Patent ID: 6632188
Filing Date: 2003-10-14
Classification: A61H

Abstract:
A portable air foot massaging apparatus for massaging a user's feet, comprising:a. a fluid-tight housing having a base wall and four walls integrally connected with the base wall and extending upwardly therefrom to form a foot chamber adapted to support the user's feet and containing fluid therein; b. a lid hingably connected to an upper edge of a respective one of said four walls for covering said foot chamber; c. a semi-rigid plate mounted within said fluid-tight housing and spaced above and parallel to said base wall and supported by a support means; d. a plurality of spaced apart compressible and expandable air nodes affixed to the interior of said four walls and said lid and protruding inwardly therefrom; e. means to interconnect said plurality of compressible and expandable air nodes for transferring fluid in between; f. compressor means mounted within said fluid-tight housing for supplying fluid such as compressed air to said plurality of compressible and expandable air nodes; g. valve means connected to said compressor means to control the compressed air to inflate said plurality of compressible and expandable air nodes to a desired stiffness; h. a controller having means for cycling the inflation and deflation rates at different intervals of said plurality of compressible and expandable air nodes to create at least one massaging pattern to massage the user's feet within said fluid-tight housing; and i. eccentric vibration means mounted to the underside of said semi-rigid plate for generating vibrations to and through said semi-rigid plate which in turn creates resonance vibrations to massage the user's feet; j. whereby when the user's feet are respectively positioned within said fluid-tight housing and said plurality of compressible and expandable air nodes are engaged with the user's feet, and thereby massage and generate said at least one massaging pattern to massage the user's feet which effectively sooth and relax the user.