JP2008036184A - Acupressure instrument - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a safe and convenient acupressure instrument giving an acupressure to a wide range. <P>SOLUTION: The acupressure instrument has an arch section 1 formed by bending an elastic material in an arch, elastic arm members 3 having a pair of grip sections 2 and 2 arranged on open ends of the arch section 1, and a pair of acupressure members 4 and 4 arranged oppositely within the arch section 1. The acupressure members 4 are arranged on the arch section 1 so that they can rotate freely around an axis and can be fixed at an arbitrary rotation angle. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a convenient acupressure device that can easily apply pressure to the neck, shoulders, lower limbs, and the like.

  As this kind of acupressure device, for example, as shown in FIG. 13, the distal ends of the left and right rod bodies 20, 21 that are bent toward the outer side are pivotally attached to each other with bolts 22. There is one in which a pair of finger depressors (pressing members) 23 and 23 are attached to each other inside the curved portions of the left and right rod bodies 20 and 21 (see, for example, Patent Document 1). According to this, it is possible to easily acupressure the neck and shoulder with the acupressure element 23 by holding the left and right rod bodies 20 and 21 in both hands and opening and closing the bolt 22 around the bolt 22.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 6-31737

  However, in the acupressure device, the acupressure element 23 is fixed to the inside of the curved portions of the rods 20 and 21 in a certain direction. Further, since the tip portions of the left and right rod bodies 20 and 21 are joined together with a bolt 22 so as to be pivotable, a part of the hair is sandwiched between the tip portions of the rod bodies 20 and 21 during the finger pressure of the neck. The bolts 22 are used, and the number of assembly steps and the number of members are increased.

  The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to provide a convenient acupressure device that can perform a wide range of acupressure and can be used extremely safely.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an elastic arm member having an arch portion formed of an elastic material in an arch shape, and a pair of grip portions extending at both open ends of the arch portion; And a pair of acupressure members attached to each other in an opposing manner, and each of the a pair of acupressure members is attached to the arch portion so as to be rotatable around a shaft portion and fixed at an arbitrary rotation angle. It has the characteristic in being.
In addition, in this specification, “arch-shaped” means not only a horseshoe-shaped arch and a semicircular arch as shown in FIG. 1, but also a flat arch as shown in FIG. 11 and a multi-leafed shape as shown in FIG. Used to include arches.
According to the acupressure device configured in this way, by rotating the acupressure member around the shaft, differences in size such as neck thickness and thigh thickness due to gender and individual differences, and each acupressure part of the human body Since the direction of each acupressure member and the distance between the acupressure members can be changed and adjusted to cope with this, the range in which the acupressure can be applied can be expanded.
By holding the grip part of the arm member with both hands and repeatedly opening and closing the arch part, it is possible to acupressure the acupuncture points such as the neck and shoulders with the acupressure member. Since there is no joint like the tip of the conventional rods described above, there is no risk of pinching or pulling the hair at the arch when applying pressure to the neck. It can be safely acupressure.

  The acupressure device according to claim 1, as described in claim 2, the pair of acupressure members is inserted into the shaft hole penetrating the arch portion so as to be rotatable about the axis, One or two or more acupressure elements provided in a branched manner in a direction different from the axial direction at the axially inner end of the axial part, and the shaft is interposed between the arch part and the axial part A fixing means for stopping and holding the portion at an arbitrary rotation angle position is provided. According to this, by rotating the shaft part around the axis, the direction of each acupressure element and the distance between the acupressure elements are different from each other, such as differences in gender and individual differences in neck thickness, etc., and each acupressure part of the human body. Since it can be changed and adjusted to various acupressure directions and acupuncture distances to cope with the above, it is possible to expand the acupressure range.

The acupressure device according to a second aspect is the same as the third aspect, wherein the fixing means has a coaxial spline shaft portion provided with several key-shaped protrusions on the acupressure side end of the shaft portion. The shaft hole is provided with a groove in which the protrusion is fitted, so that the acupressure member can be moved along the axial direction, and the axial portion is always axially positioned between the axial portion and the axial hole. There is interposed a spring member that moves and urges the spline shaft to contact the inner opening end of the shaft hole with a flange provided at a portion where the spline shaft is connected to the acupressure element.
According to this, the fingertip is applied to the axially outer end of the shaft part and the shaft part is pushed inward in the axial direction, or the axial part is pulled inward in the axial direction by holding the finger depressor in hand. Thus, when the spline shaft portion is protruded from the groove of the shaft hole and subsequently the shaft portion is rotated around the axis, a finger pressure member having a desired finger depressor orientation and a finger depressor spacing can be obtained. When the pressing force or tensile force applied to the shaft portion is released after the rotation, the shaft portion is pulled back by the spring member and is held and fixed at the position of the desired rotation angle.

  In the acupressure device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, the acupressure device can be formed of an elastic body as described in claim 4. According to this, the contact of the acupressure with the human body is softened, and the acupressure becomes harder to slip and increases the acupressure efficiency.

  According to the present invention, the pair of acupressure members attached to the inside of the elastically deforming arch portion so as to face each other is configured to be rotatable around the shaft portion and fixed to an arbitrary rotation angle with respect to the arch portion. Therefore, a wide range of acupressure is possible and it can be used extremely safely.

  Preferred embodiments of the acupressure device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 5, the acupressure device according to the present invention is formed by bending a rod-shaped elastic material such as a plastic material, a spring material, or a composite elastic material having a plastic material coated on the surface of the spring material into an arch shape. An arch portion 1 is formed, and a pair of grip portions 2 and 2 are extended at both open ends of the arch portion 1 so as to be formed in a gate shape as a whole. And a pair of acupressure members 4 and 4 attached in a shape. The arch portion 1 is designed to withstand repeated bending loads, and an arc portion 10 having a small radius of curvature is provided at the center of the arch portion 1 to reduce the concentration of bending stress. The arch portion 1 is formed not only on a horseshoe arch as shown in FIG. 1 or a semicircular arch, but also on a flat arch as shown in FIG. 11, a multi-leaf arch as shown in FIG. be able to.

As shown in FIG. 6, the acupressure member 4 has a shaft portion 5, and one or two or more acupressure members 6 are disposed in a direction different from the axial direction at the axially inner end of the shaft portion 5. It is provided in a branched shape. The acupressure element 6 itself is made of an elastic body having an appropriate elasticity such as rubber or soft synthetic resin in order to soften the contact with the human body and make it difficult to slip. The acupressure element 6 is formed in a hemispherical shape, a spherical shape, or the like that can press the acupoint of the human body so as not to irritate the skin excessively. A flange portion 7 is formed so as to protrude from the outer periphery of the continuous portion with the acupressure element 6 at the axially inner end of the shaft portion 5.
The acupressure member 4 is inserted into the shaft hole 9 provided in a penetrating manner in the boss 8 of the arch portion 1 so that the acupressure member 4 can rotate about the axis and can be fixed at an arbitrary rotation angle. It is attached inside.

As shown in FIG. 6, between the shaft hole 9 of the boss 8 and the shaft portion 5, a fixing means for stopping and holding the shaft portion 5 at an arbitrary rotation angle position is provided. This fixing means has a spline shaft portion 51 provided with several key-like projections 11 coaxially and integrally formed on the front side of the flange portion 7 at the inner end in the axial direction of the shaft portion 5. The hole 9 is provided with a groove 12 into which the key-like protrusion 11 is fitted so that the shaft portion 5 can be moved along the axial direction. The shaft portion 5 is always moved and urged outward in the axial direction between the outer periphery of the shaft portion 5 on the outer end side in the axial direction and the inner periphery of the shaft hole 9 so that the flange portion 7 A spring member 13 such as a coil spring that is brought into contact with the inner opening end 8a is interposed.
A pressing portion 14 is provided on the axially outer end surface of the shaft portion 5, and the pressing portion 14 is substantially flush with the outer end surface 8 b of the boss 8 in a normal state before pressing. When the pressing portion 14 is pressed inward in the axial direction against the urging force of the spring member 13 with the fingertip, the projection 11 of the spline shaft portion 51 is moved inward in the axial direction from the groove 12 as shown in FIG. With the protrusion, the acupressure element 6 can be grasped by hand and the shaft portion 5 can be rotated around the axis to an arbitrary rotation angle. When the finger is released from the acupressure element 6 at an arbitrary rotation angle position, the shaft portion 5 is pulled back outward in the axial direction by the urging force of the spring member 13, and the protrusion 11 is fitted into the groove 12 to reach the rotation angle position. Fixed to a non-rotating state.
In addition, as a method of protruding the protrusion 11 of the spline shaft portion 51 inward in the axial direction from the groove 12, the acupressure element 6 can be moved in addition to pressing the pressing portion 14 on the outer end surface in the axial direction of the shaft portion 5 as described above. The projection 11 of the spline shaft portion 51 can also be protruded from the groove 12 inward in the axial direction by holding the shaft portion 5 inward in the axial direction against the urging force of the spring member 13. .

  According to the acupressure device configured as described above, the arch portion 1 is opened and closed by holding the grip portions 2 and 2 of the arm member 3 with both hands, and the acupressure portion 6 is used to open the neck (N in FIG. 1) and the shoulder. Acupressure points such as parts and lower limbs can be acupressured.

In this case, as described above, the pressing portion 14 of the shaft portion 5 of the acupressure member 4 is once pressed inward in the axial direction to cause the protrusion 11 to protrude from the groove 12 and then rotate around the shaft portion 5. Therefore, the direction of the acupressure element 6 and the distance between the acupressure elements 6 and 6 can be adapted to the differences in the thickness of the neck and thigh due to gender and individual differences, as well as the multiple points of each part. Can be freely changed and adjusted, and a wide range of finger pressure is possible by this adjustment. For example, FIG. 9 shows a state in which the acupressure member 4 is rotated 90 degrees from the state of FIG. 1, and FIG. 10 shows a state in which the acupressure member 4 is rotated 180 degrees from the state of FIG.

By repeatedly performing the opening and closing operation of the arm member 3, an appropriate pressing force by the acupressure element 6 can be repeatedly applied, and by adjusting the grasping force of the grip portion 2 at the time of the opening and closing operation, the acupressure can be increased or decreased. Can be performed repeatedly, and effective acupressure can be performed.
Further, since the arch portion 1 of the arm member 3 is formed in a shape in which an elastic material is bent into an arch shape and joined together without a seam, there is no seam such as the tip parts of the conventional rods described above, Therefore, there is no fear that the hair is pinched or pulled at the arch when the neck is pressed, and the finger can be safely pressed.

It is a top view of the acupressure device which shows one Example of this invention. It is a front view of the acupressure device of FIG. It is a side view of the acupressure device of FIG. It is a bottom view of the acupressure device of FIG. It is the sectional view on the AA line in FIG. FIG. 4 is a sectional view taken along line BB in FIG. 3. It is CC sectional view taken on the line in FIG. FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view corresponding to FIG. 6 showing a pushing state of the acupressure member of the acupressure device of FIG. 1. It is a front view which shows the state which rotated the acupressure member of the acupressure device of FIG. 1 90 degree | times. It is a front view which shows the state which rotated the acupressure member of the acupressure device of FIG. 1 180 degree | times. It is a front view which shows the other modification of the arch part of the elastic arm member of the acupressure device of FIG. It is a front view which shows the further another modification of the arch part of the elastic arm member of the acupressure device of FIG. It is a front view which shows the acupressure device of a prior art example.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Arch part 2 Grip part 6 Arm member 4 Acupressure member 5 Shaft part 6 Acupressure part 7 Acupuncture part 9 Shaft hole 11 Protrusion 12 Groove 13 Spring member 14 Press part

Claims (4)

  An elastic arm member having an arch portion formed of an elastic material in an arch shape, and a pair of grip portions extending at both open ends of the arch portion, and a pair of acupressure attached to the inside of the arch portion in a mutually opposing manner A pair of acupressure members is attached to the arch portion so as to be rotatable around a shaft portion and fixed at an arbitrary rotation angle.   Each of the pair of acupressure members is inserted into a shaft hole penetrating the arch portion so as to be rotatable around the shaft center, and a direction different from the shaft center direction at an axially inner side end of the shaft portion. A fixing means for stopping and holding the shaft portion at an arbitrary rotational angle position between the arch portion and the shaft portion. The acupressure device according to claim 1.   The fixing means is coaxially formed with a spline shaft portion provided with several key-shaped protrusions at the end of the shaft portion on the side of the finger depressor, and the shaft hole is provided with a groove into which the protrusion is fitted, The acupressure member can be moved along the axial direction, and the axial portion is always moved and urged outwardly in the axial direction between the axial portion and the axial hole. The acupressure device according to claim 2, wherein a spring member for interposing a flange portion provided in the continuous portion against the inner opening end of the shaft hole is interposed. The acupressure device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the acupressure element is formed of an elastic body.

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