Vibrant Foot Support Patents (Class 601/30)
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Patent number: 10888486Abstract: A toe-tapping exercise machine includes: a foot rest part having a right foot rest adapted to seat a user's right foot thereon and a left foot rest adapted to seat the user's left foot thereon; and an operating part coupled to the foot rest part to allow toe portions of the foot rest part to tap each other, the operating part including: a driving motor for transferring rotating power; a right foot rest operator for receiving the rotating power from the driving motor to operate the right foot rest; and a left foot rest operator for receiving the rotating power from the driving motor to operate the left foot rest, the driving motor being disposed between the right foot rest operator and the left foot rest operator and having rotary shafts extended from both sides thereof.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignees: Elensys Co., Ltd., Dong Jin Protech Co., Ltd.Inventors: Seung Jun Baek, Sang Soo Park
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Patent number: 9283420Abstract: A pivotal vibration apparatus comprising a vibration platform, a displacement assembly having an eccentric shaft rotatable to provide a displacement force, a link connecting the displacement assembly to the vibration platform to transfer the displacement thereto and an adjustment mechanism to adjust the amplitude of the displacement force transmitted to the vibration platform in a continuous fashion.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2011Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: HYPERVIBE PTY LTDInventors: Murray Seaton, Lee Blattmann
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Patent number: 8241232Abstract: A foot pain relief device can advantageously provide multiple angles of inclination, directed pressure against the plantar fascia, as well as ease of manufacturing and assembly. A toe strap, which is fastened around the ankle and the toe(s), ensures that the toes are flexed up. This toe flexing tenses the plantar fascia of the foot. A ball strap can be threaded through a hole in a ball and then operatively coupled with the toe strap. When operatively coupled to the toe strap, the ball strap keeps the ball positioned on the bottom of the foot while allowing ball mobility. The mobility of the ball can provide directed pressure on at least one component of the plantar fascia. Notably, the simultaneous combination of tension to the plantar fascia and directed pressure to the component(s) of the plantar fascia can be particularly effective at relieving foot pain.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Inventor: Jeannie B. Sanders
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Patent number: 8162860Abstract: A massaging shoe device for providing comfort to a user's feet comprising a base, a hollow foot covering component, a ring-shaped first massaging component disposed inside the foot covering component that can wrap around a users foot, and a second massaging component disposed in the base near the back of the shoe device. The massaging components are for massaging a user's feet.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Inventor: Naser Ali
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Patent number: 8092347Abstract: A device for training and/or analyzing a user's musculoskeletal system includes a stepping plate mounted on a base plate and periodically or aperiodically moveble by a driving mechanism encompassing a drive shaft on which a cam is disposed. On the bottom side of the stepping plate is a roll that rolls off an external surface of the cam. The stepping plate is connected to the base plate by vertical guides stationarily disposed on the base plate such that the mounted stepping plate follows a lifting movement caused by the driving mechanism. The cam has a first eccentric zone truncated such that the distance traveled by the roll rolling off the surface of the zone increases along the axial extension of the cam. A vertical adjusting mechanism allows the lift of the stepping plate to be modified by changing the position between the roll and the cam that cooperates therewith.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2008Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: MLS Lanny GmbHInventor: Michael Lanny
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Patent number: 7854709Abstract: A muscle stimulation and massage apparatus is provided that includes (a) a foot plate which is provided with rollers or skids, (b) a column arranged perpendicularly on the foot plate, and (c) a vibration unit that is arranged on a lift, wherein the lift may travel on guide rails of the column and is fastened in a lockable manner at different heights, with the vibration unit being located on a side outside the region of the column. In one embodiment, the lift may continuously travel up and down over a predetermined height range for a period of time in a programmed manner.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2004Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Inventor: Josef Neff
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Publication number: 20100100016Abstract: A platform assembly for a vibration exerciser has a base, a platform, a vibration generator and a resilient assembly. The platform is connected operationally to the base and has a bottom. The vibration generator is attached to the bottom of the platform to make the platform vibration. The resilient assembly is mounted around the base and is connected to the platform along a lateral direction. Accordingly, the vibration exerciser platform assembly can provide a gentle vibration force to a user to keep the user from being injured.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2008Publication date: April 22, 2010Inventor: Mu-Chuan WU
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Publication number: 20080132811Abstract: An electric massage shoe assembly includes a shoe with a conductive unit received therein which has a receptacle, a first wire and at least one conductive rod which extends through an insole unit and is in contact with wearer's foot. A frequency current generating unit is electrically connected to the receptacle of the conductive unit so as to transfer frequency current to the wearer's foot and stimulate the wearer's foot.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2006Publication date: June 5, 2008Inventors: Li-Hua Yang, Chia-Na Ho
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Patent number: 7347831Abstract: A ventilated shoe includes an outsole; an insole including projections; and a space defined by the insole and the outsole and including resilient pillars in the instep and interconnected the insole and the outsole, a battery compartment, second compartments, motor-driven vibrating devices located in the second compartments, an exposed first switch, a heating element, an exposed second switch, and a circuit board with the first and second switches provided on its edge. Turning on the first switch will activate the vibrating devices to vibrate the projections to perform a first operation to massage the sole. Turning on the second switch will activate the heating element to perform a second operation to warm the foot.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2006Date of Patent: March 25, 2008Inventor: Hsao-Hsing Chiu
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Patent number: 7335172Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for improving and developing the strength, coordination, balancing and proprioception of a user. Especially the present invention relates to an exercising device (10) comprising a balancing means (12) and a vibration means arranged to vibrate said balancing means (12).Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2004Date of Patent: February 26, 2008Assignee: Promedvi ABInventor: Kaj Laserow
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Publication number: 20070299373Abstract: A body vibrating device includes a foot support pivotally supported on a base with a pivot rod, a reduction gearing device disposed on the base and having an eccentric member coupled to the foot support and spaced from the pivot rod for allowing the foot support to be pivoted relative to the base with the pivot rod and to be rotated and driven by the reduction gearing device, and a motor is coupled to the reduction gearing device for driving the reduction gearing device to rotate and to vibrate the foot support. The foot support may be stably supported on the base with the pivot rod, and may be effectively rotated and vibrated by the motor and the reduction gearing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2006Publication date: December 27, 2007Inventor: Ming Nan Chen
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Patent number: 7297126Abstract: A portable massager adaptable for foot and wrist applications. An elongated resonator plate is formed from a plurality of contiguous hollow flutes oriented in a longitudinal direction. One or more vibrator cutouts are provided in the resonator plate, passing from its upper side to its lower side. A vibrator, preferably capable of operating from low voltage DC, nests within each cutout. A lower sheet covers the lower side of the resonator plate and lower face of the vibrator. An upper sheet accommodates the upper face of the vibrator and covers at least a portion of the upper side of the resonator plate. Top and bottom vinyl covers encase the massager construction. A vibrator control switch may be included in the power line extending from an external electrical connector to the vibrator. The massager may be powered by a wall transformer or by alternative mobile power sources.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: November 20, 2007Inventor: Gary W. Kries
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Patent number: 7278977Abstract: A body vibrating device includes two rods rotatably straddled between two plates, two followers attached to the rods and coupled together with a link, two foot supports attached to the followers, a reduction gearing device disposed on the base and having an eccentric member coupled to either of the followers for allowing the followers and the rods and the foot supports to be rotated and driven by the reduction gearing device, and a motor coupled to the reduction gearing device for driving the reduction gearing device to vibrate the followers and the rods and the foot supports. The foot supports may be stably supported and driven or vibrated by the motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2006Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Inventor: Ming Nan Chen
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Patent number: 7278976Abstract: A body vibrator includes a platform disposed above a base, two support devices each having a pivotal arm coupled to the platform for pivotally supporting the platform above the base, a motor-driven reduction gearing device disposed on the base and having an eccentric member coupled to the arm of the one of the support devices for allowing the platform to be rotated and driven by the reduction gearing device. The platform may stably support a user and may be suitably vibrated for massaging the whole user' body and for facilitating the blood and/or lymph circulation of the user and for decomposing the fatty tissue and thus for suitably reducing the fat from the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2006Date of Patent: October 9, 2007Inventor: Ming Nan Chen
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Publication number: 20070225622Abstract: A vibration training apparatus includes a base, a swinging link rod module and a driving mechanism. The swinging link rod module installed on the base has a driving mechanism for driving several swinging link rods for a link rod movement. An eccentric transmission shaft driven by a motor drives the swinging link rod module to produce a linear vibration during the swinging process, and matches with the rotation speed of the motor to drive a support stand to produce vertically up-and-down displacements with vibrations of different frequencies. An adjusting device can be installed between the swinging link rod module and the base for changing the swinging amplitude of the swinging link rod module, such that the driving mechanism can drive the swinging link rod module to linearly change the vibration amplitude and achieve a whole-body vibration effect to stimulate internal organs and improve muscle strengths and blood circulations.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2006Publication date: September 27, 2007Inventors: Cheng-Hsun Huang, Yu-Chu Chen, David Shih
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Patent number: 7264599Abstract: A waterproof bathing slipper having a plurality of nodules for massaging and stimulating specific parts of the soles and sides of the users feet. The present invention includes static and electrically operated pulsating nodules disposed in such a manner as to stimulate specific regions of the foot as applied by the principles of reflexology.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2004Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Inventor: ShellyAnn S Milligan
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Patent number: 7210253Abstract: A massage shoe comprises a controller and a shoe body. The inner foot supporting surface of the shoe body is provided with a plurality of conducting sheets, which are respectively connected by conducting wires to a selected location on a vamp or in the heel of the shoe body, and then to the controller for providing a foot with a mid-or-low-frequency electromagnetic wave massage. The controller can be separated from the shoe body and controls the shoe body by a wired or a wireless means. The controller can be connected to other electric massage devices for supplying pulses. The heel of the shoe body is provided with a polarity switch for changing polarity of each of the conducting sheets, whereby the massage effect can be local to a foot or global across two feet, if a pair of shoe bodies is electrically connected.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2005Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Inventor: Tsung I Yu
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Patent number: 7141029Abstract: A vibratory exercise apparatus capable of providing sufficient vertical movement force is provided that adopts a structure of a bobbin coil connected with a vibration plate employed in a magnetic gap of a magnetic circuit using a permanent magnet that can generate a strong magnetic force, thereby providing sufficient vertical movement force to the vibration plate for vibratory exercise.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2005Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Inventor: Seong Bae Kim
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Patent number: 7137929Abstract: This invention relates to an improved fitness bike that fixes a handle support rod and a saddle separated on both ends of a transversal rod, and the bottom of the handle support rod is pivotally coupled with and moved back and forth at a first support rod at the front end of a base, and the lower end of the saddle support rod includes a driving stand, and the upper end of a second support rod disposed at a rear end of the base installs a passive pulley, and a link rod is installed between an eccentric portion of the axle of the passive pulley and a driving stand at a lower end of the saddle support rod, and the passive pulley is driven by an active pulley on an axle of a bottom bracket shell. When an exerciser steps on the pedal, the link rod drives the lower end of the saddle support rod up and down, so that the handle support rod at another end of the transversal rod can swing back and forth by using the lower end of the fixing bolt as a pivot.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2005Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Inventor: Jeeng-Neng Fan
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Publication number: 20030130601Abstract: The present invention relates to a multifunction hyperthermo-therapeutical apparatus, and more particularly, to a multifunction hyperthermo-therapeutical apparatus which basically uses the hyperthermo-therapeutical apparatus and, of course, selectively uses one or more specific appliances according to the selection of a user by installing a sleep aid means, foot pressure means and vertebral correction means with additional functions at the one hyperthermo-therapeutical apparatus, thereby maximizing a hyperthermo-therapeutical curative effect and achieving an optimum sleep, blood circulation and vertebral correction.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2002Publication date: July 10, 2003Applicant: Dwzone Medical Instruments Co., Ltd.Inventor: Myeong-su Kim
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Patent number: 6511447Abstract: A swing machine includes a casing having a sliding member movably engaged with a rail and the sliding member is driven by a block eccentrically connected to an output shaft of a motor. A support member is connected to a top of the sliding member. A first protrusion extends from a side of the sliding member and a limitation member located in the casing has a wave-shaped slot in which the second protrusion is movably engaged.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2002Date of Patent: January 28, 2003Inventor: Yu-Tong Huang
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Patent number: 6077201Abstract: An exercise bicycle is composed of a bicycle frame, a vibration device, a driving device, and a clutch device. The bicycle frame is provided with a pedal device. The vibration device and the pedal device are driven by the driving device such that the pedal device can be temporarily disabled by the clutch device. The vibration device is capable of actuating the bicycle frame to vibrate so as to massage the body of a user of the exercise bicycle while the user is engaged in the pedalling exercise. The exercise bicycle can be used as a body massaging machine by actuating the clutch device to disable the pedal device.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 1998Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Inventor: Chau-Yang Cheng
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Patent number: 6027432Abstract: An exercise bicycle is composed of a base, a motor, a seat plate, a plurality of resilient elements, a support unit, a seat, a handle, two pedals, and a drive device. The motor is mounted on the base and provided with an eccentric rod fastened with a shaft of the motor such that the eccentric rod is capable of disturbing the seat plate to vibrate horizontally at the time when the motor is in operation. The horizontal vibration of the seat plate is imparted via the support unit to the seat, the handle and the pedals for massaging the hips, the back, and the hands of a user of the exercise bicycle, who is engaged in a leg exercise.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 1998Date of Patent: February 22, 2000Inventor: Chau Yang Cheng
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Patent number: 5913838Abstract: An insole which can be placed in a user's shoe incorporates vibrators which provide a vibrating massage. The vibrators are connected to a battery operated power supply which can be attached to a users leg by an elastic strap or attached to a user's shoe by a clip. A wire retraction unit is mounted on the power supply to take up slack in an electrical cable which connects the vibrators and the power supply.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 1997Date of Patent: June 22, 1999Inventor: Peter C. Reilly
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Patent number: 5797860Abstract: A low profile vibrating floor mat includes a magnetic gap elastomer placed between vibrating magnetic laminates. The elastomer controls the magnetic gap and prevents the magnetic gap from physically collapsing due to the body weight. Upper and lower protective materials insulate the vibrating magnetic laminates from the environment while effectively transfering vibrating energy to the surface of the floor mat. The floor mat is able to withstand body weight.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1996Date of Patent: August 25, 1998Inventor: Hiro Moriyasu
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Patent number: RE44360Abstract: A vibratory exercise apparatus capable of providing sufficient vertical movement force is provided that adopts a structure of a bobbin coil connected with a vibration plate employed in a magnetic gap of a magnetic circuit using a permanent magnet that can generate a strong magnetic force, thereby providing sufficient vertical movement force to the vibration plate for vibratory exercise.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2008Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Inventor: Seong Bae Kim