Vibrator massager using beat frequency

• US 4,570,616 A
• Filed: 02/19/1985
• Issued: 02/18/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Remington Corporation, LLC
• Original Assignee: CLAIROL INCORPORATED
• Inventors: Pitcher, Gerald K., Kunz, Raymond W.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Application Number:
  US06/702,528
• Time in Patent Office: 364 Days
• Field of Search: 128/24.1, 128/24.3, 128/35-38, 128/47, 128/54-56, 74/61, 74/87
• US Class Current: 601/70
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2023/0272 multiple masses each rotated by an individual motor
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/0263 using rotating unbalanced masses
• CPC Class Codes: B06B 1/166 Where the phase-angle of masses mounted on counter-rotating shafts can be varied, e.g. variation of the vibration phase
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/18344 Unbalanced weights

Abstract

An improved therapeutic vibration device using dual motors and rotating discs having eccentric weights. The rotating discs have slightly different effective diameters and are mutually frictionally connected by either providing the rims thereof with a different number of gear teeth or with an elastomeric or other friction material. A vibrational device having such separated motors can be enclosed in a cushion or pillow for convenient use by an individual.

Claims

1. A vibration producing device for providing an impulse at a beat frequency comprising:

(a) a common support structure;

(b) two electrically driven motors, the housing of each motor connected to said common support structure;

(c) a cylindrical disc axially attached to the shaft of each motor for rotation therewith, the rims of said discs in operative engagement with each other, said discs having effective diameters differing from each other by a predetermined amount;

(d) an eccentric weight attached to the shaft of each motor.

2. A vibration device according to claim 1, wherein each eccentric weight is attached to a respective one of said discs.

3. A vibration device according to claim 1, wherein said discs are aligned in the same plane and the operative engagement between said discs is provided by an elastomeric material attached to the perimeter of each disc.

4. A vibration device according to claim 1, wherein the operative engagement between said discs is provided by gear teeth.