WO2007095858A1

WO2007095858A1 - Healthcare shoes with impulse current

Info

Publication number: WO2007095858A1
Application number: PCT/CN2007/000575
Authority: WO
Inventors: Chung Chi Pang
Original assignee: Chung Chi Pang
Priority date: 2006-02-22
Filing date: 2007-02-16
Publication date: 2007-08-30
Also published as: CN2894343Y

Abstract

A healthcare shoe with impulse current comprises a sole, an insole emplaced on the sole, and a vamp jointed with the sole. An impulse generator for generating impulse current is deposited inside the sole. An anode and a cathode insulated with each other are set on the insole. The anode and the cathode are conducted via the foot and form a loop together with the impulse generator. Impulse current flows through the foot of the wearer, and stimulates and massages the foot. By this way, the muscles of feet are relaxed and comforted. In addition, waveform and intension of the impulse current are selectable, which is suitable for various users. Further, the shoe is rechargeable, and the power supply needs not to be replaced.

Description

SPECIFICATION

HEALTHCARE SHOES WITH IMPULSE CURRENT

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a healthcare shoe with impulse current, more particularly, relates to a healthcare shoe with the impulse current flows through the feet of the wearer.

Brief Summary of Prior Art

While healthcare is becoming more and more important in everyday life, various kinds of massage apparatus are popularized, and particular massage that acts on specific portion of human emerges as required. "Foot Massage" is an ancient Chinese human healthcare and therapeutic method, it combines with specific apparatus to massage on the points of human's feet is now widely applied. But some massage apparatus, such as one kind of healthcare shoe, it only set some bulges on the inner side of the bottom of the shoes, to massage on the points of the feet and relax the fatigue on feet by compressing and stimulating feet with the bulges,. However, while used for a long time, the portion of feet contacting with shoe will become numb, and makes the feet uncomfortable.

There still another kind of healthcare shoes that placing a vibrant motor inside the bottom of the shoe, and feet are massaged by the vibration of the motor. Nevertheless, as the motor generates noise when working, and the motor increases the weight of shoes, this kind of shoes is not suitable in actual application; it brings the feet with more burden and tiredness.

Brief Description of the Invention

The object of the present invention is, in order to solve the problems in the prior art, i a healthcare shoes with impulse current is provided, which may generate an impulse current flowing through the feet portion of a wearer to stimulate and massage the feet.

The technical solution of the present invention is, providing a healthcare shoe with impulse current, which comprising a sole, an insole emplaced on the sole, and a vamp jointed with the sole. Wherein an impulse generator for generating impulse current is deposited inside the sole, an anode and a cathode insulated with each other is set on the insole; the impulse generator comprises a positive pole connected with the anode of the insole and a negative pole connected with the cathode of the insole; the anode and cathode are conducted through foot, and together with the impulse generator to form a loop, thus to make the impulse current flow through the foot of the wearer.

Advantageously, the impulse generator comprises an impulse generating output unit, a control unit, a button unit and a power supply unit for providing power to the whole generator; the button unit triggering the control unit to select the voltage level and frequency_* of the impulse current generated; the impulse generating output unit is connected with the anode and cathode through the positive pole and negative pole respectively, and output the selected impulse current to foot. Advantageously, the control unit comprises a hammering module, a knock module, a jounce module, a knead module, a relaxation module and a cycling module; the button unit comprises a mode selecting button, a switch button and an intension increasing/decreasing button; by selecting any one of the hammering module, knock module, knead module, relaxation module and cycling module to control the impulse generating output unit to generate the impulse current with corresponding frequency, and by pressing the intension increasing/decreasing button to control the voltage level of the impulse current.

Advantageously, the impulse generator further comprises a display unit connected with the control unit to display the selected module. Advantageously, the buttons of the button unit are placed on the outer surface of the bottom of the shoe.

Advantageously, the control unit further comprises an energy saving module to determine whether to turn on/off the impulse generator according to the button-press status of the button module in a certain time period.

Advantageously, the power supply unit is a rechargeable battery; the control unit further comprises a charging unit connected with the power supply unit.

The advantages of the present invention are, the anode and cathode of the insole are conducted by the foot of the wearer, and together with the impulse generator to form a loop, thus to allow the impulse current flow through, stimulate and massage the foot, therefore the muscle of the foot portion is relaxed and comforted.

Further, the wave form and intension of the impulse current is selectable, thus suits for various users and is flexible and convenient. In addition, the shoe is rechargeable, the power supply need not to be replaced.

Brief Description of the Drawings

Fig. 1 is the schematic view of the structure of the healthcare shoe with impulse current, in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the schematic view of the impulse generator of the healthcare shoe, in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 3 is the waveform of the working mode Ml of the hammering module, in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 4 is the enlarged part A of figure 4;

Figure 5 is the waveform of the working mode M2 of the knock module, in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 6 is the enlarged part B of figure 6;

Figure 7 is the waveform of the working mode M3 of the jounce module, in accordance with the present invention; Figure 8 is the enlarged part C of figure 8;

Figure 9 is the waveform of the working mode M4 of the knead module, in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 10 is the waveform of the working mode of M5 of the relaxation module, in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 11 is the waveform of the working mode of M6 of the cycling module, in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 12 is the schematic diagram of another display manner, in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 13 is the schematic diagram of another display manner displaying mode, in accordance with the present invention;

Figure 14 is the schematic diagram of another display manner displaying strength, in accordance with the present invention.

Detailed Description of the Invention

As shown in Figures 1 to 3, the impulse generator of the healthcare shoe of the present invention comprises a sole 10, an insole 20 emplaced on the sole 10, and a vamp 30 jointed with the sole 10.

An anode 21 and a cathode 22 insulated with each other is set on the insole 20. In the present embodiment, the anode 21 is set on the front-end of the insole 20 and the cathode 22 is set on the back-end of the insole 20. Certainly, the position of the anode 21 and cathode 22 may be exchanged, and may be placed anywhere on the insole. In order to let foot contact with the anode 21 and cathode 22 sufficiently, plurality of heaves are set on the insole 20 to improve the contact between the foot and the anode 21 and cathode 22.

An impulse generator 40 is deposited inside the sole 10, a positive pole 41 is connected with the anode 21 of the insole and a negative pole 42 is connected with the cathode 22 of the insole. In the present embodiment, the positive pole 41 is connected with the anode 21 via a lead 50, and the negative pole 42 is connected with the cathode 22 via the lead 50 also. The anode 21 and cathode 22 are conducted through the foot, and together with the impulse generator 40 to form a loop, thus to make the impulse current flow through the foot of the wearer, to stimulate and massage the foot, therefore the muscle of foot is relaxed and comforted. Furthermore, the impulse generator 40 may be placed into a water-proof plastic sleeve, and the lead 50 and other parts are water proofed also, to prevent creepage.

In the present embodiment, the impulse generator 40 comprises an impulse generating output unit 43, a control unit 44, a button unit 45 and a power supply unit 46 for providing power to the whole impulse generator 40; the impulse generating output unit 43 generate impulse current under the control of the control unit 44, and output the current when the loop is built. The control unit 44 comprises six functional modules, which are hammering module, knock module, jounce module, knead module, relaxation module and cycling module. By selecting any one of the modules, the impulse generator 40 will generate impulse current with corresponding frequency to perform different kinds of working statuses.

In the present invention, the frequency of the working mode Ml of hammering module is 5Hz, the waveform is shown in figure 4 and 5, an impulse high level voltage that lasts for 2.4ms is generated every 197.6ms, wherein the impulse level may be divided into multiple levels, for example, the first level is 38.5v, the second level is 56v, the third level is 73.5v, the forth level is 98v, the fifth level is 122.5v, the sixth level is 154v, the seventh level is 189v, the eighth level is 213.5v, etc. The frequency of the working mode M2 of knock module is 1.25Hz, the waveform is shown in figure 6 and 7, a group of decreasing waveform that lasts for 405ms is generated every 395ms, the high voltage level of each impulse last for 5ms. The frequency of the working mode M3 of jounce module is 0.22222222Hz, the waveform is shown in figure 8 and 9, a group of decreasing waveform lasts for 3 s is generated every 3.5s, wherein the high voltage level decreases from 2Ov to 7.5v, while each high voltage level lasts for 5ms.

The frequencies of the working mode of M4 of knead module are shown as follows:

1.25-0.25-0.3125-0.25-0.3333-0.125-0.41667-0.25-0.41667-0.25-0.3125-0.25Hz, the waveforms are shown in figure 10.

The frequencies of the working mode of M5 of relaxation module are shown as follows:

0.3125-0.25-0.4166-8.3333-0.4166-1.25-0.25-0.3125-0.25-0.3125-0.25-0.3125Hz, the waveforms are shown in figure 11.

The frequencies of the working mode of M6 of cycling module are shown as follows:

5HZ(150S)-- 1.25Hz

(150S)-0.222222HZ(150S)-{1.25-0.25-0.3125-0.25-0.3333-0.125-0.41667-0.25-0.

41667-0.25-0.3125-0.25Hz cycling to the end} (150S)-

{0.3125-0.25-0.4166-8.3333-0.4166-1.25-0.25-0.3125-0.25-0.3125-0.25-0.3125H

Z} cycling to the end (150S)-50HZ(15OS), the waveforms are shown in figure 12.

The button unit 45 comprises a model selecting button, a switch button and an intension increasing/decreasing button. The model selecting button can be one single button or buttons corresponding to each functional module. If only one button 453 is provided, different functional modules can be selected by different times the button be pressed, for example, press once is to select hammering module, press twice is to select knock module, press three times is to select jounce module, press four times is to select knead module, press five times is to select relaxation module, and press six times is to select cycling module, alternatively, for example, pressing the switch for 3 seconds is to turn on, when it is on, pressing the switch for 3 seconds is to turn off. The switch button is to turn on/off of the impulse generator 40. Meanwhile, the switch button can be the intension increasing/decreasing button, for example, if press "on" button for once, the generator will turn on, and continually press, the intension will increase; and if press "off button for once, the generator will turn off, and continually press, the intension will decrease. The buttons can be placed on the outer surface of the vamp 30, for easy adjusting. And by adjusting the intension increasing/decreasing button to control the value of output voltage, to adjust the working intension of each functional module.

The impulse generator further comprises a display unit 47 connected with the control unit to display the selected functional module. The display unit 47 may employ four LED lamps. Other display mode may also be employed; figure 12 illustrated the left foot display mode, while the right foot display may correspond to the left foot display mode. Wherein M is mode, it is formed by 3 LED indicators to display. As shown in figure 13, "+" and "-" displays the strength, it is formed by 4 LED indicators to display, as shown in figure 14.

The control unit 44 further comprises an energy saving module to determine whether to turn on/off of the impulse generator 40 according to the button-press status of the button module 45 in a certain time period. For example, if no pressing occurred in a time period of 15 minutes, the energy saving module will be enabled, the power supply unit 46 will be disabled, and the impulse generator 40 will cease working. The power supply unit is a rechargeable battery, the control unit 44 further comprises a charging unit 48 connected with the power supply unit 46, thus once the power is exhausted, the charging module will recharge the battery and no need for replacing the batteries. The charging interface of the charging unit 48 is set on the outer side of the sole, and may be coated with a mask to proof water leakage. The battery can be charged by an external charger, and the charger has two plugs that can charge a pair of shoes synchronously; an indication lamp is set on the charger to indicate whether the charge is finished or not by the color changing of the lamp.

Claims

1. A healthcare shoe with impulse current, which comprising a sole, an insole emplaced on the sole, and a vamp jointed with the sole. Wherein an impulse generator for generating impulse current is deposited inside the sole, an anode and a cathode insulated with each other is set on the insole; the impulse generator comprises a positive pole connected with the anode of the insole and a negative pole connected with the cathode of the insole; the anode and cathode are conducted through foot, and together with the impulse generator to form a loop, thus to make the impulse current flow through the foot of the wearer.

2. The healthcare shoe with impulse current in claim 1, wherein the impulse generator comprises an impulse generating output unit, a control unit, a button unit and a power supply unit for providing power to the whole generator; the button unit triggering the control unit to select the voltage level and frequency of the impulse current generated; the impulse generating output unit is connected with the anode and cathode through the positive pole and negative pole respectively, and output the selected impulse current to foot.

3. The healthcare shoe with impulse current in claim 2, wherein the control unit comprises a hammering module, a knock module, a jounce module, a knead module, a relaxation module and a cycling module; the button unit comprises a mode selecting button, a switch button and an intension increasing/decreasing button; by selecting any one of the hammering module, knock module, knead module, relaxation module and cycling module to control the impulse generating output unit to generate the impulse current with corresponding frequency, and by pressing the intension increasing/decreasing button to control the voltage level of the impulse current.

4. The healthcare shoe with impulse current in claim 3, wherein the impulse generator further comprises a display unit connected with the control unit to display the selected module.

5. The healthcare shoe with impulse current in claim 3, wherein the buttons of the button unit are placed on the outer surface of the bottom of the shoe.

6. The healthcare shoe with impulse current in claim 3, wherein the control unit further comprises an energy saving module to determine whether to turn on/off the impulse generator according to the button-press status of the button module in a certain time period.

7. The healthcare shoe with impulse current in claim 2, wherein the power supply unit is a rechargeable battery; the control unit further comprises a charging unit connected with the power supply unit.