JPH06335497A - Air massage apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To provide an air massage apparatus which enables a user to get up in the morning without giving any burden to the heart to wake up the body. CONSTITUTION:This massage machine equipped with a mat 10 which has a neck/shoulders holder as well as a waist holder and a leg holder, air bags which are attached to above neck/shoulders holder, a waist holder and a leg holder respectively, and an air inhaler/supplier 20 to let those air bags expand or shrink, is provided with a control circuit 100 that controls the air inhaler/ supplier 20 to gradually shorten the interval for air bags to expand and shrink.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a plurality of air bags on a mat body having a neck / shoulder receiving portion, a waist receiving portion, and a foot receiving portion.
The present invention relates to an air massage device for inflating and deflating these air bags.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as an air massage device,
It is known that the mat body is divided into three parts, a neck / shoulder receiving part, a waist receiving part and a foot receiving part, and a plurality of air bags are arranged at the neck / shoulder receiving part, the waist receiving part and the foot receiving part. ing. Massage is performed by supplying air to these air bags by an air supply / exhaust device to expand the air bags, or exhausting the air bags to contract the expanded air bags.

[0003]

However, in such an air massage apparatus, the air bag of the neck / shoulder receiving portion is directed toward the foot receiving portion, or the air bag of the foot receiving portion is received in the neck / shoulder receiving portion. The air bag was inflated and deflated sequentially toward the parts, and the time for the inflation and deflation was constant.

For this reason, for example, when waking up in the morning by using the massage of the air massage device to wake up the body, it is rather convenient to drowsiness because the expansion / contraction time is set to be long. There was a problem of being bad. On the contrary, if the inflation / deflation time is set to be short or the massage is suddenly performed from the shoulder, the heart is burdened and the user cannot wake up comfortably.

The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object thereof is to provide an air massage apparatus capable of comfortably awakening the body without exerting a burden on the heart when waking up in the morning. is there.

[0006]

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a mat body having a neck / shoulder receiving portion, a waist receiving portion, and a foot receiving portion, the neck / shoulder receiving portion, and a waist receiving portion. In an air massager equipped with a plurality of air bags arranged in the foot support and an air supply / exhaust device for inflating / deflating these air bags, the air supply / exhaust device is controlled to inflate / expand the air bag. It is characterized in that a control means for accelerating the contracting time with the passage of time is provided.

Further, a mat body having a neck / shoulder receiving portion, a waist receiving portion and a foot receiving portion, and a plurality of air bags arranged at the neck / shoulder receiving portion, the waist receiving portion and the foot receiving portion, In an air massage device having an air supply / exhaust device for inflating / deflating these air bags, a control means for controlling the air supply / exhaust device to expand the massage range from the foot to the whole body with the passage of time is provided. It is characterized by

[0008]

According to the present invention, with the above construction, the control means controls the air supply / exhaust device to accelerate the time during which the air bag is inflated / deflated.

Further, the control means controls the air supply / exhaust device to widen the massage range from the foot to the whole body with the passage of time.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT An embodiment of an air massage device according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, a mat body 10 is divided into three parts, a neck / shoulder receiving portion 10a for receiving shoulders, a waist receiving portion 10b for receiving waist and the like, and a foot receiving portion 10c for receiving feet and the like. Is. The mat body 10 has an upper layer portion 14 and a lower layer portion 15 made of a urethane home covered with a front cloth 11 made of ester brushing and a back cloth 11 made of cotton. Further, strip-shaped air bags 18a to 18h are arranged between the upper layer portion 14 and the lower layer portion 15. Air bag 18a,
18b is arranged in the neck / shoulder receiving portion 10a, and the air bags 18c-1c
8g is placed in the waist receiving portion 10b, and the air bag 18h is in the foot receiving portion 1
It is located at 0c. An electric floor band 18i is provided between the lower layer portion 14 and the upper layer portion 15 of the foot receiving portion 10c.

A hose connecting portion 17 is provided on one side of the mat body 10, and the hose connecting portion 17 is connected to the tube 1.
It is connected to the air bags 18a to 18h by 9a to 19h. Further, the cord connecting portion 16 is provided adjacent to the hose connecting portion 17, and the cord connecting portion 16 is connected to the electric floor strip 18
Connected to the lead wire connected to i.

One end of the hose 3 consisting of a plurality of tubes is detachably connected to the hose connecting portion 17, and the hose 3
The other end portion of the above is detachably connected to a main body case 20K having a built-in air supply / exhaust device 20 (see FIG. 5). By connecting the hose 3 to the main body case 20K and the hose connecting portion 17 of the mat main body 10, air is supplied to the air bags 18a to 18h separately by the air supply / exhaust device 20. The air bags 18a to 18h expand due to the supply of the air, and the expansion causes the air bags 18a to 18h to project the upper layer portion 14 upward, thereby performing massage.

An operation panel 21 is provided in front of the main body case 20K of the air supply / exhaust device 20, and the operation panel 21 has a power switch 22, an operation unit 23, and an alarm setting as shown in FIG. A unit 24 and a display unit 25 that displays operations and settings are provided.

The operating unit 23 includes a rolling switch 2 for selecting a whole body, back, or waist to be massaged.
3a and a point switch 23b for selecting one of the air bags 18a-18h to massage a part of the body
, A speed switch 23c for speeding up or slowing down the time of inflation / deflation of the air bags 18a-18h, a timer switch 23d for setting an operating time, and an A course (a course used when sleeping) A set. A course switch 23e, an air massage switch 27 for performing air massage, and a potential treatment switch 28 for performing potential treatment are provided. Further, the operation unit 23 is provided with a light receiving unit 26 that receives infrared light emitted from a remote controller main body (not shown).

The wake-up setting unit 24 is provided with a wake-up setting switch 24a for setting a wake-up (B course), a time setting switch 24b for setting a wake-up time, and a display unit 24g for displaying the current time. . Reference numeral 24b is a light emitting diode which lights up when the B course is set.

The display unit 25 has a light emitting diode 25a that lights up when the air massage switch 27 is pressed, a light emitting diode 25b that emits light when the point switch 23b is pressed, and a light emitting diode that emits light when the potential therapy switch 28 is pressed. 25c and light emitting diodes a to h provided corresponding to the air bags 18a to 18h are provided. The light emitting diodes a to h are inflated air bags 1
In addition to lighting corresponding to 8a to 18h, each time the point switch 23b is pressed, the light emitting diodes a to h are sequentially lit, and the air bags 18a to 18h corresponding to the lit light emitting diodes a to h are selected. , That selected air bag 1
Only 8a to 18h are expanded and contracted.

A switch having the same function as the switch provided on the operation panel 21 is provided on the remote controller main body (not shown), and the same operation as described above can be performed by each switch.

The main body case 20K includes a rotary valve 60.
The rotary valve 60 has a rotating body (not shown) that is rotated by a stepping motor 65 as shown in FIG. 5, and the rotation of this rotating body causes one of the air bags 18a-18h to rotate. One of the filter tanks 92
To communicate with the outside air as well as to communicate with the outside air. For example, the air bag 18a is the filter tank 9
When it is communicated with the air bag 18, compressed air is supplied to the air bag 18a, the air bag 18a expands, and the other air bags 18b to 18b.
The h is communicated with the outside air and becomes an exhaust state, and the inflated air bag is contracted.

When the rotating body further rotates, the air bladder 18b communicates with the filter tank 92, and the air bladder 18a, 1b
8c to 18h are communicated with the outside air. That is, the rotary valve 60 sequentially switches the air bags 18a to 18h communicating with the filter tank 92 by the rotation of the rotating body.

Further, the rotary valve 60 is constructed so that all the air bags 18a to 18h communicate with the outside air when the rotating body is in an intermediate position where the air bags 18a to 18h do not communicate with the filter tank 92. The rotary valve 60 has an air bag 18a communicating with the filter tank 92.
A sensor 80 for detecting ~ 18h is provided.

Reference numeral 91 is an air compressor for producing compressed air, and 92 is a filter tank for purifying and storing the compressed air. The air compressor 91, the filter tank 92, etc. are provided in the main body case 20K. 10
Reference numeral 0 denotes a control circuit (control means) that controls the stepping motor 65, the electric belt 25, and the like based on the operation of each switch provided on the operation panel 21.

As shown in FIG. 7, the control circuit 100 includes a microcomputer 101 and interfaces 102 to 102.
The control circuit 100 is also provided in the main body case 20K.

Next, the operation of the embodiment of the air massager configured as described above will be described.

First, the power switch 22 provided on the operation panel 21 of the air supply / exhaust device 20 is turned on. Then, the B course switch 24a is pressed to set the B course, and the wake-up time is set by the timer setting switch 24c.

When the set wake-up time is reached, a built-in buzzer (not shown) sounds, and after a lapse of a certain time, the control circuit 100 operates the compressor 91 to store compressed air in the filter tank 92. And the control circuit 1
00 controls the stepping motor 65. By controlling the stepping motor 65, the air bladder 18h of the foot receiving portion 10c is inflated and deflated. The air bag 18h is inflated and deflated for about 3 minutes.

After this, as shown in FIG. 7, an air bag 18h
To the air bag 18d of the waist receiving portion 10b are sequentially expanded and contracted. Then, in reverse, from the air bag 18d to the foot receiving portion 1
The air bag 18h of 0c is inflated and deflated in sequence.
This operation is repeated twice. That is, the above operation is performed during the periods T1 and T2.

Then, inflation and deflation are sequentially performed from the air bag 18h of the foot receiving portion 10c to the air bag 18a of the neck / shoulder receiving portion 10a, and conversely, from the air bag 18a to the foot receiving portion 10c. Inflating and deflating are sequentially performed up to the air bag 18h. Then, this operation is repeated three times. The movement is T3, T
The period T4, T5 is performed, and the periods T3 to T5 are gradually shortened. That is, T3>T4> T5 is set, and the control circuit 1 is set so that the expansion / contraction time is gradually shortened.
00 controls the stepping motor 65.

Thereafter, the air portion 18g of the waist receiving portion 10b to the air bag 18d and the air bag 18d to the air bag 18g are sequentially inflated and deflated, and this operation is repeated six times. This operation is performed during the period of T6 to T11, and only the waist is massaged. The stepping motor 65 is controlled so that the period T6 to T11 gradually becomes shorter.

When the massage of only the waist is completed, the air bag 18h of the foot receiving portion 10c to the air bag 18a of the neck / shoulder receiving portion 10a, and the air bag 18a to the foot receiving portion 10c.
The air bag 18h is inflated and deflated in sequence and the whole body is massaged. This operation is repeated twice and ends. That is, the operation is performed for the period of T12 and T13, and the process ends. The periods T12 and T13 are shorter than the period T5, and the stepping motor 65 is controlled so that the expansion / contraction time is shorter than the expansion / contraction time in the period T5.

As described above, since the expansion / contraction time becomes shorter with the passage of time, the body can be awakened comfortably. Also, with the passage of time, the massage range gradually spreads from the legs to the waist, and the body is gradually awakened without giving a burden to the heart.

Next, when the back is selected by the rolling switch 23a and the air massage switch 27 is pressed, the air bags 18a to 18c are repeatedly inflated and deflated in sequence to massage the back portion. When the waist is selected, the air bags 18d to 18g are repeatedly inflated and deflated in sequence to massage the waist.
When the whole body is selected, the air bags 18a to 18h are repeatedly inflated and deflated one after another to massage the whole body.
In both cases, the air bag is inflated and deflated from the foot.

When performing potential treatment, the potential treatment switch 28 is pushed. Then, the control circuit 100 applies a potential of minus several hundreds of volts to the electric floor 18i. Thereby, electric potential treatment is performed. The time for this electric potential treatment is set to 60 minutes.

[0034]

As described above, according to the present invention, the control means for controlling the air supply / exhaust device to accelerate the time during which the air bag is inflated and deflated is provided.・ The contraction time will become shorter with time, and you will be able to comfortably awaken your body.
This makes it convenient to use when waking up in the morning.

Further, since the control means for controlling the air supply / exhaust device to widen the massage range from the foot to the whole body with the passage of time is provided, the massage range is gradually changed from the foot to the waist with the passage of time. Furthermore, as it spreads throughout the body, it gradually awakens the body without burdening the heart.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an external perspective view showing the entire air mat device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view showing a state in which an air bag is arranged on a mat body. ,

FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a configuration of a mat body.

FIG. 4 is a front view showing the arrangement of switches provided on the operation panel.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram schematically showing a configuration of an air massage device.

FIG. 6 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a control system of the air massage device.

FIG. 7 is a time chart diagram showing the operation of inflation / deflation of the air bladder.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 mat body 10a neck / shoulder receiving part 10b waist receiving part 10C foot receiving part 18a-18h air bag 20 air supply / exhaust device 100 control circuit

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A mat body having a neck / shoulder receiving portion, a waist receiving portion, and a foot receiving portion, and a plurality of air bags arranged in the neck / shoulder receiving portion, the waist receiving portion, and the foot receiving portion, In an air massage device equipped with an air supply / exhaust device for inflating / deflating these air bags, a control means for controlling the air supply / exhaust device to accelerate the time during which the air bags are inflated / deflated with time. An air massage device characterized by being provided with. 2. A mat body having a neck / shoulder receiving portion, a waist receiving portion and a foot receiving portion, and a plurality of air bags arranged on the neck / shoulder receiving portion, the waist receiving portion and the foot receiving portion, In an air massage device having an air supply / exhaust device for inflating / deflating these air bags, a control means for controlling the air supply / exhaust device to expand the massage range from the foot to the whole body with the passage of time is provided. An air massage device characterized by that.