Face massaging device

• US 9,744,096 B2
• Filed: 07/13/2012
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Amore Pacific Corporation
• Original Assignee: Amore Pacific Corporation
• Inventors: Park, Changman, Lee, Changkeun, Shin, Taehong, Yi, Seunghwan, Hwang, Cheonghwan, Park, Wooram, Oh, Taekjin, Kang, Byungyoung
• Primary Examiner(s): Yu, Justine
• Assistant Examiner(s): Miller, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US14/232,471
• Publication Number:
  US 20140142477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,873 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/0188 Illumination related features
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/165 Wearable interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/5002 Means for controlling a set of similar massage devices acting in sequence at different locations on a patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/5005 for controlling frequency distribution, modulation or interference of a driving signal
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2205/022 Face
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/006 Percussion or tapping massage hand percussion A61H23/06
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/02 with electric or magnetic drive
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/0263 using rotating unbalanced masses
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 39/04 Devices for pressing such points, e.g. Shiatsu or AcupressureMassage or pressure on general areas A61H9/00 - A61H23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 7/004 power-driven, e.g. electrical

Abstract

Disclosed is a massage device for human face for driving vibration modules of a mask individually even without an external power supply to massage local or overall area of the human face and for driving vibrators of the vibration modules in various vibration pattern of pulse width modulation (PWM) to provide various massage functions such as appeasing, rubbing, picking, pressing, and knocking similar to massage carried out by human hands. The facial massage device includes a mask having an accommodation space therein and at least one vibration module accommodate in the accommodation space of the mask and having own power supply for allowing an independent operation.

Claims

1. A facial massage device, comprising:

a face mask having a first layer attached to a second layer with an accommodation space in between, wherein the second layer is adapted to contact a user'"'"'s face, and the first layer is located opposite the second layer, and the first layer has a plurality of insertion slits that penetrate through the first layer;

a plurality of vibration modules positioned within the accommodation space of the face mask between the first layer and second layer, each of the vibration modules comprising;

a printed circuit board;

a battery configured to generate electric power;

a drive mounted on the printed circuit board, the drive configured to receive the electric power from the battery;

a vibrator mounted on the printed circuit board, the vibrator being configured to create a vibration force upon receipt of the electric power from the drive;

a power connecting member electrically connecting the battery to the drive on the printed circuit board, the power connecting member providing an electrical connection between the battery and the drive; and

an insulator detachably attached to a contact region between the battery and the connecting member, the insulator interrupting the power connection between the battery and the drive, the power connection between the battery and the drive being established only when the insulator is separated from the contact region between the battery and connecting member; and

wherein the insulator of each of the vibration modules extends out through each of the respective insertion slits of the first layer of the face mask;

wherein each of the insertion slits is sized to allow the vibration modules to be inserted or withdrawn therethrough.

2. The facial massage device of claim 1, wherein the vibration module further comprises

a controller controlling the drive to control a vibration state of the vibrator, and the controller controls the drive in pulse width modulation (PWM), wherein the pulse width modulation includes (i) a first mode of operation in which at least two different pulses are sequentially outputted, and (ii) a second mode of operation in which a pulse is outputted continuously.

3. The facial massage device of claim 1, further comprising a wearing unit for allowing the mask to be put on a human head.

4. The facial massage device of claim 1,

wherein the printed circuit board includes first and second surfaces, the second surface being mounted on a support plate, and the first surface having at least one hole defined therein;

wherein the vibrator is mounted in the at least one hole in the first surface; and

wherein a height of the vibration module comprises a sum of a height of the support plate, a height of the printed circuit board, and a height of a portion of the vibrator extending above the first surface.