WO2006031082A1

WO2006031082A1 - A manual massage installation with air vacuum and close adherence functions

Info

Publication number: WO2006031082A1
Application number: PCT/KR2005/003083
Authority: WO
Inventors: Mi-Ae Lim
Original assignee: Mi-Ae Lim
Priority date: 2004-09-17
Filing date: 2005-09-16
Publication date: 2006-03-23
Also published as: JP2008513093A; KR20060025639A; KR100607844B1

Abstract

The present invention provides a manual massaging device having air vacuuming and close contact functions. The massaging device enhances the massaging effect due to the air vacuuming operation. Because rollers of the massaging device can slide on the skin tissue while closely contacting with the skin tissue due to the air vacuuming operation of the device, the rollers can execute shrinking and relaxation operations and simultaneously an elevation operation within the chamber of the head unit of the massaging device. Thus, the rollers of the massaging device give the sense of smooth touch when contacting the skin tissue, so that the massaging device can provide improved massaging effect.

Description

[DESCRIPTION] ^■ •

[invention- Title]

A MANUAL MASSAGE INSTALLATION WITH AIR VACUUM MD CLOSE ADHERENCE FUNCTIONS

[Technical Field]

The present invention relates, in general, to a manual massaging device with enhanced air vacuuming and close contact functions and, more particularly, to a manual massaging device with enhanced air vacuuming and close contact functions, capable of repeating physical stretching operations, such as shrinking and relaxation, against the fat cell and the skin tissue, according to air vacuums pre-programmed adaptively to the skin tissue, .thereby aiding spontaneous elimination of fat, and stimulating the resilient ^• fibers of the skin, thereby enhancing the activation and the resilience of the skin tissue. (

[Background Art] ' General massaging devices are so constructed as to activate the skin tissue for the resilient skin, and at the same time to apply physical actions,, such as shrinking and relaxation, to the fat cell and the skin tissue for destruction of the fat cell, thereby allowing the fat cell to be ^' spontaneously eliminated. Most^' of ^' the massaging devices perform the massaging^' function by repeating shrinking and relaxation by two rollers on the skin tissue using an air vacuum force supplied through a pipe, with. executing sliding operations while they are' in contact with the skin tissue, the

^•5 two rollers being opposite to each other, mounted within a chamber of a head unit to which the pipe to execute the air vacuuming operation is ^' connected, which contact the skin tissue.

In this kind of massaging devices, operating grooves, into 0 which the shafts of the two rollers are guided, maintain their horizontality,_. and the rollers almost horizontally operate because of .springs mounted thereon. Because of this

. construction, the rollers cannot execute the elevating operation on the uneven, rough skin tissue, thereby degrading 5 the air vacuuming force and close contact capability, resulting in ineffectively massaging the skin.

Especially, when the rollers perform shrinking and relaxation operations, minute gaps are formed between both sides of the rollers closely contacting the inner wall surface 0 of the chamber, thereby making it further difficult to execute the shrinking operation owing to the air vacuuming force by the . rollers.

[Disclosure] 5 [Technical Problem] . ^' Accordingly, the present invention.- has been made keeping in mind the above problems occurring in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a massaging device with enhanced air vacuuming and close contact functions, wherein rollers, operating shrinking and relaxation and being in contact with the rough skin tissue, can move up and down by both bow-shaped guide grooves formed in the wall parts of a

'chamber and a ceiling surface of the chamber inclinedly formed toward a pipe hole part. Another object of the present invention is to exactly execute shrinking and relaxation operations of the rollers due to the air vacuuming force within the chamber, by removing minute gaps from between the rollers and the inner wall surface of the chamber.

[Technical Solution]

In providing a massaging device to accomplish .the above- described objects, two rollers, opposite to each other, are mounted in a chamber of a head unit, to which a pipe is connected, by shafts guided into bow-shaped guide grooves formed in the wall parts of the chamber, the pipe producing the air vacuuming force as in contact with the skin tissue.

Springs are mounted on both ends of an elevating piece each having a taper supported by the roller shafts, projected through the guide grooves of the wall parts, so that it is elevated ^'up and down ^' from ^■projections .engaged ^'into elongated holes when .the rollers execute shrinking and ■ relaxation operations, thereby giving the sense of smooth touch when contacting the skin tissue.

Meanwhile, to support airtightness between both sides of the rollers and the wall parts of the chamber when the rollers within the chamber executes the shrinking operation due to the air vacuuming force supplied through the pipe, an airtight ^"support projection is formed on the inner wall surface on which the rollers shrink at maximum, thereby preventing loss of the air vacuum owing to enhancement of the air vacuum force when the rollers shrink. Through the construction and operations described above, a manual massaging device with sufficient air vacuum and close contact functions to enhance the massaging function is provided.

[Advantageous Effects]

As described above, the present invention has an exact close contact function adaptive to the shape of the uneven -skin tissue, thereby executing shrinking and relaxation operations by the rollers of the massaging device in contact with the skin tissue and at the same time executing elevating up and down operations, resulting in increasing the massaging effect owing to the air vacuuming operation. In addition, since the massaging device has a simplified construction, it is easy to assemble and . disassemble the massaging device, . thereby increasing the productivity of the massaging device.

[Description of Drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating a massaging device, part of a pipe of which is omitted, according to the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a sectional view illustrating a connection state between a head unit and the pipe of the massaging device according to the present invention; FIG. 3 is an ^■ exploded perspective view illustrating the construction of the head unit according to the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a view illustrating the assembled head unit according to the present invention; and FIGS. 5 and 6 are side views of the assembled massaging device illustrating an operation state thereof according to the present invention, wherein FIG. 5 illustrates a state before operation and FIG. 6 illustrates a state after operation.

*Description of the Reference Numbers for Main Elements of the Drawings*

A: Massaging device 10: Head unit 11: Pipe 12: Pipe hole part

13: Engaging projection 14: Chamber 14' : Ceiling surface 15, 15': Roller 16, 16^r: wall part. . 17, 17': Guide groove . ^"18/ 18' : Roller shaft 19, 19': .Bushing

20, 21': Taper 21, 21' : Elongated hole

22, 22': Projection 23, 23': Spring a, b: Elevating piece 24, 24' : Enclosure 25, 25' : Spacing part

25, 26': Inner wall surface

27, 27': Airtight support projection

[Best Mode] Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating a massaging device A, part of a pipe 11 of which is omitted, the pipe being connected to a head unit 10 of the massaging device A, according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a sectional view illustrating a connection state of the head unit 10, to which the pipe 11 is connected, according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an exploded perspective view illustrating the construction of the head unit 10 according to the present invention, and FIG. 4 is a view illustrating the assembled head unit 10 according to the present invention.

To describe the construction of the head unit 10 according to the present invention with reference to FIG. 3, a pipe 11 is forcibly engaged into a ^'pipe hole part o.f ^'the head unit 10 using an. engaging projection 13.

Inside a chamber 14 of the head unit 10 are provided rollers 15 and 15' opposite to each other, having the same construction, whose shafts 18 and 18' are guided into bow- shaped guide grooves 17 and 17' formed in the wall parts 16 and 16' of the chamber 14, along with bushings 19 and 19', both sides of the roller shafts^' 18 and 18' externally projected from the wall parts 16 and 16' through the guide groves 17 and 17' are formed with tapers, elongated holes 21 and 21' in the center thereof are engaged with the external projections 22 and 22' of the wall parts 16 and 16' supported by the tapers 20 and 20' of elevating pieces a and b by springs 23 and 23' mounted on both ends thereof, thereby being installed inside spacing parts 25 and 25' assembled with coverings 24 and 24'. The ceiling surface 14' of the inside of the chamber 14, on which the rollers 15 and 15' are mounted, are inclinedly formed so as to smoothly execute shrinking and relaxation, and elevation of the rollers 15 and 15', airtight support projections 27 and 27' are formed on the inner wall surfaces 26 and 26' of the wall, parts 16 and 16' so that the rollers 15 and 15' can execute shrinking and relaxation operations with support airtightness, wherein the reference numbers, 28 and 28', refer to covering projections of the guide grooves 17 and 17', 29 and 29", and 30 and 30' respectively refer to mounting projections and .detachment preventing projections , of. the springs 23 and' 23', and SW refers to a switch provided on a handle B. . ^'

The present invention .with the above-mentioned construction will be described with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6. FIGS..5 and 6 are side views illustrating the operation states of the massaging device A. Specifically, FIG. 5 illustrates the massaging device A under the condition that the rollers 15 and 15' formed on the head unit 10 does not contact the skin tissue (not shown) . At this time, the shrinking and relaxation of the rollers 15 and 15' are not performed in the head unit 10 since the switch SW of the handle B is in "off" state, under the condition that the pipe 11 is not connected to the pipe hole part 12 by the engaging projection 13, thereby being unable to execute the air vacuuming operation. To execute massaging, the rollers 15 and 15' provided in the head unit 10 of the massaging device A are contacted with the skin tissue and the switch SW of the handle B is turned on. Then, as the air vacuuming operation through the pipe 11 starts, the shafts 18 and 18" of the rollers 15 and 15' sliding on the skin tissue in close contact with each other by the air vacuuming force produced through the pipe 11 of the pipe hole part 12 execute the shrinking operation in cooperation with the bow-shaped guide grooves 17 and 17 formed in the wall parts 16 and 16' of the chamber 14, inside the chamber 14, and at the same time, the^' 'rollers 15 and 15' elastically elevate^' up and dowri on the uneven, skin tissue, thereby preventing a phenomenon to degrade the contacting of the rollers 15 and 15' with the skin tissue, resulting in enhancing the massaging function.

The ceiling surface 14' inside the chamber 14 is inclinedly formed toward the pipe hole part 12 (see' FIG. 2) , the rollers 15 and 15' are guided into the guide grooves 17 and 17' of the wall parts 16 and 16' along with the bushings 19 and 19', the roller shafts 18 and 18' externally projected have tapers 20 and 20' on both ends thereof, and are engaged into the external projections 22 and 22' of the wall parts 16 and 16' by the elongated holes 21 and 21' in the center thereof, whereby when the roller shafts 18 and 18 ' shrink along the bow- shaped guide grooves 17 and 17' by the elevating pieces a and b having springs 23 and 23' mounted on both ends thereof, the elevating pieces a and b supported by the tapers 20 and 20' outside the wall parts 16 and 16' are elevated up from the projections 22 and 22' engaged into the elongated holes 21 and 21' by the shrinking operation of the springs 23 and 23'. Conversely, on an uneven portion of the skin tissue, the shafts 18 and 18' of the rollers 15 and 15' supported with the tapers 20 and 20' are naturally elevated down along the bow- shaped guide grooves 17 and 17' by the pushing forces of the elevating pieces a and b dropping according to expansion of the springs 23 and 23' and at the same time the relaxation operation is performed. ^{' "} . The shrinking, relaxation and elevation operations of the rollers 15 and 15' are smoothly executed irrespective of the shape of the skin tissue. Thus, when the rollers 15 and 15" are slid in contact with the skin tissue so as to execute massaging, the massaging device A ^'according to the present invention can effectively perform the massaging function.

The ^• roller shafts 18 and 18' are guided into the guide grooves 17 and 17' in engagement with the bushings 19 and 19', and thus, the shrinking and relaxation operations of the rollers 15 and 15' are more smoothly executed and at the same time, the sense of contacting the skin tissue with the rollers 15 and 15" can be improved.

To make the external appearance of the head unit more beautiful, the elevating pieces a and b are mounted inside the spacing parts 25 and 25' produced by the coverings 24 and 24' outside the wall parts 16 and 16' of the chamber 14. In addition, the covering projections 28 and 28' surround the guide grooves 17 and 17', so that the guide grooves 17 and 17' cannot be externally exposed. In the inner wall surfaces 26 and 26' of the wall parts 16 and 16' of the chamber 14 are formed airtight support projections 27 and 27' to prevent loss of actual pressure to the air vacuuming force when the rollers 15 and 15' operate shrinking and relaxation, thereby enhancing airtightness of both sides of the rollers 15 and 15' with the inner wall surfaces 26 arid 26', whereby the massaging device capable of executing the ■ air .vacuuming operation more effectively is provided.

Although a specific exemplary embodiment of the present invention has been disclosed for illustrative purposes, those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention as disclosed in the accompanying claims.

[Mode for Invention]

In constructing a massaging device having enhanced air vacuuming and close contact functions according to the present invention, a ceiling surface inside a chamber is inclinedly formed so that two rollers execute shrinking, relaxation and elevation operations adaptively to the uneven skin tissue when the two rollers,^' molded with acetal material, installed oppositely to each other inside the chamber of a head unit connected to a pipe contact the skin tissue and execute the shrinking, relaxation and elevation operations, each roller shaft is guided into guide grooves formed on a wall part of the chamber, whereby the projected shafts are supported by ^' tapers of elevating pieces having the tapers on both sides thereof, both ends of the elevating pieces being mounted with springs and engaged into elongated holes, and the rollers can execute the shrinking, relaxation and . at. the same time elevation Operations .by . projections engaged ^'with elongated holes. In addition, when both ends of the rollers execute shrink and are relaxed within the chamber, airtight support projections are formed on inner wall surfaces of the chamber, so as to support the airtightness of the inner wall surfaces of the chamber with the air vacuuming force.

[industrial Applicability] ^■• v.v.The massaging device according to the present invention is applicable to enhance the massaging effect due to the air vacuuming operation since the massaging device can closely contact with the skin tissue regardless of the unevenness of the skin tissue, and executes shrinking and relaxation operations and . simultaneously an elevation operation of rollers, and to enhance the productivity since the massaging device has a simplified structure and thus it is easy to assemble and dissemble the massaging device.

Claims

[CLAIMS] ' ".

[Claim 1]

A manual massaging device (A) having air vacuuming and close contact functions, being characterized in that shafts (18 and 18') of rollers (15 and 15') are inserted using bushings

(19 and 19') into bow-shaped guide grooves^' (17 and 17) formed in wall parts (16 and 16') of a chamber (14) of a head unit

(10), which has an engaging¹ projection (13) of a pipe hole part (12) and is connected to a pipe (11) through the engaging projection (13), such that the rollers (15 and 15') are opposite to each other inside the chamber. (14), elevating pieces (a and b) having tapers (20 and 20') supported by the shafts (18 and 18') externally projected from the wall parts (16 and 16') are engaged into elongated holes (21 and 21') of projections (22 and 22') externally exposed to the outside of the wall parts (16 and 16'), both ends of which are mounted by springs (23 and 23') and are installed inside spacing parts (25 and 25') created by coverings (24 and 24').

[Claim 2]

The manual massaging device of claim 1, wherein a ceiling surface (14') inside the chamber (14) is inclinedly formed toward the pipe hole part (12) . ^{■ ' '} . [Claim 3] • .

The manual massaging device of claim 1, wherein the wall parts (16 and 16') of the chamber (14) are formed with airtight support projections (27 and 27') on inner wall surfaces (26 and 26') so as to enhance the close contact with both sides of. the rollers (15 and 15'). ^' _ •^••.