WO2001003639A1

WO2001003639A1 - Panel for pressing a user's back

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Publication number: WO2001003639A1
Application number: PCT/KR2000/000754
Authority: WO
Inventors: Won Kwang Kim
Original assignee: Ez Care Co., Ltd.
Priority date: 1999-07-12
Filing date: 2000-07-12
Publication date: 2001-01-18
Also published as: KR19990073428A; AU5712300A

Abstract

Disclosed is a panel which facilitates a circulation of the blood at the acupoints of user's back and neck to help carry out metabolism with ease by providing a magnetic field from the magnets (114) and far-infrared rays from the natural jades (116) to acupoints distributed in the user's back. The panel is formed by injection molding to come into close and uniform contact with the user's back along to a profile of the user's back. The panel is provided with magnets and natural jades at the places corresponding to the acuponts in the user's back. In addition, between the magnets and natural jades are disposed a plural of protrusions, which act to press muscles of the user's back.

Description

PANEL FOR PRESSING A USER'S BACK

Technical Field

The present invention relates to a panel, in particular detachably mounted to a vehicular seat or a official chair, and provided with protrusions, magnets and jades to press acupoints in a user's back so that the circulation of the blood is facilitated to help carry out metabolism by supplying the acupoints with a magnetic field from the magnets and far-infrared rays from the jades.

Background Art

There are 12 places of meridians in one's body. The meridians have about 365 places of acupoints. The number of the acupoints exceeds 365 places including other acupoints except ones of the meridians. Each of the acupoints is a place for diagnosing a shortage of energy which needs to circulate the meridians, thereby renewing the bodily function in a normal state by regulating the shortage of energy.

In the Orient medicine, it is reported that a proper impulse are given to these acupoints through any one of acupuncture, moxibustion and acupressure to regulate metabolism with ease, thereby maintaining a bodily function in a normal state.

A panel is provided with protrusions, as means for facilitating the circulation of the blood to help carry out metabolism by stimulating acupoints which carry out massage by directly pressing the acupoints in user's back in contact with the user's back. A conventional panel is molded by synthetic resin to take in a predetermined shape, of which one side is provided with a plural of protrusions to be arranged at a predetermined interval. Japanese Patent Laid-open No. Hei 10-127705 (issued on May 31,

1998) discloses that a safety mat 10 is detachably mounted on a vehicular seat and includes magnets for directly pressing user's back and neck and for transmitting the magnetic field from the magnets to user's back and neck as well.

FIG. 1 shows a safety mat 10 for a vehicle according to the Japanese Patent. Referring to FIG. 1, the safety mat 10 is manufactured by flexible material and comprises a mat body 12 detachably mounted to a vehicular seat and a safety cushion 20 mounted to the position corresponding to the neck of a user who makes use of the mat body 12. The mat body 12 and the safety cushion 20 in the safety mat 10 have a plural of protrusions 14 for acupressure on their surfaces. In a position corresponding to the neck of the user of the mat b.ody 12 and in a back portion of the safety cushion 20 fixed are magnets 16 and 22. The safety mat 10 according to the Japanese Patent constructed as aforementioned give impulse to user's back and neck by closely contacting with user's back and neck to press their muscles, when the user sits on the safety mat mounted to the vehicle. Therefore, the safety mat 10 stimulates user's back and neck with the pressing protrusions to relax the muscle fatigue of the user.

The aforementioned safety mat, however, relaxes the user's muscle fatigue in the back and neck through irregular arrangement of the pressing protrusions in the mat body and the safety cushion, but have a problem that acupoints in user's back and neck are not well-pressed for their stimulation.

Disclosure of Invention

Therefore, the present invention is directed to address the problem in the prior art as aforementioned. Accordingly it is an object of the present invention to provide a panel detachably mounted to a vehicular seat, a official chair, etc. and provided with protrusions, magnets and natural jades, wherein the protrusions apply pressure on acupoints in a user's back, and a magnetic field from the magnets and far-infrared rays from the jades have influence on the acupoints such that the circulation of the blood is facilitated to help carry out metabolism with ease.

To accomplish the object, the present invention provides a panel comprising: a body formed to correspond to a user's back; a plural of protrusions, formed on a front side of the body, for pressing the user's back on contacting with the user's back; a plural of natural jades, arranged on the body, for stimulating acupoints in the user's back through radiation of far- infrared rays from the jades; and a plural of magnets, arranged on the body, for stimulating the acupoints in the user's back through radiation of magnetic field from the magnets. The panel according to the present invention further comprises a neck integrally formed on the upper portion of the body and having a space for receiving an aromatic.

The body, neck and protrusions on the front side of the body are integrally molded of thermoplastic material by injection molding. The body and neck are provided with ribs in their edges in order to apply stiffness for supporting the body and neck, wherein the ribs extend to a direction perpendicular to the front side of the body at the edges of the body and neck.

The neck is provided with a plural of magnets and natural jades on its front side corresponding to the acupoints in the user's neck.

The plural of magnets and natural jades are press-fitted in each of through-holes formed in the body and neck to cause the through-holes to correspond to the acupoints in the user's body. Each of the protrusions has about a diameter of 12 mm and a height of 10 mm.

Each of the magnets and natural jades has about a diameter of 16 mm and a height of 7 mm. The panel according to the present invention constructed as aforementioned can be detachably mounted to a seat for a vehicle, a chair for an office, etc. When user sits on the panel mounted to the seat or the chair on driving or on business, the user causes one's own back closely to contact with the front side of the panel, wherein the panel has protrusions, magnets and natural jades, arranged on its front side corresponding to the acupoints distributed over user's back and neck, for giving impulse to the acupoints in user's back and neck and providing a magnetic field and far- infrared rays. In result, the panel has an advantage that it facilitates the circulation of the blood at the acupoints in user's back and neck to help carry out metabolism with ease.

Brief Description of Drawings

The following will give a full description of the panel according to the present invention for applying pressure on acupoints in user's back and neck with reference to the following drawings.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing the panel according to the present invention for pressing acupoints in user's back and neck.

Best Mode for carrying out the Invention As shown in FIG. 2, the panel 100 according to the present invention comprises a body 110 formed to correspond to the user's back; a plural of protrusions 112, formed on a front of the body 110, for pressing the user's back on contacting with the user's back; a plural of magnets 114, symmetrically arranged about a longitudinal axis of the body 110, for radiating a magnetic field from the magnets to stimulate acupoints in the user's back; a plural of natural jades 116, arranged along to the longitudinal axis of the body 110, for radiating far-infrared rays from the jades to stimulate the acupoints in the user's back.

Referring to FIGs. 2 and 3, the body 110 is formed to correspond to a profile of the user's back in order to closely contact with the user's back. The body 110 is molded of thermoplastic resin, such as vinyl chloride, polyethylene, or polypropylene, by injection molding. When the body 110 is injection-molded, a whole profile of the body

110 is formed to correspond to the profile of the user's back. The body 110 supports a vertebra of the user's back such that toward a front side of the body is protruded an area having a predetermined width along to a longitudinal axis from a waist to a shoulder corresponding to the user's back. Grooves 118a and 118b having predetermined depth and width are formed to correspond to the protrusion near to the shoulder facing to the user's back.

The panel 100 according to the present invention for pressing the user's back is integrally formed on the upper portion of the body 110, and may further comprise the neck 120 having a container which receives an aromatic (not shown). It is preferable that the neck 120 is integrally formed to the body 110 by injection molding.

On the one hand, the body 110 is provided with recesses or through- holes along to its longitudinal axis for fixing magnets 114 or natural jades 116 to positions corresponding to the acupoints in the bodiy back. In addition, the body 110 is provided with recesses or through-holes for fixing magnets 114 or natural jades 116 at positions corresponding to acupoints which are distributed in parallel to a vertebra of user's back and symmetrically run parallel to the longitudinal axis of the body 110.

On the other hand, the neck 120 is provided with a plural of recesses or through-holes in a position corresponding to the acupoints which are scatted over the boily neck. The neck 120 has a plural of magnets 114 or natural jades 116 on its front which are arranged to correspond to the acupoints in the user's neck.

The magnets 114 or natural jades 116 are press-fitted in the recesses or through-holes which are formed on the body 110 and neck 120 to correspond to the acupoints in user's back and neck. It is preferable that each of the magnets 114 or natural jades 116 has

about a diameter of 16 mm and a height of 7 mm.

In the panel according to the present invention for pressing the user's back shown in FIGs. 2 and 3, while the plural of natural jades 116 for radiating far-infrared rays are mounted to positions corresponding to acupoints which are distributed in the user's back from a waist the body 110 to a shoulder of the body 110 along to the longitudinal axis of the body 110, the plural of magnets 114 are symmetrically positioned about the natural jades 116 arranged along to the longitudinal axis of the body 110. In the case, the magnets 114 are also bonded or press-fitted in the body 110 to correspond to acupoints in user's back and neck.

At the neck 120 are also bonded or press-fitted the magnets 114 and natural jades 116. The magnets 114 and natural jades 116 are symmetrically arranged about the longitudinal axis of the neck 120 to correspond to meridian which are distributed in the neck of one's body. As shown in FIG. 4, a shoulder of the body 110 and the neck 120 are provided with rib 130 integrally formed so as to reinforce the body 110 and the neck 120. The rib 130 extend from an edge of the shoulder of the body 110 to a top edge of the neck 120 in a manner that the rib extends backward perpendicular to the front side of the body 110 between the edges of the body and neck. Along to an edge of the rib 130 is fitted a cover 150 made of rubber or soft synthetic resin. The cover 150 functions to prevent a textile of a seat from being damaged by the edge of the rib 130, when the panel 100 according to the present invention is mounted to a vehicular seat, an official chair, etc..

As shown in FIG. 5, a transition portion between the body 110 and the neck 120 is provide with a supporting plate 140 at their back sides for reinforcing the neck 120, wherein the supporting plate 140 runs across the transition portion. The rib 130 and supporting plate 140 for reinforcing the body 110 and neck 120 are integrally formed with the body 110 and the neck 120.

In addition, the rib 130 and supporting plate 140 are formed into a size of container 122. The container 122 is provided with a cover 124 installed in a manner of a hinge motion at the top portion of the neck 120 in order to seal the container 122. In the container 122 is put an aromatic generating a certain type of aroma. The aroma is scattered out of the container 122 by through holes formed at the neck 120. The body 110 and the neck 120 are provided with a plural of acupressure protrusions 112 between the recesses or through holes for receiving the magnet 114 and natural jades 116. The acupressure protrusions 112 act as a relaxation of muscle's fatigue by pressing muscles as well as the acupoints in the back of one's body. The acupressure protrusions 112 at the front sides of the body 110 and the neck 120 are integrally formed on the body 110 and the neck 120 when the body and the neck are molded of synthetic resin by injection molding. The acupressure protrusions 112 have about a diameter of 12 mm and a height of 10 mm and are subject to a rounding process at their top portion to shape up semi-ball.

Referring to FIGs. 3 and 5 again, a middle and lower portion of the body 1 10 are provided with a plural of pair of slots 150a, 150b, 150c, 150d, 160a, 160b, 160c and 160d which are symmetrically arranged about a longitudinal axis of the body at a predetermined position spaced from the longitudinal axis of the body. The slots 150a-150d and 160a^~160d are parallel to each other at their own positions and connected by each of bands for fixing the body 110 to a vehicular seat or a general chair.

While each of the bands connected to the slots 150a-150d of the middle portion of the body 110 has a male fixture at their ends, each of the bands connected to the slots 160a- 160d of the lower portion of the body 110 has a female fixture at their ends. When the panel 100 is secured to a vehicular seat or a general chair by bands coupling their male fixture to their female fixture, the panel 100 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention is firmly secured by adjusting the length of the bands with the male fixtures in proportion to a length or height of the seat's back.

Hereinafter, the panel 100 will be explained to its operation with reference to the following drawings.

The panel 100 according to the present invention which is constructed as aforementioned to press acupoints in user's back and neck can be used in a condition that it is mounted to a vehicular seat or a general chair. The bands connected to the body 110 of the panel 100 is directed to adjust their length, thereby the panel 100 is firmly secured to the seat or chair and is subject to adjusting its height to come into close contact with the user's back in a proper manner.

When the panel 100 puts an end to its installation, a user sits on the vehicular seat or the general chair to come into close contact his/her own back and neck to the panel 100.

When user's back and neck are brought into close contact with the panel 100, the panel 100 is supported on a back of the vehicular seat or general chair and brought into close contact with user's back and neck. Therefore, user's back and neck are experienced with an acupressure effect by protrusions 112, magnets 114 and natural jades 116 provided to the panel 100. In particular, because the magnets 114 or the natural jades 116 mounted to the body 110 of the panel 100 are arranged to correspond to the acupoints distributed in user's back and neck, the magnets 114 or the natural jades 116 act to press the acupoints in user's back and neck as well as give more impulse to the acupoints in user's back and neck by radiating a magnetic field from the magnets 114 and far-infrared rays from the natural jades 116.

Industrial Applicability

As above-mentioned, the protrusions 112, magnets 114 and natural jades 116 stimulate the acupoints in user's back and neck as well as give a magnetic field from the magnets 114 and far-infrared rays from the natural jades 116, which are arranged at the front side of the panel 100 to correspond to the acupoints distributed in user's back and neck and arranged at the front side of the panel 100 to correspond to the acupoints distributed in user's back and neck. In result, there is advantage that the panel facilitates the circulation of the blood at the acupoints of user's back and neck to help carry out metabolism with ease.

In the drawings and specification there have been disclosed typical preferred embodiment of the invention and, although specific terms are employed, they are used in a generic and descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation, the scope of the invention being set forth in the following claims.

Claims

WHAT IS CLAIMED IS:

1. A panel for pressing a user's back, comprising: a body formed to correspond to the user's back; a plural of protrusions, formed on the front side of the body, for pressing the user's back on contacting with the user's back; a plural of natural jades, arranged on the body, for stimulating acupoints in the user's back through radiation of far-infrared rays from the jades; and a plural of magnets, arranged on the body, for stimulating acupoints in the user^'s back through radiation of magnetic field from the magnets.

2. The panel as claimed in claim 1, further comprising: a neck integrally formed on the body and having a space for receiving an aromatic.

3. The panel as claimed in claim 2, wherein the body, neck and protrusions on the front side of the body are integrally formed of thermoplastic material by injection molding.

4. The panel as claimed in claim 2, wherein the body and neck are provided with rib in their edges in order to apply stiffness for supporting the body and neck, the rib extending to a direction perpendicular to the front surface of the body at the edges of the body and the neck.

5. The panel as claimed in claim 2, wherein the neck is provided with a plural of magnets and natural jades on its front side corresponding to the acupoints of the user's neck.

6. The panel as claimed in claim 2 or 5, wherein t he plural of magnets and natural jades are press-fitted in each of through-holes formed in the body and neck to cause the through-holes to correspond to acupoints in the user's body.

7. The panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the protrusions has about a diameter of 12 mm and a height of 10 mm.

8. The panel as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the magnets and natural jades has about a diameter of 16 mm and a height of 7 mm.