Massage shoes capable of increasing circulation of blood

• US 7,210,253 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2005
• Issued: 05/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tsung I. Yu
• Original Assignee: Tsung I. Yu
• Inventors: Yu, Tsung I
• Primary Examiner(s): KAVANAUGH, JOHN T
• Application Number:
  US11/052,027
• Publication Number:
  US 20060174522A1
• Time in Patent Office: 812 Days
• Field of Search: 361/41, 361/36, 601/30, 601/46
• US Class Current: 36/141
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/00 Footwear characterised by the shape or the use
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/34 with electrical or electronic arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 7/146 provided with acupressure points or means for foot massage
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2205/125 Foot reflex zones
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 39/002 Using electric currents electrotherapy A61N1/32
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/322 Electromedical brushes, combs, massage devices

Abstract

A massage shoe comprises a controller and a shoe body. The inner foot supporting surface of the shoe body is provided with a plurality of conducting sheets, which are respectively connected by conducting wires to a selected location on a vamp or in the heel of the shoe body, and then to the controller for providing a foot with a mid-or-low-frequency electromagnetic wave massage. The controller can be separated from the shoe body and controls the shoe body by a wired or a wireless means. The controller can be connected to other electric massage devices for supplying pulses. The heel of the shoe body is provided with a polarity switch for changing polarity of each of the conducting sheets, whereby the massage effect can be local to a foot or global across two feet, if a pair of shoe bodies is electrically connected.

Claims

1. A pair of massage shoes, each comprising:

a shoe body having a plurality of conducting sheets installed on a foot supporting surface therein, a heel of said shoe body being provided with a receptacle, said receptacle having a circuit board and a plurality conducting terminals for connecting said conducting sheets through conducting wires; and

a controller having a plurality of conducting terminals for engaging said conducting terminals of said shoe body after said controller is inserted into said receptacle, said controller transmitting high-voltage electric pulses to said shoe body through said engaged conducting terminals, whereby a massage effect by electromagnetic waves will be applied to the bottom surfaces of two feet.

2. The pair of massage shoes of claim 1, wherein said controller has a central integrated circuit for generating and transmitting electric pulses, whereby the inductors and capacitors therein will be discharged to generate high-voltage signals whose bandwidth can be modified by preset programs.

3. The pair of massage shoes of claim 1 wherein said controller further includes a plurality of control keys, an LCD display, a set of conducting terminals installed on a rear face of said controller for forming a connection port after connecting said circuit board through said conducting terminals of said shoe body, a power switch, at least two sockets for connecting external devices, and at least a socket for an extended wire, whereby said controller can be connected to an extended wire to form a wired remote control means.

4. The pair of massage shoes of claim 1 further comprising a polarity switch for changing the polarity of each of said conducting sheets.

5. The pair of massage shoes of claim 1 wherein a heel of said shoe body is provided with a receptacle for housing said controller.

6. The pair of massage shoes of claim 1 wherein said controller is capable of powering an electric massage device selected from a pair of conducting massage gloves and a pair of electric massage sticks through a pair of connection wires.

7. The pair of massage shoes of claim 1 wherein said controller is controlled by a remote wireless device.

8. The pair of massage shoes of claim 1 wherein said controller is further provided with a plurality of retaining grooves, and wherein inner walls of said receptacle is further provided with a plurality of retaining members, whereby said controller will be embedded in said the receptacle upon the engagement between said retaining grooves and said retaining members.

9. The pair of massage shoes of claim 1 wherein said conducting sheets of said shoe body is further covered by an insulating shoe pad having a plurality of holes at selected locations, corresponding to some acupuncture points of a foot.

10. The pair of massage shoes of claim 9 wherein said insulating shoe pad is a thin insulating sheet, and said holes are through holes.

11. The pair of massage shoes of claim 9 wherein said insulating shoe pad is a thin insulating sheet, and said holes are filled with a conducting material.

12. A pair of massage shoes, each comprising:

a shoe body having a plurality of conducting sheets installed on a foot supporting surface therein, said conducting sheets being respectively connected by conducting wires to a selected location in said shoe body, a plurality of conducting snap sockets forming at said selected location; and

a controller capable of being attached onto said shoe body by securing with said conducting snap sockets, said controller having an internal circuitry forming an output terminal having a plurality of condutive terminals for transmitting high-voltage electric pulses to said shoe body through said conducting snap sockets, whereby a massage effect by electromagnetic waves will be applied to the bottom surfaces of two feet.

13. The pair of massage shoes of claim 12 wherein said controller is attached on a vamp of said shoe body.

14. The pair of massage shoes of claim 12 wherein said battery mount is separated from said controller and inserted within a heel of said shoe body, said heel further including a cover for shielding said battery mount.

15. The pair of massage shoes of claim 12 wherein the shoe body has a polarity switch for controlling the polarities of the conducting sheets.

16. The pair of massage shoes of claim 12 wherein the controller has at least two sockets for being connected to other peripheral conductive device.