Patent ID: 9226873
Filing Date: 2016-01-05
CPC Classification: A61H

Claim Text:
1. A steam physiotherapy apparatus, comprising: a physiotherapy chamber for a user to sit therein, having a plurality of tourmaline tiles; a steam generating unit for generating steam; and a steam pipe for conveying the steam into the physiotherapy chamber; wherein the physiotherapy chamber is substantially cylindrical in shape and has an open top and a door operably closing an entrance thereof, the tourmaline tiles are densely and uniformly distributed on an inner surface of the physiotherapy chamber, a steam inlet pipe is provided in the physiotherapy chamber on a bottom thereof to communicate with the steam pipe, and a steam flow guide plate is placed on a top of the steam inlet pipe with an annular space left between the steam flow guide plate and the inner surface of the physiotherapy chamber to allow the steam to flow upward via the annular space; wherein the steam inlet pipe has two steam outlets that are horizontally extended in two diametrically opposite points close to the inner surface of the physiotherapy chamber around the bottom thereof, and the two steam outlets have open terminal ends directed to two opposite directions, such that the steam flowing out of the two steam outlets forms a swirl that overflows the steam flow guide plate via the annular space and moves upward along the inner surface of the physiotherapy chamber to thereby heat the tourmaline tiles provided thereon; and wherein the tourmaline tiles, after been heated, release far infrared rays that have the ability to permeate the user's skin, and negative ions that deeply enter the user's body with the help of the permeating ability of the far infrared rays; and both the far infrared rays and the negative ions reduce reactive oxygen species and free radicals in the user's body as well as help the user to give off deep-layer sweat.