Acupressure Assemblies for Passive Joint Exercise
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional massage devices do not effectively exercise joints while providing acupressure, leading to a lack of physical activity, particularly among individuals with sedentary lifestyles, resulting in declining organ function and increased disease prevalence across various age groups.
Innovation Solution
A massage apparatus featuring a support frame with acupressure assemblies that rotate around an axis, applying acupressure and inducing joint exercise through individual or connected motion, utilizing power-driven acupressure members and auxiliary assemblies for varied motion patterns.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional massage devices are used to provide acupressure therapy, then muscle relaxation is achieved, but joint exercise is not provided
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines acupressure therapy and joint exercise functions into a single massage device. The acupressure assemblies include both massage rollers for muscle therapy and movable platforms that enable joint exercise, allowing both functions to be performed simultaneously or alternatively within one device structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The massage device is designed to perform multiple functions: acupressure therapy through rotating rollers and joint exercise through movable platforms. This multi-functional design allows the device to adapt to different user needs, providing both muscle relaxation and physical exercise benefits in one system.
2Ease of operation
If sedentary lifestyle continues without exercise, then convenience is maintained, but organ function deteriorates and disease prevalence increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device enables users to perform joint exercise passively while seated or lying down. The movable platforms automatically move the user's body parts through exercise ranges, allowing individuals to exercise their joints without requiring active physical effort or leaving their sedentary position, thus maintaining convenience while improving organ function.
3Productivity
If acupressure assemblies move individually and collectively, then joint exercise effectiveness is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device divides the acupressure system into multiple independent assemblies, each capable of individual movement. These segmented assemblies can operate independently or in coordination, allowing complex joint exercise patterns to be achieved through simpler individual component movements, thereby managing device complexity while maintaining exercise effectiveness.
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AI summary
A massage apparatus in which a plurality of acupressure assemblies apply acupressure to the human body in close contact with the human body and move individually or in connection with each other, thereby inducing a user's joints to exercise. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a massage apparatus including a support frame and one or more acupressure assemblies, each of which includes one or more acupressure members rotated directly by power and is supported by the support frame, wherein the acupressure assemblies rotate in one direction around one axis of the support frame.