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WO2003003968A1 - Fauteuil massant presentant un dispositif de massage de perinee - Google Patents

Fauteuil massant presentant un dispositif de massage de perinee Download PDF

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WO2003003968A1
WO2003003968A1 PCT/KR2002/000054 KR0200054W WO03003968A1 WO 2003003968 A1 WO2003003968 A1 WO 2003003968A1 KR 0200054 W KR0200054 W KR 0200054W WO 03003968 A1 WO03003968 A1 WO 03003968A1
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Jun-Han Kim
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  • the present invention relates to a massage chair, and more particularly, to a massage chair capable of massaging a user's perineum.
  • U.S. 6,200,282 and U.S. 6,224,563 disclosed a massage chair by which a user can enjoy an automatic physiotherapy including kneading, acupressure, massaging and so on.
  • Such a physiotherapy which loosens up the tight and stiff muscles by using the kneading, the acupressure, the massage, and so on is one of widely used approaches to maintain the health body.
  • the perineum area between the scrotum and the anus for male, and the area between the pudendal cleftdl and the anus for female
  • the physiotherapy including the kneading, the acupressure, the massage, and so on there are obtained benefits of improving renal function, developing muscles in the lower part of the body, strengthening the waist by stimulating spinal nerves, relieving tension, achieving emotional stability, and healing sexual dysfunction.
  • the conventional massage chair has been designed to stimulate only the user's waist, back, waist, and leg portions, whereby it has a limit in providing other effects than loosening up stiff muscles in the portions. Accordingly, if a massage chair capable of stimulating the perineum is developed, renal function would be improved, muscles in the lower part of the body would be developed, the waist would be strengthened by stimulating spinal nerves, tension would be relieved, emotional stability would be attained, sexual dysfunction would be solved, and other diseases would be cured, thereby ensuring excellent benefits in preserving the user's health.
  • the present invention is directed to a massage chair that substantially obviates one or more problems due to limitations and disadvantages of the related art.
  • An object of the present invention is to provide a massage chair capable of preserving a user's sound body, i.e., improving renal function, developing muscles in the lower part of the body, strengthening the waist by virtue of stimulation of spinal nerves, relieving tension, achieving emotional stability, solving sexual dysfunction, and curing other illness, by stimulating the user's perineum. Additional advantages, objects, and features of the invention will be set fourth in part in the description which follows and in part will become apparent to those having ordinary skill in the art upon examination of the following or may be learned from practice of the invention.
  • a massage chair which includes a buttock support and a handle for raising and lowering a leg support, the massage chair comprising: massaging means being installed inside the buttock support to correspond to a user's perineum for massaging the user's perineum by being vibrated and rotated; and elevating means for exposing the perineum massaging means to the outside of the buttock support by raising and lowering the perineum massaging means.
  • the perineum massaging means includes: a support plate having a through hole and a support hole; a motor being fixed to a lower surface of the support plate in a state that a rotary shaft passes through the through hole of the support plate; a rotary disk allowing a ball bearing of a gradient more than a predetermined angle to be inserted into an outer periphery thereof, and being connected to the rotary shaft of the motor protruding from the through hole of the support plate to be rotated; a coil spring being coupled with the ball bearing of the rotary disk by a coupling pin; a massage head being coupled with other end of the coil spring on a central part of a lower end thereof to be interlockingly rotated according to rotation of the rotary disk; and a vibration motor being fixedly installed inside the massage head to generate a vibration.
  • the massage head takes a sfreamline shape having a narrow upper end part and a wide lower end part.
  • the elevating means includes: a spring hinge being coupled with the buttock support on a side thereof and coupled with one end of the support plate on other end thereof; and either of manual means being integral with a flange of a predetermined angle on a side thereof and having a lever, which passes through the support hole of the support plate and is fixed to a shaft of the handle, on other side thereof, and automatic means for raising and lowering the support plate by operating the motor with a remote controller.
  • a massage chair including a buttock support comprises: a quadrangular case being fixedly installed on the buttock support to correspond to a user' perineum, and having an upper surface opened; perineum massaging means being vertically movably installed inside the case for massaging the user's perineum by being vibrated and rotated; driving means for exposing the perineum massaging means to the outside of the buttock support by raising and lowering the perineum massaging means according to the user's operation; and elevating means being interlocked with the driving means to raise and lower the perineum massaging means.
  • the perineum massaging means includes: a support plate being ⁇ ⁇ -shaped and having a through hole on an upper surface part thereof; a motor being fixed to a lower surface of the support plate in a state that a rotary shaft passes through the through hole of the support plate; a rotary disk allowing a ball bearing of a gradient more than a predetermined angle to be inserted into an outer peripheral surface thereof, and being connected to the rotary shaft of the motor protruding from the through hole of the support plate to be rotated; a coil spring being coupled with the ball bearing of the rotary disk by a coupling pin; a massage head being coupled with other end of the coil spring on a central part of a lower end thereof to be interlockingly rotated according to rotation of the rotary disk; and a vibration motor being fixedly installed inside the massage head to generate a vibration.
  • the massage head takes a sfreamline shape having a narrow upper end part and a wide lower end part.
  • a guide hole having a bent portion is further formed on an upper end of one side surface of the case.
  • the elevating means includes: a bearing shaft being horizontally fixed to an upper end part and a lower end part of a side surface of the support plate, respectively, and allowing a bearing to be rotatably attached on both terminal ends thereof; a rail being formed on a position corresponding to both side surfaces of the support plate, and having a r -shape opened on a side thereof for the bearing of the bearing shaft to move up and down inside of both side surfaces of the case; and a plurality of coil springs being fixed to an inside of the case on one end thereof and being fixed to the support plate on other end thereof to provide an elastic repulsive force to the support plate.
  • the driving means includes: a handle taking a ⁇ -shape having a bent part and a horizontal part, and being rotatably fixed by a plurality of fixing means fixed to the buttock support for the bent portion to protrude on a side surface of the massage chair and for the horizontal part to be installed at a level with the buttock support; a first rotary lever being vertically fixed to a terminal end of the horizontal part of the handle; a second rotary lever being vertically fixed to a terminal end of the first rotary lever for raising and lowering the support plate by moving along the guide hole of the case according to rotation of the first rotary lever; a first bearing member being provided with a first handle through hole on a central part thereof, allowing a first ball holding hole of a predetermined depth to be formed on an outer periphery of one surface thereof, and being fixed to one of the fixing means by a bolt on other surface thereof while being coupled with the handle; a second bearing member being provided with a second handle through hole on a central part thereof,
  • another driving means includes: an elevating motor being installed on a side of the case; a speed reducer for reducing rotational speed of the elevating motor, and having an axis of rotation transverse to a direction in which the support member moves up and down; a disk-shaped elevating cam being coupled with the speed reducer to be eccentrically rotated about the axis of rotation of the speed reducer, and having an outer peripheral surface of a cam profile; and a cam contact part for raising and lowering the support plate according to eccentric rotation of the elevating cam by protruding from the support plate to contact with the cam profile surface.
  • still another driving means includes: a reciprocal motor being installed on a side of the case; an elevating screw being coupled with a rotary shaft of the reciprocal motor to be parallel to a direction in which the support plate moves up and down; and an elevating arm extending toward the elevating screw from the support plate for raising and lowering the support plate according to rotation of the elevating screw by perrmtting a female screw part formed on an extended end part to be coupled with the elevating screw.
  • an upper portion may be divided into a first head part and a second head part by a partition, the first head part being directed to a front side of the user's perineum and the second head part being directed to a rear side of the user's perineum.
  • a peltier semiconductor device which cools off or generates heat by a power supply may be installed in the partition so as for a cooling surface to be directed to the first head part and so as for a heating part to be directed to the second head part.
  • a back support may be installed to support the user's back
  • a heat producer may be additionally installed on an inside of either of the back support and the buttock support. In this case, a power is supplied to the heat producer to generate heat at a predetermined temperature.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a massage chair according to a first preferred embodiment of the present invention
  • FIG.2 is a sectional view of a perineum massage device of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 are side sectional views for explaining operation of the perineum massage device of FIG. 1 ;
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view illustrating essential parts of a massage chair according to a second preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG.6 is a front sectional view of a perineum massage device of FIG. 5;
  • FIG. 7 is a side sectional view illustrating a construction in which the perineum massage device of FIG. 5 automatically moves up and down;
  • FIG. 8 is a front sectional view of a perineum massage device of a massage chair according to a third preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 9 is a perspective view illustrating essential parts of a massage chair according to a fourth preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 10 is a side sectional view of a perineum massage device of FIG. 9;
  • FIG. 11 is a front sectional view of the perineum massage device of FIG.9;
  • FIG. 12 is a perspective view illustrating a state where a heat producer applied to the present invention is installed.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the massage chair according to the first preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is a sectional view of the perineum massage device of FIG. 1.
  • FIG. 3 and FIG. 4 are side sectional views for explaining operation of the perineum massage device of FIG. 1.
  • the massage chair 10 having the perineum massage device according to the first preferred embodiment of the present invention includes perineum massaging means 20 and elevating means 30.
  • the perineum massaging means 20 includes a support plate 21, a motor 22, a rotary disk 23, a coil spring 24, a massage head 25 and a vibration motor 26.
  • the support plate 21 is of a quadrangular plate shape, and has a through hole 29 and a support hole 28 thereon.
  • the motor 22 is fixed to a lower surface of the support plate 21 by a bolt or the likes in a state that a rotary shaft 36 passes through the through hole 29 of the support plate 21.
  • the rotary disk 23 allows a ball bearing 35 having a gradient more than a predetermined angle to be inserted into a predetermined portion of an outer periphery thereof, and is connected to the rotary shaft of the motor 22 protruding toward an upper surface through the through hole 29 from a lower surface of the support plate 21.
  • the ball bearing 35 as shown in FIG.2, has a gradient uprising from a central part side of the rotary disk 23 toward an outer peripheral side.
  • the coil spring 24 is coupled with the ball bearing 35 of the rotary disk 23 by a coupling pin 34.
  • the massage head 25 is coupled with other end of the coil spring 24 on a central part of a lower end thereof.
  • the massage head 25 takes a streamline shape having a narrow upper end part and a wide lower end part.
  • the vibration motor 26 is fixedly installed inside the massage head 25.
  • the elevating means 30 includes a spring hinge 31 and a lever 32.
  • the spring hinge 31 is coupled with a buttock support 1 on one side thereof, and coupled with an end of the support plate 21 on other side thereof.
  • the spring hinge 31 is rotatable in only one direction.
  • the lever 32 permits a flange 33 having a predetermined angle to extend on a side thereof, and vertically coupled with a shaft 5, which is vertically coupled with a handle 3, on other side thereof by passing through the support hole 28 of the support plate 21.
  • An unexplained reference numeral 7 of the handle designates a coil spring adapted to maintain a collapsibility of the shaft 5.
  • the perineum is an area where such vessels as conception vessels, governor vessels, and penetration vessels of the most important point in a human body originate. If being compared with a tree, the perineum is equivalent to a root.
  • the perineum may be an essential point capable of reviving an unconscious person or a drowning person.
  • the lever 32 connected to the shaft 5 of the handle 3 also moves up, such that a bearing capacity of the flange 33 of the lever 32 is released from the support plate 21, and the support plate 21 is upwardly rotated about the spring hinge 31 due to a restoring force of the spring hinge 31.
  • a protrusion hole 11 is formed on an outer coat of the buttock support 1 to allow the massage head 25 to protrude therethrough.
  • FIG. 5 is a perspective view illustrating essential parts of the massage chair according to the second preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a front sectional view of the perineum massage device of FIG. 5.
  • FIG. 6 is a side sectional view illustrating a construction in which the perineum massage device of FIG.
  • the massage chair 50 having the perineum massage device according to the second preferred embodiment of the present invention is almost similar in construction to the first preferred embodiment of the present invention, except driving means. Accordingly, explanation herein below would place a stress on the driving means 60, and explanation of other elements would be omitted.
  • the driving means 60 of the perineum massage device includes an elevating motor 62, a speed reducer 64 for reducing a rotational speed of the elevating motor 62, an elevating cam 66 being axially coupled with the speed reducer 64, and a cam contact part 73 being disposed on a side of a support plate which supports perineum massaging means 70 to be contacted with the elevating cam 66.
  • the driving means 60 automatically raises and lowers the perineum massaging means 70.
  • the elevating motor 62 is installed on a side of a case 74.
  • the elevating motor 62 may be separately controlled in operation.
  • the elevating motor 62 is operated by a remoter controller (not shown) which controls the motor and the vibration motor of the first preferred embodiment and a third preferred embodiment. This operation is possible by arranging an up-button (not shown) and a down-button (not shown) on the remote controller.
  • the speed reducer 64 is provided with a gear box 68 which is coupled with the case 74 and supports the elevating motor 62, and a plurality of reduction gears (not drawn) which are accommodated within the gear box 68.
  • the reduction gears are comprised of a main gear (not drawn) coupled with a rotary shaft (not shown) of the elevating motor 62, and a driven gear (not drawn) being engaged with the main gear and having relatively greater number of teeth than the main gear.
  • the rotational speed of the elevating motor 62 may be reduced by the driven gear.
  • the elevating cam 66 takes a disk shape having a circumferential surface of a cam profile.
  • An eccentric shaft 80 is formed on a predetermined portion of the circumferential part of the elevating cam 66 to be coupled with the center of the driven gear of the speed reducer 64.
  • a through hole 76 is formed on a side wall of the case 74 to couple the elevating cam 66 and the speed reducer 64.
  • the elevating cam 66 receives a rotational force of the elevating motor 62 whose speed is reduced by the speed reducer 64, and slowly conducts an eccentric rotation about the center of the driven gear.
  • the cam contact part 73 protrudes on a side part of the support plate 72 to have a predetermined length in the fore-and-aft direction. The length of the cam contact part
  • 73 is determined so as not to exceed a range of radius of gyration of the elevating cam 66.
  • the cam contact part 73 may be integral with the support plate 72, or be coupled with the support plate 72 after being separately manufactured.
  • the cam contact part 73 of the support plate 72 moves up by being contacted with the cam profile surface of the elevating cam 66, and a bearing 82 also moves up along a rail 84. At this time, an ascending force of the support plate 72 is generated by an elastic repulsive force of a coil spring 86.
  • a massage head 90 and the motor fixed to the support plate 72 move up, and protrude to the outside of the buttock support 1 of the massage chair 50.
  • the user's perineum is massaged by virtue of the vibration and the rotation of the massage head 90.
  • the user shuts off the power supply to the motor and the vibration motor to stop massaging in his/her perineum, and operates the down-button of the remote controller to drive the elevating motor 62, the rotational force of the elevating motor 62 is diminished in speed by the speed reducer 64 and the elevating cam 66 is downwardly and eccentrically rotated.
  • the cam contact part 73 of the support plate 72 moves down by being contacted with the cam profile surface of the elevating cam 66 which is eccentrically rotated, and the bearing 82 also moves down along the rail 84.
  • the massage head 90 and the motor fixed to the support plate 72 move down to the inside of the buttock support 1. Therefore, the user can massage the whole body through the massage chair 50, and simultaneously massage the perineum in a simple manner by automatically raising and lowering the vibrated and rotated massage head 90.
  • FIG. 8 is a front sectional view of the perineum massage device of the massage chair according to the third preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • the massage chair having the perineum massage device according to the third preferred embodiment is almost similar in construction to the second preferred embodiment, except driving means.
  • the driving means 150 of the perineum massage device according to the third preferred embodiment includes a reciprocal motor 152 being installed on a side of a case 170, an elevating screw 156 being coupled with a rotary shaft of the reciprocal motor 152, and an elevating arm 157 whose both ends are coupled with a support plate 180 and the elevating screw 156.
  • the third preferred embodiment doesn't employ a coil spring for raising the support plate 180 due to an elastic repulsive force.
  • the reciprocal motor 152 is coupled on a lower part of the side of the case 170 so as for the rotary shaft to be parallel to a direction in which the support plate 180 moves up and down, such that the reciprocal motor 152 is reciprocally rotated.
  • the reciprocal motor 152 may be separately controlled.
  • the reciprocal motor 152 is operated by using the remote controller which controls the motor and the vibration motor in the second preferred embodiment.
  • the reciprocal motor 152 may be rotated in clockwise and counterclockwise by arranging an up-button and a down-button on the remote controller.
  • the elevating screw 156 is coupled with the rotary shaft of the reciprocal motor
  • the elevating screw 156 is installed on a side of the case 170 in a rising position so as to be parallel to the direction in which the support 180 moves up and down.
  • a male screw part 163 is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the elevating screw 156 in a vertical direction.
  • the elevating arm 157 extends toward the elevating screw 156 from the support plate 180.
  • a female screw part 165 is formed on an extended end part of the elevating arm 157 to correspond to the male screw part 163 of the elevating screw 156. Because of that, the female screw part 165 moves up and down along the male screw part 163 of the elevating screw 156 according to a rotational direction of the reciprocal motor 152, whereby the elevating arm 157 raises and lowers the support plate 180.
  • the elevating arm 157 may be integrally formed with the support plate 180 or be coupled with the support plate 180 after being manufactured as a separate component.
  • the reciprocating motor 152 is selectively installed on an upper part or a lower part of the case 170 according to conditions of the driving means 150 installed.
  • the elevating screw 156 is upwardly rotated according to the clockwise rotation of the reciprocal motor 152.
  • the user's perineum is automatically massaged by virtue of the vibration and the rotation of the massage head 185.
  • the elevating screw 156 is downwardly rotated according to the counterclockwise rotation of the reciprocal motor 152.
  • the female screw part 165 of the elevating arm 157 moves down along the male screw part 163 of the rotating elevating screw 156, thereby lowering the support plate 180 coupled with the elevating arm 157.
  • the massage head 185 and the motor fixed to the support plate 180 move down to the inside of the buttock support 1.
  • the user can enjoy a body massage through the massage chair, and also get a perineum massage in a simple manner by automatically raising and lowering the vibrated and rotated massage head 185.
  • FIG. 9 is a perspective view illustrating essential parts of the massage chair according to the fourth preferred embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 10 is a side sectional view of the perineum massage device of FIG. 9.
  • FIG. 11 is a front sectional view of the perineum massage device of FIG.9.
  • the massage chair 500 having the perineum massage device according to the fourth preferred embodiment of the present invention includes a case 600, perineum massaging means 700, driving means 800, and elevating means 900.
  • the case 600 has an open upper surface and a hollow quadrangular inside, and is fixedly installed on the buttock support 1 to correspond to the user's perineum.
  • a guide hole 610 having a bent portion is additionally formed on an upper end of a side surface of the case 600.
  • the perineum massaging means 700 includes a support plate 710, a motor 720, a rotary disk 730, a coil spring 740, a massage head 750, and a vibration motor 760.
  • the support plat 710 is ⁇ -shaped and provided with a through hole 711 on an upper surface part thereof.
  • the motor 720 is fixed to a lower surface of the support plate 710 by a bolt or the likes in a state that a rotary shaft 721 passes through the through hole 711 of the support plate 710.
  • the rotary disk 730 allows a ball bearing 731 having a gradient more than a predetermined angle to be inserted into a predetermined portion of an outer periphery thereof, and is connected to the rotary shaft 721 of the motor 720, wherein the rotary shaft 721 protrudes to an upper surface through the through hole 711 from a lower surface of the support plate 710.
  • the ball bearing 731 as drawn in FIG. 6, has a slop rising to the outer periphery from a central part of the rotary disk 730.
  • the coil spring 740 is coupled with the ball bearing 731 of the rotary disk 730 by a coupling pin 741.
  • the massage head 750 is coupled with other end of the coil spring on a central part of a lower end thereof.
  • the massage head 750 takes a stteamline shape having a narrow upper end part and a wide lower end part.
  • the vibration motor 760 is fixedly installed inside the massage head 750.
  • the driving means 800 includes a handle 810, a first rotary lever 820, a second rotary lever 830, a first bearing member 840, a second bearing member 850, a ball 860, and a pressure spring 870.
  • the handle 810 is of a ⁇ -shape having a bent part 811 and a horizontal part 813.
  • the bent part 811 protrudes to a side surface of the massage chair 500.
  • the horizontal part 813 is rotatably fixed by two fixing means 815 fixed to the buttock support 1 so as to be installed at a level with the buttock support 1.
  • the first rotary lever 820 is vertically fixed to a terminal end of the horizontal part 813 of the handle 810.
  • the second rotary lever 830 is vertically fixed to a terminal end of the first rotary lever 820, and raises and lowers the support plate 710 by moving along the guide hole 610 of the case 600 according to rotation of the first rotary lever 820.
  • the first bearing member 840 is provided with a first handle through hole 841 on a central part thereof, allows a first ball holding hole 843 having a predetermined depth of more than approximately 5mm to be formed on an outer periphery of one surface thereof, and is fixed to the fixing means 815, which is located on a left side in the drawing, on other surface thereof while being coupled with the handle 810.
  • the second bearing member 850 is provided with a second handle through hole
  • the ball 860 is inserted between the first bearing member 840 and the second bearing member 850.
  • the pressure spring 870 is inserted into an outside of the horizontal part 813 of the handle 810 and fixed by the pin 855 to apply a pressure to the second bearing member 850.
  • the elevating means 900 includes a bearing shaft 910, a rail 920, and a coil spring 930.
  • the bearing shaft 910 is horizontally fixed to an upper end part and a lower end part of a side surface of the support plate 710, and permits a bearing 911 to be rotatably attached on both terminal ends thereof.
  • a buffer member 913 materialized of rubber is preferably formed on an outer periphery of the bearing 911.
  • the rails 920 correspond to both side surfaces of the support plate 710, and have a c -shape whose one side is opened, so that the bearing 911 of the bearing shaft 910 can move up and down inside both side surfaces of the case 600.
  • the coil spring 930 is fixed to an inside of the case 600 on an end thereof and fixed to the support plate 710 on other end thereof to provide an elastic repulsive force to the support plate 710.
  • a fastening pin 931 is installed on the support plate 710 and an inside of the case 600 to fasten the coil spring 930.
  • the second bearing member 850 coupled with the handle 810 by the pin 855 is turned along with the handle 810.
  • the second bearing member 850 is rotated due to a pressure of the pressure spring applied to the second bearing member 850. This is because the first ball holding hole 843 of the first bearing member 840 has a depth deeper than the second ball holding hole 853, and thus the ball is held in the first ball holding hole 843.
  • the second bearing member 850 is not rotated by the pressure of the pressure spring 870 but fixed.
  • the first rotary lever 820 and the second rotary lever 830 connected to the handle 810 are rotated along the guide hole 610 of the case 600 according to rotation of the handle 810.
  • the support plate 710 moves up due to the elastic repulsive force of the coil spring 930, and the bearing shaft 910 also moves up along the rail 920.
  • the massage head 750 and the motor 720 fixed to the support plate 710 move up, thereby resulting in protrusion to the outside of the buttock support 1 of the massage chair 500.
  • the remote controller (not shown) to apply a power to the motor 720 and the vibration motor 760
  • the motor 720 is rotated and accordingly the rotary disk 730 is rotated, whereby the massage head 750 is eccentrically rotated and simultaneously the vibration motor 760 generates a vibration.
  • the user's perineum is massaged by virtue of the vibration and the rotation of the massage head 750.
  • the second rotary lever 830 is rotated in the opposite direction to that in the aforesaid case.
  • the second rotary lever 830 presses the support plate 710 while overcoming the elastic repulsive force of the coil spring 930. Consequently, the elastic repulsive force of the coil spring 930 is overcome by the pressing force of the second rotary lever 830, such that finally the support plate 710 moves down, in other words, the bearing shaft 910 moves down along the rail 920 and thereby the support plate 710 moves down.
  • the massage head 750 and the motor 720 fixed to the support plate 710 move down inside the buttock support 1 of the massage chair 500, and the handle 810 maintains its position last operated by the user by means of the second bearing member 850.
  • the user can enjoy a body massage through the massage chair and simultaneously get a massage in his/her perineum in a simple manner by using the vibrated and rotated massage head.
  • FIG. 12 is a perspective view illustrating a state where a heat producer applied to the present invention is installed.
  • the massage chair 10, 50, or 500 according to the present invention may be provided with the heat producer 130 inside a back support, which supports the user's back portion, and the buttock support 120, which supports the user's buttock and thigh portions, to exhibit a poulticing effect by generating heat at a predetermined temperature by a power supply.
  • the heat producer 130 is manufactured to have a soft plate shape arranged inside the back support 110 and the buttock support 120, and generates heat due to the power supply at the predetermined temperature.
  • the heat producer 130 is preferably manufactured by using a graphite carbon fiber, and preferably uses a low voltage DC power as a power requirement. This is because it prevents an electromagnetic wave which would be generated when a general AC power is used, and it maximizes the poulticing effect by producing a far-infrared ray and a magnetic field. As a result, the user can enjoy the poulticing effect on the whole body including the perineum by installing the heat producer in the massage chair.
  • the massage head may be manufactured to let an upper part having partially spherical first and second head parts, in contrast to the massage heads of the first preferred embodiment through the third preferred embodiment.
  • the first head part comes into contact with the front scrotum portion of the user's perineum, and the second head part comes into contact with the rear anal portion of the user's perineum, so that the scrotum portion and the anal portion can be massaged.
  • a partition may be formed in an inside of the massage head to divide the upper part into the first head part and the second head part, and a peltier semiconductor device may be employed in the partition for cooling and heating purposes by a power supply.
  • a cooling surface of the peltier semiconductor device is directed to the first head part and a heating surface of the peltier semiconductor device is directed to the second head par Both surfaces of the peltier semiconductor device are connected to a heating plate having a superior heat conductivity.
  • the first head part stimulates and massages the user's scrotum portion, and simultaneously transfers a cool air to the scrotum portion so as to improve the user's renal function and sexual function.
  • the second head part stimulates and massages the user's anal portion and simultaneously transfers a warm air to the anal portion so as to help healing the user's anal disease including hemorrhoid.
  • a massage chair having a perineum massage device has advantages of improving renal function, promoting a production speed of sex hormones, developing muscles in a lower part of the body, strengthening the waist by stimulation of spinal nerves, relieving tension, achieving emotional stability, and curing other diseases related to sexual dysfunction.

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La présente invention concerne un fauteuil massant présentant un dispositif de massage de périnée. Le fauteuil massant comprend une assise, un système de massage du périnée mis en place à l'intérieur de l'assise pour correspondre au périnée de l'utilisateur et destiné à masser le périnée de l'utilisateur en étant mis en vibration et en rotation, et un système d'élévation destiné à exposer le système de massage du périnée à l'extérieur de l'assise en montant ou en abaissant le système de massage de périnée manuellement ou automatiquement selon l'utilisation qu'en fait l'utilisateur. L'invention présente l'avantage d'améliorer le fonctionnement rénal, d'améliorer la vitesse de production des hormones sexuelles, de développer les muscles de la partie inférieure du corps, de renforcer la taille de l'utilisateur grâce à la stimulation des nerfs rachidiens, d'apaiser les tensions, d'établir une stabilité émotionnelle, et de traiter d'autres troubles liés à des dysfonctionnements sexuels, grâce à l'installation du dispositif de massage de périnée sur la chaise massante pour permettre le massage du périnée de l'utilisateur.
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