Massaging support

Abstract

Massaging support including: a contact surface for a user, the contact surface including an oscillating area, at least one collapsible element, inside the massaging support and placed below each oscillating zone, the collapsible element including: an inner portion including elastically compressible material, to allow geometric variation of the oscillating zone, a casing, including the inner portion and including a gas-tight membrane, and volume variation apparatus for extracting and/or introducing gas into the enclosure, and including: a pump exclusively for extracting gas from the casing, a valve, for allowing or blocking the introduction of gas into the casing, the massaging support further including controller, to repeat several times, on command, the operations of: in a first half-period of time to contract one of the collapsible elements, placing it in depression, and, in a second half-period of time, to open the valve and expand the collapsible element.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.