. 8 rotates the axonometric chart of locked mechanism 4 for this; Fig. 9 is for rotating the front view of locked mechanism 4; Figure 10 is the right hand view of Fig. 9, and section shows the

pulley

25,26 that is positioned at side within the swing arm 21.Rotating locked mechanism 4 comprises: substrate 40 is rotatably installed on swing arm 21; Arm locking connecting rod 41 is located at substrate 40 slidably, and the treatment of leading section and downside refers to that 11 are embedded in treatment arm 12 coaxially; And movable platen 42, liftably be installed on this arm locking connecting rod 41.Substrate 40 and movable platen 42 are covered by chest 19, and directly are not contacted with by therapist.

As shown in figure 10, be penetrated with guiding tube 70 in the central part of swing arm 21 and above-mentioned

pulley

25,26, and anvil piece 72 can be embedded in this guiding tube 70 with haunting.Anvil piece 72 push outwardly by spring 44, and aforesaid substrate 40 is mounted to and can freely rotates for the center by guiding tube 70 in guiding tube 70.Following locking is removed cable 71 and is extended by the end of pulley 26 sides.

As shown in Figure 9, offer the opening 45 that extends along longitudinally in the base end part with respect to the arm of swing arm 21 locking connecting rod 41, anvil piece 72 runs through opening 45, and leading section is located at the guide plate 46 of side outside the arm locking connecting rod 41 and is supported.Guide plate 46 is fixed on the substrate 40 via opening 45.

Be provided with two

vertical holes

47,47 on the movable platen 42 abreast, and 47,47 chimeric the

prominent axle

48,48 that is extended outwardly by arm locking connecting rod 41 arranged in this vertical hole.On the movable platen 42 latch plate 49 can be installed joltily, and the both ends of this latch plate 49 push

prominent axle

48,48 up, and make

prominent axle

48,48 be connected to the upside ora terminalis in vertical hole 47,47.Be equipped with leg-of-

mutton tab

43,43 down by the lower end of movable platen 42, and the leading section of anvil piece 72 is between two tabs 43,43.The upper end of anvil piece 72 becomes pointed, along with the slip of arm locking connecting rod 41 with movable platen 42, and the upper end of anvil piece 72 and a certain tab 43 of movable platen 42 is joined.On substrate 40, sense switch SW1, SW2 are installed on two direction terminal points of the mobile route of movable platen 42.

As shown in Figure 9, if by the state of anvil piece 72 between

tab

43,43, treatment arm 12 is rotated up, then shown in Fig. 7 B, the treatment of downside refers to that 11 are connected to waist.Below, the action of rotating locked mechanism 4 of this moment is described.

By the rotation of treatment arm 12, and the arm connecting rod 41 that locks is pulled to left.The

prominent axle

48,48 of arm locking connecting rod 41 is pressed to left with movable platen 42.The tab 43 on the right side of movable platen 42 presses on the front end of anvil piece 72, and shown in Figure 11 A, movable platen 42 antagonistic spring plates 49, and towards counterclockwise rotating vertical hole 47 enough and to spare part with prominent axle 48.And if arm locking connecting rod 41 and movable platen 42 slide, then after the tab 43 of movable platen 42 strode across anvil piece 72, movable platen 42 was pressed towards the below by latch plate 49, and shown in Figure 11 B, the tab 43 on the right side of movable platen 42 is positioned at the left side of anvil piece 72.By latch plate 49 with movable platen 42 pushing downwards, like this, arm locking connecting rod 41 can be limited in the rubbing action towards right-hand careless slip, and the treatment that does not have a downside refers to 11 anxieties towards the direction rotation that is broken away from by waist.

And under the state shown in Figure 11 B, if pushing then has the tab 43 of movable platen 42 to stride across anvil piece 72 to right-hand to arm locking connecting rod 41 with brute force, and arm locking connecting rod 41 is towards the anxiety of right-hand slip.So, shown in Figure 14 A, if the inboard with

tab

43,43 is inclined-plane 43a, and the outside is vertical 43b, and only the leading section of anvil piece 72 is inclined-plane 72a, even then arm locking connecting rod 41 is urged to right-hand with brute force, also as shown in Figure 14B, the vertical 43b of tab 43 is connected to anvil piece 72, and can improve the locking effect of arm locking connecting rod 41.

Arm locking connecting rod 41 is pressed into sense switch SW1, and will be shown to from the signal of sense switch SW1 by therapist, and then can judge that treatment arm 12 is locked.

And if by the state of front end between

tab

43,43 of anvil piece 72, treatment arm 12 is rotated down, then shown in Figure 11 C, movable platen 42 antagonistic spring plates 49 and rotating toward the clockwise direction, and then the tab 43 on the left of making strides across anvil piece 72.Shown in Figure 11 D, 41 restrictions of arm locking connecting rod are towards the slip of left, and the treatment that does not have a upside refers to the anxiety towards the direction rotation that is broken away from by shoulder.Even in this occasion,, then can improve the locking effect of arm locking connecting rod 41 if the

tab

43,43 of movable platen 42 and the shape of anvil piece 72 are formed shown in Figure 14 C.

[locking is removed]

In order to make the treatment arm 12 that is locked free to rotate again, remove locking.Below, show this locking cancel system 7.

As shown in figure 10, in the end near pulley 26 of anvil piece 72 locking is installed and removes cable 71, draw this locking to remove cable 71 if resisting spring 44, then draw in anvil piece 72.Remove the butt of anvil piece 72 and movable platen 42, and arm locking connecting rod 41 and movable platen 42 are become slidably, and then treatment arm 12 becomes free to rotate.

Figure 12 for ease of explanation, omits the record of the roller 64 that has groove for the axonometric chart of the mechanism of drawing locking releasing cable 71.As Fig. 4 and shown in Figure 12, on pedestal 20, locking cancel system 7 is arranged between the window 22,22.Locking cancel system 7 has semicircular relaying pulley 74 on the carriage 73 that is installed in pedestal 20, simultaneously, offer vertical hole 77 in the front, and mobile pulley 75 is embedded in liftably in this vertical hole 77.Be concaved with the groove (not shown) of removing cable 71 in order to the locking of reeling in relaying pulley 74.

In carriage 73, liftably be provided with and be linked to the slide mass 8 that moves slip 75, and offer recess 80 in the side of this slide mass 8.Offer opening 76 in the side of carriage 73, and be equipped with coil 81 in the sidepiece of carriage 73.Haunt via opening 76 in this coil 81 and to be provided with the pin 82 of the recess 80 that is embedded in slide mass 8 freely.Mobile pulley 75 and slide mass 8 are pushed towards the below slightly by being set up in the drawing spring 83 between pedestal 20 and the mobile slip 75.

The locking of being extended by the swing arm 21 of a side is removed cable 71 and is wound on relaying pulley 74 and the mobile pulley 75, and is linked to another swing arm 21.

In locking treatment arm 12 and when implementing the rubbing motion since a pair of swing arm shown in Figure 2 21,21 reciprocally approaching, leave, so locking is removed cable 71 tensions or relaxed, and change its tension force.Because mobile pulley 75 is urged slightly, thus the tensile variation of cable 71 removed by locking, and can move up and down.

In order to remove the locking of treatment arm 12, and be energized to coil 81, and then make pin 82 outstanding.Sell 82 via opening 76, and be embedded in the recess 80 of slide mass 8.Slide mass 8 is limited to move up and down, and improves the tension force that cable 71 is removed in locking.Draw in anvil piece 72 shown in Figure 10, and the butt of releasing and movable platen 42.So, can remove the locking of treatment arm 12.That is, in order to remove the locking of treatment arm 12, and in rubbing action, make coil 81 actions.By this, when massage back etc., two treatments refer to that 10,11 are contacted with the back equably, and can improve massage effect.

Though the present invention with the embodiment explanation as above, so it is not in order to limit the present invention.The structure of each several part of the present invention is not limited to the foregoing description, anyly has the knack of this skill person, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention, can do all distortion, so the present invention's protection domain is as the criterion with claims.

Claims

1. chair massage machine, backrest (31) along chair (30) liftably is provided with massage unit (2), and this massage unit (2) is provided with rotatable and from the forwards outstanding treatment arm (12) of backrest (31), again, have up and down to push in the leading section of this treatment arm (12) and refer to (10), (11), it is characterized in that by a pair of treatment of the affected part of therapist:

Be provided with at treatment arm (12) and rotate locked mechanism (4) and locking cancel system (7), this rotates locked mechanism (4), its corresponding to treatment refer to that (10), (11) should massage by the affected part place of therapist, the turned position for the treatment of arm (12) is fixed; Locking cancel system (7), it removes the fixing of this treatment arm (12).

2. chair massage machine as claimed in claim 1, it is characterized in that: treatment arm (12) is articulated in from the outstanding swing arm (21) of massage unit (2), rotate locked mechanism (4) and have anvil piece (72) and arm locking connecting rod (41), this anvil piece (72) is arranged to and can be haunted from swing arm (21); This arm locking connecting rod (41) is striden and is located at swing arm (21) and treats on the arm (12);

By engaging of anvil piece (72) and arm locking connecting rod (41), treatment arm (12) is locked, and by the action of drawing in of anvil piece (72), and removes the locking of treatment arm (12).

3. chair massage machine as claimed in claim 1 or 2 is characterized in that: massage unit (2) is provided to corresponding to the position of the shoulder of therapist at the rising end position, is provided to corresponding to the position of the waist of therapist at the decline end position;

Be provided with the automatic rotation mechanism that treatment arm (12) is rotated along with the lifting action of massage unit (2) at massage unit (2);

This automatic rotation mechanism makes the treatment of upside refer to that (10) are contacted with shoulder at the rising end position, and the treatment that makes treatment arm (12) arrive downside at the decline end position refers to that (11) are contacted with the turned position of waist.

4. chair massage machine as claimed in claim 3 is characterized in that: treatment arm (12) is at rising end position or decline end position, the fixing turned position by rotating locked mechanism (4).