The present invention relates to health massage apparatus and, more particularly to a head massager having a massage function for head.
A head massager is used for carrying out a massage on the head of a user, and generally includes a helmet and a massage device. The helmet is worn on the head of the user, and the massage device is disposed on the helmet and is used for achieving a massage on the head of the user. For fit on the heads of the users with various sizes of head circumferences, the helmet generally has a first helmet body and a second helmet body which are movable with respect to each other. Two joints of the first helmet body and the second helmet body are respectively provided with an adjustment device. The adjustment device usually utilizes a gear rack mechanism to drive the first helmet body and the second helmet body to move relative to one another. However, this structure has the following shortages: requiring two adjustment devices, and relatively smaller adjustable range since the two adjustment devices form mutual constraint during adjusting operation.
A problem to be solved in accordance with the present invention, for overcoming shortages in the art, is to provide a head massager, which has a compact structure and is easy to adjust in a relatively larger adjustable range.
A technical solution in accordance with the present invention is adopted for resolving the problem is that: a head massager comprises a helmet, a massage device disposed on the helmet and an adjustment device. The helmet has a front shell and a rear shell which is movable relating to the front shell. The rear shell has a shell cavity. Two ends of the front shell are plug-connected with two ends of the rear shell. The adjustment device includes a positive rotatable knob, a fixing pole, a winding. ring, two bundles of pulling ropes and a reverse locking device for preventing the knob from rotating reversely. The fixing pole is fixed on the rear shell. Both the knob and the winding ring are loosely sleeved on the fixing pole through through holes. The knob is provided with a loop of first bulged teeth around its through hole, and the winding ring is provided with a loop of second bulged teeth around its through hole correspondingly. The first bulged teeth and the second bulged teeth have a mating status and a separated status. One end of each bundle of pulling rope is connected to one end of the front shell and the other end of each bundle of pulling rope is connected to the winding ring, so that both the two bundles of pulling ropes pull the front shell while the first bulged teeth engages with the second bulged teeth and the knob rotates along a positive direction.
Preferably, the knob is provided with a mounting pole, and the adjustment device further includes a snap spring which is mounted on the mounting pole. The snap spring has two resilient fastening arms which clamp the fixing pole. The fixing pole includes a head portion with a larger exterior diameter and a stem portion with a smaller exterior diameter. A neck portion is formed at a joint of the head portion and the stem portion. The two fastening arms of the snap spring clamp the neck portion. The stem portion is fixed to the rear shell, and the knob and the winding ring are loosely sleeved on the stem portion.
Preferably, the rear shell includes an inner shell and an exterior shell secured together. A shell cavity is defined between the inner shell and the exterior shell. Both ends of the front shell are respectively provided with a slide plate which is inserted into the shell cavity. The pulling rope is connected to the slide plate. The adjustment device further includes a nut. The stem portion is provided with a threaded section. The nut is fixed to the inner shell. The threaded section of the stem portion is threaded to the nut.
Preferably, the rear shell has an aperture communicating with the shell cavity. The fixing pole and the winding ring are installed into the shell cavity via the aperture. The knob is at least partially disposed outside the shell cavity. The reverse locking device includes at least one locking bar disposed on the knob and a loop of locking teeth disposed on the rear shell around the aperture. The locking bar engages with the locking teeth. The knob defines at least two anti-collision holes surrounding the through hole thereof. Wall which defines each anti-collision hole is provided with one locking bar extending therefrom in a cantilever form.
Preferably, at least one of the front shell and the rear shell is provided with a flexible liner fixed to an internal side thereof. An air bag which includes a first air bag and two second air bags is provided within the liner. The first air bag defines two fastening holes, and the two second air bags are disposed on an internal side of the first air bag. Gas nozzles of the two second air bags are fastened to rims of the two fastening holes by exterior edges thereof, respectively. The first air bag includes a gas intaking portion and mounting portions all separated from the intaking portions through separate tapes. The fastening holes are defined in the mounting portions.
A helmet of a head massager includes a front shell, a rear shell which is movable relating to the front shell, and an adjustment device. The rear shell has a shell cavity. Two ends of the front shell are plug-connected with two ends of the rear shell. The adjustment device includes a positive rotatable knob, a fixing pole, a winding ring, two bundles of pulling ropes and a reverse locking device for preventing the knob from rotating reversely. The fixing pole is fixed on the rear shell. Both the knob and the winding ring are loosely sleeved on the fixing pole through through holes. The knob is provided with a loop of first bulged teeth around its through hole, and the winding ring is provided with a loop of second bulged teeth around its through hole correspondingly. The first bulged teeth engage with the second bulged teeth. One end of each bundle of pulling rope is connected to one end of the front shell and the other end of each bundle of pulling rope is connected to the winding ring, so that both the two bundles of pulling ropes pull the front shell while the knob rotates along a positive direction.
Advantageous effects of the present invention is: 1) while rotating the knob, the knob leads the winding ring to rotate and the pulling ropes are retracted accordingly, and thereby the entire front shell is pulled toward the rear shell. This carries out adjustment of space of the head circumference. This structure is compact and is easy to adjust in a larger adjustable range; 2) a position indication is provided by the snap spring while the knob is pulled up and pressed down along the fixing pole; 3) massage effect on the head will be enhanced by the engaged first and second air bags.
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The front shell 11 is in an arc form and is provided with slide plates 111 at both ends thereof. The rear shell 12 has an inner shell 121 and an exterior shell 122 both secured together. A relative closed shell cavity 123 is defined between the inner shell 121 and the exterior shell 122. Both the left and right ends of the shell cavity 123 define two insertion openings 124 respectively corresponding to the two slide plates 111. The two slide plates 111 are inserted into the shell cavity 123 of the rear shell 12 via the two insertion openings 124, separately. Preferably, stop portions are disposed at the two insertion openings 124 of the rear shell 12, for preventing the slide plates 111 from sliding away from the shell cavity. The front shell may be somewhat elastical and is easily adjusted. Certainly, the two slide plates could, alternatively, be disposed at the left and right ends of the rear shell, the front shell has a shell cavity and the two slide plates of the rear shell are inserted into the shell cavity of the front shell, separately.
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The fixing pole 22 includes a head portion 221 with a relatively larger exterior diameter and a stem portion 222 with a relatively smaller exterior diameter. A neck portion 223 is formed at a joint of the head portion 221 and the stem portion 222. The head portion 221 defines at least two (e.g., two) discharging holes 224 and a bottom of the stem portion 222 has a threaded portion 225. The snap spring 23 includes an arc-shaped connection arm 231 and two fastening arms 232 extending from two ends of the connection arm 231. The two fastening arms 232 inwardly extend in a direction facing towards the connection arm 231 in parallel. Preferably, in a free status, a distance between the two fastening arms 232 is somewhat less than an exterior diameter of the stem portion 222, so that the fixing pole 22 can be elastically fastened through the fastening arms 232. The snap spring 23 may be formed by bending a metal block as a whole. An exterior diameter of the head portion 221 of the fixing pole 22 is preferably larger than a diameter of the first through hole 211, thereby preventing the knob 21 from being pull away from the fixing pole 22 when pulling the knob 21 outwardly (e.g., a direction facing away from the user's head, shown as an arrow in
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The adjustment device 2 further includes a nut 25 which is disposed inside the shell cavity 123 of the rear shell 12 and is molded and fixed onto the inner shell 121 of the rear shell 12. The adjustment device further includes a knob cover 26 which engages with the knob 21 through a snap portion 261. This makes the entire adjustment device beautiful in appearance and easy to disassemble. The knob 21 may substantially appear to be a structure with an increasing exterior diameter from interior to exterior so as to facilitate pulling away the knob by the user.
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When assembling, the snap spring 23 is mounted on the two mounting poles 212 of the knob 21, and the barbs 213 of the mounting poles 212 are used for preventing the snap spring 23 from being pulling out. The knob 21 and the winding ring 24 are sleeved on the stem portion 222 of the fixing pole 22 via the first and second through holes 211, 244, respectively. The two fastening arms 232 of the snap spring 23 clamp the neck portion 223 of the fixing pole 22. Through the threaded portion 225, the bottom of the stem portion 222 is threaded to the nut 25 fixed on the inner shell 121, achieving fixation of the fixing pole 22 and the rear shell 12. Both the knob 21 and the winding ring 24 are loosely sleeved on the fixing pole 22 so that they can rotate along the fixing pole 22 and the knob 21 can also transfer along the fixing pole 22 inwardly and outwardly or up and down.
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For achieving a gas pressure massage through the air bags, the first air bag 41 produces a certain massage action for the temple when being inflated. When inflating the two second air bags 42, their inflating actions directly knead the temples, thereby forming double massage actions for the temples and increasing massage effect. Further, since the gas intaking portion and the mounting portions are separated from each other, mounting areas for mounting the second air bags are effectively enlarged to further improve the pressure massage effect.
The front and rear shells both are configured in a longitude direction on the head and the adjustment device is used for adjusting size of the head circumference space in a longitude direction. Certainly, when the front and rear shells both are configured in a latitude direction on the head and the adjustment device is used for adjusting size of the head circumference space in a latitude direction. When the helmet has both the longitude and latitude shells and two adjustment devices are used for adjusting size of the head circumference space in the longitude and latitude directions. The massage device includes air bags which are provided with gas by a gas source, thereby achieving a gas pressure massage on the user's head (e.g., acupoints on the head) by controlling inflation and deflation of the air bags. Certainly, the massage device may alternatively utilize a hot pressing massage device, a vibration massage device (bias vibration through a vibration motor), a magnetic massage device and so on, or a combination of two or more massage devices which are applied in an exiting head massager or eye massager. The adjustment device may be disposed on the rear shell so as to pull the front shell. The adjustment device may alternatively be disposed on the front shell so as to pull the rear shell. Certainly, the head massager may also act as an eye massager for achieving a massage for eyes.
When not pulling out the knob, the snap spring snaps to the neck portion of the fixing pole. When pulling the knob outwardly, the snap spring is pulled outwardly along with the knob so that the snap spring is departed from the neck portion and snaps to the head portion of the fixing pole and there comes a “bang” sound which has an indication function for remindering the user of its motion in position, as well as improving feeling of operation. Conversely, a sound indication also occurs when the knob is pressed down again after being pulled out.
Since the knob is mating with the winding ring through the first and second bulged teeth, the air bags will generate a large pressure during inflating when the massage device uses the air bags, for preventing the knob rotates reversely, a reverse locking device is provided for producing a restriction of the reverse rotation. In the reverse locking device, for example the locking bars on the knob and the locking teeth on the rear shell as described above, all the locking bars are mating with the locking teeth in turn in a position direction while rotating the knob in the position direction. The position direction could be, e.g., a clockwise direction or a counterclockwise direction.
Through at least two discharging holes defined in the fixing pole, the fixing pole may be removed from the rear shell only by a specific tool, thereby preventing the user from unduly removing.
The head massager may further include a control casing arranged to be apart from the helmet for controlling the massage device through the control casing. Two bundles of pulling ropes, as a length adjustment device, may be connected to an identical winding ring. Alternatively, two bundles of pulling ropes could be connected to two winding rings which rotate synchronously, respectively. In this way, the two winding rings may be sleeved on an identical fixing pole.
The above-mentioned is only to further explain the present invention in detail with reference to preferred embodiments, but places no limit to the invention. Any ordinary skilled in the art can carry out various modifications, equivalent replacements etc without departing from the spirit and principle of the present invention, and these modifications, equivalent replacements etc shall be within the protective scope of the present invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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200810216849.7 | Oct 2008 | CN | national |
Number | Date | Country | |
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Parent | PCT/CN2008/073251 | Nov 2008 | US |
Child | 13007925 | US |