JP4719055B2 - Massage machine - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a chair type massage machine for performing massage on a seated user.

  The backrest, the seat, and the footrest are integrated into one body, the guide rail extends from the backrest to the footrest, and the guide rail is movably arranged. There is disclosed a massage machine that includes a mechanical unit that is driven to treat a user seated on the main body, and that supports the main body so that it can be reclined by a support member in the vicinity of the boundary between the seat and the backrest ( For example, see Patent Document 1).

In such a massage machine, by forming the backrest, seat, and footrest of the main body into a sigmoid shape adapted to the body shape of the user, the user sitting on the main body can be in a relaxed posture. At the same time, since the body can be reclined while maintaining the posture, the user can be massaged in a more relaxed state.
JP 2004-283266 A

However, in the conventional massage machine described above, the support member is exposed. In this case, by reclining the main body, a gap is generated between the support member and the seat, and the main body returns to the original posture. There is a risk that clothes or the like may be caught in the gap.
Such an event may occur in a chair-type massage machine that can tilt at least the seat.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and a massage machine that can prevent clothes or the like from being sandwiched between a support member and a seat even at least when the seat is tilted. provide.

(1) A massage machine according to the present invention includes a main body having a backrest portion, a seat portion, and a leg placement portion, and a support member that connects the main body with a pivot and supports the main body so as to recline to the back side of the main body. in massage machine comprising a drive mechanism for tilting said main body within a predetermined tilt range, and a massaging mechanism massaging the treated person who wears the seat, the support member, the side of the front Symbol seat The side portion is provided on the front side of the main body, and the side portion is bent and extended from the upper edge of the rising portion to the back side of the main body. has a horizontal piece portion, the body has a basic position that has not been reclined, and so can take a reclining posture, the tilting range of the body by front SL drive mechanism, in the thickness direction of the side of the body , The basic posture It is mutually overlapping superimposed region formed in the reclining posture, and a portion over the entire length of the transverse piece is characterized by being configured so as to face the overlapped area of said side.

According to the present invention, the tilting range of the body by driving kinematic mechanism, in the thickness direction of the side of the body, and overlapping each other overlapping region between the basic position and the reclining position is formed, and the total length of Yokohen portion Is partly opposed to the overlapping region of the side part of the main body , so even if the main body is tilted, there is a gap between the horizontal piece part and the main body in side view before and after tilting. There is an effect that clothes and the like can be prevented from being caught between the horizontal piece and the main body .
Moreover, not only the horizontal piece part of a support member but a standing part can be comprised with a strip, and the design property of a massage machine improves.

( 2 ) Further, in the massage machine according to the present invention, the rising portion is formed so as to follow an arc centering on the tilting center side from the front edge of the tilting portion of the main body as necessary. It is characterized by.
As described above, according to the present invention, the angle formed by the side bottom edge of the tilting portion of the main body and the rising portion of the support member is the same angle before and after the tilting portion is tilted. There is an effect that clothes of the user can be prevented from being drawn between the side bottom edge and the rising portion of the support member.

Hereinafter, an example of a massage machine according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
(First embodiment of the present invention)
FIG. 1 is a front perspective view showing a bone structure of a massage machine according to a first embodiment of the present invention, in which 1 is a main body on which a user is seated, and 6 is a support that supports the main body 1. It is a member. 2, FIG. 3, FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 are a bottom perspective view, a side view, a plan view and a front view of the massage machine shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIGS. 1 to 5, the main body 1 includes two sigmoid-shaped vertical frames 10, 10 arranged at an appropriate distance in the horizontal direction. , 10, a seat portion 4 that mainly supports the buttocks of the user, a backrest portion 3 that mainly supports the back portion of the user, a headrest portion 2 that mainly supports the head of the user, An upper footrest portion 51 that mainly supports the thigh of the user, a middle footrest portion 52 that mainly supports the knee of the user, and a foot that supports the foot mainly from the calf portion. A lower footrest portion 53 is formed.

That is, in the basic posture in which the main body 1 is not reclined, the lower footrest portion 53 of the vertical frame 10 has an appropriate climbing slope, is bent at the middle footrest portion 52, and the upper footrest portion 51 and the seat portion 4 are continuous. In particular, the descending slope is smaller than the slope value of the lower footrest portion 53. Then, the backrest 3 is bent again at the boundary between the seat 4 and the backrest 3 so that the backrest 3 has substantially the same ascending slope as the lower footrest 53.
The upper footrest portion 51, the middle footrest portion 52, and the lower footrest portion 53 constitute the leg placement portion 5.

  Between the vertical frames 10, 10 described above, a plurality of substantially inverted arch-shaped horizontal frames 20, 20,... Are arranged on the back side of the main body 1 at appropriate intervals in the longitudinal direction of the vertical frames 10, 10. As a result, the bone structure of the main body 1 is formed which includes the gap portion 13 between the vertical frames 10 and 10 and the through passage 21 penetrating through the region surrounded by the horizontal frames 20, 20.

  Further, guide rails 10a and 10a each having racks 12 and 12 provided on inner walls of rectangular U-shaped grooves 11 and 11 are integrally formed on the back surfaces of the vertical frames 10 and 10, respectively. The mechanical unit 7 that massages the user by 10a and 10a is guided over substantially the entire area of the longitudinal frames 10 and 10 in the longitudinal direction. The configuration of the mechanical unit 7 will be described later.

  On the other hand, band plates 25 and 25 each having a chamfered corner portion of an angle member are fixed to the vertical frames 10 and 10, respectively. The main body 1 has cushion members on both the frame members 25 and 25. The frame members 25, 25, the vertical frames 10, 10, and the horizontal frames 20, 20,... Are covered with an exterior cover (both not shown).

  On the other hand, the support member 6 described above includes a bottom portion 61 and both leg portions 62 and 62, and includes a base portion 60 that is substantially U-shaped in plan view, and the length of the bottom portion 61 is slightly larger than the width of the main body 1. . The base 60 is disposed so that the bottom 61 is on the back side of the main body 1 and the ends of both legs 62 and 62 are on the front side of the main body 1. The ends of both legs 62 and 62 are raised, Rising parts 63, 63 constituting side parts 6a, 6a located on both sides of the seat part 4 are formed. The upper edges of the compatible ascending portions 63, 63 are bent toward the back side of the main body 1, and the lateral piece portions 64, 64 having an appropriate length shorter than the length of the legs 62, 62 are provided as the compatible ascending portions 63, 63 is extended from each. The outer diameter of the horizontal piece portions 64 and 64 is smaller than the thickness dimension of the main body 1. In the present embodiment, the side thickness dimension of the main body 1 refers to the dimension from the surface of the frame member 25 to the side bottom edges of the horizontal frames 20, 20,.

Further, vertical members 65 and 65 for supporting the main body 1 are erected at midway positions in the longitudinal direction of the both leg portions 62 and 62, respectively, and the distal end portions of the lateral piece portions 64 and 64 correspond to the corresponding vertical members. 65, 65.
In addition, the support member 6 uses a pipe material for the base 60, the rising parts 63 and 63, and the horizontal piece parts 64 and 64 for weight reduction.

  By the way, connecting pieces 15 and 15 for connecting to the support member 6 are provided at appropriate positions on the outer surfaces of the vertical frames 10 and 10 and corresponding to the seat 4. The main piece 1 is supported by the support member 6 so as to be reclining to the back side of the main body 1 (see FIG. 3). . An alternate long and short dash line indicates the reclining time. In FIG. 3, the main body 1 is covered with a cover, and the horizontal frame 20 is indicated by a dotted line.

  On the other hand, a mounting frame 66 having a mounting portion 66 a is provided between the rising portions 63, 63 of the support member 6, and the mounting portion is mounted on the horizontal frame 20 disposed at the position of the seat portion 4. 26 is suspended. Cylinder type actuators 30 are installed on both attachment portions 66a and 26, and by retracting the actuators 30, the main body 1 is tilted to an arbitrary reclining angle up to a predetermined angle, and the actuators 30 are driven to extend. By doing so, the main body 1 can be returned to the original basic posture.

  The attachment mode of the actuator 30 is not limited to this. For example, the actuator 30 can be installed between the support member 6 and the main body 1 so as to tilt the main body 1 by pushing up the middle footrest portion 52. .

Next, the massage mechanism will be described.
FIG. 6 is a schematic side view of a massage machine according to the present invention, in which 7 is a mechanical unit. In FIG. 6, parts corresponding to those shown in FIGS. 1 to 5 are given the same reference numerals and explanation thereof is omitted.

  As shown in FIG. 6, in the through passage 21 of the main body 1, a mechanical unit that mechanically massages a user seated on the main body 1 with two pairs of kneading balls 71 and 71 (71, 71). 7, the kneading balls 71, 71 (71, 71) are arranged so as to protrude from the gap 13 (see FIG. 1) of the main body 1, and the mechanical unit 7 is supported by the guide rail 10a (10a) described above. The main body 1 is guided over substantially the entire region in the longitudinal direction.

  7, 8 and 9 are a front view, a plan view and a side view of the mechanical unit 7 shown in FIG. As shown in FIGS. 7 to 9, two bifurcated arms 72, 72 are arranged at a substantially central portion of the unit case 70 of the mechanical unit 7 in such a posture that they can intersect on an extension line passing through each tip. Fir balls 71, 71, 71, 71 are attached to the tips of both arms 72, 72, respectively. Both arms 72, 72 are driven by a fir motor so that the distance between the fir balls 71, 71, 71, 71 facing each other in the lateral direction is expanded and contracted. Apply. Further, the arms 72, 72 are configured such that the side kneading balls 71, 71 that form a pair can protrude from the other side kneading balls 71, 71. By driving, both arms 72 and 72 are swung around an axis orthogonal to the vertical frame 10 (see FIG. 1), and a massage is given to the user.

  In the present embodiment, the mechanical unit 7 using the four kneading balls 71, 71, 71, 71 respectively attached to the bifurcated arms 72, 72 has been described. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and 2 You may apply the mechanical unit which uses the two fir balls attached to the front-end | tip of a book arm. Further, the mechanical unit is not limited to fir massage and tapping massage, but may be configured to perform other massages such as shiatsu massage or a combination of them.

  A drive shaft 73 that is rotated forward and backward by a moving motor 79 is horizontally mounted at an appropriate position of the unit case 70, and both ends of the drive shaft 73 are projected from both sides of the unit case 70 by a predetermined dimension. is there. Drive wheels 74 and 74 that are in rolling contact with the groove portions 11 and 11 of the above-described guide rails 10a and 10a are fixed to both ends of the drive shaft 73, respectively, and the guide rail 10a is disposed inside the drive wheels 74 and 74, respectively. , 10a are provided with pinions 74a, 74a that mesh with the racks 12, 12. The unit case 70 is oppositely arranged with rotating shafts 75 and 75 which are paired with the drive shaft 73 in such a manner that one end protrudes from both sides of the unit case 70 by a predetermined length. The groove portions 11, 11 of the guide rails 10a, 10a are sandwiched between the rotating wheels 76, 76 attached to the ends protruding from both sides of the 75 unit case 70 and the corresponding drive wheels 74, 74.

  Furthermore, two pairs of support shafts 77, 77, 77, oppositely arranged in the thickness direction of the unit case 70 are located on both sides of the unit case 70 and at an appropriate distance in the vertical direction from the drive shaft 73. One end of 77 is projected, and is attached to one end of each support shaft 77, 77, 77, 77 by holding support wheels 78, 78, 78, 78 to be held in rolling contact with the grooves 11, 11 of the guide rails 10 a, 10 a. It is like that.

  The mechanical unit 7 is moved to an arbitrary position in the longitudinal direction of the guide rails 10 a and 10 a by rotating the drive shaft 73 forward and backward with a moving motor 79, and the neck and shoulders of the user seated on the main body 1. Massage back, waist, buttocks, thighs, calf, etc. At this time, since the mechanical unit 7 holds the groove portions 11 and 11 of the guide rails 10a and 10a by the four pairs of wheels facing each other, a predetermined massage can be given to the user without dropping in any posture. Can be applied.

By the way, as described above, the main body 1 can be tilted to an appropriate reclining posture from a basic posture that is not reclining, and can be returned to the original basic posture. As shown in FIG. In the thickness direction of one side portion, an overlapping region M is formed in which the basic posture and the reclining posture overlap each other.
In the overlapping region M, at least a part of the lateral piece 64 (64) of the support member 6 in the thickness direction is disposed over the entire length thereof, whereby the tilting of the main body 1 is restored. It prevents the user's clothing or the like from being sandwiched between the lateral piece 64 and the main body 1 during operation.

  That is, when the main body 1 is in the basic posture, the horizontal piece portion 64 extends over the entire length of the main piece 1 without protruding the vertical lower edge of the horizontal piece portion 64 from the surface of the frame member 25 of the main piece 1. In the side view, there is no gap between the main body 1 and the horizontal piece portion 64, particularly between the side surface of the main body 1 and the lower edge of the horizontal piece portion 64 in the vertical direction.

Further, even when the main body 1 is in the reclining posture, the horizontal piece portion 64 extends over the entire length, and the upper edge in the vertical direction of the horizontal piece portion 64 is the side portion of the horizontal frame 20, 20,. It faces the side part of the main body 1 without protruding from the bottom edge, and is located between the main body 1 and the horizontal piece part 64 in a side view, in particular, the vertical back edge of the side part back surface and the horizontal piece part 64 of the main body 1. There is no gap between them.
Accordingly, there is no gap between the main body 1 and the horizontal piece portion 64 in a side view before and after the tilting operation of the main body 1, and the clothing of the user is sandwiched between the horizontal piece portion 64 and the main body 1. Is prevented.

  Such an effect is determined by the height position and each part size of the seat part 4 and the leg placing part 5 of the main body 1, the height position and each part dimension of the horizontal piece part 64 of the support member 6, and the tilting range of the main body 1. For example, when the size and height position of each part of the main body 1 and the tilting range of the main body 1 are defined, the height position and each dimension of the horizontal piece parts 64 and 64 are tilted as described above. If not, the lower edge of the portion facing the seat 4 and the leg rest 5 of the lateral piece 64, 64 includes the side surface edge position of the corresponding seat 4 and leg rest 5 from the corresponding position. When the main body 1 is tilted at the position on the bottom side of the seat 4 and the leg rest 5, the upper edge of the portion facing the seat 4 and the leg rest 5 of the horizontal piece 64, 64 corresponds. Including the side bottom edge position of the seat part 4 and the leg placing part 5 to be positioned on the front side of the seat part 4 and the leg placing part 5 from the position. .

  On the other hand, when the dimensions and height positions of the horizontal pieces 64 and 64 and the tilting range of the main body 1 are defined, the dimensions of the main body 1, particularly the height positions of the seat portion 4 and the leg placement portion 5, and When the main body 1 is not tilted, the lower edges of the portions facing the seat 4 and the leg rest 5 of the horizontal pieces 64 and 64 are on the side of the corresponding seat 4 and leg rest 5. When the main body 1 is tilted from the position including the front edge position to the bottom side of the seat part 4 and the leg placing part 5, the seat part 4 and the leg placing part 5 of the horizontal piece parts 64 and 64 are The upper edge of the facing portion may be located at the front side position of the seat part 4 and the leg placing part 5 from the corresponding position including the side bottom edge positions of the corresponding seat part 4 and the leg placing part 5.

  Further, when the size and height position of each part of the main body 1 and the size and height position of each part of the horizontal piece portions 64 and 64 are appropriately defined, the tilting range of the main body 1 is not tilted. In this case, the lower edge of the portion of the horizontal piece portions 64, 64 facing the seat 4 and the leg rest 5 includes the side edge positions of the corresponding seat 4 and the leg rest 5, and the seat 4 from the corresponding position. When the main body 1 is tilted at the position on the bottom side of the leg placement part 5, the upper edge of the part facing the seat part 4 and the leg placement part 5 of the horizontal piece parts 64, 64 corresponds to the corresponding seat part. 4 and the side bottom edge position of the leg mounting part 5, and it can be made to exist in the position of the front side of the seat part 4 and the leg mounting part 5 from the said position.

By the way, in the massage machine according to the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 3, the rising portion 63 (63) of the support member 6 is the pivot 14 (14) that pivotally supports the main body 1, that is, the main body 1. It is curved so as to be located on a circle (arc) C centering on the tilt center of the.
Thus, even when the main body 1 is tilted, the angle formed by the lower footrest portion 53 and the rising portion 63 of the main body 1 in a side view is maintained at a constant angle, and the lower footrest portion 53 and the rising portion 63 are It is possible to prevent the clothes of the user from being caught in between.

(Another embodiment of the present invention)
FIG. 10 is a schematic side view showing another massage machine according to the present invention, and shows a case where it is applied to a main body 1 in which a backrest portion 3a, a seat portion 4a, and a leg placement portion 5a are separately connected. In the figure, the parts corresponding to the parts shown in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 10, a leg rest 5 a is connected to the front edge of the seat 4 a by a pivot 18, and a backrest 3 a can be reclining to the rear edge of the seat 4 a by a pivot 17. It is connected to. Further, in the backrest 3a, there is disposed a mechanical unit 7a for massaging the user seated on the main body 1. The mechanical unit 7a is a guide rail 10b disposed in the longitudinal direction of the backrest 3a. It is guided by (10b) and is driven up and down.

  On the other hand, the side portion 6b (6b) of the support member 6 that supports the main body 1 is configured in a wall shape except for the lateral piece portion 64b (64b), and the wall-like portion of the side portion 6b (6b). A suitable space is formed between the horizontal piece 64b (64b). Further, a connecting piece 40 (40) is suspended from the bottom side portion of the seat 4a, and the connecting piece 40 (40) and the side portion 6b (6b) are pivoted 16 (16). The main body 1 is supported by the support member 6 so as to be reclined to the back side of the main body 1. As a result, the seat 4a tilts in the front-rear direction of the main body 1.

The tilting range of the seat 4a, the lateral piece 64b (64b), and the seat 4a is such that the lower edge of the portion facing the seat 4a of the lateral piece 64b (64b) is when the seat 4a is not tilted. The portion of the side piece 64b (64b) that faces the seat portion 4a when the seat portion 4a is tilted when the seat portion 4a is tilted, including the side surface edge position of the corresponding seat portion 4a. The upper edge includes the side bottom edge position of the corresponding seat portion 4a and is located at a position on the front side of the seat portion 4a from the position.
Thus, as before, before and after the tilting operation of the main body 1, there is no gap between the seat portion 4a and the lateral piece portion 64b in a side view, and the clothing of the user is placed between the lateral piece portion 64b and the seat portion 4a. Etc. are prevented from being caught.

  In the massage machine shown in FIG. 10, the seat 4a is tilted by supporting the main body 1 with the support member 6 so as to recline to the back side of the main body 1. Not only this but the structure which can tilt only the seat part 4a may be sufficient.

  Furthermore, as shown in FIG. 11, the rising portion 63 b of the support member 6 is positioned on a pivot 16 (16) that pivotally supports the main body 1, that is, a circle (arc) C centered on the tilting center of the main body 1. You may bend like this. Thus, even when the seat 4a is tilted, the angle formed between the seat 4a and the rising portion 63b in a side view is maintained at a constant angle, and the treatment is performed between the seat 4a and the rising portion 63b. It is prevented that a person's clothes etc. are caught.

It is a front side perspective view which shows the bone structure of the massage machine which concerns on the 1st Embodiment of this invention. It is a bottom side perspective view of the massage machine shown in FIG. It is a side view of the massage machine shown in FIG. It is a top view of the massage machine shown in FIG. It is a front view of the massage machine shown in FIG. It is a typical side view of a massage machine concerning the present invention. It is a front view of the mechanical unit shown in FIG. It is a top view of the mechanical unit shown in FIG. FIG. 7 is a side view of the mechanical unit shown in FIG. 6. It is a typical side view showing other massage machines concerning the present invention. It is a typical side view showing other massage machines concerning the present invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body 2 Headrest part 3 Backrest part 4 Seat part 5 Leg mounting part 6 Support member 7 Mechanical unit 10 Vertical frame 10a Guide rail 11 Groove part 12 Rack 13 Gap part 25 Frame member 51 Upper footrest part 52 Middle footrest part 53 Lower footrest Part 60 Base part 61 Bottom part 62 Leg part 63 Standing part 64 Horizontal piece part 65 Vertical member C Circle (arc)
M overlap area

Claims (2)

A main body having a backrest portion, a seat portion, and a leg placement portion, a support member that connects the main body by a pivot, and supports the main body so that it can be reclined, and the main body tilts within a predetermined tilting range. In a massage machine comprising: a drive mechanism for causing massage; and a massage mechanism for massaging a user wearing the seat portion,
Wherein the support member is provided with a lateral portion disposed on the side of the front Symbol seat,
The side part has a rising part raised on the front side of the main body, and a lateral piece part extending from the upper edge of the rising part to bend toward the back side of the main body,
The main body can take a basic posture that is not reclining, and a reclining posture,
Tilting range of the body by front SL drive mechanism, in the thickness direction of the side of the body, the basic position and is mutually overlapping superimposed region formed in the reclining posture, and a portion over the entire length of the transverse piece is the A massage machine configured to face the overlapping region of the side part . 2. The massage machine according to claim 1, wherein the rising portion is formed so as to follow a circular arc centered on the tilting center on the tilting center side of the front edge of the tilting portion of the main body .