Patent ID: 8500664
Filing Date: 2013-08-06
Classification: A47C,A61H

Abstract:
1. A massage chair with a foot massaging device, comprising: a seat, unit; a backrest unit provided at a rear portion of the seat unit, and the foot massaging device located at a front portion of the seat unit; a back-and-forth motion mechanism joined to the foot massaging device provided under the seat unit; and wherein when the back-and-forth motion mechanism protrudes forward, the foot massaging device advances to a using position which is located in front of the seat unit and at which a lower leg of a user can be massaged, while when the back-and-forth motion mechanism retracts backward, the foot massaging device is housed in a housing position formed under the seat unit; wherein when the foot massaging device is located at the using position, a bottom face of the foot massaging device faces a floor surface and a front face of the foot massaging device to massage the lower leg is oriented forward; wherein when the foot massaging device is located at the housing position, the bottom face is oriented forward and approximately flush with a front edge portion of the seat unit, and the front face to massage the lower leg is oriented upward; wherein the back-and-forth motion mechanism comprises: wherein the foot massaging device is configured to move to the housing position when the link swings to a backward side of a swinging area of the link, while the foot massaging device is configured to move to the using position when the link swings to a forward side of the swinging area of the link; wherein the swing driving unit of the back-and-forth motion mechanism comprises an electric motor-driven telescopic mechanism; wherein a front edge portion of the telescopic mechanism is joined at a position laterally displaced from a center portion in a right-and-left direction of the seat unit on a pivot supported on a rear edge of the link rotatably in the center portion in the right-and-left direction of the seat unit; wherein the foot massaging device has a pair of right and left holding depressions formed at the front face of the foot massaging device and capable of accommodating the lower leg of the user; and when the foot massaging device is located in the housing position, a position of the telescopic mechanism is arranged so that the telescopic mechanism is set in one of the pair of right and left holding depressions.