Abstract:
Disclosed is a skin massage device, the proposed idea capable of a skin massage device of scrubbing a skin applied with a massage cream, then giving physical stimulus on the skin at a massage thus helping the relaxation of muscles and activating matabolism to serve an elastic, healty skin, characterized in that an operation device  15  to recipocally translate a beating member  21  back and forth is installed at a rotating shaft  14  of a drive motor  15  to which an electric energy of a battery  100  is selectively supplied/blocked according to change of on/off of a rotary switch  12,  compised of the beating member  21  inflicting physical stimulus while interworking with the operation device  15.

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 
       [0001]    This application claims priority from Korean Utility Model Application No. 20-2008-0008378, filed on Jun. 30, 2008 in the Korean Intellectual Property Office, the entire disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. 
       TECHNICAL FIELD 
       [0002]    The device relates to a skin massage apparatus capable of scrubbing a skin applied with a massage cream, then giving physical stimulus on the skin at a massage thus helping the relaxation of muscles and activating metabolism to serve an elastic healthy skin, and more particularly to a device delved to translating a rotating motion of a drive motor to a linear motion, beating a skin with a massage plate containing a finger-pressure projection to give physical stimulus to the skin, and thus helping the relaxation of muscles and activating metabolism to maintain an elastic healthy skin. 
       RELATED ART 
       [0003]    In general, a skin, exposed to ultraviolet, gets thicker in horny substance, so that the skin loses its transparency, the metabolism of skin lowers and as well as fails to smoothly provide moisture and a nutriment. 
         [0004]    As a prohibiting means to an aging promotion of skin seniled caused by the above facts, a skin care through massage is eventually used. 
         [0005]    A skin care may be divided into two methods of one, in massage, applying a functional cosmetic on skin, and the other method giving physical stimulus to skin in a skin massage. 
         [0006]    Of the above methods, in preventing of an ageing promotion of skin by applying a functional cosmetic and thus maintaining moisture of the skin, a moisture preservation is one of none to the second factors in keeping an elastic skin, in which if the moisture maintaining function lowers, the skin has a wrinkle due to the crumbling and no elasticity, also stretchiness. 
         [0007]    Thus, by a functional cosmetic applied to skin, a nutriment is furnished, and as well as an applied moisture-keeping cream maintains a moisture thereof 
         [0008]    As described above, in a skin massage of applying a functional cosmetic on skin, mainly fingers are used, in which a massage is performed scrubbing the skin by fingers, any physical stimulus to the skin would not occur, thus only expected of a massage effect by functional cosmetics. 
         [0009]    Therefore, other than scrubbing a skin applied a functional cosmetic with fingers, by using a skin massage apparatus giving physical stimulus on the skin at a massage thus helping the relaxation of muscles and activating metabolism to serve an elastic, healthy skin, the effect can be doubled. 
         [0010]    Continuingly, an existing skin massage apparatus constructed to give physical stimulus to the skin may be chiefly divided into a manual type and an electromotive type. 
         [0011]    Of skin massage apparatuses divided as described above, an electromotive type skin massage apparatus that is up to date conveniently used and not laboring is widely used. 
         [0012]    The electromotive type skin massage apparatus is constructed to beat skin by a back/forth round trip translation of a massage device with a motor as motive power. 
         [0013]    As mentioned above, by beating the skin with a conventional massage device, an advanced massage effect is obtained over when a massage of finger rubbing is conducted to give stimulus up to a dermal layer and a hypodermal tissue composing skin, however, since a translation movement form advance to backing is performed by motive power of the motor in which a massage device of the massage apparatus is directly linked to a drive motor, in a case an overloading occurs due to the massage device overly attached to skin in a massage, the overload directly inflicts the drive motor, having a frequent fault of the motor, such a motor fault connects to a malfunction of the massage apparatus, becoming a factor of imbuing consumers with a negative recognition on products, thus making it difficult to ensure a market competition. 
       SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     Problem to be Solved 
       [0014]    The device has been made to solve disadvantages of a prior-art massage apparatus, an object of the device is to provide a skin massage apparatus in which a beating member of a massage apparatus delved to giving physical stimulus on the skin at a massage thus helping the relaxation of muscles and activating metabolism to serve an elastic, healthy skin when scrubbing a skin above applied with a massage cream in a massage is reformed to minimize an overload produced at a drive motor, thereby advantageously in effect addressing customer&#39;s disbelief, a problem caused by a fault of the drive motor, and ensuring reliability of a massage apparatus, thus promoting a massage apparatus use at home and thus solving a burden in taking care of skin searching an expertise beauty shop for accepting a massage and at the same time lessening economical burden accompanying with reducing a use time of expertise beauty shops, and also a skin care employing a break time is possible with no additional time investment, satisfying needs of the consumers. 
       Solution for the Problem 
       [0015]    To achieve the above object, the present device has been proposed with a skin massage device of scrubbing a skin applied with a massage cream, then giving physical stimulus on the skin at a massage thus helping the relaxation of muscles and activating metabolism to serve an elastic, healthy skin, [ 15 ] characterized in that an operation device  15  to reciprocally translate a beating member  21  back and forth is installed at a rotating shaft  14  of a drive motor  13  to which an electric energy of a battery  100  is selectively supplied/blocked according to change of on/off of a rotary switch  12 , comprised of the beating member  21  inflicting physical stimulus while interworking with the operation device  15 . 
       Effect of the Invention 
       [0016]    As described above, a skin massage apparatus of the present device has an expedient effect of reforming a beating member of a massage apparatus delved to giving physical stimulus on the skin at a massage thus helping the relaxation of muscles and activating metabolism to serve an elastic, healthy skin when scrubbing a skin above applied with a massage cream in a massage to minimize an overload produced at a drive motor, thereby addressing customer&#39;s disbelief, a problem caused by a fault of the drive motor, and ensuring reliability of a massage apparatus, thus promoting a massage apparatus use at home and thus solving a burden in taking care of skin searching an expertise beauty shop for accepting a massage and advantageously at the same time lessening economical burden accompanying with reducing a use time of expertise beauty shops, and also a skin care employing a break time is possible with no additional time investment, satisfying cravings of the consumers. 
     
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS 
         [0017]      FIG. 1  is a cross-section construction of one embodiment of a skin massage apparatus according to the present device; 
           [0018]      FIG. 2  is an exemplary diagram showing that in  FIG. 1  state, an operating device operates and thus a beating member acts; 
           [0019]      FIG. 3  is a cross-section construction of another embodiment of a skin massage apparatus according to the present device; 
           [0020]      FIG. 4  is an exemplary diagram showing that in  FIG. 3  state, an operating device operates and thus a beating member acts; 
           [0021]      FIG. 5  is a cross-section construction of still another embodiment of a skin massage apparatus according to the present device; 
           [0022]      FIG. 6  is an exemplary diagram showing that in  FIG. 5  state, an operating device operates and thus a beating member acts; 
           [0023]      FIG. 7  is a cross-section construction of still another embodiment of a skin massage apparatus according to the present device; 
           [0024]      FIG. 8  is an exemplary diagram showing that in  FIG. 7  state, an operating device operates and thus a beating member acts; 
           [0025]      FIG. 9  is a cross-section construction of still another embodiment of a skin massage apparatus according to the present device; and 
           [0026]      FIG. 10  is an exemplary diagram showing that in  FIG. 9  state, an operating device operates and thus a beating member acts. 
       
    
    
     &lt;DESCRIPTION OF THE ACCOMPANYING DRAWINGS&gt; 
       [0027]      10 : the first case  11 : the battery receiving part 
         [0028]      12 : a rotary switch  13 : the drive motor 
         [0029]      14 : the rotating shaft  15 : the operating device 
         [0030]      16 : the main power member  16   a:  a connection part 
         [0031]      16   b,    17   b  ; a circular plate cam  16   c,    17   c:  a slanted surface 
         [0032]      16   d:  a main power bevel gear  16   e:  the empowered bevel gear 
         [0033]      16   f:  a cam  16   g:  a spiral-type groove 
         [0034]      16   h:  a guide pipe  16   h′:  the vertical guide hole 
         [0035]      17 : the empowered member  17   a:  a connection pipe 
         [0036]      17   d:  a guide protrusion  20 : the second case 
         [0037]      21 : the beating member  21   a:  the head mounting circular plate 
         [0038]      22 : a beating head  22   a:  stimulus protrusions 
       DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
       [0039]    Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present device will be described in more detail with reference to the accompanied drawings to the specification. 
         [0040]    As illustrated in  FIGS. 1 and 10 , a skin massage apparatus of the device is composed of a connection of a first case  10  installed with a battery receiving part  11  receiving a battery  100  and an operation device  15  equipped with a drive motor  13  and operated by the drive motor  13 ; and a second case equipped with a beating member  21  interworking with the operation device  15 . 
         [0041]    The battery receiving part  11  of the first case  10  is installed with +, −ground plates  11   a,    11   b  grounded at +electrode and −electrode of the received battery  100  supplying electric energy of the battery  100  to the drive motor  13 , and a rotary switch  12  for selectively supplying electric energy of the battery  100  is installed. 
         [0042]    A drive motor  12  in which +,−ground terminals  13   a,    13   b  are grounded for the +,−ground plates  11   a,    11   b  is installed in the neighborhood. 
         [0043]    The opposite side of the battery receiving part  11  is installed with an operating device  15  operating by the drive motor  13 . 
         [0044]    The operating device  15  is comprised of a main power member  16  connected to the rotating shaft  14  of the drive motor  13  and an empowered member  17  interworking with the main power member  16 . 
         [0045]    The empowered member  17  is installed inside the second case  20  to receive a repulse elastic force of a spring  18 , and the empowered member  17  is installed with a beating member  21 . 
         [0046]    The main power member  16  is key assembled to the rotating shaft  14  of the drive motor  13  using a connection part  16   a  as a medium, made of a circular plate cam  16   b  formd with a slanted surface  16   c,  its one side low and the other side high, and the empowered member  17  has a slanted surface  17   c  corresponding to the circular plate cam  16   b  slanted surface of the main power member  16  and at the same time has a circular plate cam  17   b  contacting in plane facing each other, and a lower part of the circular plate cam  17   b  is formed with a connection pipe  17   a  connected of a connection pole  21   b  formed towards the upper part of a head mounting circular plate  21   a  of the beating member  21 . 
         [0047]    The connection pipe  17   a  of the circular plate cam  17   b  is a repulse spring  23  inflicting an elastic repulse force to outside for enabling a round-trip movement. 
         [0048]    The beating member  21  installed at the empowered member  17  of the operating device  15  placed inside the second case  20 , has a connection pole  21   b  inserted at installation to the connection pipe  17   a  of the empowered member  17 . and the head mounting circular plate  21  a formed to an end part of the connection pole  21   b  is assembled molded with a beating head  22  irregularly arranged of a multiple of stimulus protrusions  22   a.  [ 50 ] The beating head  22  is injection-molded by rubber material. 
         [0049]    A main power member  16  of another embodiment of the operating device  15  is comprised of a main power bevel gear  16   d  installed at the drive motor  13 , an empowered bevel gear  16   e  interworking engaged with the main power bevel gear  16   d,  and a cam  16   f  installed on the same axis for interworking with the empowered bevel gear  16   e,  and an empowered member  17  moving back/forth close to a cam  16   f  of the main power member  16  and formed with a connection pipe  17   a  engaged to the connection pole  21   b  of the beating member  21 . and installed to receive repulse of the repulsing spring  23  for restoring after advancement. 
         [0050]    A main power member  16  of still another embodiment of the operation device  15  is comprised of a main power bevel gear  164  installed at the drive motor  13 , an empowered bevel gear  16   e  interworking engaged to the main power bevel gear  16   d  and a cam  16   f  installed on the same axis for interworking the empowered bevel gear  16   e,  and made of a crank rod  18 , one end hinge-connected to the cam  16   f  of the main power member  16 , and the other end hinge-connected to a connection pole  21   b  of the beating member  21 . 
         [0051]    In an installment of a main power member  17  of still another embodiment of the operating device  15 , a connection part  16   a  is key assembled to the drive motor  13 , a spiral-type groove  16   g  guided for a guide protrusion  17   d  of the empowered member  17  is formed to an inner-rim surface, and a guide pipe  16   h  having a vertical guide hole  16 W is placed to the inner side to be fixed to the second case  20  so that the empowered member  17  round-trip moves back/forth without circulation. 
         [0052]    In the empowered member  17  interworking by the main power member  16 , the guide protrusion  17   d  passing through the vertical guide hole  16 W of the guide pipe  16   h,  and in which the end part is placed at the spiral-type groove  16   g  of the main power member  16  is formed to face an outer-rim surface, and a connection pipe  17   a  connecting to the connection pole  21   b  of the beating member  21  is formed. 
         [0053]      FIGS. 9 and 10  are another embodiment of the present device, possibly constructed that a connection pole  21   b  of the beating member  21  moves back/forth directly connected to a piston rod of a solenoid  19 . 
         [0054]    In a case of performing a massage on skin using a skin massage apparatus of the present device comprised of the above-described construction, first applying a massage cream on the part for a massage to moisturize the skin and then beating all around can create a doubled effect. 
         [0055]    When beating and massaging skin with a skin massage apparatus of the present device, the rotary switch  12  rotationally operates to place from off state to on state. 
         [0056]    As described above, when the rotary switch  12  transits from off state to on state, electric energy of a battery  100  mounted at the battery receiving part  11  is supplied to the drive motor  13 . 
         [0057]    As such, the drive motor  13  supplied with electric energy drives, and rotational power produced by the drive of the drive motor  13  is delivered to the main power member  16  of the operating device  15  connected to the rotating shaft  14  to interwork with the empowered member  17 , so that the main power member  16  interworks with the empowered member  17  and a beating member  21  installed at the empowered member  17  round-trip moves back/forth. 
         [0058]    As above, when the beating member reciprocally moves back/forth, the stimulus protrusion  22   a  of the beating head constructing the beating member fully inflicts physical stimulus to skin, capable of helping relaxation of muscles and activating metabolism and thus serving an elastic, healthy skin. 
         [0059]    In the following, an operation state of the operating device  15  allowing a massage of skin by reciprocally moving the beating member  21  will be described for each embodiment. 
         [0060]    Referring to the operating device  15  exemplified in  FIGS. 1 and 2 , when the rotary switch  12  described above converts from off to on state and the drive motor  13  rotationally operates by electric energy of the battery  100 , the slanted surface  16   c  of the main power member  16  contacting in surface over the slanted surface  17   c  of the empowered member  17  like  FIG. 1  continuously repeats a procedure placed like  FIG. 2 , and thus the beating member  21  installed at the empowered member  17  advances, and by repulsive power of the repulse spring  23  compressed by advance of the beating member  21 , the empowered member moves backward and thereby the beating member  21  everlastingly round-trip moves. 
         [0061]    As mentioned above, as the beating member  21  round-trip moves, a stimulus protrusion  22   a  of the beating head  22  constructing the beating member gives physical stimulus on skin, helping maintain a healthy skin recited at the upper part. 
         [0062]      FIGS. 3 and 4  are an embodiment of another operation device, when a rotary switch  12  converts from off to on state to rotationally operate the drive motor  13  by electric energy of the battery  100 , a main power bevel gear  16   d  constructing the main power member  16  inter-operates, the empowered bevel gear  16   e  engaged to the interworking main power bevel gear  16   d  as described above operates together. 
         [0063]    As explained above, when the empowered bevel gear  16   e  is interworking, the cam  16   f  installed on the same axis of the empowered bevel gear  16   e  operates together and thus the cam  16   f  stayed in a  FIG. 3  state positions as shown in  FIG. 4  to move the empowered member  17 . 
         [0064]    Described above, as the empowered member  17  moves, the beating member  21  installed at the connection pipe  17   a  using the connection pole  21   b  as a medium advances, and by means of repulse power of the repulse spring  23  compressed by the advance of the beating member  21 , the empowered member  17  moves back so that the beating member  21  continuously round-trip moves. 
         [0065]    Explained above, as the beating member  21  moves round-trip, a stimulus protrusion  22   a  of the beating head  22  constructing the beating member  21  gives physical stimulus to skin thereby to maintain a healthy skin as mentioned above. 
         [0066]      FIGS. 5 and 6  are other embodiments of an operating device, when a rotary switch  12  converts from off to on state to rotationally operate the drive motor  13  by electric energy of the battery  100 , a main power bevel gear  16   d  constructing the main power member  16  inter-operates, the empowered bevel gear  16   e  engaged to the interworking main power bevel gear  16   d  as described above operates together. 
         [0067]    As described above, when the empowered bevel gear  16   e  is interworking, the cam  16   f  installed on the same axis of the empowered bevel gear  16   e  operates together and thus the cam  16   f  stayed in a  FIG. 5  state positions as shown in  FIG. 6  to move a crank rod  18  corresponding to the empowered member. 
         [0068]    As such, one end of a crank rod  18  interworking by the cam  16   f  hinge-connects to the cam  16   f,  and the other end hinge-connects to the connection pole  21   b  of the beating member  21  so that the beating member  21  continuously round-trip moves. 
         [0069]    Explained above, as the beating member  21  moves round-trip, a stimulus protrusion  22   a  of the beating head  22  constructing the beating member  21  gives physical stimulus to skin thereby to maintain a healty skin as mentioned above. 
         [0070]      FIGS. 7 and 8  are other embodiments of an operating device, when a rotary switch  12  converts from off to on state to rotationally operate the drive motor  13  by electric energy of the battery  100 , a guide protrusion  17   d  of the empowered member  17  placed at the upper part of the spiral-type groove  16   g  of the main power member  16  like  FIG. 7  is positioned under the spiral-type groove  16   g  like  FIG. 8 , so that the beating member  21  installed with the connection pole  21   b  connected to the connection pipe  17   a  advances forward. 
         [0071]    At this time, moving forward of the empowered member  17  without rotation is because to a vertical guide hole  16 W of the guide pipe  16   h  fixed to the second case  20  is guide protrusion  17   d  guided. 
         [0072]    As such, in an advanced state, the drive motor  13  drives in a backward direction, so that the beating member  21  continuously round-trip moves. 
         [0073]    Explained above, as the beating member  21  moves round-trip, a stimulus protrusion  22   a  of the beating head  22  constructing the beating member  21  gives physical stimulus to skin thereby to maintain a healthy skin as mentioned above. 
         [0074]      FIGS. 9 and 10  are other embodiments of the present device, with intention that a back/forth round-trip movement of the beating member  21  is performed by the solenoid  19 , a connection pole  21   b  of the beating member  21  is directly related to the piston rod of the solenoid  19 . 
         [0075]    While the solenoid  19  connected to the beating member  21  round-trip moves back/forth by a piston rod stroke distance, the stimulus protrusion  22   a  of the beating head  22  imbues physical stimulus to skin thereby to maintain a healthy skin as mentioned above.