Massage device and method of use

US10357425B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• THERAGUN, INC. · US

Inventors

• Jason Wersland · Los Angeles, US
• Benjamin Nazarian · Los Angeles, US
• Geert Ensing · Shanghai, CN
• Guang Qing Li · Lake Forest, US
• Robert Firth · Pocklington, GB
• Andrew Linton · Ripon, GB
• Andrew T. Cooper · Fairport, US
• Michael Waldron · Crook, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 13, 2018
• Grant date: Jul 23, 2019
• Expiry date: Mar 13, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B27B19/02
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A massage device that includes a housing, an electrical input, a motor, a switch in electrical communication with the electrical input and the motor and configured to selectively provide power from the electrical input to the motor, an actuated output operatively connected to the motor and configured to reciprocate in response to activation of the motor, and a treatment structure operatively connected to a distal end of the actuated output. The actuated output is configured to reciprocate the treatment structure at a frequency of between about 15 Hz and about 100 Hz, and at an amplitude of between about 0.15 and about 1.0 inches. The combination of amplitude and frequency provides efficient reciprocation of the treatment structure such that the treatment structure provides therapeutically beneficial treatment to a targeted muscle of a user.