Beauty treatment device

• US 4,513,737 A
• Filed: 12/22/1980
• Issued: 04/30/1985
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ken-Ichi Mabuchi
• Original Assignee: Kenichi Mabuchi
• Inventors: Mabuchi, Kenichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Pinkham, Richard C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BROWN, THEATRICE
• Application Number:
  US06/219,360
• Time in Patent Office: 1,590 Days
• Field of Search: 128/52, 128/51, 128/55, 128/24.2, 273/108
• US Class Current: 601/101
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0153 hand-held
• 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 2201/1669 moving along the body in a reciprocating manner
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1685 interchangeable modular devices, A61H2201/0107
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/0254 with rotary motor
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 2/00 Magnetotherapy

Abstract

A beauty treatment device comprising a device body, a drive unit housed in the device body, an actuator reciprocated by the drive unit, a patter, or patter assembly removably fitted to the actuator, a space guide fitted to the device body to control the reciprocating motion of the patter assembly, and a resilient member fitted to either or both of the patter assembly and the actuator, compressed as the patter advances towards the open end of the space guide and pats a skin surface being patted, wherein the reciprocating patter repeatedly pats the skin surface at a given rate, whereby removing subcutaneous fat and stimulating subcutaneous muscular tissues to prevent the skin surface to be loosened.

Claims

1. A beauty treatment device for treating a person'"'"'s body, comprising a housing, an actuator mounted in said housing for sliding to and fro oscillating movement, drive means connected to said actuator to oscillate it, a patter member carried by said actuator and movable therewith, resilient means associated with said patter member and said actuator permitting a resilient give of said patter after contact with the body, a connecting mechanism between said actuator and said patter member permitting separation of said actuator from said patter member, push button means associated with said connecting mechanism for connecting and disconnecting said patter member and said actuator, said push button means including a pawl groove provided on said patter member and a connecting pawl fixed to said actuator and being engageable and disengageable with said pawl groove and a push button movably mounted in said housing being movable to shift said pawl.

2. A patting device for a beauty treatment comprising:

a housing;

a crank member rotatably mounted to said housing about a center of rotation;

an actuator having one end rotatably mounted to said crank member at a fixed eccentric radial location on said crank member, and an opposite end slidably mounted with respect to said housing for executing a positive linear stroke having an extended dead center position, with rotation of said crank member,

drive means in said housing connected to said crank member for rotating said crank member,

spacer means connected to said housing and extending in a direction of said linear stroke beyond said actuator opposite end in its extended dead center position, at least a portion of said actuator moving in said spacer means,

a patter member slidably connected to said actuator at said opposite end thereof; and

a spring member engaged between said patter member and said actuator for resilient contraction in a direction parallel to said linear stroke, said spring member holding said patter member beyond an end of said spacer means with said actuator in its extended dead center position so that, before said actuator reaches its extended dead center position, said patter member contacts a skin surface to be treated against which said spacer means is held;

said drive means comprising an electric motor having a shaft connected to said crank member at said center of rotation thereof.