Patents by Inventor Nichimu Inada
Nichimu Inada has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11865060Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.Inventor: Nichimu Inada
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Patent number: 11779509Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Ryo Kawakami
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Patent number: 11701291Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoki Nagamitsu, Tomoharu Fukuda, Atsushi Moritomo, Nichimu Inada
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Publication number: 20220234210Abstract: Provided is a massage system for a massage facility in which a robot arm is provided and a massage is performed with respect to a user by the robot arm, the system including a control unit configured to cause the robot arm to perform a massage operation in response to a program, and a setting unit configured to receive a setting operation of a setting position used for the massage operation from an operator, in which the control unit is configured to cause the robot arm to perform the massage operation with respect to a treatment position based on the setting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventor: Nichimu INADA
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Patent number: 10966900Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Nagatoshi Harada, Yoshiyuki Hamada, Tomoki Nagamitsu, Keisuke Takatsuka, Tomoharu Fukuda
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Publication number: 20210038459Abstract: The present invention provides a sleeping apparatus which can improve the quality of sleep, by evaluating the quality of human sleep and presenting the control methods of the exercise forcing means based on the evaluation result. The sleeping apparatus comprises a body support part which supports the user's body, a sleep information detection means which detects said user's sleep information, and a memory part which stores said user's sleep information, wherein the sleeping apparatus comprises an exercise forcing means which forces said user's body to exercise, a sleep state evaluation means which evaluates said user's sleep state based on said user's sleep information, and a control means which can output control methods of said exercise forcing means based on the evaluation result from said sleep state evaluation means.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: MTG CO., LTD.Inventors: Nichimu INADA, Yuta ISHIDO, Tsuyoshi MATSUSHITA
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Publication number: 20200121549Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Ryo Kawakami
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Publication number: 20200113776Abstract: A security system includes a massage machine, and an external terminal capable of communicating with the massage machine via a communication network. The massage machine includes a massager that performs massage on a user, a controller that controls the massager, a first detector that detects a motion of a human body or an object and produces first detection data, a storage that stores the first detection data, and a telecommunicator that connects the controller to the communication network. The controller includes an abnormality determinator that determines presence or absence of an abnormality relating to the first detection data in the storage, and an abnormality notifier that notifies the telecommunicator of the abnormality when the abnormality determinator determines that an abnormality is present.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventor: Nichimu Inada
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Publication number: 20200022867Abstract: A treatment unit includes a treatment element configured to press a person to be treated; a treatment part that includes the treatment element; an output shaft that drives the treatment part; a drive part configured to rotate the output shaft; and a swash plate eccentric cam that rotates integrally with the output shaft. The treatment part oscillates in a direction along a direction of an axis of rotation of the output shaft and a direction intersecting the direction of the axis without rotating along with rotation of the swash plate eccentric cam.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Yoshifumi Fukuyama, Soma Kanazawa
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Publication number: 20190328322Abstract: An information processing apparatus is configured to repeatedly perform, within a predetermined period, a meal managing process of generating meal management data including data indicating an extra calorie within a predetermined period, and an exercise managing process of generating exercise management data including data indicating an amount of deficient exercise within the predetermined period. The extra calorie is calculated based on a total intake calorie of a user for a period from a start point of time of the predetermined period to a point of time when the extra calorie is calculated and total calorie consumption of the user for the period, and the amount of deficient exercise is calculated as an amount of exercise required to consume the extra calorie.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2018Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventor: Nichimu Inada
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Publication number: 20190231634Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventor: Nichimu Inada
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Publication number: 20190151187Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Tomoki Nagamitsu, Tomoharu Fukuda, Atsushi Moritomo, Nichimu Inada
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Publication number: 20190029918Abstract: A massage machine system includes a massage machine, a wearable measurement instrument, a server and an electronic information communication terminal. The massage machine includes a massage unit configured to massage a body of a user and a control unit configured to control the massage unit. The wearable measurement instrument includes a detection unit and a transmission unit. The detection unit is configured to detect physical information of the user. The transmission unit is configured to transmit the physical information detected by the detection unit. The server is configured to store the physical information transmitted by the wearable measurement instrument and received by the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Yuta Ishidou
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Publication number: 20180315504Abstract: A massage apparatus includes a massage section that provides a massage to a user, a sound input section, a sound output section and an artificial intelligence section. The artificial intelligence section obtains a sound information of the user via the sound input section through a conversation with the user, analyses the sound information, determines at least one of a diagnosis of and an advice to the user based on data accumulated in a storage section that relates at least to knowledge and know-how of a doctor or doctors, and outputs the at least one of the diagnosis and the advice from the sound output section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Yuta Ishidou
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Publication number: 20180168914Abstract: A massage system includes a medium and a massage machine. The medium includes data or an identification code. The massage machine includes a massage unit, a control unit, an input unit that captures data or an identification code of a medium, and an identification unit that identifies the data or the identification code. The control unit specifies a control content, based on an identification result obtained by the identification unit, and controls the massage unit according to the control content. The data may include a bar code or two-dimensional codes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventor: Nichimu Inada
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Publication number: 20180133101Abstract: A massage system includes a massage machine that has a treatment unit for treating the treatment target person, a control unit for controlling the treatment unit, a voice input unit, and a voice output unit, and a server that is connected to the massage machine via a communication network. The massage machine transmits voice information of the treatment target person which is input from the voice input unit, to the server via the communication network. The server causes an artificial intelligence unit to determine treatment suitable for the treatment target person, based on the voice information of the treatment target person, and transmits the treatment to the massage machine. The massage machine is configured to output the transmitted treatment from the voice output unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventor: Nichimu Inada
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Publication number: 20180033437Abstract: A massage machine includes a display unit or a voice output unit and a control unit that controls functions of the massage machine. The control unit includes control modes in which the functions assigned to each of the control modes are at least partially different from each other. The control modes include a full function control mode in which all or almost all of the functions are assigned, and a function limitation control mode in which the functions are at least partially limited. When the massage machine is in a predetermined state, the control unit proceeds to the function limitation control mode. In the function limitation control mode, the control unit causes the display unit to display information relating to the massage machine, or causes the voice output unit to output the information by using a voice. The information is receivable from a service provider.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventor: Nichimu Inada
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Publication number: 20170348188Abstract: A treatment system includes a massage machine that further includes a massage portion configured to perform a massage with respect to a user; a control unit configured to control the massage portion; means for receiving and setting a target value; and a notification portion. The control unit is configured to compare the target value received and a predetermined reference value and to determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied. When the control unit determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied, the control unit is configured to cause the notification portion to urge the user to change the target value or to cause the setting means to prohibit the target value from being set.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2017Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Yuji Notsu, Atsushi Moritomo
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Publication number: 20170348179Abstract: An information network system includes a massage machine and a communication server. The massage machine contains: a treatment portion configured to treat a subject, a control unit configured to control the treatment portion, an operation unit configured to operate the treatment portion via the control unit, and a new arrival notification portion. The communication server is connected to the control unit via a communication network, the communication server is configured to emit an information related to the massage machine. The control unit is configured to cause the new arrival notification portion to issue a notification upon a receipt of the information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2017Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventors: Nichimu Inada, Yuta Ishidou, Yuji Notsu, Izumi Sasaki
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Patent number: D904061Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: FAMILY INADA CO., LTD.Inventors: Chiaki Murata, Nichimu Inada