KR100906533B1 - Sole massager - Google Patents

Abstract

In the foot massager, it is possible to impart an appropriate acupressure feeling regardless of the size of the foot and the position of the sole. The sole massager includes acupressure blocks 3 provided with acupressure rods 31 and 32, one for each of the left and right feet. Each acupressure block 3 is driven by a motor to change the position of the front and back direction of the sole. In the internal space 3a of the acupressure block 3, two acupressure rods 31, an air bag 33, and a coil spring 35 coupled to the base 31a are arranged, and in the internal space 3b, The acupressure rod 32 which has the base 32a, the airbag 34, and the coil spring 36 are arrange | positioned. The acupressure rod 31 moves up and down by the operation of the airbag 33, or the acupressure rod 32 by the operation of the airbag 34. As shown in FIG. The acupressure rods 31 and 32 are arrange | positioned in the left-right direction of each foot to acupressure, and each sole of the left and right foot is pressed and massaged by the tip part of the group of the acupressure rods 31 and 32 which move independently from each other.

Chiropractor, massager, sole, airbag

Description

Sole Massager {SOLE MASSAGER}

The present invention relates to a sole massager using a shiatsu rod that acts as an airbag.

Background Art Conventionally, a sole massager for massaging a sole at the tip of a shiatsu rod is known. Such a massaging machine is provided with the acupressure block 9 as shown in FIG. 11, for example. The acupressure block 9 combines three acupressure rods 91 long in the direction of the arrow Z (hereinafter referred to as Z in the up-and-down direction) at its base portion 91A, and connects the airbag 93 to the lower portion of the base portion 91A. It arrange | positions, and arrange | positions the coiled spring 94 surrounding each acupressure rod 91 in the upper part of 91 A of bases, and stores these in the acupressure block box 90 which is a box body with a cover, and is comprised have. In addition, the shiatsu block 9 is usually used in a pair of left and right corresponding to the left and right legs.

The base portion 91A of the acupressure rod 91 described above supplies air to the airbag 93 from an air introduction hole (not shown) to inflate the airbag 93 so that the force of the coil spring 94 is increased. When the airbag 93 moves upward along the Z direction and the air of the air bag 93 is discharged, the air bag 93 contracts and the Z direction is caused by the bias force of the coil spring 94. To the bottom. By the vertical motion of the base 91A, the shiatsu rod 91 moves up and down. The acupressure rod 91 is arrange | positioned side by side in the left-right direction of the sole of acupressure, and a sole is pressured by the front-end | tip part of the acupressure rod 91 which moves east, and is massaged.

Also, a foot massager is known in which a plurality of acupressure rods 91 integrated in the base portion 91A as described above are arranged in a toe direction for one foot, and a pair of these is used for both feet. As a known example of this kind, there is Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-230088.

However, in the conventional sole massager as shown in FIG. 11 and Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-230088, there is a problem due to the fact that the plurality of acupressure rods 91 arranged in the left and right directions of the sole are integrally structured. This will be described with reference to the drawings. When the long core portion of the sole of the right foot F is massaged, as shown in FIGS. 12A, 12B, and 12C, the acupressure rods 91 arranged in the paw width direction are arranged in the long core portion, and the vertical direction Z is provided. To reciprocate. If the heights of the plurality of acupressure rods 91 are adjusted to conform to the shape of the sole portion of the sole, for example, the integrated acupressure rods 91 simultaneously move up and down, so that the massage of the core portion is performed properly. .

By the way, as shown in FIGS. 13A, 13B, and 13C, a plurality of acupressure rods 91 that are adjusted and integrated so as to conform to the shape of the above-described core portion are disposed at the toe to massage the toe, and thus, appropriately at the toe. You can't do it, so you can feel pain instead of giving it. This is because the toe portion has a substantially flat sole shape, and the tip of the plurality of acupressure rods 91 is not arranged along the back surface of the toe portion.

In addition, as disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-230088, for example, in a foot massager in which a plurality of acupressure rods 91 integrated at the base portion 91A are arranged along the toe direction and used for one foot, for example. For the sake of the sole of the sole and the toe of the sole, a certain degree of optimization can be achieved by changing the combination of the heights of the tips of the acupressure rods 91 arranged in the foot width direction. However, the provision of a plurality of jaws of the shiatsu rod 91 causes an increase in the number of parts of the sole massager, and cannot be said to correspond to a largely different foot size from an adult to a child.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above problems, and to provide a sole massager that can give a user a proper sense of acupressure regardless of the foot size or the position of the sole.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention, in the acupressure type sole massager to massage the soles by operating the acupressure rods with an airbag and acupressure the soles by the operation of the acupressure rods, the acupressure rods along the left and right directions of the soles. It is arranged in plural, and at least one of these acupressure rods operates independently of each other.

According to such a structure, since the acupressure rods arrange | positioned in the left-right direction of a sole operate independently of each other, the height of the tip of a acupressure rod can be adjusted so that the jaws of such acupressure rod may follow the shape of a sole at any position in a toe direction. . Therefore, by making the jaws of the shiatsu bar move back and forth along the toe direction, it is possible to give the user a proper acupressure feeling regardless of the foot size or the position of the sole without increasing the jaws of the shiatsu bar.

In the improved invention described above, the acupressure rods operating independently of each other are provided with independent airbags, and each of the acupressure rods is preferably operated independently by each airbag.

According to such a structure, the acupressure rod can be operated more reliably and independently by the airbag corresponding to each acupressure rod.

The present invention, in the above-described improved invention, is provided with a guide rail having a sliding surface according to the direction of operation of the shiatsu rod, the shiatsu rod is preferably operated by sliding along the guide rail. Do.

According to this structure, the vertical movement of the shiatsu rod becomes smoother, and mechanical resistance that can prevent the occurrence of stress such as distortion in the load state increases.

In the improved invention described above, it is preferable that the tip end portion of the acupressure rod that presses the sole has a shape in which the spherical surface is not a part but a direction.

According to such a structure, a feeling of acupressure by a fingertip of a person can be realized.

1 is a plan view of the sole massager of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view A of FIG. 1.

3 is a cross-sectional view taken along line BB of FIG. 1.

4A is a cross-sectional view taken along the line C in FIG. 1, and FIG. 4B is a cross-sectional view taken along the line D-D in FIG.

5 is a schematic cross-sectional view of the acupressure block of the sole massager.

6 is a perspective view of the acupressure block.

Fig. 7A is a perspective view of the acupressure rod and the sole of the sole for explaining the shape of the massage of the core by the foot massager, Fig. 7B is a sectional view of the toe of Fig. 7A, and Fig. 7C is a cross sectional view of the foot of Fig. 7A.

Fig. 8A is a perspective view of the acupressure rod and the sole illustrating the shape of the toe of the toe massager by the foot massager, Fig. 8B is a sectional view of the toe direction of Fig. 8A, and Fig. 8C is a cross sectional view of the foot of Fig. 8A.

Fig. 9 is a plan view of the inside of a state where a cover showing another example of the acupressure block used in the sole massager of the present invention is removed.

10 is a cross-sectional view taken along the line E-E of FIG.

11 is a schematic cross-sectional view of a shiatsu block of a conventional sole massager.

Fig. 12A is a perspective view of the acupressure rod and the sole of the sole for explaining the shape of the mass of the core by the conventional sole massager described above, Fig. 12B is a cross-sectional view of the toe of Fig. 12A, and Fig. 12C is a cross-sectional view of the foot of Fig. 12A.

Fig. 13A is a perspective view of the acupressure rod and the sole illustrating the shape of the toe of the toe by the conventional sole massager described above, Fig. 13B is a sectional view of the toe direction of Fig. 13A, and Fig. 13C is a sectional view of the foot of Fig. 13A.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Hereinafter, the sole massager which concerns on embodiment of this invention is demonstrated with reference to drawings. 1 to 4B show the sole massager 1 of the present invention, FIGS. 5 and 6 show the acupressure block 3 of the sole massager 1, and FIGS. 7A to 7C and 8A to 8C show the sole massager 1 ) And the shape of the mass of the heart and toe. The sole massager 1 has a housing 2 of an outer shape larger than the size in which both feet are gathered, as shown in FIGS. 1, 2 and 3, and a pair of left and right acupressure bearings with acupressure rods 31 and 32 therein. The block 3 is built in.

On the upper surface of the housing 2, left and right recesses 20 for placing both feet and a switch panel in the center portion for setting the massage function are provided. On the bottom face 21 of the left and right recesses 20, a plurality of slits 22 are provided along the toe direction (front and rear, arrow XY direction). Each of the slit 22 penetrates acupressure rods 31 and 32 one by one from the bottom to the upper side (arrow Z direction). A pair of left and right acupressure rods 31 and 32 passes along each slit 22 along the front and rear directions. It is possible to move. The acupressure rods 31 and 32 are arranged along the left-right direction (direction orthogonal to the front-back direction), and are supported by each of the left-right acupressure blocks 3.

Inside the housing 2, as shown in Figs. 4A and 4B, the motor 5, the drive mechanism, and the acupressure blocks 3, which generate a driving force for moving the left and right acupressure blocks 3 forward and backward, are shown in Figs. A pump 4 for operating the airbags 33 and 34 (described later) is provided.

As shown in Figs. 5 and 6, the acupressure block 3 includes the acupressure rods 31 and 32, the airbags 33 and 34, and the coil springs 35 and 36, and the acupressure block box with the cover ( It is built in 30). In the following, any one of the acupressure blocks 3 of the acupressure blocks 3 provided in a pair of left and right unless otherwise specified is described. There are two acupressure bars 31 in one acupressure block 3, and the two acupressure bars 31 are couple | bonded with the base part 31A. The air bag 33 is disposed at the lower portion of the base 31A, and the coil spring 35 surrounding each of the shiatsu rods 31 is disposed at the upper portion of the base 31A. It is stored in 3A).

Moreover, one shiatsu bar 32 is provided in one shiatsu block 3, and has the diameter-expanded base 32A. The air bag 34 is disposed at the lower portion of the base 32A, and the coil spring 36 surrounding the acupressure rod 32 is disposed at the upper portion of the base 32A, so that the internal space 3B of the acupressure block box 30 is placed. Housed in the

The base portion 31A of the shiatsu rod 31 supplies air to the airbag 33 from an air introduction hole (not shown) to inflate the airbag 33, thereby resisting the bias force of the coil spring 35 so that the Z-direction can be adjusted. When the air bag 33 is discharged upward and the air is discharged, the air bag 33 contracts and moves downward along the Z direction by the force of the coil spring 35. Similarly, the base portion 32A of the shiatsu rod 32 moves in the vertical direction along the Z direction by the operation of the airbag 34. The operation of each of the airbags 33 and 34 is controlled by the pump 4, an electromagnetic valve (not shown), a pipe and a controller.

The up-and-down operation of the bases 31A and 32A is performed independently of each other. According to the shanghai-dong of these bases 31A and 32A, the shiatsu rods 31 and 32 move up and down independently of each other. Acupressure rods 31 and 32 are arranged side by side in the left and right directions of the sole of the acupressure, and each sole of the left and right feet is acupressured and massaged by the distal end portions of the acupressure rods 31 and 32 which move independently from each other.

As described above, in the sole massager 1, a plurality of acupressure rods are arranged along the left and right directions of the sole with respect to one acupressure block 3, and at least one of these acupressure rods (acupressure rods 32 in the present embodiment). In addition, it operates independently from other acupressure rods (two acupressure rods 31 in this embodiment). Moreover, the shiatsu rods 31 and 32 which operate independently of each other are provided with the independent airbags 33 and 34, respectively, and each shiatsu rod 31 and 32 operates independently by each airbag 33 and 34, respectively. do.

Next, the form of the sole massage by the shiatsu rods 31 and 32 of the shiatsu block 3 mentioned above is demonstrated. In the case of massaging the sole of the sole of the right foot F, as shown in FIGS. 7A, 7B, and 7C, for example, the two acupressure rods 31 which are integrated to the outside of the sole (in the case of the right foot, to the right) are Then, the acupressure rods 32 are placed on the inside of the sole (in the case of the right foot, on the left side), and these are placed in the center portion. The heights of the some shiatsu rods 31 and 32 are adjusted so that the height of the sole part of a sole may be followed, for example. By the vertical operation of the shiatsu rods 31 and 32, the massage of the long portion is performed properly. The shape difference of the long core portion according to the individual difference of the subject is absorbed by the acupressure rods 31 and 32 operating independently of each other, so that the sole of the shape of the shape which is greatly different from the presumed shape, Appropriate acupressure massage can be performed.

In addition, when massaging a toe, as shown to FIG. 8A, 8B, 8C, the left and right shiatsu block 3 is moved to a toe direction (arrow XY direction) using the motor 5 and driving force mentioned above. The sole shape of the toe part is different from the shape of the core part in general, and the tip height of the shiatsu rods 31 and 32, which has been previously adjusted to follow the shape of the core part, does not match the sole shape of the toe part. Even in such a case, the foot massager 1 of the present invention can move up and down independently of the shiatsu bars 31 and 32, and thus the shiatsu bars 31 and 32 arranged in the height shape of the sole and the foot width direction set in advance. Can absorb the difference ΔH from the tip height.

That is, since the acupressure rod 31 and the acupressure rod 32 are not integrated, the acupressure rod 32 can be lowered by the difference ΔH from the height of the acupressure rod 31. For example, the difference DELTA H of height can be adjusted by adjusting the pressure of the air supplied to each airbag 33 and 34 in a toe part. By this adjustment, all of the acupressure rods 31 and 32 are appropriately fitted to the soles, and a comfortable acupressure can be produced without causing the pain caused by excessive acupressure. The sole massager 1 can perform appropriate acupressure massage for the toe portion of the sole shape different from the shape of the core portion.

In addition, as described above, the sole massager 1 has a function of moving the acupressure blocks 3 provided on the left and right sides in the front and rear directions of the soles, and the airbags 33 and 34 in each of the acupressure blocks 3. It has a function to operate independently of each other. The sole massager 1 can provide a proper acupressure feeling to the subject regardless of the size of the foot or the position of the sole by these functions. By adjusting the pressure of the airbags 33 and 34 with respect to the foot width direction, and also adjusting the pressure of the airbags 33 and 34 at each position in the longitudinal direction of the sole, the entire sole of the foot including the core and the toe part The optimized acupressure operation can be performed, so that the acupressure massage by the sole massager 1 is closer to the acupressure operation performed by a person.

Next, with reference to FIG. 9, 10, another example of the acupressure block 3 used for the sole massager 1 of this invention is demonstrated. The acupressure block 3 shown here is one of the acupressure blocks 3 of the same shape used by right and left pair. The acupressure block box 30 has the shape which arranged two octagons, and each octagon forms the internal space 3A, 3B. In the interior space 3A, two acupressure rods 31 coupled to the base 31A, the airbag 33, and the coil spring 35 are housed, and the interior space 3B has a base 32A. The acupressure rod 32, the airbag 34, and the coil spring 36 which are not shown in figure are accommodated. The bases 31A and 32A of the shiatsu rods 31 and 32 have an octagonal shape close to the inner wall surfaces of the inner spaces 3A and 3B, respectively.

In addition, four inner wall surfaces of each of the inner spaces 3A and 3B are provided with guide rails 6 extending in the vertical direction (operation directions of the acupressure rods 31 and 32), and the bases of the acupressure rods 31 and 32. The recesses 7 fitted to the guide rails 6 are formed at 31A and 32A. The recessed part 7 slides up and down in the state fitted to the guide rail 6. Each of the airbags 33 and 34 moves up and down along the inner wall surfaces (the upper ends thereof) of the inner spaces 3A and 3B, similarly to the bases 31A and 32A, according to their expansion and contraction. Along the base 31A, 32A, the operation | movement of the shiatsu rod 31, 32 up and down is the same as the operation demonstrated with reference to FIG. 5, and description is abbreviate | omitted.

The acupressure rods 31 and 32 receive a reaction force (repulsion force) from the sole in the acupressure on the sole, and the force is a deformation force for rotating or twisting the acupressure rods 31 and 32, and , The acupressure rods 31 and 32 and the acupressure block box 30 cause frictional force. The octagonal shapes of the inner spaces 3A, 3B and the bases 31A, 32A of the acupressure block box 30 described above prevent the rotation of the acupressure rods 31, 32, thereby preventing the orientation of the acupressure rods 31, 32. It is effective to maintain.

Moreover, the guide rail 6 and the recessed part 7 have the effect which prevents the frictional force in a sliding part from becoming large, and makes the up-down operation of the shiatsu bars 31 and 32 smooth. This is more effective, for example, by appropriate design of the shape of the sliding part that restricts the selection or movement of the material in the sliding part to a straight line shape. The shape of the bases 31A and 32A and the corresponding portions is not limited to the octagonal shape, and may be, for example, a hexagon or other shape capable of preventing rotation. The arrangement and the number of the guide rails 6 are not limited to the above, but may be three places, for example.

Next, with reference to FIG. 9 again, the shape of the front-end | tip part of the shiatsu rod 31 and 32 is demonstrated. It is preferable that the shape of the tip portions of the acupressure rods 31 and 32 in contact with the sole of the foot and acupressure them is a shape that reminds the subject of the acupressure caused by the human finger. As such a tip shape, for example, as shown in FIG. 9, it is set as the shape (it is an ellipse in the figure) which is directional rather than a round shape. As a directional shape, it may be an egg-shaped shape, for example.

The sole massager 1 according to the present invention described above has a controller for carrying out the operation of the pump 4 and the forward and backward operation of the acupressure block 3 according to a predetermined control program. Moreover, the sensor which detects the front-back position of the acupressure block 3, the sensor which detects the reaction force from the sole, etc. can be provided, and precise control can be performed. In addition, the acupressure rods 31 and 32 may be operated independently of each other on the left and right soles, and a plurality of pumps 4, a motor 5, a solenoid valve, etc. required for this may be provided as necessary.

As an operation in which the massage operation is set in advance in the program, for example, an automatic course and a preference course are provided. In the automatic course, for example, in accordance with the position changing operation of the acupressure block 3 or the operation of the pump 4, the vertical movements of the acupressure rods 31, 32 are performed by a program.

In addition, although the preference course can change the position of the acupressure block 3 manually, for example, the operation | movement of the acupressure rods 31 and 32 up and down according to the pump 4 is performed by a program.

In addition, this invention is not limited to the said structure, A various deformation | transformation is possible. For example, the tips of the shiatsu rods 31 and 32 are not integrally formed, but may have a dual structure in which a relatively hard core material is covered with a relatively soft skin material. According to such a structure, a finger bar can emulate the fingertips of a person whose flesh is stuck around a finger bone, and this finger bar can have a better feeling of acupressure.

This application claims priority based on Japanese Patent Application No. 2005-241133 filed August 23, 2005. The entire contents of the application are incorporated herein by reference.

Claims (4)

In the acupressure type sole massager which massages a sole by operating an acupressure rod by an airbag and acupressure a sole by the operation of the acupressure rod, And a sensor for detecting the front and rear positions of the acupressure rod, wherein the acupressure rods are arranged in plural along the left and right directions of the sole, and at least one of the acupressure rods operates independently of the other acupressure rods so as to be independent of the sole of the foot based on the detection result of the sensor. Adjust the tip height of the shiatsu rod to follow the shape, Sole massager having a guide rail having a sliding surface along the direction of operation of the shiatsu rod, the shiatsu rod is configured to slide in accordance with the guide rail. The method of claim 1, The acupressure rods operating independently of each other are provided with independent airbags, and each of the acupressure rods is independently operated by each airbag. delete The method of claim 1, A sole massager, characterized in that the tip of the acupressure rod that presses the sole has a spherical shape instead of a part thereof.

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