JP2015047207A5

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Publication number: JP2015047207A5
Application number: JP2013179054A
Authority: JP
Filing date: 2013-08-30
Publication date: 2016-08-18
Anticipated expiration: 2033-08-30

Description

すなわち本発明は、
人の腕又は脚を包むようにして装着され、装着されたときの前記腕又は脚の末梢の位置から身体の中枢に向う近位方向に複数の空気室が並べて配置されているマッサージ具と、
前記マッサージ具の前記複数の空気室への圧縮空気の供給排出を行う圧縮空気制御装置と、を備え、
該圧縮空気制御装置が、各空気室に圧縮空気を供給して各空気室を加圧する加圧手段と、該加圧手段による該空気室のすべての加圧が完了した後に、加圧された各空気室から圧縮空気を排出して各空気室を除圧する除圧手段とを有し、
該除圧手段が、加圧された空気室のうちの隣接して配置された何れか一組の空気室を、該一組の空気室のうちの近位側の空気室の除圧を先に開始し遠位側の空気室の除圧を後に開始するようにされた、空気圧式マッサージ装置を提供する。
That is, the present invention
A massage tool that is worn so as to wrap a person's arm or leg, and in which a plurality of air chambers are arranged side by side in a proximal direction from the distal position of the arm or leg to the center of the body when worn;
A compressed air control device for supplying and discharging compressed air to and from the plurality of air chambers of the massage device,
The compressed air control device is pressurized after supplying all the pressurization of the air chamber by the pressurizing means by supplying compressed air to each air chamber and pressurizing each air chamber. Pressure release means for discharging compressed air from each air chamber to decompress each air chamber;
The pressure-removing means sets any one set of adjacent air chambers out of the pressurized air chambers, and removes the pressure in the proximal air chamber of the set air chambers first. A pneumatic massage device is provided which starts at a later time and starts to decompress the distal air chamber later.

当該空気圧式マッサージ装置１における除圧パターンは、基本的には、隣接して配置された何れか一組の空気室をその組の空気室のうちの近位側の空気室の除圧を先に開始して遠位側の空気室の除圧をその後に開始するようにするようになっている。こうすることで、除圧された近位側の空気室が圧迫していた身体の部分とその遠位側の空気室が圧迫している身体の部分との間に圧力勾配が生じ、遠位側の空気室によって圧迫されている身体の部分から近位側の空気室によって圧迫されていた身体の部分に向かって体液が流れるのを促すことが可能となる。当該空気圧式マッサージ装置１における代表的な除圧パターンとしては、第６の空気室５ｆの除圧を最初に開始し、以後、第４の空気室５ｄ、第２の空気室５ｂ、第５の空気室５ｅ、第３の空気室５ｃ、第１の空気室５ａの順に除圧を開始する第１除圧パターン、第５の空気室５ｅの除圧を最初に開始し、以後、第３の空気室５ｃ、第１の空気室５ａ、第６の空気室５ｆ、第４の空気室５ｄ、第２の空気室５ｂの順に除圧を開始する第２除圧パターン、及び第６の空気室５ｆから第１の空気室５ａまで遠位方向に並ぶ順に順次除圧を開始する第３除圧パターンがある。ただし、本発明における除圧パターンは、身体に負荷される圧力が遠位から近位向かって減少している部分が生じるように各空気室５ａ−５ｆの除圧を行うようにすればよく、後述するように上記３つの除圧パターンに限られるものではない。 The depressurization pattern in the pneumatic massage device 1 is basically that any one set of air chambers arranged adjacent to each other is preceded by the depressurization of the proximal air chamber. And the decompression of the distal air chamber is started thereafter. This creates a pressure gradient between the part of the body that was compressed by the decompressed proximal air chamber and the part of the body that is compressed by the distal air chamber. We are possible to promote the flow of fluid toward the body part which has been squeezed by the proximal side of the air chamber from the part of the body which are under pressure by the air chamber side. As a typical depressurization pattern in the pneumatic massage apparatus 1, the depressurization of the sixth air chamber 5f is started first, and thereafter, the fourth air chamber 5d, the second air chamber 5b, The first depressurization pattern for starting depressurization in the order of the air chamber 5e, the third air chamber 5c, and the first air chamber 5a, first depressurization of the fifth air chamber 5e, and thereafter the third depressurization pattern A second decompression pattern for starting decompression in the order of the air chamber 5c, the first air chamber 5a, the sixth air chamber 5f, the fourth air chamber 5d, and the second air chamber 5b; and a sixth air chamber There is a third depressurization pattern in which depressurization is sequentially started in the order lined up in the distal direction from 5f to the first air chamber 5a. However, the depressurization pattern in the present invention may be such that each air chamber 5a-5f is depressurized so that a portion where the pressure applied to the body decreases from distal to proximal is generated. As will be described later, the present invention is not limited to the above three decompression patterns.

Claims

A massage tool that is worn so as to wrap a person's arm or leg, and in which a plurality of air chambers are arranged side by side in a proximal direction from the peripheral position of the arm or leg to the center of the body when worn;
A compressed air control device for supplying and discharging compressed air to and from the plurality of air chambers of the massage device,
The compressed air control device supplies compressed air to each air chamber to pressurize each air chamber, and after all the pressurization of the air chamber by the pressurizing unit is completed, from each air chamber Pressure reducing means for discharging compressed air and depressurizing each air chamber;
The pressure-removing means sets any one set of adjacent air chambers out of the pressurized air chambers, and removes the pressure in the proximal air chamber of the set air chambers first. Pneumatic massage device that started at a later time and started to decompress the distal air chamber later.

The distal end of the pressurized air chamber is depressurized prior to depressurization of a distal end air chamber disposed at the most distal end of the pressurized air chamber. The pneumatic massage apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the pressure cancellation of at least one of the air chambers other than the air chamber is started.

The pressure removing means removes the air chambers that are even numbers when the pressurized air chambers are numbered in the order in which they are arranged in the proximal direction with the distal end air chamber as the first, in descending order of the numbers. The pneumatic massage apparatus according to claim 2, wherein pressure is started, and then the pressure of the odd-numbered air chambers is started to be released in descending order of the numbers.

When the pressure removing means assigns numbers to the pressurized air chambers in the order in which they are arranged in the proximal direction with the distal end air chamber as the first, the odd numbered air chambers are removed in descending order of the numbers. The pneumatic massage apparatus according to claim 2, wherein pressure is started, and then the pressure of the even-numbered air chamber is started in descending order of the number.

When the pressure removing means is numbered in the order in which the pressurized air chambers are arranged in the proximal direction with the distal end air chamber as the first, pressure removal is started in descending order of number. The pneumatic massage apparatus according to claim 2.

The pressurizing means starts the pressurization in ascending order of numbers when the pressurized air chambers are numbered in the order in which they are arranged in the proximal direction with the distal end air chamber as the first. The pneumatic massage device according to any one of claims 1 to 5.

The pneumatic massage apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the pressurizing unit starts to pressurize the plurality of air chambers simultaneously.

The pneumatic massage device according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the plurality of air chambers are arranged such that adjacent air chambers overlap each other.

The compressed air control device further includes a pressurized state maintaining unit that maintains a pressurized state of the pressurized air chamber for a predetermined time after the pressurization of each air chamber by the pressurizing unit is completed. The pneumatic massage apparatus as described in any one of thru | or 8.