Patents Assigned to Family Inada Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11865060
    Abstract: A treatment unit includes a treatment part including a treatment element, a first drive unit including a swash plate eccentric cam and a second drive unit including an eccentric cam. One of the first drive unit and the second drive unit is connected to the treatment part, and the other one of the first drive unit and the second drive unit is connected to the one of the first drive unit and the second drive unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Nichimu Inada
  • Patent number: 11779509
    Abstract: The massage machine includes a massage unit for treating a treatment target person, a first drive unit for driving the massage unit in a direction facing a treatment site of at least the treatment target person, and a control unit that controls driving of at least the first drive unit. The massage unit is configured to include a treatment unit in an articulated structure with at least two or more joints, and a second drive unit that drives the treatment unit in the direction facing the treatment target site of the treatment target person. The at least the two or more joints are shifted from each other in a direction intersecting a longitudinal direction of the treatment target site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Ryo Kawakami
  • Patent number: 11701291
    Abstract: A massage machine includes a seat unit on which a treatment subject person is configured to sit, a backrest unit configured to support a back of the person sitting on the seat unit, a base that is disposed in front of the backrest unit; and a treatment mechanism that is attached to the base configured to perform a massage on a shoulder of the person in a state where the person sits on the seat unit. The treatment mechanism includes a drive unit which includes an output shaft attached to the base and rotated by supplied power, and a treatment device configured to press the shoulder from above. In accordance with rotation of the output shaft, the treatment device oscillates in an upward/downward direction so as to perform the treatment on the shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoki Nagamitsu, Tomoharu Fukuda, Atsushi Moritomo, Nichimu Inada
  • Patent number: 10966900
    Abstract: Massage mechanisms of a massage machine individually include a pair of left and right treatment members provided along a height direction of the massage machine. A first massage mechanism is disposed on a relatively upper side, and a second massage mechanism is disposed on a relatively lower side. A control means that controls operations of the first and second massage mechanisms. The control means controls advancing/retreating drive portions such that the treatment members of the first massage mechanism and the treatment members of the second massage mechanism advance or retreat at speeds different from each other such as with a time lag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Nagatoshi Harada, Yoshiyuki Hamada, Tomoki Nagamitsu, Keisuke Takatsuka, Tomoharu Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10849811
    Abstract: A massage unit includes a treatment member; an arm that supports the treatment member; a drive shaft that supports the arm and causes the treatment member to approach and be separated with respect to a treatment target site; a movable portion that causes the treatment member to be operable in a direction of being separated from the treatment target site when the treatment member comes into contact with the treatment target site by a force equal to or greater than predetermined strength; and biasing means for biasing the treatment member in an approaching direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuichi Nakata, Tomoki Nagamitsu
  • Patent number: 9622935
    Abstract: The massage machine includes a chair main body that includes: a seat part on which a person to be treated is seated, a backrest part, which is provided at a back part of the seat part, and on which the person to be treated leans, and a footrest which is provided at a front part of the seat part and supports leg parts of the person to be treated; guide rails and which are provided at the chair main body; and a first massage part and a second massage part which are configured to respectively move in the height direction along the guide rails. The first massage part moves at least from a position corresponding to the backrest part to a position corresponding to the seat part, and the second massage part moves at least from a position corresponding to the footrest to the position corresponding to the seat part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Nobuhide Kimura
  • Patent number: 9216134
    Abstract: Provided is a massage machine capable of performing a rubbing operation and a pressing operation separately on different areas of the back surface of a body part of a person to be treated while performing the rubbing operation on the side surface of the body part. Specifically provided is a massage machine (M1 (M2)) provided with a rubbing unit (1) comprising a pair of rubbing parts (2, 2) for applying a rubbing massage to a body part of a person to be treated and a rubbing driving part (3) for driving the rubbing parts (2). The rubbing parts (2) comprise a pair of first rubbing parts (12, 12) disposed on both sides of the body part and reciprocating in the direction along the side surface of the body part, and a pair of second rubbing parts (13, 13) disposed on the back surface of the body part and reciprocating in the direction along the back surface of the body part and in the direction crossing the back surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Family Inada Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Hideshi Kondo, Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Nagatoshi Harada, Hiroo Hujita, Yoshiyuki Hamada, Yasuhiro Sugino, Myongsik Kim, Mitsuo Deguchi
  • Publication number: 20140343467
    Abstract: The massage machine includes a chair main body that includes: a seat part on which a person to be treated is seated, a backrest part, which is provided at a back part of the seat part, and on which the person to be treated leans, and a footrest which is provided at a front part of the seat part and supports leg parts of the person to be treated; guide rails and which are provided at the chair main body; and a first massage part and a second massage part which are configured to respectively move in the height direction along the guide rails. The first massage part moves at least from a position corresponding to the backrest part to a position corresponding to the seat part, and the second massage part moves at least from a position corresponding to the footrest to the position corresponding to the seat part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Publication date: November 20, 2014
    Applicant: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Nobuhide Kimura
  • Patent number: 8857907
    Abstract: A massage machine that can stably rock a chair main body in a forward-backward direction and that has minimal overall height comprising a chair main body, a base which supports the chair main body, massage portions provided in the chair main body, and a rocking mechanism portion which rocks the chair main body in the forward-backward direction with respect to the base. The rocking mechanism portion includes link members, each of which has a lower portion pivotally supported by the base and an upper portion pivotally supporting the chair main body. The chair main body is rocked in the forward-backward direction by rocking the upper portions of the link members in the forward-backward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Family Inada Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tomoki Nagamitsu
  • Patent number: 8827938
    Abstract: A massage machine includes a seat portion, a backrest portion and a rocking mechanism center where the backrest portion reclines at a back portion side of the seat portion about a reclining center. The rocking mechanism portion swings the backrest portion and the seat portion about a rocking center, and the rocking center is apart or different from the reclining center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Family Inada Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshifumi Fukuyama
  • Patent number: D733447
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Family Inada Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Hayashi
  • Patent number: D815447
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Family Inada Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Sho Horinoe
  • Patent number: D904061
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chiaki Murata, Nichimu Inada