Patent ID: 9050483
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: A61H,A63B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus ( 10 ) for muscle stimulation including at least one motor ( 20 ) with two motor-operated drives ( 30 , 130 ) interconnected by a drive shaft ( 41 ) each of the motor-operated drives ( 30 , 130 ) comprising a frame structure ( 31 , 131 ) and two separate stepping plate elements ( 81 , 181 ) supported in the frame structure ( 31 , 131 ) by pivot bearing structures ( 38 , 138 ) arranged at one end of the stepping plate elements ( 81 , 181 ) and by elastically deformable elements ( 90 , 190 ) supporting the stepping plate elements at their ends opposite the pivot bearing structures ( 38 , 138 ) on support flanges ( 82 , 182 ), each of the motor-operated drives ( one of the cranks ( 32 , 132 ) being connected pivotally to an end of one of the stepping plate elements ( 81 , 181 ) opposite the respective pivot bearing structure ( 38 , 138 ) and the other crank ( 132 , 32 ) being pivotally joined to the other stepping plate element ( 81 , 181 ) at the other end of the respective pivot bearing structure by coupling members ( 33 , 133 ) and the stepping plate elements ( 81 , 181 ) further being spaced from each other by a spacing of less than 2 mm.