Patents Examined by Quang Thanh
  • Patent number: 6849054
    Abstract: A lie-down massager comprises a base frame having a top panel with a top opening formed centrally and lengthwisely through the top panel, a rider provided below the top panel to make a horizontally reciprocal movement relative to the base frame, a lifter liftedly engaged to the rider to make a vertically reciprocal movement relative to the rider, a massage member fixed downwardly to the lifter with supports horizontally aligned along a top portion of the massage member, massage bumps attached atop the first and second supports, and a pad covering the massage bumps and the elongated opening of the base frame. The supports repeatedly approach to and distance from each other within the top opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Inventor: Hakjin Kim
  • Patent number: 6832991
    Abstract: A massaging apparatus in which a position of a specific portion such as a user's shoulder with respect to the massaging apparatus can be determined automatically and accurately in a simple construction. The massaging apparatus includes a supporting arm having a therapeutic member pivotally supported thereon and freely movable along the user's body. The position of the specific portion of the user with respect to the massaging apparatus is determined from the relation between the vertical position of the supporting arm and the pivotal position of the supporting arm. A pivotal movement detecting system detects that the supporting arm reaches a prescribed range of pivotal movement is provided. The position of the specific portion of the user with respect to the massaging apparatus is determined from the position of the supporting arm at the moment when the pivotal movement of the supporting arm reaches the prescribed range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Family Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Hideshi Kondo, Yasuo Fujii, Koji Goto
  • Patent number: 6702769
    Abstract: A device for thinning lung secretions comprises a housing, a reed disposed in the housing, and an acoustical resistance. The reed produces a low-frequency audio shockwave when vibrated. The acoustical resistance couples a patient's lungs to the audio shockwave and creates a back pressure of the low-frequency shockwave into a patient's lungs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Medical Acoustics, LLC
    Inventor: Sanford Elliot Fowler-Hawkins
  • Patent number: 6689082
    Abstract: An ambulatory traction device includes two support belts configured to be positioned around a portion of a user's body and one or more lifting mechanisms. Each lifting mechanism is coupled between the support belts and operable to apply a decompressive force to the portion of the user's body when the support belts are positioned around the user's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: AMEI Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Steven M. Reinecke, Allan D. Luce, Robin Sydor, Mark J. Strehlke
  • Patent number: 6615086
    Abstract: A massager has a pair of non-adhesive massaging pads and a pair of metal buttons. Each metal button extends between one of the massaging pads and the massaging pulse generator so that the signal from the massaging pulse generator is able to be transmitted to the non-adhesive conductive silicon and thus accomplishes the purpose of massaging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Inventor: Sam Tsai
  • Patent number: 6468238
    Abstract: A halo crown has depending posterior legs adjustable in multiple dimensions for conveniently adjusting the halo crown to a patient's skull. Each leg slides along a single axis yet provides adjustments in three dimensions due to a portion thereof extending downwardly, inwardly and rearwardly and the orientation of the axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Depuy Acromed, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Riley Hawkins, John Knapik, Eric Smith
  • Patent number: 6383154
    Abstract: A multi-stage bi-directional breath flow and blood circulation aider is provided with a plurality of ratchet teeth arranged in one end of a positioning seat and an adapter respectively for being meshed with each other, and the positioning seat is covered with the adapter and a closure for multi-stage control of physical energy consumption by taking advantage of an eccentric rod of the adapter. A plurality of recessed grooves is formed on the eccentric rod for arranging two fixed belts so as to commit eccentric rotation to pull and release the belts reciprocally for physical gymnastic exercise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2002
    Inventor: Edith Chang