Massage machine, information recorded medium, program writing method

A massaging apparatus comprising:

• a first massaging mechanism that gives a mechanical impulse to a body of a user to be massaged, including a kneading motor and a tapping motor;
• a second massaging mechanism that gives vibration to the user body including a vibration motor;
• and
• a control device for controlling operations of the motors, wherein
• the first massaging mechanism has a massaging element connected to the kneading and tapping motors via a mechanism, the massaging element including a pair of arms and kneading heads attached on tip ends of the arms;
• the first massaging mechanism is configured to cause the massaging element to perform a kneading operation by moving the pair of arms close to and away from each other or a tapping operation to reciprocate the massaging element with respect to the user, the kneading operation and the tapping operation performed by the massaging element are operated by the control device at a frequency lower than a frequency of a vibration operation of the second massaging mechanism;
• and
• the control device includes a waveform converter having an integrating circuit and is configured to cause the waveform converter to convert an audio signal input from a sound source into a control signal for controlling the operations of the motors and control the operations of the motors using the control signal output from the waveform converter.

A massaging apparatus comprising:

• a first massaging mechanism that gives a mechanical impulse to a body of a user to be massaged, including a kneading motor and a tapping motor;
• a second massaging mechanism that gives vibration to the user body including a vibration motor;
• and
• a control device for controlling operations of the motors, wherein
• the first massaging mechanism has a massaging element connected to the kneading and tapping motors via a mechanism, the massaging element including a pair of arms and kneading heads attached on tip ends of the arms;
• the first massaging mechanism is configured to cause the massaging element to perform a kneading operation by moving the pair of arms close to and away from each other or a tapping operation to reciprocate the massaging element with respect to the user, the kneading operation and the tapping operation performed by the massaging element are operated by the control device at a frequency lower than a frequency of a vibration operation of the second massaging mechanism;
• and
• the control device includes a waveform converter having a waveform converting circuit that converts a waveform of an audio signal input from a sound source and a bias circuit that adds a signal to a signal output from the waveform converter for causing the massaging element to continue the kneading operation or the tapping operation during a time period in which there is no audio signal from the sound source, the operation of the motors being configured to be controlled by a control signal output from the bias circuit.

A massaging apparatus comprising:

• a first massaging mechanism that gives a mechanical impulse to a body of a user to be massaged, including a kneading motor and a tapping motor;
• a second massaging mechanism that gives vibration to the user body including a vibration motor;
• and
• a control device for controlling operations of the motors, wherein
• the first massaging mechanism has a massaging element connected to the kneading and tapping motors via a mechanism, the massaging element including a pair of arms and kneading heads attached on tip ends of the arms;
• the first massaging mechanism is configured to cause the massaging element to perform a kneading operation by moving the pair of arms close to and away from each other or a tapping operation to reciprocate the massaging element with respect to the user, the kneading operation and the tapping operation performed by the massaging element are operated by the control device at a frequency lower than a frequency of a vibration operation of the second massaging mechanism;
• and
• the control device is configured to demodulate a MIDI signal input from a sound source into a control signal such that channels of the MIDI signal for independently controlling respective of plural electronic instruments respectively corresponding to the kneading operation, the tapping operation, and other massage operations of the massaging mechanisms and to control the operations of the motors using the converted control signal.

A massaging apparatus comprising:

• a first massaging mechanism that gives a mechanical impulse to a body of a user to be massaged, including a kneading motor and a tapping motor;
• a second massaging mechanism that gives vibration to the user body including a vibration motor;
• and
• a control device for controlling operations of the motors, wherein
• the first massaging mechanism has a massaging element connected to the kneading and tapping motors via a mechanism, the massaging element including a pair of arms and kneading heads attached on tip ends of the arms;
• the first massaging mechanism is configured to cause the massaging element to perform a kneading operation by moving the pair of arms close to and away from each other or a tapping operation to reciprocate the massaging element with respect to the user, the kneading operation and the tapping operation performed by the massaging element are operated by the control device at a frequency lower than a frequency of a vibration operation of the second massaging mechanism;
• and
• the control device being configured to convert a control program signal included in a composite audio signal which is input from a sound source and is composed of an audio signal and the control program signal, the control program signal being created to cause the massaging mechanisms to operate according to the audio signal, and to control the operations of the motors using the converted control signal, wherein
• the composite audio signal is configured such that the control program signal is advanced by predetermined time with respect to the audio signal output to a signal path reaching a sound output device from which audio is listened to by the user, thereby correcting response delay of the operations of the massaging mechanisms based on the control program signal to adapt the operations of the massaging mechanisms to tempo of music based on the audio signal.