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• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B06—GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS IN GENERAL
  • B06B—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS OF INFRASONIC, SONIC, OR ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY, e.g. FOR PERFORMING MECHANICAL WORK IN GENERAL
  • B06B1/00—Methods or apparatus for generating mechanical vibrations of infrasonic, sonic, or ultrasonic frequency
  • B06B1/10—Methods or apparatus for generating mechanical vibrations of infrasonic, sonic, or ultrasonic frequency making use of mechanical energy
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • 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
  • A61H1/00—Apparatus for passive exercising; Vibrating apparatus; Chiropractic devices, e.g. body impacting devices, external devices for briefly extending or aligning unbroken bones
  • A61H1/001—Apparatus for applying movements to the whole body
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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
  • A61H1/00—Apparatus for passive exercising; Vibrating apparatus; Chiropractic devices, e.g. body impacting devices, external devices for briefly extending or aligning unbroken bones
  • A61H1/005—Moveable platforms, e.g. vibrating or oscillating platforms for standing, sitting, laying or leaning
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • 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
  • A61H23/00—Percussion or vibration massage, e.g. using supersonic vibration; Suction-vibration massage; Massage with moving diaphragms
  • A61H23/02—Percussion or vibration massage, e.g. using supersonic vibration; Suction-vibration massage; Massage with moving diaphragms with electric or magnetic drive
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B06—GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS IN GENERAL
  • B06B—METHODS OR APPARATUS FOR GENERATING OR TRANSMITTING MECHANICAL VIBRATIONS OF INFRASONIC, SONIC, OR ULTRASONIC FREQUENCY, e.g. FOR PERFORMING MECHANICAL WORK IN GENERAL
  • B06B2201/00—Indexing scheme associated with B06B1/0207 for details covered by B06B1/0207 but not provided for in any of its subgroups
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Definitions

• the invention relates to a device which is provided with a two-part working and functional unit which is designed as a part-like or table-like device.
• the device consists of a stationary frame which has two table-like support plates which are arranged next to one another and which are arranged parallel to one another in this frame. These table-like table tops are each movably supported independently and independently of one another in the three spatial dimensions.
• At least one motor drive is provided which, independently of one another, sets the table-like support plates at least in one dimension in randomized, oscillating-pulsating movements which describe elliptical or circular movement paths, the amplitudes of which can be different. The respective frequency of these movements can be changed.
• each of the two table-like support plates is arranged in each of its two ends on spatially movable, fork-shaped brackets which accommodate bearings on both sides of axle shafts from eccentric rollers for each of the two table-like support plates.
• Limiting rollers are arranged above the eccentric rollers on both sides. These limiting rollers have a space “d ⁇ to the circumference of the respectively associated eccentric roller .
• the eccentric rollers mentioned have a cylindrical shape and eccentric axle shafts.
• the eccentric rollers are each supported on one drive roller and one support roller.
• the eccentric rollers are set in the same or non-directional, synchronous or asynchronous revolutions by the drive rollers. Due to the eccentric bearing of the Axle shafts in spatially movable, fork-shaped brackets set them in speed-dependent movements, which describe elliptical or circular trajectories.
• the purpose of the limiting rollers arranged above the eccentric rollers is to limit the vibrations of the eccentric rollers if, due to their eccentric bearing, they lift up from their support position under the action of centrifugal force.
• the drive rollers mentioned are mounted in side migrations of the frame by means of their drive shafts, and they are set in synchronous revolutions by at least one motor drive.
• a modified form of training also provides for the drive rollers to be rotated in opposite directions in synchronous or asynchronous fashion.
• each of the two table-like support plates is arranged in its two-end regions on the respectively assigned fork-shaped holders.
• These brackets can also have other than fork-shaped designs, and are provided with bearing points on both sides of the eccentric rollers. Buffers made of a resilient material or joints can be inserted between the fork-shaped holders and the table-like support plates, so that a low tiltability in the transverse direction is achieved; but it can also be made a firm connection so that there is no tiltability in the transverse direction at the point in question.
• a modified embodiment also provides that, on each of the two table-like support plates, there are longitudinal tilting axes which extend in the X-axis and to which the cover plates are articulated by means of composite attachments. Instead of these longitudinal axes, longitudinal hinges can also be arranged, by means of which the support plates can be connected in a tiltable manner.
• the table-like support plates are movably mounted in the three spatial dimensions.
• At least one drive motor is sufficient to drive the device, which causes one or more components of the device to vibrate in at least one dimension.
• the frequency of these vibratory movements can be changed within certain limits.
• the amplitude of the oscillating movement can also be variable within certain limits.
• the device can serve different purposes and can be used in applications where it is important to act on objects, materials or substrates by means of rhythmic or arrhythmic mechanical shocks or vibrations. This can be used to initiate or carry out separations or sorting processes for coarse-grained bulk goods, or to suggest mixing or homogenization for fine-grained or powder-like bulk goods. If the bilateral support plates or the cover plates connected to them are connected to one another by means of a rigid or flexible body by means of articulated connections, pulsating and divergent irregular or randomized movement sequences for this body can be caused by these impact or vibration effects be achieved.
• the device can also be used as a training / fitness device and as a medical therapy device for people or animals, in particular to increase their ability to coordinate and / or to stimulate certain muscles.
• An interesting area of application is in particular loosening and relaxing the muscles of high-performance athletes, especially ski jumpers and downhill skiers.
• Another interesting area of application is the stimulation of the muscles of Parkinson's disease. It has been shown that symptoms such as rigidity or tremor are influenced favorably.
• the table-like support plates carry out movements with an amplitude of approximately 3 mm at a frequency of 1-20 Hz, preferably 4-6 Hz
• the device can also be used to solve different types of tasks in different work areas. If objects, materials or substrates are exposed to the aforementioned rhythmic or arhythmic intermittent or oscillating effects, the above-mentioned various changes can be brought about, for example in the case of solids, effects on their crystalline structures are also possible.
• the device can be provided with at least one fastening device for the detachable, impact-resistant and vibration-proof connection of a receptacle for a vessel or a holder.
• the attachable vessel can be used to hold pourable material intended for processing; with the bracket can solid or the like. materials can be connected to the device for impact and vibration-proof processing.
• the fastening device can comprise a receptacle, which comprises a shoe attached to the support plate or cover plate, which is used to attach or insert the object to be fastened in a bonded manner.
• the fastening device can comprise straps and / or straps with buckles, or it can be provided with support brackets with adjustable holding brackets.
• fastening devices in particular belts and / or the straps with buckles, can be used to fasten human or animal limbs.
• a device with fastening devices designed in this way is particularly suitable as a training / fitness device or therapy device of the type described above.
• a seating and / or support opportunity is provided according to the invention in order to provide the respective persons with a hold while the device is in operation.
• Fig.l is a side view of the device without a cover
• 3 shows a partial side view with partial sections
• 4 shows a cross section with both halves of the device
• FIG. 9 is a partial side view with partial cuts on the support plate and the cover plate acc. Fig. 8,
• FIG. 12 shows a modified device according to FIG. 4,
• Fig. 14 shows the device with complete cover.
• the device is shown in side view without cover.
• the device has two drive shafts 1 which are spaced apart from one another in their longitudinal direction and extend transversely to the longitudinal direction and are driven synchronously in the same direction by a motor drive 16/17, consisting of drive motor 16 and drive belt 17.
• a motor drive 16/17 consisting of drive motor 16 and drive belt 17.
• Each of the two drive shafts 1 running in the transverse direction each carry a drive roller 2 on both sides.
• the two drive shafts 1 are synchronously connected to one another in the same direction of rotation by means of a toothed belt connection 15.
• FIG. 2 shows a section of the right side of the arrangement shown in FIG. 1.
• the corresponding side of the drive shaft 1 and the drive roller 2 seated on it can be seen.
• the eccentric roller 3 can be seen in FIG. 2, which is supported in a rolling manner on the drive roller 2 and additionally on a support roller 4.
• the eccentric roller 3 has an eccentric axle shaft 5. Due to the rotation of the eccentric roller 3, the axis shaft 5 executes an oscillating, elliptical or circular path describing at least the size of the eccentricity with each revolution.
• This movement referred to below as elliptical, is composed of a simultaneous vertical and horizontal movement which is transmitted to the bearing points 6 of the axle shafts 5.
• This bearing point 6 is mounted in a fork-shaped holder 7.
• the fork-shaped holder 7 likewise experiences an oscillating, vertically and horizontally directed recurring movement, referred to as an elliptical.
• a side hike is designated, which is rigidly mounted and fixed to the frame 20.
• the bearing points 9 for mounting the journal 10 of the support roller 4 and the limiting roller 11 are arranged.
• the eccentric roller 3 can stand out during its rotation from the drive roller 2 and the support roller 4, on which the eccentric roller 3 rests, because of the centrifugal forces that occur. This lifting is not harmful, but is even desirable under special conditions. As a result, the uniformity of the rotary movements of the eccentric roller 3 is interrupted for fractions of a second, and the rotational speed of the eccentric roller 3 is changed irregularly as desired due to the resulting slippage.
• the limiting roller 11 has the task of limiting the vertical strokes and the lifting of the eccentric roller 3 upwards. Between the eccentric roller 3 and the limiting roller 11, an intermediate space “d ⁇ is kept free, which can be seen in FIG. 2. This space “d V ⁇ also limits the maximum amount of lifting of the eccentric roller 3.
• the non-uniformity of the rotational movement generated thereby is also transmitted to the fork-shaped holder 7 and to objects, people, animals, materials or substrates exposed to the mass or the interaction of the impacts and vibrations , which are located on the support plate 8 or attached to it. These effects are favored by the fact that the support plate 8 can also be moved or tilted in the transverse direction, since the eccentric roller 3 allows sufficient clearance due to its distance “d” from the limiting roller 11.
• FIG. 3 shows the device in side view.
• the right side corresponds in all essential features to the illustration in FIG. 2.
• the illustration on the left side corresponds to the left side in FIG. 1.
• the illustration of FIG. 3 shows the same features and elements of FIG. 2: 1 denotes the drive shaft and 2 the drive roller.
• the eccentric roller 3 is also supported here on the drive roller 2 and the support roller 4.
• the eccentric roller 3 is also mounted here with its axle shaft 5 in the fork-shaped holder 7, which is designed to be movable.
• the instantaneous distance “d” can be passed on to the fork-shaped holder 7 with different strengths and at different time intervals (thus in variable frequencies), which is the intention.
• the movable, fork-shaped holder 7 carries at its upper flattened end at least one buffer 13, which consists of an elastic, resilient material.
• the support plate 8 is supported on this buffer 13, which can be tilted within certain limits due to this additional degree of freedom created in the transverse direction to the longitudinal extent of the device.
• the buffer or buffers 13 serve to absorb the longitudinal displacement that occurs from the fork-shaped holder 7 onto the
• Platen 8 transfers. A joint can also take the place of the buffer 13.
• the embodiment to be compared in the right representation of FIG. 3 is not provided with a buffer 13. Rather, the support plate 8 connected to the movable fork-shaped holder 7 is not transversely at this point tiltable, since the support plate 8 (see FIG. 3) is rigidly connected to the fork-shaped holder 7 by means of a screw connection 23. A tilting movement of the support plate 8 screwed to the fork-shaped holder 7 in the transverse direction is nevertheless very possible and intended, since the eccentric roller 3, as described above, allows a corresponding degree of freedom due to its distance “d” from the limiting roller 11.
• the Figure 3 also shows on the right side in all
• the drive shaft is denoted by 1 and the drive roller by 2.
• the eccentric roller 3 is also supported here on the drive roller 2 and the support roller 4.
• the limiting roller 11 is also arranged above the eccentric roller 3 while maintaining the distance “d”.
• the motor drive of the device is also partially evident from FIG.
• a drive motor drives the drive shaft 1 by means of a toothed belt connection 17.
• the respective right-hand and left-hand drive rollers 2 are connected by the toothed belt 15 and thus driven in the same direction and synchronously.
• the frame frame on which the side walls 12 are fastened is designated by 20 in FIG.
• a variation not shown, is that the drive rollers 2 in the same direction but to be driven asynchronously or asynchronously synchronously or asynchronously asynchronously by means of one or more motors.
• Fig. 4 shows a cross section through the device.
• the common drive shaft 1 can be seen for both partial designs arranged side by side and parallel to one another, which are fastened one behind the other on the frame 20 in the longitudinal direction of the device.
• a drive roller 2 is seated on the drive shafts 1 of the two partial versions arranged side by side.
• the eccentric rollers 3 are supported on this and on support rollers 4 (not shown) (see FIGS. 1 to 3).
• These have eccentric axle shafts 5 on both sides, which are held in the fork-shaped holders 7 in the bearing points 6. The shocks and vibrations of the axle shafts 5 are thus transmitted to these spatially movable fork-shaped brackets 7 and set them in elliptical movements.
• the limiting rollers 11 located above are mounted in the side walls 12 with their axle journals 10 in the bearing points 9. Tilting movements of the support plates 8 are also possible since the eccentric rollers 3 have a further degree of freedom because of their distance “d ⁇ from the limiting rollers 11.
• the supporting plates 8 are Untitled befes- by means of the screw 23, and these are located centrally the tiltable bearing assemblies of the cover plates 14. These are hinged to the tilting bearings 24 around the longitudinal axes ,, x M tiltably within narrow limits. This results in a further degree of freedom of the cover plates 14, which are movable in the transverse direction by limited tilting angles.
• FIG. 4 A modification of the design according to FIG. 4 is shown in FIG. With otherwise the same structure as Fig.4 are here the support plates 8 are not rigidly connected to the fork-shaped brackets 7, but are connected to the brackets 7 in the transverse and longitudinal directions via the buffers 13 or joints. These serve to absorb the longitudinal displacement which is transmitted from the fork-shaped holder 7 to the support plate 8.
• FIG.6 A further modified embodiment is shown in Fig.6.
• the support plates 8 are provided on both sides with U-shaped longitudinal rails 27, the U openings of which point inwards, and in which rollers or roller bearings 28 are guided, which are connected to the fork-shaped holders 7 by means of journals 29.
• This rail connection serves to absorb the longitudinal displacement which is transferred to the support plate 8 on the fork-shaped holder 7.
• the device is designed such that the two support plates 8 arranged next to one another have limited elliptical movements in the vertical and horizontal directions and the cover plates 14 connected to the support plates 8 also have elliptical movements in the vertical and horizontal directions and about longitudinal axes " x "can perform tilting movements, and that they are to be set independently of one another in shock-like or oscillation-like elliptical movements of different frequencies.
• the elliptical movements can have different shapes.
• Both" d "of the eccentric roller 3 and the limiting roller 11 give the corresponding degree of freedom additionally tiltable.
• FIG. 7 shows the modified embodiments of the connection of one of the cover plates 14 with its associated support plate 8 shown in FIGS. perspective view.
• the cover plates 14 can be tilted about the x-axis by means of the tilt bearings 24 and the tilt holder 30.
• the tilt bearings are connected to the support plate 8 by means of the screws 31.
• the cover plates 14 are therefore movable within narrow limits, as indicated by dashed lines, in the transverse direction.
• FIG. 8 shows a modified embodiment compared to FIG. 7.
• the cover plates 14 are held in the center of the surface of the support plates 8 by means of the screw bolts 35 on an elastic intermediate bearing plate 36.
• the cover plates 14 are held in the center of the surface of the support plates 8 by means of the screw bolts 35 on an elastic intermediate bearing plate 36.
• the cover plates 14 are held in the center of the surface of the support plates 8 by means of the screw bolts 35 on an elastic intermediate bearing plate 36.
• crescent-shaped slots 37 are made in them, which are guided in fixed fixing bolts 38 and limit their ranges of movement.
• the cover plates 14 can pivot about the screw bolts and also tilt slightly in the longitudinal and transverse directions.
• FIG. 9 and 10 show the embodiment according to FIG. 8 with additional devices which make it possible to partially or completely restrict the movements of the cover plates 14 on the support plates 8.
• 40 denotes a slider which has a horizontal slot 41.
• Slider 40 can be advanced so far in the longitudinal direction that the slot 41 completely or partially accommodates an extension 42 of the cover plate 14. If the slide 40 is pushed all the way forward, then the attachment 42 is fixed therein, so that the cover plate 14 is also fixed and can no longer move. If the mobility of the cover plate 14 is to be restricted only, the slide 40 is only partially advanced. slide and held in this position by means of the adjusting screw 43.
• FIG. 10 A modified embodiment of the fully or partial limitation of the mobility of the cover plate 14 on the support plate 8 is shown in FIG. 10.
• FIG 11 shows a schematic partial side view of the device according to one of FIGS. 1 to 3, in which three different positions a) to c) of the fork-shaped holders 7 are shown due to the eccentricity of the axle shafts 5 or eccentric rollers 3. From these positions, the different elliptical movements of the fork-shaped movements of the fork-shaped holders 7 and thus of the support plates 8 connected to them can be seen.
• FIG. 12 shows an embodiment according to FIG. 4, in which the eccentric roller 3 has a spherically shaped jacket surface instead of the cylindrical jacket surface.
• the size of the crown can be between 1.00 mm and 10.00 mm.
• a further modification can also consist in the fact that in addition to the eccentric roller 3, the limiting roller 11 also has a spherical jacket surface.
• FIG. 13 represents a modification of FIG. 1.
• the eccentric roller 3 is only indirectly engaged by a drive roller 2. driven because the eccentric roller 3 rests on a conveyor belt 21 which is driven by a drive roller 2. Since the eccentric roller 3 lies directly on the conveyor belt 21, the eccentric roller 3 is driven by this conveyor belt.
• This design simplifies the drive because a special drive roller is saved in each case.
• the drive train is transferred directly from the drive motor 16 and the drive belt 17 via a drive roller 2 by means of a conveyor belt 21 to the eccentric rollers 3 resting on the conveyor belt 21.
• FIG. 14 shows the overall device with the two cover surfaces 14, which are juxtaposed in a cutout 48 in the top 49 of the complete cover 50 from the outside with objects and the like. The like can be acted upon or loaded.
• Container or (human, animal or other) body is set in extremely effective vibrations.

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