EP0504195B1 - Verbesserte massagevorrichtung für einen teil des menschlichen körpers mit gerichteter und periodischer wirkung - Google Patents

Verbesserte massagevorrichtung für einen teil des menschlichen körpers mit gerichteter und periodischer wirkung Download PDF

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EP0504195B1
EP0504195B1 EP91900035A EP91900035A EP0504195B1 EP 0504195 B1 EP0504195 B1 EP 0504195B1 EP 91900035 A EP91900035 A EP 91900035A EP 91900035 A EP91900035 A EP 91900035A EP 0504195 B1 EP0504195 B1 EP 0504195B1
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    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61H—PHYSICAL THERAPY APPARATUS, e.g. DEVICES FOR LOCATING OR STIMULATING REFLEX POINTS IN THE BODY; ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION; MASSAGE; BATHING DEVICES FOR SPECIAL THERAPEUTIC OR HYGIENIC PURPOSES OR SPECIFIC PARTS OF THE BODY
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  • the present invention relates to an improvement made to massage devices with directional and periodic action of an organ, a limb or any other part of the human body.
  • several massage devices are known which make it possible to exert pressure on the members of the human body and thus to cause the displacement of bodily fluids.
  • sleeves are generally used intended to wrap or surround the member to be treated and having, for example, the shape of boots, gaiters or gloves when they have to adapt either to the lower limbs or to the upper limbs.
  • Such sleeves are generally with double watertight walls, possibly internally subdivided into compartments insulated from each other, each comprising only an opening to the outside and the internal wall of which is made of elastic material or internally lined with elastic pipes closed at the one of their ends.
  • these sleeves When these sleeves are placed around a member to be massaged, they allow, by injecting a fluid under pressure either in the space delimited by the two walls, or in the different compartments, or in the bundle of elastic pipes, to compress the wall internal elastic in contact with the limb in question and to repel the bodily fluids towards the uncompressed parts of said limb, this operation possibly being carried out intermittently by simply acting on a regulated variation of the pressure of the admitted fluid.
  • Such devices are described inter alia in French patents n ° 1.237.183, 2.122.734 and 2.425.239, in US patents n ° 2.896.612 and 4.029.087, in British patent n ° 2.107.197 and in DE patents n ° 1.915.636 and 1.903.217. They use a gas as compression fluid. They all relate to massage devices based on the phenomenon of expansion of flexible tubes or sleeves open at one end with the possibility of periodic pressurization and compression of the elements in contact with the member to be massaged.
  • Such volumes or enclosures may for example consist of cylindrical sleeves having two walls spaced from one another, between which a fluid can be admitted, at least one of these walls, for example the internal wall, having the characteristics set out above, the other may be rigid. You can also make your own bands, cushions and cushions as well as mattresses whose structure will meet the criteria for variations in expansion coefficients at the desired locations to obtain the desired result.
  • a massage device can be produced using as a means for exerting pressure on the area of the human body to be massaged at least one element intended to act on part or all of this area under the action of '' a fluid exerting a thrust on this element, the latter being characterized by the fact that it consists of an enclosure, at least the wall of which intended to exert said pressure is made of a flexible and elastic material having a coefficient of expansion not identical to itself and not constant over its entire surface.
  • the enclosure in question affects the shape of a sleeve intended to surround the member or to wrap the part of the body to be massaged or the shape of a cushion, a mattress or the like on the wall at contact of said limb or of said part of the body, presenting zones of variable deformations or else zones of different deformations under the action of said pressure distributed over the extent of said surface in an irregular manner but responding to a criterion of massage profile previously established.
  • said enclosure results from the juxtaposition of a bundle of tubes supplied by the same source of compression fluid and whose walls in contact with the part of the body to be massaged, have coefficients of expansion or different deformation, from one segment to another.
  • the invention covers a massage device, the active part of which responsible for the massage effect comprises a sheet having segments of a material having different deformation coefficients from one segment to another. or from one group of segments to another.
  • Figure 4 illustrates in detail a "boot", the outer wall C of which is made of a relatively rigid material and inside which is a bottom-shaped element (Ba) with a double wall. .
  • the outer wall D of this bottom remote from the wall C is made of a flexible and elastic material, but the coefficient of expansion of which varies over the entire extent of its surface. This variation has been represented in the drawing by a variation in the thickness of this wall from the upper zone to the lowest zone.
  • the internal wall D1 of said bottom in contact with the leg J is also made of a flexible material with or without the same coefficient of deformation over its entire surface.
  • a fluid admitted into the volume E, delimited by the two walls D and D1, by an orifice in A while an orifice in F is closed will have the consequence of acting on the wall D with an expansion progression as a function of the thickness gradient of this wall until it comes into abutment against C; the local "hernia" thus formed creates a counter reaction being felt on the leg J by means of the wall D1 with a pressure generated by the deformation of the wall D specific to each zone affected all along the leg. release the pressure and continue the operations of pressurizing and decompressing the boot to obtain an effective massage modulated and sliding at the desired locations and corresponding to the different thicknesses of the wall D.
  • FIG. 3 there is shown the possibility of producing a mattress or a cushion M, of periodic and sliding massage using a bundle of tubes T which can be closed at one end to inflate, then be opened for the deflation thus translating a periodic massage, either to be open at the two ends for a free circulation of the compressor fluid according to the phenomenon exploited in the apparatus being the subject of the patent application of November 21, 1988 - n ° 8816773 - recalled ci -above .
  • the sliding effect is reinforced by variation of the expansion coefficients of the walls of the tubes T.
  • These tubes are connected to the same inlet A and / or outlet B.
  • waders can be made to the desired shape by means of two plies 1 and 2 preferably chosen from flexible and elastic materials having coefficients of expansion or deformation identical or not. These two layers are joined by points distributed regularly or not according to a pre-studied diagram or not such as the points P illustrated in the figure in question thus forming a succession of bags or cells S communicating with each other.

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  1. Massagevorrichtung, die durch eine Einschließung gebildet ist, welche Mittel zum Einlaß und zum Ablauf eines Fluids aufweist, dazu bestimmt, einen Druck auf die Wände dieser Einschließung auszuüben, wobei wenigstens eine der Wände aus biegsamem und/oder elastischem Material geeignet ist, dem Mitglied, und zwar am Organ oder an der zu massierenden Oberfläche den Druck oder jede Änderung des letzteren zu übertragen, wobei die Einschließung die Form einer Muffe bzw. Buchse (Ba) beeinflußt, die bestimmt ist, das zu massierende Mitglied (J) oder die Form eines Kissens zu umgeben, aus einem Polster oder dgl. oder sich ergebend aus der Nebenordnung eines Bündels von Rohren oder verformbaren oder aufblasbaren (T) Elementen, wobei die Vorrichtung dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, daß die Wand oder die Wände im Konktakt mit dem zu massierenden Körper Zonen (Ap, Cn, Be) von unterschiedlichen Dehnungskoeffizienten aufweist, die unregelmäßig auf dem Bereich seiner Oberfläche verteilt sind.
  2. Massagevorrichtung nach Anspruch 1, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Zonen von unterschiedlichen Dehnungskoeffizienten von einer zur anderen gebildet sind durch Reliefsegmente (S) bezüglich der mittleren Normalebene der Wand.
  3. Massagevorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die unterschiedlichen Dehnungskoeffizienten der Wände von einer Zone zur anderen einer eindeutigen Funktion entsprechen.
  4. Massagevorrichtung nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die verschiedenen Dehnungskoeffizienten der Wände von einer Zone zur anderen einer nicht eindeutigen Funktion entsprechen.
  5. Massagevorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Wände der Dehnungskoeffizienten dieser Zonen den Außenflächen von aufblasbaren oder verformbaren (S) Taschen oder Zellen entsprechen, die zwischen ihnen direkt verbinden oder nicht verbinden, jedoch durch dasselbe Fluid versorgt werden können.
  6. Massagevorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die unterschiedlichen Dehnungskoeffizienten aus der Natur des bildenden Materials und/oder seinem Aufbau entstehen.
  7. Massagevorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die unterschiedlichen Dehnungskoeffizienten aus unterschiedlichen Vorspannungen entstehen, die den Oberflächen der Zonen gegeben sind.
  8. Massagevorrichtung nach Anspruch 5, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die Taschen (S) aus der Verbindung durch Punkte (P) zweier Materialschichten (1, 2) entstehen, von denen wenigstens eine biegsam und elastisch ist, aufweisend unterschiedliche Zonen von Dehnungskoeffizienten, die identisch oder unterschiedlich unter sich und unregelmäßig an der Oberfläche des Materials verteilt sind.
  9. Massagevorrichtung nach Anspruch 5 oder 8, dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß die bildenden Materialien der beiden Schichten (1, 2), welche einstückig miteinander gemacht sind durch die Punkte (P), die regelmäßig oder unregelmäßig an deren Oberfläche verteilt sind, unter Materialien gewählt sind, welche ursprünglich dieselben Dehnungskoeffizienten oder unterschiedliche Koeffizienten haben.
  10. Massagevorrichtung nach einem der Ansprüche 5 bis 9 dadurch gekennzeichnet, daß das biegsamste Material und das elastischste Material ausgewählt ist, um die größere Oberfläche der Wand der Einschließung zu bilden, die bestimmt ist, auf der Seite der zu massierenden Zone angeordnet zu sein.
EP91900035A 1989-11-29 1990-11-27 Verbesserte massagevorrichtung für einen teil des menschlichen körpers mit gerichteter und periodischer wirkung Expired - Lifetime EP0504195B1 (de)

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FR8916016A FR2654930B1 (fr) 1989-11-29 1989-11-29 Perfectionnement apporte aux appareils de massage a action directionnelle et periodique d'une partie du corps humain.
FR9003501 1990-03-14
FR9003501A FR2659549B2 (fr) 1989-11-29 1990-03-14 Perfectionnement apporte aux appareils de massage a action directionnelle et periodique d'une partie du corps humain.
PCT/FR1990/000851 WO1991007939A1 (fr) 1989-11-29 1990-11-27 Perfectionnement apporte aux appareils de massage a action directionnelle et periodique d'une partie du corps humain

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