Modular Percussive Massage Gun with Cane Extension
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional massage guns lack maneuverability to effectively reach and provide adequate pressure on hard-to-reach areas like the back, neck, and shoulders, often requiring uncomfortable stretching and misalignment of the spine, which can lead to injury.
Innovation Solution
A modular massage device combining percussive therapy with a cane-shaped back massager, allowing customizable access and maintaining spinal alignment through adjustable and detachable components, enabling a comfortable forward-facing handheld motion for targeted massage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a handheld massage gun is used, then control and mobility to the front of the body is improved, but maneuverability to the back and lower extremities deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The massage device is divided into separate modular components: a handheld massage gun unit and a detachable cane-shaped extension. This segmentation allows the user to combine the percussive therapy capabilities with the reach and positioning benefits of the cane, solving the contradiction between handheld control and access to hard-to-reach areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the handheld massage gun with a cane-shaped back massager into a single integrated apparatus. The massage gun attaches to the cane, combining the percussive therapy function with the mechanical advantage and reach provided by the cane structure, enabling access to back and lower extremity areas while maintaining handheld control.
2Reliability
If the wrist is oriented to allow massage shaft normal to the body, then massage gun functionality is maintained, but access to back and hard to reach areas becomes unavailable
Solution Approach 1:
The cane-shaped extension adds a spatial dimension to the massage gun, allowing the user to reach behind the back and access hard-to-reach areas without changing the orientation of the wrist or compromising the massage shaft's alignment with the body. The cane acts as a lever arm that extends the reach in a new spatial dimension.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the user reaches backwards or twists to access target areas, then massage coverage is improved, but spinal alignment deteriorates and injury risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The cane-shaped extension serves as an intermediary tool between the user and the target massage areas. Instead of the user directly reaching backwards or twisting, the cane acts as a mediator that provides the necessary reach and positioning, allowing the user to maintain proper spinal alignment while still accessing hard-to-reach areas.
4Power
If conventional massage guns are used on the back, then percussive therapy is provided, but user comfort and spinal alignment deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the device into a handheld massage gun and a separate cane-shaped extension, the system allows the percussive therapy function to be separated from the positioning and support functions. This enables the user to maintain comfortable positioning and proper spinal alignment while still receiving effective percussive therapy on the back.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables deep relief for hard-to-reach areas without straining the user, maintaining proper spinal alignment and providing effective massage without the need for repetitive professional massages or alternative healing methods.
Implementation Method 1
An internal DC motor and a slider-crank mechanism is used to produce a reciprocating motion in the tip of the gun
Implementation Method 2
An internal DC motor and a slider-crank mechanism is used to produce a reciprocating motion in the tip of the gun
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for a massage device that will allow a single user to operate a massage gun and/or receive electromechanical massage on the user's back without having to reach backwards, sideways, or twisting, thus keeping their spine aligned. The massage device may have a series of handles for gripping and the motor system may be positioned closer to the massage head allowing the user to easily grasp the device.