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US 5,575,760 AGranted
Roller therapeutic appliance
AssigneeNihon Kenko Zoushin Kenkyukai Corporation
InventorIsamu Masuda
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AssigneeNihon Kenko Zoushin Kenkyukai Corporation
InventorIsamu Masuda
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A roller therapeutic appliance has a pressure roller of an elastic material rotatably disposed in a center portion of an operational axis having grips at both ends. An annular magnetic field generating source is embedded adjacent an outer periphery of the pressure roller, which contacts with a human body. The pressure roller is applied and rotated with pressure on a diseased part of the patient. A pressing force due to the pressure roller and also a magnetic field due to the magnetic field generating source embedded in the pressure roller act on the diseased part, thereby imparting both a massaging effect and a magnetic therapeutic effect. Moreover, the annular magnetic field generating source can easily be embedded a predetermined depth and at predetermined positions in the pressure roller is not exposed on the surface of the pressure roller.
A roller therapeutic appliance comprising a longitudinal operating shaft means, a pressure roller means arranged about said operating shaft means for applying localized pressure to a body, means for rotatably supporting said pressure roller means about said shaft means, and annularly shaped magnetic field generating means molded into said pressure roller means for applying magnetic stimulation to a body, said magnetic field generating source means being adjacent an outer periphery of said pressure roller means which contacts a human body, said magnetic field generating means comprising a non-magnetic metal ring having a plurality of permanent magnets embedded, at regular intervals, along an outer peripheral surface of said non-magnetic metal ring.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.