JP2011067452A - Massage machine - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a massage machine by which a person to be massaged can be held in a posture suitable for massaging with a simple construction and feeling like receiving massage by human hands can be provided to the person to be massaged. <P>SOLUTION: The massage machine 1 includes an backrest part 10, an engine part 11 arranged within the backrest part 10, massaging balls 12 for massaging driven by the engine part 11, and hand parts 2 projecting from the backrest part 10 in a position corresponding to shoulder parts of the person M to be massaged reclining against the backrest part 10, and massages the back part of the person M to be massaged reclining against the backrest part 10 with the massaging balls 12. The hand parts 2 suppress fore and aft movement of the shoulder parts associated with the operation of the massaging balls 12 by restraining the shoulder parts of the person M to be massaged during massaging in the vicinity of the shoulder parts by the massaging balls 12 and holds the person M to be massaged in the posture suitable for massaging, can provide the feeling like massaging by the human hands, and can effectively do complicate massaging action such as grabbing massaging. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a massage machine for massaging a back part.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is a massage machine that performs massage on the back surface by pressing a treatment element called a fir ball on the back surface of the user. Such a massage machine, for example, moves a pair of left and right fir balls provided in the back of the chair while moving the top and bottom, left and right while applying pressure to the back of the user through the back cover and kneading. And massage. This fir ball imitates the masseur's fist, fingers and palm. Therefore, the treatment element is warmed by the heat source provided in the treatment element, and the warmth is given in addition to the force, so that the treated person can feel the massage by the hand of the person and the massage is further enhanced. A machine is known (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

JP 2008-284338 A

  However, in the massage machine as shown in Patent Document 1, it is still not enough to give the user a feeling of being massaged by human hands. For example, when treating with a fir ball, if the back surface is pushed by the force received from the fir ball and the posture of the user is changed, the fir ball cannot perform a suitable massage. When a person massages the shoulder of the user or the back near the shoulder, the palm is usually placed on the shoulder, and four fingers other than the thumb are attached to the shoulder, and massage is mainly performed with the thumb. The conventional massage machine does not consider the arrangement of the hands that give a massage sensation by human hands.

  The present invention solves the above-mentioned problem, and can hold the user in a posture suitable for treatment with a simple configuration, and gives the user a feeling of being massaged by a human hand. The object is to provide a massage machine that can be given.

  In order to achieve the above object, the invention of claim 1 includes a backrest portion, an engine portion built in the backrest portion, and a fir ball for treatment driven by the engine portion, and the backrest portion In the massage machine that massages the back part of the user who leans on with the fir ball, the hand part provided to protrude from the back part at a position corresponding to the shoulder part of the user leaning on the back part, The hand portion restrains the shoulder portion of the user and suppresses the back and forth movement of the shoulder portion due to the operation of the fir ball.

  According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the massage machine according to the first aspect, the hand portion includes a mechanism for releasing the load when the hand portion is overloaded.

  A third aspect of the present invention is the massage machine according to the first or second aspect, wherein the hand portion includes a finger portion bent inward or a finger portion bent inward. is there.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, in the massage machine according to any one of the first to third aspects, the hand portion restrains the shoulder portion or the chest portion from substantially above the user.

  According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the massage machine according to any one of the first to fourth aspects, the hand portion is housed inside the backrest portion when not in use.

  A sixth aspect of the present invention is the massage machine according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, wherein the hand portion is slanted toward a lower center from a position off the vertical center line of the backrest portion. Is to be arranged.

  A seventh aspect of the present invention is the massage machine according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, wherein the hand portion includes a four-link mechanism in which four links are connected by four turning pairs. And an actuator for moving the link mechanism, and one link of the four link mechanism is arranged in a substantially vertical direction and fixed to the backrest portion.

  In an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the massage machine according to the seventh aspect, the actuator comprises a linear drive means.

  According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in the massage machine according to the seventh aspect, the actuator comprises a rotation driving means.

  According to invention of Claim 1, since the hand part which restrains a to-be-treated person's shoulder part was provided, when massaging with a fir ball from the back, body movement is carried out with the force which can antagonize a fir ball with a hand part. It is possible to suppress and hold the user in a posture suitable for treatment, to easily perform a complicated fir operation such as gripping fir, and to give the user a sense of receiving massage by a human hand . Since the hand part can be regarded as a finger and palm part other than the thumb and the fir ball can be regarded as the thumb part, a sense of massage by a human hand can be given to the user. Since the hand portion is provided not on the engine portion but on the backrest portion, the hand portion can be easily provided with a simple configuration and design change with respect to a conventional massage machine using fir balls.

  According to invention of Claim 2, an excessive force is not added to a to-be-treated person and it can receive a massage in comfort. Further, the hand portion is not broken and can be easily restored.

  According to invention of Claim 3, since a finger | toe part bends, it can hold | maintain a to-be-treated person's attitude | position so that a shoulder part may be grasped, and can receive the massage force of the fir ball received from the back, and can perform suitable treatment. In addition, the user can feel a sense of a human hand with respect to the hand part and can receive a massage comfortably.

  According to the invention of claim 4, since the posture of the user can be held from above or substantially from the front, the massage force of the fir ball received from the back surface can be received and suitable treatment can be performed.

  According to invention of Claim 5, when not using a hand part, it can receive another treatment without getting in the way. In addition, there is no protrusion even when the massage machine is not used, and it does not get in the way.

  According to the invention of claim 6, the hand portion can be attached while avoiding the head.

  According to the seventh to ninth aspects of the invention, the hand portion can be configured with a simple and inexpensive configuration.

The partial see-through | perspective side view of the massage machine which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. The perspective view of the massage machine. (A) is a perspective view which shows the use condition of the hand part of the massage machine, (b) is a perspective view which shows the accommodation state of the hand part. The partial see-through | perspective side view of the massage machine which concerns on 2nd Embodiment. The perspective view of the hand part of the massage machine. (A) is a perspective view which shows the use condition of the hand part of the massage machine, (b) is a perspective view which shows the accommodation state of the hand part. The perspective view which shows the modification of the hand part of the massage machine. (A) is a front view which shows the use condition of the hand part, (b) is a front view which shows the accommodation state of the hand part. (A) is a perspective view which shows operation | movement of the hand part of the massage machine which concerns on 3rd Embodiment, (b) (c) is a perspective view which shows the modification of the said hand part, respectively. The partial see-through | perspective side view of the massage machine which concerns on 4th Embodiment. (A)-(d) is a side view which shows in order the condition which changes from the accommodation state of the hand part of the massage machine to a use state. (A)-(d) is a side view which shows in order the condition which changes from the accommodation state of the hand part which concerns on the modification of the massage machine to a use state.

(First embodiment)
Hereinafter, a massage machine according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1, 2 and 3 show the first embodiment. As shown in FIG. 1, the massage machine 1 is a chair type, and includes a backrest portion 10, an engine portion 11 built in the backrest portion 10, and a treatment fir ball 12 driven by the engine portion 11. A hand portion 2 provided to protrude from the backrest portion 10 at a position corresponding to the shoulder portion of the user M leaning on the backrest portion 10; a drive source (not shown); and a control portion for controlling the driving source. Yes. The engine part 11 can be moved up and down to a desired position along the guide frame 13 provided inside the backrest part 10 by the user M operating the control part.

  The massage machine 1 massages the back part of the user M leaning against the backrest part 10 with the fir ball 12, and the hand part 2 performs the massage treatment in the vicinity of the shoulder part with the fir ball 12. The shoulder part is restrained and the back-and-forth movement of the shoulder part accompanying the operation of the fir ball 12 is suppressed. In order to effectively perform this suppression, the hand unit 2 can apply a force directed from the front toward the backrest 10 on the shoulder of the user M from the upper side to the left and right of the user M. It is configured to restrain the shoulder or chest.

  Since such a hand part 2 can hold | maintain the attitude | position of the to-be-treated person M from upper direction or substantially front, it can receive the massage force of the fir ball 12 received from a back surface, and can perform suitable treatment. In other words, when the hand unit 2 massages with the fir ball 12 from the back of the user M, the hand 2 is restrained from moving with a force capable of antagonizing the fir ball 12 to make the user M suitable for treatment. It can hold and can effectively perform complicated fir-motion such as grabbing fir, and can give the user M the feeling of being massaged by human hands as shown in FIG. . In this case, the hand part 2 can be regarded as a finger and a palm part other than the thumb, and the fir ball 12 can be regarded as a thumb part.

  As shown in FIG. 3A, the hand portion 2 is attached to the guide frame 13 and provided on the backrest portion 10 independently of the engine portion 11 that moves up and down. The hand unit 2 may be provided with a fixed frame dedicated to the hand unit 2 and attached to the fixed frame. As shown in FIG. 3B, the hand portion 2 is housed inside the backrest portion 10 when not in use. The hand unit 2 can be manually protruded from a storage unit (not shown) by the user M or stored in the storage unit, depending on whether the hand unit 2 is not used. Further, the hand portion 2 can be manually moved up and down along the backrest portion 10 by the user M using the guide frame 13 or the dedicated fixed frame. These operations may be performed automatically.

  Since such a hand part 2 is provided not in the engine part 11 provided with the complicated mechanism for driving the fir ball 12 but in the backrest part 10, it has a simple configuration with respect to an existing massage machine using the fir ball 12. The hand portion 2 can be easily provided by a design change. Moreover, since it can be accommodated in the backrest part 10 when the hand part 2 is not used, other treatments such as massage treatment with the fir ball 12 at the lower back center part or lower back part than the shoulder part are possible. Can receive. In addition, even when the massage machine is not used, the protrusions are eliminated and do not get in the way, so the massage machine 1 can be used as a chair. The fir ball 12 is treated through a cover provided on the backrest part 10 and protrudes by lifting the cover from the backrest part 10 when used, and is housed inside the backrest part 10 when not used.

(Second Embodiment)
4, 5 and 6 show the second embodiment. In the present embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the hand portion 2 in the first embodiment includes a finger portion bent inward or a finger portion that can be bent inward. is there. As shown in FIG. 6A, the hand portion 2 is configured to include a palm portion 21 on the backrest portion 10 side and a finger portion 22 at the tip thereof. It will be bent downward. In the non-use state, the hand portion 2 is housed in the backrest portion 10 with the finger portion 22 extended, as shown in FIG. 6B. The inward bending operation of the finger portion 22 is performed in conjunction with the movement of the palm portion 21 when the user M manually takes out or stores the hand portion 2. These operations may be performed automatically. Moreover, you may make it accommodate the finger | toe part 22 in the inside of the backrest part 10 in the state which does not protrude from the backrest part 10 while bending inward.

  According to the present embodiment, since the finger portion 22 bends inward, that is, on the palm side, the posture of the user M can be maintained so that the shoulder portion is grasped by a human hand, and the massage force of the fir ball 12 received from the back is suitable. It is possible to receive treatment at this point. In addition, the user can feel a sense of a human hand with respect to the hand unit 2 and can receive a massage more comfortably.

  7 and 8 show modified examples of the hand unit 2. As shown in FIG. 7 and FIG. 8A, the hand portion 2 is disposed obliquely from the left and right positions off the vertical center line of the backrest portion 10 toward the lower center in the use state. is there. Further, as shown in FIG. 8B, the unused hand portion 2 is housed in the backrest portion 10 in a state of being opened left and right. According to such a hand part 2, since the hand part 2 can be attached diagonally while avoiding the head of the user M, the place where the user M places his head can be secured in the backrest part 10 with a margin. .

(Third embodiment)
FIG. 9 shows a third embodiment. In the present embodiment, the hand unit 2 in the first and second embodiments described above includes a mechanism for releasing the load when the hand unit 2 is overloaded. The hand part 2 shown to Fig.9 (a) escapes the load which is restraining the shoulder of a to-be-treated person by removing in the outer side direction of a shoulder part when an overload is applied. The mechanism includes a hinge for rotatably attaching the hand part 2 to the backrest part 10 and a latch part for holding the hand part 2 on the backrest part 10 using a spring or the like against a load of a predetermined value or less. What is necessary is just to make it the latch part remove | deviate and rotate around the rotating shaft of a hinge at the time of load. The hand unit 2 shown in FIG. 9 (b) allows the hand unit 2 to escape upward, and the hinge of FIG. 9 (a) may be provided on the upper side. The hand part 2 shown in FIG.9 (c) falls completely from the backrest part 10 by overload. The hand portion 2 having these configurations can be easily returned to the use state with a force larger than a predetermined value. By providing a mechanism that adjusts a predetermined value, that is, a threshold value for determining an overload, for example, a mechanism that adjusts by inserting and removing screws, a use state corresponding to the physical strength of the user M can be realized.

  According to the present embodiment, an excessive force is not applied to the user M, and the massage treatment can be received with peace of mind. Moreover, the hand part 2 is not broken and can be easily returned to the use state.

(Fourth embodiment)
10, 11 and 12 show the fourth embodiment. The present embodiment shows a specific configuration of the hand unit 2 in the second embodiment. As shown in FIG. 10, the hand part 2 includes a palm part 21, a finger part 22 ahead thereof, and an actuator 23 (linear drive means) for rotating the palm part 21 up and down. The palm part 21 and the finger part 22 are part of a four-link mechanism in which four links are connected by four turning pairs. That is, as shown in FIG. 11 (a), two links A and B crossing each other constitute the palm portion 21, and both ends are connected by the turning pair a1 and b1 on the same one end side of the links A and B. The link C constitutes the finger part 22. A link D that connects the turning pairs a2 and b2 on the same other end side of the links A and B is arranged in a substantially vertical direction and is fixed to the backrest 10 side. The actuator 23 has both ends fixed to a rotating pair b3 provided between the rotating pair b1 and b2 of the link B and a rotating pair d fixed to the backrest 10 side, and the distance between the rotating pairs b3 and d Extend and contract. As the actuator 23, a linear motor, a hydraulic cylinder, an air cylinder, or the like can be used. In particular, in the case of an air cylinder driven by air pressure, the air pressure is limited and has compliance, so that it is safe and suitable as a drive source for the hand unit 2 that restrains the user M.

  FIG. 11A shows a state where the actuator 23 is contracted and the hand portion 2 is not used. From this state, when the actuator 23 is gradually extended, the links A and B, that is, the palm portion 21 are rotated downward, and the link C, that is, the finger portion 22 is moved inward as shown in FIGS. As shown in FIG. 11 (d), the finger 22 is in a state of being wrapped around the front surface of the shoulder of the user M. The hand part 2 in the state shown in FIG. 11D can suppress the back-and-forth movement of the user M. Further, by repeatedly expanding and contracting the actuator 23 in the state shown in FIG.

  The hand unit 2 shown in FIGS. 12A to 12D uses an electromagnetic motor (rotation drive means) that rotates around the link B and rotates the pair b2 as a rotation axis as the actuator 23. By turning the rotating shaft of the electromagnetic motor to coincide with the pair b2, a compact configuration can be achieved. Further, since the electromagnetic motor can be controlled electrically with good responsiveness, the restraining force by the hand portion 2 can be adjusted in accordance with the strength control of the fir force by the fir ball, and an effective massage can be performed.

  The present invention is not limited to the above-described configuration, and various modifications can be made. For example, the configurations of the above-described embodiments can be combined with each other. The external configuration of the hand unit 2 is not limited to that illustrated in the drawings, and can be configured to approximate a human hand or have an arbitrary shape. Moreover, it is preferable that the material of the hand part 2 is configured to wrap a hard part with a soft part, such as a human hand composed of a phalange and surrounding meat. Moreover, the massage machine main body having the backrest 10 and the engine unit 11 includes each device configuration in a known chair-type massage machine, a seat chair-type massage machine mainly including the configuration of the backrest 10, and the like. can do. For example, the fir balls 12 are a pair of left and right, and can be operated such as fir, tapping, grabbing, and rubbing with four fir balls 12 provided at the top and bottom. Moreover, the backrest part 10 can take an upright state or a reclining state. In particular, the effect of the hand part 2 is great in a state where the backrest part 10 is upright and standing upright.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Massage machine 2 Hand part 10 Backrest part 11 Engine part 12 Fir ball 22 Finger part 23 Actuator (linear drive means, rotation drive means)
A, B, C, D link a1, a2, b1, b2, b3, d Mating pair M

Claims (9)

A backrest part, an engine part built in the backrest part, and a fir ball for treatment driven by the engine part, and massage treatment of the back part of the user leaning on the backrest part with the fir ball In the massage machine
A hand portion provided to protrude from the backrest portion at a position corresponding to the shoulder portion of the user leaning on the backrest portion;
The said hand part restrains the said patient's shoulder part, and suppresses the back-and-forth movement of the shoulder part accompanying the action | operation of the said fir ball, The massage machine characterized by the above-mentioned.   The massage machine according to claim 1, wherein the hand unit includes a mechanism for releasing a load when the hand unit is overloaded.   The massage machine according to claim 1, wherein the hand portion includes a finger portion bent inward or a finger portion bent inward.   The massage machine according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the hand portion restrains a shoulder portion or a chest portion from substantially above a user.   The massage machine according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the hand part is housed inside the backrest part when not in use.   The massage machine according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the hand portion is disposed obliquely from a position off a vertical center line of the backrest portion toward a lower center. . The hand portion includes a four-link mechanism formed by connecting four links by four turning pairs, and an actuator that moves the link mechanism.
The massage machine according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein one link of the four-link mechanism is arranged in a substantially vertical direction and is fixed to the backrest portion.   The massage machine according to claim 7, wherein the actuator is a linear drive unit.   The massage machine according to claim 7, wherein the actuator is a rotation driving unit.

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