Foot massaging apparatus utilizing air inflated nodes and air inflated nodes combined with a fluid
US6632188B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 8, 2001 |
| Grant date | Oct 14, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 8, 2021 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
- CPC primaryA61H2205/12
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An air foot massaging apparatus for massaging and stimulating tired feet, and thereby creating beneficial physiological effects throughout the body and including a pair of boot shaped structures for adapting to the user's feet or a unitary fluid-tight container for retaining fluid therein and adapting to a user's feet. Each boot shaped structure has a plurality of interior compressible and expandable air nodes which engage with the user's foot, a compressor to inflate or deflate the compressible and expandable air nodes for providing an effective massaging pattern to massage the user's feet, a vibration motor for providing a vibrational massage to further provide an effective massaging pattern to massage the user's feet, and a control mechanism for controlling the inflating and deflating of the plurality of compressible and expandable air nodes.
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