Patent ID: 6443917
Filing Date: 2002-09-03
Classification: A61H

Abstract:
MASSAGE DEVICE FOR A REST ARMCHAIR, including means for applying kneading and tapping massage to a user's back, characterised in that the device includes:a left-hand kneading motor arranged to transmit rotation to a first shaft; a right-hand kneading motor arranged to transmit rotation to a second shaft; a left-hand tapping motor arranged to transmit rotation to a third shaft; a right-hand tapping motor arranged to transmit rotation to fourth shaft; wherein the first shaft and the third shaft are connected to a massage application element for the left-hand side of the user's back, whereas the second shaft and the fourth shaft are coupled to a massage application element for the right-hand side of the user's back; and wherein the motors are mutually independent, providing for: independence between the massage applied to the left-hand side of the user's back and the massage applied to the right-hand side of the user's back, for kneading as well as for tapping, allowing for regulation of the intensity or speed on each side in an independent manner; possibility of choosing between synchronisation or unsynchronisation between the massages applied to the left-hand and the right-hand side of the user's back; possibility of variation in the direction of the kneading massage on he left-hand side of the user's back and variation in the direction of the kneading massage on the right-hand side of the user's back, in a mutually independent manner.