JP2003019204A - Floating/relaxation system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve such a problem that a wound or the skin is irritated with a thick salt in a conventional floating tank for floating a person to relax him and the person is not relaxed deeply for a long time. SOLUTION: A bathtub 5 houses lukewarm water of 36-39 deg.C and has a size preventing the contact with a user 19 lying on his back or side. The user assits the buoyancy of his own body by a float such as a foamed plastic sheet 31 or the like not only to support his own body almost horizontally but also to keep his mouth and nose on the surface of the water. A room 7 in which the bathtub is arranged has an almost egg-shaped space 27 by forming the corner parts of a ceiling 21 and the corner parts of walls into curved surfaces 25 and the ceiling or the walls are colored pink, orange or thin-red. Music is played from a speaker 11 and a highly directional microphone picks up a water sound to ensure the safely of the user. Intensity of light is adjusted by a light control luminaire 29 to impart luminous intensity optimum to relaxation.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for a person to float and relax.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a device in which a person floats on a liquid and relaxes, there is a device called a floating tank. This floating tank has a space that can be almost sealed like a tank, and this space has a size that allows a person to lie on its top and stores salt water. This salt water, called Epson salt, has a very high concentration, so that a person can lie on it, float and breathe freely. The salt water must be kept clean, is constantly circulated by a circulation device, and is filtered by a special filtration device to filter out dirt components other than the salt water.

According to this device, since the body is supported by the uniform water pressure, there is no local feeling of pressure on the waist or back when lying on a mattress or the like. Therefore, all the muscles of the body can be relaxed at the same time, and deep relaxation can be obtained.

[0004]

However, since the conventional floating tank uses concentrated salt water, it causes severe pain when the body is injured and the apparatus cannot be used. Also, even when there is no normal bruise on the body, small scratches that are not noticed are often found here and there, and they are sore. If you can't bear this pain, you won't get deep relaxation.

Even if there are no scratches, it cannot be used for a long time because the thick salt irritates the skin. Furthermore,
The pump of the circulator, which constitutes the filtering device, makes a noise, which is noisy and impedes a deep mental relaxation.

The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and a floating relaxation system capable of deeply relaxing for a long time without the strong salt irritating the wound or the skin. The purpose is to provide.

[0007]

In order to solve the above problems, a first aspect of the present invention is to provide a shape and a size in which lukewarm water at 36 ° C to 39 ° C is put in and does not come into contact even when the user is lying upside down. A floating bath characterized by having a hot water bath and a float that assists the buoyancy of the user's body, supports the body almost horizontally, and keeps the mouth and nose above the water surface.
It is a relaxation system.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the room in which the bathtub is installed has a generally oval space by forming the corners of the ceiling or the corners of the ceiling and the wall with curved surfaces. These ceilings and walls are colored pink, orange, or pale red, equipped with speakers for playing music, equipped with a sound collection microphone or surveillance camera for picking up water sounds, and equipped with a dimming lighting device that can adjust the illuminance. The bathtub has a length of 1,8 m or more, a width of 0,8 m or more, and a depth of 0,
A floating relaxation system having a size of 4 m or more, wherein the float is a foamed plastic sheet laid under the body, or a jacket and pants to which the float is attached.

[0009]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION An embodiment of the present invention is shown in FIGS. The room 1 in which the floating relaxation system according to this embodiment is installed includes a preparation room 3 in which the user takes off clothes and the like, and a bath room 7 in which the bathtub 5 is installed.

A door 9 for entering the preparation room 3 is provided, and a speaker 11 for playing soft music for relaxing on the ceiling, a dimming lighting device 13 capable of adjusting the illuminance, not shown in the drawing. A washbasin and the like are provided, and a dressing basket (not shown) is provided as needed. Speaker 1
The reason why 1 is not provided in the bath room 7 is to avoid the influence of water vapor or the like, and a waterproof speaker can be provided in the bath room.

An opening 17 for entering the bathtub 5 of the bathtub chamber 7 is formed in the wall 15 at the back of the preparation chamber 3. The bathtub 5
It has a cubic shape and is 1,8 m long and 0,8 m wide and has a depth so that a user 19 having a normal body size does not come into contact with it even when lying upside down. Has a size of 0, 4 m. The bathtub 5 is filled with lukewarm water of 36 ° C to 39 ° C depending on the situation. Normally, this lukewarm water is desirable at 37 ° C to 38 ° C indoors,
As a result, the temperature is almost the same as the body temperature, and irritation to the skin is minimized.

In the bathhouse 7, the corners of the ceiling 21, that is, the corners of the four rectangular lines that form a square shape as a whole, and the corners of the wall 23, that is, the four vertical lines that are parallel to each other, are provided. The corners formed by the square lines are formed by the curved surfaces 25, respectively, and the corners are removed. As a result, a substantially egg-shaped space 27 is formed. The ceiling 21 and the wall 23 are colored pink. This allows the user to feel as if he were returning to the womb and floating in amniotic fluid, or to have such an association.

On the wall near the head of the user 19 in the bath room 7, a dimming lighting device 29 capable of adjusting the illuminance and a sound collecting microphone (not shown) for picking up a water sound are provided. The sound collecting microphone is connected to a sound reproducing device such as an amplifier or a microphone outside the room by a signal line or an electric line so that the sound of water can be heard outside the room, and the administrator can protect the user from the outside. Can be monitored.

The user 19 lays a foamed plastic sheet 31 as a float under the body. As the foamed plastic sheet 31, a normal one for packing can be diverted. An air pillow 33 that supports the neck is laid under the neck.
By these, the buoyancy of the body of the user 19 is assisted, the body is supported substantially horizontally, and the mouth and nose are kept above the water surface 35 so that breathing is not hindered.

(Other Embodiments) In the above embodiments, the room in which the bathtub 5 is installed is such that the corners of the ceiling 21 and the walls 23 are formed by curved surfaces 25. In the embodiment described above, only the corners of the ceiling 21 may be formed with curved surfaces, which also makes it possible to form a substantially oval space near the ceiling.

Although the ceiling 21 and the wall 23 are colored pink in the above embodiments, they may be colored orange or light red in other embodiments. Also by these, the user 19 can feel as if he / she was in the womb and was floating in amniotic fluid, or could be associated with such a feeling.

In the above embodiment, the float is the foamed plastic sheet 31 laid under the body,
In another embodiment, as shown in FIG.
It may be the jacket 39 and the pants 41 to which is attached. The floating body 37 may be formed by stacking a plurality of foam plastic sheets cut into a predetermined shape.

In the above embodiment, the administrator monitors the user's safety from the outside by listening to the water sound through the sound collecting microphone, but in other embodiments, the inside of the bathtub room is monitored. A camera may be provided to monitor safety.

In the above embodiment, the bathtub 5 has a cubic shape, but in other embodiments, the bathtub 5 may have a shape that matches the outer shape of a person lying upside down. This can save the amount of hot water.

[0020]

As described above, according to the first or second invention, it is possible to use lukewarm water and it is not necessary to use salt water. Therefore, even when the body is injured, no strong pain is caused. . In addition, you can feel no pain with a small scratch that you do not notice. Also, since it is lukewarm water at 36 to 39 ° C, it does not irritate the skin itself. Furthermore, there is no need for a filtration device or circulation device to keep salt water clean,
The noise of the pump of the circulation device is not too loud.
In this way, there is no pain, irritation, or noise, and it is possible to deeply relax for a long time. Further, since an expensive filtering device and a circulating device are not required and a float for assisting the buoyancy of the user is supplied at low cost, the whole system can be made inexpensive.

According to the second aspect of the invention, the user may feel as if he / she returned to the womb and floated in amniotic fluid due to the roughly oval shape or coloring, or make such an association. You can get deeper relaxation.
Furthermore, the sound collecting microphone and the surveillance camera allow the system administrator to monitor the safety of the user from the outside. Further, the light from the dimming lighting device capable of adjusting the illuminance to a degree suitable for the user's preference and the music from the speaker can provide deeper relaxation.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall perspective view showing a system according to an embodiment of the present invention with a part cut away.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the user of FIG.

3 is a side view showing the user of FIG. 1. FIG.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a user corresponding to FIG. 2 to show the embodiment of the invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Room in which the floating relaxation system is installed 3 Preparation room 5 Bathtub 7 Bathtub 9 Door 11 Speaker 13 Light control lighting device 15 Wall 17 Opening 19 User 21 Ceiling 23 Wall 25 Curved surface 27 Oval space 29 Light control Lighting device 31 Foamed plastic sheet 33 as a float 33 Air pillow 35 Water surface 37 Floating body 39 Jacket 41 Pants

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A warm water of 36 to 39 ° C. is added,
A bathtub with a shape and size that does not touch the user when lying down, and a float that assists the buoyancy of the user's body and supports the body almost horizontally, keeping the mouth and nose above the water surface. ,
Floating relaxation system characterized by. 2. A room in which the bathtub is installed has a substantially oval space by forming the corners of the ceiling or the corners of the ceiling and the wall with curved surfaces. Colored pink, orange, or light red, equipped with a speaker for playing music, equipped with a sound collecting microphone or a surveillance camera for picking up water sound, equipped with a dimming lighting device capable of adjusting illuminance, the bathtub, The length is 1,8 m or more, the width is 0,8 m or more, and the depth is 0,4 m or more,
The floating relaxation system according to claim 1, wherein the float is a plastic foam sheet laid under the body, or a jacket and pants to which the float is attached.