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Microcontroller based massage system

  • US 6,375,630 B1
  • Filed: 04/28/1998
  • Issued: 04/23/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A computer controlled massaging system comprising:

  • (a) a pad for contacting a user of the system;

    (b) a plurality of vibratory transducers for deflecting respective regions of the pad, each transducer being responsive to a transducer power signal;

    (c) a microprocessor controller having associated therewith an input and output interface, and memory including read-only program memory (ROM), non-volatile programmable parameter memory (PROM), and variable memory (RAM);

    (d) an array of input elements connected to the input interface for signaling the microprocessor in response to operator input, the signaling including signals for setting a plurality of operating modes, at least one region signal relating transducers to be activated in the plurality of modes, and signals for setting an intensity control value; and

    (e) a plurality of transducer drivers responsive to the output interface for producing, separately for each of the transducers, the power signal;

    (f) the ROM having a set of instructions stored therein to be used by the microprocessor for implementing a master set of modes including a composite mode incorporating a plurality of other modes of the master set, and for interrogating the PROM; and

    (g) the PROM having parameters stored therein for enabling a predetermined complement of the master modes, wherein the microprocessor generates the plurality of operating modes in response to the input elements, to the exclusion of all but the predetermined complement and, when the predetermined complement includes the composite mode, the microprocessor generates the composite mode in response to the input elements while skipping those portions of the composite mode that are not included in the predetermined complement of the master modes.

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