CN1238222A

CN1238222A - sole massage apparatus

Info

Publication number: CN1238222A
Application number: CN 99108314
Authority: CN
Inventors: 山崎岩男; 井泽良弘
Original assignee: YAMAN CO Ltd
Current assignee: YAMAN CO Ltd
Priority date: 1998-06-05
Filing date: 1999-06-07
Publication date: 1999-12-15
Also published as: JPH11347096A

Abstract

To make a switching circuit simplified to reduce cost by collecting effective spot electrodes for sole to a block to reduce the number of electrodes. A pair of right and left foot mat electrodes 41R, 41L are placed on the upper face of this sole massager. Four electrode blocks F1, F2, F3, F4 are placed on foot mat electrodes 41R, 41L respectively and a plurality of pressing electrodes 43 are arranged in a matrix on the surfaces of the electrode blocks F1, F2, F3, F4. The electrode blocks F1, F2, F3, F4 are sectioned into blocks for a head part, breast part, berry part, and waist part. The pressing electrodes 43 are made to have different height corresponding to the unevenness of the sole.

Description

Massage device for sole of foot

The present invention relates to the massage device for sole of foot that the method for electricity consumption stimulates the acupuncture point of sole to massage.

In order to keep the physiological activity of human body, the bioelectric current that continued to flow in the human body carries out cellular activity and muscle contraction motion.

Stimulate health if supply with pulse current from the outside artificially, the same with bioelectric current, can the active cell activity, cause the muscle contraction motion, blood circulation promoting improves the function of health.

On the other hand, be second heart as the said foot of proverb, foot plays a part very important to blood circulation.

Foot is centrifugal dirty far away, and is positioned at the minimum position of health, so it is not smooth to occur blood flow easily.

Therefore, if the massage sole, the muscle of stimulation sole makes blood flow smooth and easy, strengthens the effect that heart is sent blood, makes freeing circulation of the blood of whole body, thereby alleviates the burden of heart.

Thus, the various symptoms that can eliminate that foot is cold, scapulohumeral periarthritis, constipation etc. cause because of thrombosis.

In addition, the acupuncture point that communicates with internal organs such as kidney and brains is arranged in the sole, be connected with the maincenter of health by meridians.

Therefore, during, whole body deterioration undesired when internal organs work, its sign can show at sole.

For the variation of correcting sole performance and unusual, if from the acupuncture point of outside stimulus sole, just can the balance autonomic nerve, impel vital organs of the human body motion by meridians, strengthen natural curability.

Point electrode and each acupuncture point of sole are lined up accordingly, when flowing through pulse current between the health other parts such as these point electrodes and foot and trunk, cause the contractile motion of sole muscle, impel blood circulation, thereby reach the effect of massage.

But, even make pulse current flow through all point electrodes simultaneously, because of electric current is concentrated in the low position of impedance, so can not make pulse current one place not flow through these point electrodes with leaking.

In order to make pulse current one place not flow through these point electrodes with leaking, must limit and once only allow pulse current flow through a point electrode, so will switch in time.

For this reason, on-off circuit must be arranged, load onto switch for each electrode and come being connected of switch pulse power supply and point electrode.

The switch number of this on-off circuit and the number of point electrode increase pro rata, and correspondingly, control circuit and wiring also just become complicated, thereby have increased cost, therefore, have the too high problem of price of massage device for sole of foot.

Therefore, the objective of the invention is to, impedance phase sole point electrode is together put together, make its modularity, simplify on-off circuit by the quantity that reduces electrode, thereby reduce cost.

In order to achieve the above object, of the present invention being constructed as follows.

That is, the 1st aspect of the present invention is, is configured to the shape of sole with having arranged a plurality of electrode modules of pushing electrode of pushing the sole acupuncture point under the state that is electrically insulated from each other, and the pulse power and these electrode modules are coupled together.

The 2nd aspect of the present invention is, the difference according to the concavo-convex degree of sole is arranged in the height difference of pushing electrode in the above-mentioned electrode module.

Fig. 1 is a structure chart of having implemented massage device for sole of foot of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a plane graph of having implemented the foot electrode of massage device for sole of foot of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view of pushing electrode of having implemented massage device for sole of foot of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a block diagram of having implemented the pulse power of massage device for sole of foot of the present invention.

Fig. 5 is a key diagram of having implemented the using method of massage device for sole of foot of the present invention.

Below, with reference to description of drawings example of the present invention.

Fig. 1 illustrates the structure chart of having implemented massage device for sole of foot of the present invention.

The control box 1 of massage device for sole of foot is connected with foot electrode 4 with the band electrode 3 of pair of right and left as common electrode with cable 2 by adapter C, and then, be connected with attaching plug 6 through power line 5.

The pulse power 11 described later is housed in the control box 1, and the front is equipped with touch guidance panel 12.

Guidance panel 12 specific pulse electric currents flow through the position of sole and the mode that flows through, or the kind of pulse current etc.In addition, go back the regulating impulse current's intensity.

In the position of sole, have expression from finger towards the position of the tiptoe zone of reflections corresponding with head, chest, abdominal part, the waist of health, the mode that flows through of pulse current has indivedual positions of all flowing through or flowing through head, chest, abdominal part, waist or from the head to kinds such as waist flow through in order.

In addition, in the intensity of pulse current, have cause in order from weak current stroke, rub, press by, the various level of sensation such as pat, pinch.

The kind apoplexy due to endogenous wind of pulse current have with the low-frequency pulse of 5～10Hz stimulate sole deep, motion muscle, blood circulation promoting, have the toning pulse of rubbing the sole effect and with the high-frequency impulse of 20～100Hz stimulate table portion, the motion upper layer part of sole muscle, encourage the drainage pulse of flowing, having the effect of eliminating edema etc. of lymph fluid.

Band electrode 3 is equipped with plane electrode 32 in the inboard of the belt 31 that the plane fastener is housed.

Plane-shaped electrode 32 can form by the carbon printing ink in the surface applied electric conductivity of softish urethane resin.Perhaps, also can be on the surface of the banded sheet of softish insulating properties bonding aluminium foil or form by the rubber or the silica gel (pick-up metal powder in rubber or silicon) of electric conductivity.

At the conduction clip 33 of the outside of belt 31 installation, plane-shaped electrode 32 and cable 2 are coupled together through this conduction clip 33 with plane-shaped electrode 32 conductings.

Fig. 2 illustrates the plane graph of foot electrode.

Foot electrode 4 disposes pair of right and left callosity electrode 41L, 41R in the above, Yi Bian be provided with

baffle plate

42L, 42R vertically at the heel of this callosity electrode 41L, 41R.

On callosity electrode 41L, 41R, dispose 4 electrode block F1, F2, F3, F4 respectively, be a plurality of electrodes 43 of pushing of rectangular arrangement on the surface of each electrode block F1, F2, F3, F4.

The zone of reflections of electrode block F1, F2, F3, F4 and sole is corresponding to be divided into head, chest, abdominal part, each piece of waist in order from top beginning.

Fig. 3 illustrates the sectional view of pushing electrode.

The height of pushing electrode 43 has nothing in common with each other, arrange according to the concavo-convex of sole, be about 20mm with the height setting of the part that at first lands, at first the landing part around and the toe root be divided into about 15mm, the height of remainder is about 10mm.

Push electrode 43 and be and the protrusion member that is formed by metals such as corrosion resistant plate or duralumin, duralumin, sheet copper or plastics etc. is carried out surface treatments such as hard chrome plating form.

Fig. 4 illustrates the block diagram of the pulse power.

The pulse power 11 utilizes CPU112 to read kind by guidance panel 12 specified pulse currents from memorizer 113, kind according to this pulse current, through I/O interface 115 and 116 of D/A converters the digital trigger signal behind the clock frequency division of reference clock generator 114 is input in the pulse generator 117, generates the potential pulse of given amplitude and frequency and give the elementary of transformator T1.

Transformator T1 and transformator T2 parallel connection are connected to current detection circuit 118 on the transformator T2 and measure current value, monitor to have and do not flow through overcurrent.

Current detection circuit 118 detected detection electric currents are input among the CPU112 through D/A converter 119 and I/O interface 115, when current value surpasses benchmark, utilize current protecting circuit 1110 to make switch 1111 actions cut off circuit.

The secondary of transformator T1, T2 is connected with the end of on-off circuit 1112A, 1112B respectively, and the other end of on-off circuit 1112A, 1112B is connected with the plane-shaped electrode 32 of pair of right and left electrode block F1, F2, F3, F4 and band electrode 3 respectively through adapter C jointly.

On-off circuit 1112A, 1112B are the on-off circuits that photo-coupler connects, and the output signal of utilizing corresponding switch unit 1113A, 1113B is carried out switch motion to any one photo-coupler energising.

Thus, between the electrode that plane-shaped electrode 32 combination in any of electrode block F1, F2, F3, F4 and band electrode 3 are got up, supply with the pulse current that pulse generator 117 generates.

Implemented massage device for sole of foot of the present invention by constituting as described above, when treatment, as shown in Figure 5, be sitting on the chair, in bare feet foot has been placed on callosity electrode 41L, the 41R, heel is close on baffle plate 42L, the 42R.

Then, pair of right and left band electrode 3 is wrapped on the parts such as calf, knee, thigh, abdominal part.

Under this state, the guidance panel 12 of operation control box 1 makes pulse current flow through callosity electrode 41L, 41R.

Thus, each electrode block F1, F2 of callosity electrode 41L, 41R, F3, F4 stimulate the zone of reflections of the sole corresponding with head, chest, abdominal part, the waist of health, and simultaneously, the pulse current that flows through band electrode 3 is massaged the muscle of this part, and it is loosened.

Having, in flowing through the combination of electrodes of pulse current, is the combination between band electrode 3 and callosity electrode 41L, 41R basically again, electrode block F1, F2, the combination between F3, the F4 and each electrode block F1, the F2 about also having in addition, the combination between F3, the F4 etc.

As mentioned above, masseur of the present invention is connected a plurality of electrode blocks under the state of mutual insulating according to the shape configuration of sole and with the pulse power.

Therefore, if according to the present invention, reduce the number of electrode by modularity, so, can simplify on-off circuit, reduce cost, thereby can realize cheap massage device for sole of foot.

In addition, massage device for sole of foot of the present invention is according to the concavo-convex degree of sole, and it pushes the height difference of electrode.

Therefore, if according to the present invention, because of the each several part even contact of electrode and sole, pulse current flows through equably, so can further improve massage effect.

Claims

1, a kind of massage device for sole of foot is characterized in that: will arrange a plurality of electrode modules of pushing electrode of pushing the sole acupuncture point are configured to sole under the state that is electrically insulated from each other shape, the pulse power and these electrode modules are coupled together.

2, as the massage device for sole of foot of claim 1 record, it is characterized in that: the difference according to the concavo-convex degree of sole is arranged in the height difference of pushing electrode in the above-mentioned electrode module.