JPH10127717A - Chair type air massager - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chair type air massager to prevent the sound volume and quality of a speaker provided in a massage body for the neck from being degraded. SOLUTION: This air massager is provided with a chair body 1 provided with a seat part 2 and back rest part 3, bag bodies 6-9 disposed in at least one of the seat part 2 and the back rest part 3 while being expanded or contracted by the supply and exhaust of air, a movable massage body 10 provided movably on the back rest part 3 and having a bag body 12 expanded and contracted by the supply/exhaust of air and a pair of speakers 20 disposed near both sides of the bag body 12 to massage the neck or the like and an air supply device to supply air to the respective bag bodies. The speaker 20 can be automatically located in a position corresponding to the ear by locating the movable massage body 10.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a chair-type air massage machine for expanding and contracting a bag body by supplying and discharging air to massage a treatment target.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Bags are arranged on a seat or a backrest of a chair body, and air is supplied and exhausted from an air supply device to these bags so that the bags are expanded and contracted to press / relax a treated portion to perform massage. A chair type air massage machine (hereinafter simply referred to as an air massage machine) is widely known. In these air massage machines, a speaker is provided on the backrest portion to enhance the massage effect, and music or the like supplied from a sound signal reproducing device that reproduces music or the like during massage is output from the speaker. There are things that I try to do.

[0003] A conventional air massage machine provided with the speaker has a configuration as shown in FIG. That is, as shown in FIG.
Reference numeral 0 denotes a chair body 101 including a seat 102 and a backrest 103 provided behind the seat 102, bags 105 to 108 disposed on the seat 102 and the backrest 103, and the backrest. The moving massage body 104 includes a pair of bags 109 provided in the 103 and an air supply device (not shown) which is disposed below the seat 102 and supplies and exhausts air to and from each of the bags 105 to 109. I have. Note that the moving massage body 104 is provided so as to be vertically movable along a guide groove 103b provided on a board 103a constituting a part of the backrest 103.

[0004] A pair of speakers (only one is shown in the figure) 110 are attached to the board 103a above the backrest 103, and are provided on the chair body 101 (not shown). Sound signal reproducing device is provided.

When the user operates the drive switch (not shown) to drive the air supply device when massaging the treatment target, air is supplied from the air supply device to the bags 105 to 109. Air supply and exhaust are performed, and massage of the treated part is performed. Then, in order to perform the massage in a relaxed state when performing the massage, the sound reproducing device is operated to play music or the like from a speaker, and the massage is performed while listening to the music or the like.

When performing a massage, a user sits on the seat 102 and then moves on the moving massage body 10.
The position of the moving massage body 104 is different depending on the user's physique, that is, the sitting height. Is the boat 10
3a, the speaker 110 may not be in a position corresponding to the user's ear when the user positions the moving massage body 104 at a desired position, and , Speaker 1
A situation occurs where 10 overlaps with the moving massage body 104. When the speaker 110 is not located at a position corresponding to the user's ear, or when the speaker 110 overlaps with the moving massage body 104, the volume and the sound quality are reduced.

[0007]

As described above, in the conventional air massage machine, since the speaker 110 is fixedly mounted at a predetermined position of the boat 103a, the speaker 110 may be fixed depending on the physical size of the user.
May not be at a position corresponding to the user's ear, and the speaker 110 may overlap with the moving massage body 104. As a result, there is a problem that the sound volume and the sound quality are reduced.

[0008]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances.
A chair body having a backrest provided at the rear of the seat, a bag body provided at at least one of the seat and the backrest and inflated by air supply and exhaust, and A moving massaging body for massaging a neck and the like, which has a bag body that is movably provided and expands and contracts by air supply and exhaust, and a speaker that is disposed near the bag body and receives a sound signal from a sound signal reproducing device. And an air supply device for supplying air to each of the bag bodies.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, since the speaker is integrally attached to the moving massage body, the speaker moves in accordance with the positioning operation of the moving massage body. When the speaker is positioned, it will be automatically positioned at the site corresponding to the user's ear, and the speaker will not overlap with the moving massager, preventing the volume and sound quality of music and the like flowing from the speaker from lowering. It has.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, a pair of speakers are provided, and the speakers are disposed on the moving massage body with the sound propagation direction side of the speakers toward the center of the moving massage body. It was a chair-type air massage machine.

[0011] The invention according to claim 2 configured as described above has a configuration in which the pair of speakers are disposed on the moving massage body with the sound propagation direction side of the speakers facing the center of the moving massage body. Therefore, in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 1, the present invention has an effect that music and the like can be efficiently transmitted to the ear.

[0012]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a massage machine main body. The massage machine main body 1 is provided on a seat 2, a backrest 3 provided behind the seat 2, and on both sides of the seat 2. And an armrest 2a. The seat 2 is provided with a tail bag 6 and a thigh bag 7 which expand and contract by air supply and exhaust. The backrest 3 is composed of a board 4 for supporting the back and a cover 5 for covering the board 4 and a bag body to be described later. The backrest 3 is supplied and exhausted with air as shown in FIG. A pair of back bags 8 and waist bags 9 that are inflated and contracted are attached to the board 4 by mounting means (not shown).

On the upper side of the backrest 3, there is provided a movable massager 10 which is provided so as to be movable in the vertical direction.
1. A pair of left and right bags 12 attached to the substrate 11 via an attachment plate 13 attached with screws 13a and expanded and contracted by air supply and exhaust, and rotatably attached to the attachment plate 13 via a hinge member 14. A rotating plate 16 is provided which is attached and has a pressing projection 15 (only one is shown in FIG. 2) on the side facing the hinge member 14. The pivot plate 16 is moved by the hinge member 14 as the bag body 12 expands and contracts due to air supply and exhaust.
With the rotation, the pressing projection 15 presses and relaxes the neck, which is the treatment target, to massage the neck.

The substrate 1 of the moving massage body 10
Speakers 20 (only one is shown in FIG. 2) are attached to the left and right ends of the bag 3 at the left and right ends of the bag body 12, respectively.

The substrate 11, the bag 12, the rotating plate 16, the speaker 20 and the like are covered by a cover 10a made of a soft and slightly thick member.

A guide shaft (not shown) is provided on the rear surface at the center in the left-right direction of the substrate 11, and this guide shaft passes through a guide slot 4a provided in the board 4 and is provided with a guide slot. The guide shaft is provided with a positioning member (not shown) that is slidable while being elastically pressed against the back surface of the board 4. The movable massage body 10 can be positioned at an arbitrary position of the backrest 3 by elastically holding the board 4 in cooperation with the substrate 11. Therefore, after the user sits on the seat 2 and puts his / her back on the backrest 3, the user can adjust the position of the moving massager 10 in the vertical direction so as to correspond to his / her own neck and position the movable massager 10 at a desired position. Things. When the moving massage body 10 is positioned by adjusting the desired position, the left and right speakers 20 attached to the substrate 11 of the moving massage body 10 are located at positions corresponding to the positions of the user's ears. Will be.

At the front of the seat 2, there is provided a leg mounting table 30 which rotates about a rotation axis (not shown). The leg mounting table 30 has a pair of recessed grooves. A leg mounting recess 31 is formed.
1 (one side wall 32a in FIG. 1).
Only) and 33a, 33b (only one side wall 33a is shown in FIG. 1), and leg bags 34a, 34b (only one side wall 34a is shown in FIG. 1) and 35a, 35b are expanded and contracted by air supply and exhaust. (One side wall 35 in FIG.
a is shown).

Although not shown, an air supply device (not shown) is provided below the seat portion 2. The air supply device supplies an air compressor and air generated by the air compressor to each of the bags 6. And a supply valve (not shown) for supplying the air to the bag bodies 6 to 9. Also,
A control unit (not shown) including a microcomputer or the like is provided below the seat, and the control unit sets various massage modes similar to those of the related art by a remote control device 43 described later by an input unit (not shown). According to the set massage mode, the air compressor, the supply valve, and the exhaust valve are controlled to supply and exhaust air to and from the respective bags 6 to 9, 12, and 34a to 45b to expand and contract.

A power switch 41 having a power cord 40 connected to the side wall of the chair body 1 as shown in FIG.
In addition, a remote control device 43 as a mode setting means is provided in the storage portion 44 on the side wall. Further, the remote control device 43 is connected to the control means (not shown) via a cord 45.

The chair body 1 is provided with a sound reproducing device (not shown) for reproducing music or the like from a magnetic tape or the like.
The sound reproducing apparatus transmits a sound signal to the speaker 20, and the speaker 20 plays or outputs music or the like based on the sound signal. . The sound reproducing device (not shown) may be installed at a position away from the chair body 1 without being provided on the chair body 1, and
It may be wireless instead of wired.

Next, the operation of the air massage machine configured as described above will be described. First, when trying to massage, the user sits on the seat portion 2 of the chair body 1, puts the back on the backrest portion 3, and then moves the movable massage body 10 up and down to the position of her neck. Adjust and position to correspond. According to this positioning, the speaker 20 is automatically positioned at a site corresponding to the user's ear. Then, power switch 4
1 and the remote control device 43
, A predetermined massage mode is set, and the sound reproducing device (not shown) is set to operate. Then, a start switch (not shown) provided on the remote control device 43 is closed.

Then, the control means (not shown) controls the air compressor, the supply valve and the exhaust valve according to the set massage mode to supply and exhaust air to and from each of the bags 6 to 9, 12 and 34a to 35b. The sound reproducing device is operated while expanding and contracting. As a result, the back, waist, buttocks, thighs and legs, which are the parts to be treated, expand and contract, and the bags 6 to 9 and 34a to 35b.
Massage by repeated pressing and relaxation. In addition, the neck portion is repeatedly pressed and relaxed by a pressing projection 15 provided on a rotating plate 16 which is rotated by the expansion and contraction of the bag body 12 to perform massage.

In addition, during the massage, music or the like is output from the speaker 20 located at a site corresponding to the user's ear, so that the user is effectively massaged in a relaxed state. A great massage is done. When the speaker 20 is positioned at the desired neck position, the speaker 20 moves integrally with the movable massage body 10, so that the speaker 20 is automatically positioned at a position corresponding to the ear with the positioning. Therefore, the troublesome operation of separately positioning the position of the speaker 20 can be eliminated. In addition, the position of the speaker 20 is reliably positioned at a position corresponding to the user's ear, and the speaker 20 does not overlap with the moving massage body 10, so that it is possible to prevent the sound volume or the sound quality from being adversely affected.

In the above embodiment, the speaker 20 attached to the substrate 11 of the moving massage body 10 is attached so that the sound propagation direction is directed forward, as shown in FIG. The configuration in which the sound propagation direction side is arranged toward the center side of the moving massage body 10 is good. With this configuration, music and the like can be efficiently transmitted to the ear. In FIG. 3, the same components as those shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 are denoted by the same reference numerals.

In the above-described embodiment, the speaker 20 is attached to the substrate 11 of the moving massage body 10. However, as shown in FIG. 4, the speaker 20 is wrapped in a urethane foam 50 or the like, as shown in FIG.
This may be attached to the ends on both ends of the moving massage body 10 by sewing or fasteners 51. In such a case, the speaker 20 is inadvertently exposed to the outside by the cushioning action of the urethane foam 50 or the like. There are advantages such as being able to reliably protect against impact and facilitating attachment.

In the above embodiment, the movable massage body 10 is provided with the rotating plate 16 having the pressing projection 15, and the rotating plate 16 is rotated by the expansion and contraction of the bag body 12, and Although the neck is massaged, the neck may be massaged directly by the expansion and contraction of the bag body 12 without providing the rotating plate 16 having the pressing projections 15.

[0028]

According to the first aspect of the present invention, since the speaker is integrally attached to the moving massage body, the speaker moves with the positioning operation of the moving massage body. When the massager is positioned, it will be automatically positioned at the site corresponding to the user's ear, eliminating the need for speaker positioning operation. This has the effect of preventing a decrease in volume and sound quality.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the pair of speakers according to the first aspect of the present invention are arranged on the moving massage body with the sound propagation direction of the speakers facing the center of the moving massage body. Accordingly, in addition to the effect of the invention described in claim 1, the present invention has an effect that music and the like can be efficiently transmitted to the ear.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a chair type massage machine showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing a cross section of a part of the moving massage body provided in the chair-type massage machine in the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a perspective view showing a cross section of a part of another embodiment of a method of attaching a speaker attached to the moving massage body in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view showing a cross section of a part of still another embodiment of a method of attaching a speaker to the moving massage body in the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a conventional chair-type air massage machine.

[Description of Signs] 1 Chair body hand 2 Seat 3 Backrest 6-9 Bag 12 Bag provided on moving massage body 20 Speaker 10 Moving massage body

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A seat, a chair body provided with a backrest provided behind the seat, and at least one of the seat and the backrest, and expanded and contracted by air supply and exhaust. A bag body, a bag body movably provided on the backrest portion and expanded and contracted by air supply and exhaust, and a speaker disposed near the bag body and receiving a sound signal from a sound signal reproducing device. A chair-type air massage machine, comprising: a moving massage body for massaging a neck and the like; and an air supply device for supplying air to each of the bags. 2. The chair type air massage machine according to claim 1, wherein a pair of said speakers are provided, and said speakers are arranged in said moving massage body with a sound propagation direction side of said speakers facing a center side of said moving massage body. .