MASSAGE DEVICE WITH FLEXIBLE SUBSTRUCTURE

• US 20110071445A1
• Filed: 08/25/2010
• Published: 03/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/26/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JJ Aquisition, LLC
• Original Assignee: JJ Aquisition, LLC
• Inventors: Morenstein, Josh, Wyatt, Jeff, Behar, Yves, Imboden, Ethan F.
• Granted Patent: US 8,821,421 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 601/46
• CPC Class Codes: A61F 7/00 Heating or cooling appliances for medical or therapeutic treatment of the human body heating or cooling means in connection with bedsteads or mattresses A47C21/00 ; massage, therapeutic baths A61H; hyperthermia using electric or magnetic fields or ultrasound A61N; electric heating elements H05B
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 19/30 Devices for external stimulation of the genitals
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 19/34 For clitoral stimulation
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 19/40 Devices insertable in the genitals
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 19/44 Having substantially cylindrical shape, e.g. dildos
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0153 hand-held
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0207 heated
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/10 with further special therapeutic means, e.g. electrotherapy, magneto therapy or radiation therapy, chromo therapy, infrared or ultraviolet therapy
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1685 interchangeable modular devices, A61H2201/0107
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/5035 Several programs selectable
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2205/085 Crotch
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2205/086 Buttocks
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/0263 using rotating unbalanced masses

Abstract

A massage device, methods and apparatus are disclosed. Embodiments of a massage device are provided that include a first end configured to be held and manipulated by the hand of a user and a second end configured for application to a portion of the human body. The device further includes a flexible portion connecting the first end to the second end. The flexible portion contains a source of vibrational motion and has a rigidity of an amount sufficient to transmit the vibrational motion from the source to the second end of the device.

Claims

1. A massager, comprising:

a first end configured to be held and manipulated by the hand of a user;

a second end configured for application to a portion of the human body; and

a flexible portion connecting the first end to the second end, wherein the flexible portion contains a source of vibrational motion and has a rigidity of an amount sufficient to transmit the vibrational motion from the source to the second end of the device,

wherein the source is disposed distal from the second end.

2. The massager of claim 1, wherein the flexible portion comprises a flexible substructure and a boot covering the flexible substructure.

3. The massager of claim 2, wherein the flexible substructure has a Shore durometer value higher than a Shore diameter value of the boot.

4. The massager of claim 1, further comprising a valve to exchange air, wherein the first end, the second end, and the flexible portion comprise a water-proof body.

5. The massager of claim 4, wherein the valve comprises a membrane.

6. The massager of claim 1, wherein the flexible portion comprises two flexible members extending from the first end.

7. The massager of claim 6, wherein the source is one source which vibrates the two flexible members.

8. The massager of claim 6, wherein the source comprises two sources, each source individually controllable.

9. The massager of claim 6, further comprising a valley between the flexible portions.

10. The massager of claim 1, further comprising a heat generating source.

11. The massager of claim 1, wherein the vibrations from the source are dampened proximate the first end.

12. The massager of claim 1, wherein the flexible portion is more flexible when bent on the Y-Z plane then when bent on the X-Y plane.

13. A massager comprising:

a vibration source;

a rib to define a structure, wherein the rib conducts vibrations from the vibration source; and

a flexible material complimenting the rib wherein stimulation is applied through and with the flexible material to an area of the human body wherein the point of the contact to the human body is also a vibration point.

14. The massager of claim 13, wherein the flexible material comprises a flexible substructure and a boot covering the flexible substructure.

15. The massager of claim 13, wherein the rib defines a shape adapted to receive a human digit.

16. A massager having two flexible members extending from the device and having the tip of each members providing a point of vibration wherein the members can be manipulated to apply stimulation to the same point on the human body and can also be maneuvered to apply simultaneous stimulation in different points, and further wherein the two members are approximately of the same height or dimension and are movable independently of one another.

17. The massager of claim 16, wherein each of the two flexible members comprises a flexible substructure and a boot covering the flexible substructure.

18. A massager that includes a spine that configures the massager device to be more rigid in a first direction as opposed to a second direction.

19. The massager of claim 18, wherein the spine comprises a thin piece of material having a rectangular shape.

20. The massager of claims 18 further including a flexible substructure.