WO2020046257A1

WO2020046257A1 - Massager

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Publication number: WO2020046257A1
Application number: PCT/UA2019/000102
Authority: WO
Inventors: Николай ЛЯПКО
Original assignee: Николай ЛЯПКО
Priority date: 2018-08-31
Filing date: 2019-08-08
Publication date: 2020-03-05
Also published as: RU203820U1

Abstract

The invention relates to medical technology, more particularly to massagers, and can be used as a means for reflex action on the human body for treatment and preventive purposes. The massager is in the form of a massage unit with massage heads which are interconnected by rods and have radial protrusions, wherein the massage heads are fastened to the rods so as to be able to be reset into different positions around the axes of the rods and locked in the selected positions.

Description

Massager

The invention relates to medical equipment, in particular to massagers, and can be used as a means for reflex effects on the human body for therapeutic and prophylactic purposes.

Well-known massagers, made in the form of several rigidly interconnected massage heads, with which they act on the user's body.

An example of such massagers is a mechanical massager, known according to the patent of the Russian Federation for utility model Ns 12964, IPC A61 H 15/00, application filing date 11.11.1999.

A mechanical massager contains massage spherical elements (massage heads) interconnected by intersecting rods. The number of massage heads is four. Massage heads are located in the plane of the base of the tetrahedral pyramid. The rods intersect at the top of the tetrahedral pyramid with the formation at the intersection of the bulge in the form of a ball-handle, which serves to capture the massager with the operator’s hand (holder). Massage heads are connected to the ball-grip by said rods, which are located on one side of the equatorial plane of the ball-grip. The rods with the massage heads attached to them are fixed at equal angles to each other and with the same angle between the direction of the rod of each massage head and the equatorial plane of the handle ball.

Massage heads are applied to the user's body and, moving the massager, perform the massage procedure.

Common features of the analogue and the claimed solution are: a massager, made in the form of a massage unit with massage heads connected to each other by rods.

In this design, the nature of the mechanical effect of the massager on the user's body is determined by the unique execution and location of the massage heads. Change or selection of the nature of the mechanical impact of the design is not provided. The pressing force of the massager is unevenly distributed between the massage heads, since the structure (type of structure - supporting structure) is statically undefined (contains unnecessary support connections), in which the loading of the supporting elements (massage heads) is unpredictable and uneven. The rigid connection of the massage heads does not contribute to their adaptation to the curvature of the user's body. This reduces the effectiveness of the massager. It is also known as an analogue, a massager (patent of the Russian Federation for utility model Ns 35225, IPC A61 H 15/00, application date September 29, 2003), which is made in the form of a massage unit containing a holder in the form of a star-shaped disk, to which from its internal five knee-shaped rods are fixed on the side with drop-shaped massage heads located at their ends located in the same plane. The knee-shaped rods are made with a right-handed or left-handed bend, respectively, clockwise or counterclockwise relative to the horizontally located holder. Three or more massage elements in the form of radial protrusions (protruding balls) are symmetrically mounted on the working surface of each of the drop-shaped massage heads.

Common features of the analogue and the claimed solution are: a massager, made in the form of a massage unit with interconnected rods massage heads made with radial protrusions.

As in the above analogue, in the indicated massager, the effects of the massager on the user's body are determined by the unambiguous execution of the massage heads, there is no change or choice of the nature of the mechanical effect, the pressing force of the massager is unevenly distributed between the massage heads - for the reasons specified in the description of the above analogue.

As a prototype, a massager selected according to the patent of the Russian Federation for the invention Ns 2220698, IPC A61 H 15/00, priority date 07/13/2001, was selected.

The massager is made in the form of a massage unit containing four massage heads located at the tops of the tetrahedron (trihedral pyramid). Massage heads are fixed at the ends of the rods, interconnected in the center of the tetrahedron with the formation of a thickening at the intersection of the rods. Each face of the tetrahedron is tangent to the three corresponding massage heads. Any of the faces of the tetrahedron (the plane of the face of the tetrahedron) can be selected as working when the user’s body is affected by massage heads located in the plane of the selected face. At least one of the massage heads is made with at least one protrusion (bulge), the axis of which is coaxial with the rod on which the massage head is fixed, and / or with one protrusion, the axis of which is perpendicular to one of the faces of the tetrahedron. Massage heads are made identical in shape and size. Three of the massage heads can be made with protrusions so that the axis of one of them is perpendicular to one face, the other to the second, and the fourth massage head can be made with protrusions so that the axis of one of them is perpendicular to one face, the axis of the other to the second, and the axis of the subsequent to the third face. The protrusions can be spherical, either cylindrical or conical with a rounded end. At least one protrusion can be made in the form of an insert embedded in the massage head made of a material different from the material of the massage head. The insert may have a spherical, or cylindrical, or conical shape with a rounded end. The insert may be made of metal or alloy. The metal insert may be coated with a single layer or multilayer coating of a material whose electrochemical potential differs from the electrochemical potential of the material of the insert. As an insert, a permanent magnet can be installed in at least one massage head.

Having chosen one of the faces of the tetrahedron as the working one (that is, by choosing the corresponding heads with corresponding protrusions), they apply it to the user's body and, moving the massager, perform a massage procedure.

Common features of the prototype and the claimed solution are: a massager, made in the form of a massage unit with interconnected rods massage heads made with radial protrusions.

The specified massager provides a uniform distribution of the pressing force of the massager between the massage heads (statically defined three-support structure) and the adaptation of the massage heads to the curvature of the user's body. The nature of the mechanical effect on the user's body is determined by the selection of one of the faces of the octahedron with the corresponding massage heads located on it as a working one. That is, the maximum number of combinations of working massage heads with their radial protrusions that affect the user's body does not exceed four combinations, which limits the effectiveness of the massager.

The basis of the invention is the task of expanding the possibilities of changing and choosing the nature of the mechanical effect of the massager on the user's body, which increases the effectiveness of the massager.

The problem is solved in that in the massager, made in the form of a massage unit with interconnected rods massage heads made with radial protrusions, according to the invention, the massage heads are fixed to the rods with the possibility of reinstallation in different positions around the axes of the rods and fixation in selected positions.

These signs are essential features of the invention, as they are necessary and sufficient to achieve a technical result - expanding the possibilities of changing and choosing the nature of the mechanical effect of the massager on the user's body, which increases the effectiveness of the massager.

The attachment of the massage heads to the rods with the possibility of reinstallation in different positions around the axes of the rods and fixation in selected positions provides the ability to obtain many different combinations of radial protrusions on the working massage heads, which affect the user's body, which determines the variety of mechanical effects and the ability to select the desired effect for a particular user.

Massage heads can be located at the vertices of the tetrahedron whose faces are tangent to the massage heads and interconnected by rods intersecting in the center of the tetrahedron with the formation of a thickening at the intersection.

Massage heads can be located in the corners of the base of the trihedral pyramid and interconnected by rods intersecting at the top of the pyramid with the formation of a thickening at the intersection.

It is advisable to make the rods with shafts of a multifaceted shape, to make radial holes in the massage heads, the cross-sectional shape of which corresponds to the cross-sectional shape of the shanks, fix the massage heads on the rods by placing the shanks of the rods in the radial holes of the massage heads with the possibility of reinstalling the massage heads in different positions around the axis of the rods and fixation in selected positions.

The shanks of the rods can be made in the form of regular tetrahedrons or regular trihedrons.

It is advisable to arrange the radial protrusions of the massage heads opposite the faces of the shanks along the line of intersection of the solid angle equal to 2f degrees with the surface of the massage head, where f is the angle of inclination of the shaft on which the massage head is fixed to the central axis of the massage unit.

Radial protrusions can be made either cylindrical, or conical, or other spatial configuration.

Radial protrusions can be made of the material of the massage head in one piece with the massage head.

At least one of the radial protrusions can be made in the form of an insert fixed in the body of the massage head.

The insert may be made of metal.

The metal insert can be made with at least a single-layer partial coating, while the coating materials and inserts are selected with different electrochemical potentials. In this case, galvanic pairs that, when in contact with the skin of the user, provide the known effects of galvanizing the skin and electrophoresis.

The insert can be made of magnetic material, which provides exposure to the user's body with a constant magnetic field.

The insert can be made of natural mineral, which allows you to use the healing properties of natural minerals.

The massager may contain a holder on which at least two massage nodes are fixed with ball joints, while the ball heads of these joints are thickenings made at the intersection of the rods of the massage nodes.

The following is a description of the claimed massager with reference to the drawings, which show:

FIG. 1 - Massager, the location of the massage heads at the tops of the tetrahedron.

FIG. 2 - Massager, view A in FIG. 1.

FIG. 3 - Massager, the layout of the massage heads at the tops of the tetrahedron.

FIG. 4 - Massager, the location of the massage heads in the corners of the base of the trihedral pyramid.

FIG. 5 - Massager, view B in FIG. 4.

FIG. 6 - Massager, the layout of the massage heads in the corners of the base of the trihedral pyramid.

FIG. 7 - Massager, fixing the massage head with the ability to reinstall in various positions, a longitudinal section.

FIG. 8 - Massager, section BB in FIG. 7, fixing the massage head to the tetrahedral shank.

FIG. 9 - Massager, section BB in FIG. 7, fixing the massage head to the trihedral shank.

FIG. 10 - Massager, performing a massage head with radial protrusions.

FIG. 11 - Massager, view D in FIG. 10, securing the massage head on the tetrahedral shank.

FIG. 12 - Massager, view D in FIG. 10, fixing the massage head to the trihedral shank.

FIG. 13 - Massager, a diagram of the impact on the user's body with a conical radial protrusion with a pointed apex.

FIG. 14 - Massager, scheme of impact on the user's body with a conical radial protrusion with a blunt apex. FIG. 15 - Massager, a diagram of the impact on the user's body with a cylindrical radial protrusion.

FIG. 16 - Massager, a diagram of the impact on the user's body with a radial protrusion with a complex surface configuration of the "raspberry" type.

FIG. 17 - Massager, the implementation of the radial protrusion in the form of a metal insert.

FIG. 18 - Massager, the implementation of the radial protrusion in the form of a metal insert with a partial coating, the electrochemical potential of which differs from the electrochemical potential of the material of the insert.

FIG. 19 - Massager, performing a radial protrusion in the form of an insert of magnetic material.

FIG. 20 - Massager, performing a radial protrusion in the form of an insert of a natural mineral.

FIG. 21 - Massager, an example of execution with three massage nodes, massage heads are located at the tops of the tetrahedron.

FIG. 22 - Massager, view D in FIG. 21.

FIG. 23 - Massager, an example of execution with three massage nodes, massage heads are located in the corners of the base of the trihedral pyramid.

FIG. 24-26 - Massager, various positions of the massage unit in the longitudinal plane of the bracket, massage heads are located at the vertices of the tetrahedron.

FIG. 27-29 - Massager, various positions of the massage unit in the transverse plane of the bracket, massage heads are located at the vertices of the tetrahedron.

FIG. 30-32 - Massager, various positions of the massage unit in the longitudinal plane of the bracket, massage heads are located in the corners of the trihedral pyramid.

FIG. 33-35 - Massager, various positions of the massage unit in the transverse plane of the bracket, massage heads are located in the corners of the trihedral pyramid.

FIG. 36 - Massager, distribution scheme of massager efforts.

FIG. 37 - Massager, view K in FIG. 36.

FIG. 38 - Massager, an example implementation with a "close" arrangement of massage heads.

FIG. 39 - Massager, view L in FIG. 38.

FIG. 40 - Massager, a diagram of the effect of the massager on a convex part of the user's body.

FIG. 41 - Massager, a diagram of the effect of the massager on the concave portion of the user's body. In FIG. 1, 2 shows a massager, made in the form of a massage unit, in which the massage heads 1 are located at the vertices 2 of the tetrahedron 3, the faces of which are tangent to the massage heads 1. The massage heads 1 are interconnected by rods 4 intersecting in the center 5 of the tetrahedron 3. B at the intersection of the rods 4, a spherical thickening is made 6. The angle f is the angle of inclination of the rods 4 to the central axis 7 of the tetrahedron 3. In FIG. 3 in a perspective view shows the layout of the massage heads 1 at the vertices 2 of the tetrahedron 3. Any of the four faces of the tetrahedron 3 with the corresponding three massage heads 1 can be used as a working face. In this case, the fourth massage head 1, opposite the working massage heads 1, is used to hold the massager with the hand of a massage therapist.

In FIG. 4, 5 shows a masseur made in the form of a massage unit, in which massage heads 8 are located in the corners 9 of the base of the trihedral pyramid 10. Massage heads 8 are interconnected by rods 11 intersecting at the top 12 of the trihedral pyramid 10. At the intersection of the rods 11 a spherical thickening 13. Angle f is the angle of inclination of the rods 11 to the central axis 14 of the trihedral pyramid 10. In FIG. 6 in a perspective view shows the layout of the massage heads 8 in the corners 9 of the base of the trihedral pyramid 10. Massage heads 8 are the working heads that affect the user's body. In this case, a spherical thickening 13, opposite to the working massage heads 8, is used to hold the massager with the hand of the masseur.

Massage heads 1, 8 are fixed on the rods 4, 11 with the possibility of reinstallation in different positions around the axes of the rods 4, 11 and fixation in the selected positions. In FIG. 7-9 show such an embodiment using the example of the massager shown in FIG. 1-3. The rod 4 is made with a shank 15 of a multifaceted shape. Radial holes 16 are made in the massage head 1, the cross-sectional shape of which corresponds to the cross-sectional shape of the shank 15. The massage head 1 is fixed to the shaft 4 by placing the shaft 15 of the shaft 4 in the radial hole 16 of the massage head 1 with the possibility of reinstalling the massage head 1 in various positions around the axis of the rod 4 and fixation in the selected position with the screw 17. In FIG. 8 shows the implementation of the shank 15 in the form of a regular tetrahedron (square). With this embodiment, the number of possible positions of the massage head 1 on the shaft 4 is four. In FIG. 9 shows the implementation of the shank 15 in the form of a regular trihedron. With this embodiment, the number of possible positions of the massage head 1 on the rod 4 is three. Massage heads 1, 8 are made with radial protrusions that determine the nature of the mechanical effect of the massager on the user's body. In FIG. 10-12 shows a massage head 1 with radial protrusions 18, 19, 20, 21. The radial protrusions can be either conical (18, 21), or cylindrical (19), or of another spatial configuration, for example, a raspberry type (20 ) Radial protrusions are located opposite the faces of the shank 15 along the line 22 of the intersection of the solid angle equal to 2f degrees with the surface of the massage head 1, where f is the angle of inclination of the shaft 4, on which the massage head 1 is fixed, to the central axis 7 of the massage unit.

By reinstalling the massage head 1 on the shank 15, one of the radial protrusions 18, 19, 20, 21 is selected, which will act on the user's body, as shown in FIG. 13-16: FIG. 13 - impact conical protrusion 18 with a pointed apex; FIG. 14 - impact conical protrusion 21 with a blunt apex; FIG. 15 - impact of a cylindrical protrusion 19; FIG. 16 - impact ledge 20 with a complex spatial configuration, for example, such as "raspberry". In this way, it is possible to obtain many different combinations of radial protrusions on the working massage heads, which determines the variety of mechanical effects and the choice of the necessary effects for a particular user.

The radial protrusions can be made of the material of the massage head 1 in one piece with the massage head 1 (Fig. 13-16) or in the form of an insert fixed in the body of the massage head 1. In FIG. 17 shows an insert 23 made of metal. On 18 - a metal insert 24 with a partial coating 25, the electrochemical potential of which differs from the electrochemical potential of the material of the insert 24; in this case, a galvanic pair “metal insert 24 - coating 25” is formed, which when in contact with the user's body generates galvanic microcurrents 1e providing the known effects of galvanizing the skin and electrophoresis. As materials for insert 24, for example, steel, copper, chromium, nickel, aluminum, zinc, titanium, as well as their alloys and oxides, can be used. Coating materials 25 can be, for example, copper, chromium, nickel, aluminum, zinc, titanium, as well as tin, silver, gold, platinum and other materials with various electrochemical potentials. On Fig, 19 - insert 26 made of magnetic material, providing exposure to the user's body with a constant magnetic field. In FIG. 20 - insert 27 made of natural mineral, which allows you to use the healing properties of natural minerals.

The masseur described above can be aggregated into more complex massage designs containing several massage nodes. In FIG. 21, 22 shows an example of a massager with three massage units made in accordance with FIG. 12.

The massager contains a holder 28 with a handle 29 on the upper side of the holder 28. The holder 28 is made with three brackets 30 located at an angle of 120 degrees with respect to each other. Each bracket 30 is made with a longitudinal slot 31 and a spherical recess 32 on the lower side of the bracket 30. Three peripheral massage units are fixed in the same horizontal plane as peripheral sections of the brackets 30. Each massage unit contains four massage heads 1 located at the vertices of the tetrahedron, the faces of which are tangent to the massage heads 1. The massage heads 1 are interconnected by rods 4 intersecting in the center of the tetrahedron. At the intersection of the rods 4, a spherical thickening 6 is made. Each of the faces of the tetrahedron can be used as a working one, which makes it possible to influence the user’s body with various massage heads 1, depending on which face of the tetrahedron is used as the working one.

Massage nodes are fixed to the brackets 30 with the help of ball joints formed by spherical recesses 32, made in brackets 30, in which spherical thickenings 6 are located as ball heads. Thus, the massage nodes in contact with the user's body can freely rotate in ball joints in any direction and occupy a position in which the massage heads 1 are uniformly pressed against the body part, regardless of the geometry of the site (convex or concave body surface). That is, in this embodiment, the massage unit automatically adapts to curved sections of the body, providing a uniform effect of the massage heads 1 on the user's body.

In FIG. 23 shows an example of a similar massager with three massage units made in accordance with FIG. 4, 5.

The massager contains a holder 28 with a handle 29 on the upper side of the holder 28. The holder 28 is made with three brackets 30 located at an angle of 120 degrees with respect to each other. Each bracket 30 is made with a longitudinal slot 31 and a spherical recess 32 on the lower side of the bracket 30. Three massage units are fixed in the same horizontal plane on the peripheral sections of the brackets 30. Each massage unit contains three massage heads 8 located in the corners of the base of the trihedral pyramid. Massage heads 8 are interconnected by rods 11 intersecting at the top of a trihedral pyramid with the formation of a spherical thickening 13 at the intersection. Massage nodes are fixed to the brackets 30 with the help of ball joints formed by spherical recesses 32 made in brackets 30 in which spherical bulges 13 are located as ball heads. Each massage unit automatically adapts to curved sections of the body, providing a uniform effect of the massage heads 8 on the user's body.

In FIG. 24-26 show the different positions of the massage assembly formed by the massage heads 1 located at the vertices of the tetrahedron in the longitudinal plane of the bracket 30. FIG. 27-29 - the same in the transverse plane of the bracket 30.

In FIG. 30-32 show the various positions of the massage unit formed by the massage heads 8 located in the corners of the base of the trihedral pyramid, in the longitudinal plane of the bracket 30. In FIG. 33-35 is the same in the transverse plane of the bracket 30.

Before the massage, the massage heads are set on the rods to a position depending on the purpose of the massage procedure (choose the radial protrusions of the massage heads, the combination of which will affect the user's body). Install massage units in ball joints. During the massage, the massager using the handle is pressed with the necessary force to the surface of the corresponding part of the body and the massager is moved in various directions. In this case, the massage nodes contact their massage heads with the massaged body area at nine points (nine massage heads).

In FIG. 36, 37 shows a diagram of the distribution of massager efforts, where Pi is the pressing force of the massager, P2 is the force transmitted to the massage nodes, and Pz is the force by which the massage heads 8 act on the user's body. Moreover, P2 = 1 / ЗР1, Рз = 1 / 9Р1. The pressing force of the massager P1 is evenly distributed between the massage heads 8 (force Pz).

In Fig 38, 39 shows an example of a similar massager, made with a more "tight" arrangement of the massage heads 8.

Effects of impact on the user's body at all points of contact of massage heads with a body part will be equal, including on curved parts of the body, due to the design features of the massager. In FIG. 40 shows a diagram of the interaction (adaptation) of massage nodes with a convex portion of the user's body, FIG. 41 - with a concave portion of the body of the user.

Claims

Claim

1. The massager, made in the form of a massage unit with interconnected rods massage heads made with radial protrusions,

characterized in

that massage heads are fixed on the rods with the possibility of reinstallation in different positions around the axes of the rods and fixation in the selected positions.

2. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that the massage heads are located at the vertices of the tetrahedron, the faces of which are tangent to the massage heads, and are interconnected by rods intersecting in the center of the tetrahedron with the formation of a thickening at the intersection.

3. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that the massage heads are located in the corners of the base of the trihedral pyramid and are interconnected by rods intersecting at the top of the pyramid with the formation of a thickening at the intersection.

4. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that the rods are made with shafts of a multifaceted shape, radial holes are made in the massage heads, the cross-sectional shape of which corresponds to the cross-sectional shape of the shanks, the massage heads are fixed to the rods by placing the shanks of the rods in the radial holes of the massage heads with the ability to reinstall the massage heads in various positions around the axes of the rods and fixation in selected positions.

5. The massager according to claim 4, characterized in that the shanks of the rods are made in the form of regular tetrahedrons or regular trihedrons.

6. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that the radial protrusions of the massage heads are located opposite the edges of the shanks along the line of intersection of the solid angle equal to 2f degrees with the surface of the massage head, where f is the angle of inclination of the shaft on which the massage head is fixed to the central axis of the massage unit.

7. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that the radial protrusions are either cylindrical, conical, or other spatial configuration.

8. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that the radial protrusions are made of material of the massage head in one piece with the massage head.

9. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one of the radial protrusions is made in the form of an insert fixed in the body of the massage head.

10. The massager according to claim 9, characterized in that the insert is made of metal, or of metal with at least a single-layer partial coating, while the coating materials and inserts are selected with different electrochemical potentials, or of magnetic material, or of natural mineral.

11. The massager according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises a holder on which at least two massage nodes are secured with ball joints, the spherical heads of said joints being thickenings made at the intersection of the rods of the massage nodes.