Patent Application
20220233398
This application is based upon and claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202120234243.7, filed with the Chinese Patent Office on Jan. 27, 2021, titled “MASSAGE DEVICE”, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
Embodiments of the present application relate to the technical field of massage equipment, and in particular, to a massage device.
A massage device is a health product developed based on the principles of traditional meridian massage and modern medical massage. Currently, common massage devices on the market include massage pillows and massage cushions. Generally, a massage device includes a base, a massage head, and a driving module. The driving module is configured to drive the massage head to rotate so as to provide users with massage or percussion experience.
In addition, some massage devices further include a heating module, which is configured to heat the massage head, so as to increase user comfort and avoid poor user experience due to a low temperature of the massage head in a low temperature environment.
An embodiment of the present application provides a massage device, including:
a base;
a driving module, which is mounted on the base;
a massage head, which is connected to the driving module so as to be driven by the driving module to rotate relative to the base, where a side of the massage head away from the base is provided with a massage protrusion, and a first cavity is formed on a side of the massage head facing the base;
an enclosure, which is arranged on the base and located between the base and the massage head, where an end of the enclosure away from the base is arranged close to an end of the massage head close to the base, a second cavity in communication with the first cavity is formed in the enclosure, and the second cavity and the first cavity jointly form a heating chamber; and
a heating module, which is accommodated in the heating chamber and fixed relative to the base, and is configured to provide thermotherapy from the massage device.
One or more embodiments are illustrated using corresponding accompanying drawings, and the illustration does not constitute a limitation on the embodiments. Elements having a same reference numeral in the accompanying drawings indicate similar elements, and unless otherwise stated, a figure in the accompanying drawings does not constitute a scale limitation.
In the drawings:
For ease of understanding of the present application, the following describes the present application in more detail with reference to accompanying drawings and specific embodiments. It should be noted that, when an element is expressed as being “fixed to”/“fixedly connected to”/“mounted to” another element, the element may be directly located on the another element, or there may be one or more intermediate elements in between; and when an element is expressed as being “connected to” another element, the element may be directly connected to the another element, or there may be one or more intermediate elements in between. The terms “vertical”, “horizontal”, “left”, “right”, “inner”, “outer”, and similar expressions used in this specification are merely intended for illustrative purposes.
Unless otherwise defined, all the technical and scientific terms used in this specification have the same meanings as those commonly understood by persons skilled in the art of the present application. The terms used in the specification of the present application are merely for the purpose of describing specific embodiments, and are not intended to limit the present application. The term “and/or” used in this specification includes any or all combinations of one or more associated listed items.
In addition, technical features included in different embodiments of the present application described below may be combined with each other provided that they do not conflict with each other.
In this specification, the “mounting” includes welding, screwing, clamping, bonding, etc. to fix or restrict a specific element or device to a specific position or place; the element or device may remain still in a specific position or place, or may move within a limited range; and the element or device can or cannot be detached after being fixed or restricted to the specific position or place, which is not limited in the embodiments of the present application.
In the related art, a heating module is mounted on an inner surface of the massage head and includes a brush with two contacts. Correspondingly, a ring-shaped conductive plate electrically connected to a control circuit board is mounted on the base, the ring-shaped conductive plate is provided with two coaxially arranged ring-shaped conductive copper rings, and the two contacts of the brush are respectively electrically connected to one of the conductive copper rings, so as to implement electrical connection between the heating module and the control circuit board mounted on the base.
In the process of implementing the present application, the inventor of the present application discovered that during the rotation of the brush with the massage head, the brush is likely to be in poor contact with the conductive copper rings. Consequently, the heating module cannot work continuously and stably.
For the base 100, references are made to
For the massage head 300, references are made to
For the enclosure 400, references are made to
For the heating module 500, references are made to
Further, when a user is being massaged, to enable a part of the heat generated by the heating module 500 to rush to the user's body part through the massage head 300 to achieve a better thermotherapy effect, the massage head 300 is provided with a number of heat-permeable holes 302. The heat-permeable hole 302 is arranged through the massage head 300 to communicate the first cavity 301 with an external environment of the massage head 300. As such, when the heating module 500 generates heat, the heat escapes to the outside of the massage device 1 through the heat-permeable hole 302 and flows to the user, thereby enhancing the thermotherapy effect.
Finally, the driving module 200 is described. Referring to
Specifically, the driving shaft 210 is rotatably mounted on the base 100; a part of the driving shaft 210 is accommodated in the accommodating cavity 101; and a part of the driving shaft 210 extends out of the base 100, then passes through the bottom plate 410 of the enclosure 400, and extends into the second cavity 401. The massage head 300 is fixed to the part of the driving shaft 210 extending into the second cavity 401, so as to be rotatably mounted on the base 100. In this embodiment, a middle position of the massage head 300 extends toward the base 100 to form a mounting portion 330; and the mounting portion 330 has a cylindrical shape, at least partially extends into the second cavity 401, and is connected to the driving shaft 210. Optionally, the mounting portion 330 is detachably connected to the driving shaft 210 through threading, interference fitting, etc.
The power assembly 220 is separately connected to the two driving shafts 210 described above. In this embodiment, the power assembly 220 includes a driving motor (not shown in the figure) and two transmission modules (not shown in the figure). The driving motor is separately connected to the two transmission modules, and a transmission module is correspondingly connected to a driving shaft 210, so that the massage device 1 can drive, through the driving motor, the driving shaft 210 to rotate, and then drive the corresponding massage head 300 to rotate. Optionally, rotation directions of the two driving shafts 210 are opposite, so that the two massage heads 300 can squeeze a user's muscles toward each other during operation, so as to achieve a better massage effect. Optionally, the transmission module includes a gear group. It can be understood that in other embodiments, the transmission module may alternatively be another mechanism capable of implementing rotational output. For example, in some other embodiments of the present application, the transmission module may further include a synchronous belt mechanism, or may include both a gear group and a synchronous belt mechanism.
It should be further understood that in other embodiments of the present application, the driving module 200 may alternatively have another structural form, provided that it is connected to the massage head 300 and can drive the massage head 300 to rotate. For example, in some embodiments, the driving module 200 includes only two driving motors, and one driving motor is correspondingly connected to one massage head 300. For another example, in some other embodiments, the driving module 200 includes a driving motor and a transmission module, the driving motor is directly connected to one massage head 300 and the transmission module, and the other massage head 300 is connected to the transmission module. Specific structures of the driving module 200 are not listed one by one in the present application.
In addition to the foregoing structures, the massage device 1 further includes a control circuit board (not shown in the figure) for controlling the heating of the heating module 500 and controlling the operation of the driving module 200. Specifically, the control circuit board is a main control module of the massage device 1, and is accommodated in the accommodating cavity 101; and the heating module 500 and the driving module 200 are both connected to the control circuit board.
The massage device 1 provided in the embodiments of the present application includes a base 100, a driving module 200, a massage head 300, an enclosure 400, and a heating module 500. A side of the massage head 300 away from the base 100 is provided with a massage protrusion 310, and a first cavity 301 is formed on a side of the massage head 300 facing the base 100. The driving module 200 is connected to the massage head 300 and configured to drive the massage head 300 to rotate. The enclosure 400 is arranged between the base 100 and the massage head 300, a free end of the enclosure 400 away from the base 100 extends into the first cavity 301, the enclosure 400 defines a second cavity 401 in communication with the first cavity 301, and the second cavity 401 and the first cavity 301 form a heating chamber. The heating module 500 is accommodated in the heating chamber and fixed relative to the base 100, and is configured to provide thermotherapy from the massage device 1 to a part of a human body.
In comparison with an existing massage device on the market, according to the massage device 1 provided in the embodiments of the present application, the heating module 500 is arranged to be fixed relative to the base 100, so that the heating module 500 in the massage device 1 is connected to the control circuit board without using a brush and a ring-shaped conductive plate. Therefore, the massage device 1 provided in the embodiments of the present application can solve the problem that a heating module of the existing massage device on the market cannot work continuously and stably due to poor contact between a brush and a conductive copper ring.
Based on the same inventive concept, the present application further provides another massage device.
The free end of the enclosure 400 of the massage device 1 away from the base 100 extends into the first cavity 301, and the outer wall of the free end is arranged close to the inner wall of the massage head 300. However, in the second embodiment, an open end of the massage head 300B close to the base 100B extends into the enclosure 400B, an outer wall of the open end is arranged close to an inner wall of the enclosure 400B, and an outer diameter of the open end of the massage head 300B is slightly smaller than an inner diameter of the inner wall of the enclosure 400B. A difference between the outer diameter of the open end of the massage head 300B and the inner diameter of the inner wall of the enclosure 400B can be controlled within 3 millimeters (mm). For example, the difference is less than 2 mm. For another example, the difference is 1 mm.
Specifically, the end of the massage head 300B close to the base 100B is an open end, and the open end is in communication with a first cavity 301B; the enclosure 400B includes a bottom plate 410B and a side wall 420B; the bottom plate 410B is fixed on an outer surface of the base 100B; the side wall 420B extends from an edge of the bottom plate 410B toward the massage head 300B; and the side wall 420B and the bottom plate 410B jointly form a second cavity 401B. The open end of the massage head 300B extends into the end of the enclosure 400B away from the base 100B, and the outer wall of the open end is arranged close to the inner wall of the side wall 420B. The second cavity 401B is in communication with the first cavity 301B through the open end of the massage head 300B, and the second cavity 401B and the first cavity 301B jointly form a heating chamber.
The heating module 500B is accommodated in the second cavity 401B, and can heat the massage head 300B when the massage device 1B is working. Because the heating module 500B is fixed relative to the base 100B, and the massage head 300B rotates above the heating element 520, the continuous and stable operation of the heating module 500B can be ensured.
In other embodiments, the open end of the massage head 300B may not extend into the enclosure 400B, but is arranged above the enclosure 400B. In this case, there is an up-and-down gap between the open end of the massage head 300B and the end of the enclosure 400B away from the base 100B. Likewise, the gap is controlled within 3 millimeters (mm) to reduce a rate of escape of heat generated by the heating module 500B from the heating chamber through a gap between the enclosure 400B and the massage head 300B, and at the same time, to prevent the massage head 300B from rubbing against the enclosure 400B during the rotation.
Finally, it should be noted that the foregoing embodiments are merely intended for describing the technical solutions of the present application, but not for limiting the present application. Under the idea of the present application, the technical features in the foregoing embodiments or in different embodiments can be combined, the steps can be implemented in any order, and there are many other changes in different aspects of the present application described above. For brevity, they are not provided in detail. Although the present application is described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, persons of ordinary skill in the art should understand that they may still make modifications to the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments or make equivalent replacements to some technical features thereof, without departing from the scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 202120234243.7 | Jan 2021 | CN | national |
