Patent ID: 7189211

Claim:
A massaging apparatus comprising: a first massaging mechanism that gives a mechanical impulse to a body of a user to be massaged, including a kneading motor and a tapping motor; a second massaging mechanism that gives vibration to the user body including a vibration motor; and a control device for controlling operations of the motors, wherein the first massaging mechanism has a massaging element connected to the kneading and tapping motors via a mechanism, the massaging element including a pair of arms and kneading heads attached on tip ends of the arms; the first massaging mechanism is configured to cause the massaging element to perform a kneading operation by moving the pair of arms close to and away from each other or a tapping operation to reciprocate the massaging element with respect to the user, the kneading operation and the tapping operation performed by the massaging element are operated by the control device at a frequency lower than a frequency of a vibration operation of the second massaging mechanism; and the control device includes a waveform converter having a smoothing circuit and is configured to cause the waveform converter to convert an audio signal input from a sound source into a control signal for controlling the operations of the motors and control the operations of the motors using the control signal output from the waveform converter.