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Lie-down massager

US7018347B2 · kind B2 · utility

5Cited by
9References
29Claims
0Family size

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 23, 2003
Grant dateMar 28, 2006
Priority date
Expiry dateMay 28, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
  • CPC primaryA61H2201/1669
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A lie-down massager comprising a first mat with an elongated opening, a sliding member in the first mat hingedly engaged to a base to allow an angular lifting of the first mat from the base, a support downwardly attached to the base, a nut gear rotatably engaged to the support and having a wheel gear along an outer periphery of the nut gear, the wheel gear engaged to a second wheel gear, a shaft gear having a hinge end and a gear end received into the nut gear. A substantially bent rod has an upper end hingedly engaged to the first mat, a lower end hingedly engaged to the hinge end, and a hinge point between the upper end and the lower end, the hinge point hingedly engaged to the base frame, massage bumps carried on top of a rider reciprocating along the elongated opening.

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