| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a massage machine early detecting breakage of a cover and stopping operation with a simple configuration. <P>SOLUTION: This massage machine includes, in a back pad part 13 of a chair, a massage unit 30 equipped movably along the long direction of the back pad part. The massage machine includes, in the massage unit, horizontally and/or vertically swingable medical treatment arms 42 each having massaging balls 41 in the tips, and conveys movement of the massaging balls to a treated person through the flexible cover 70 stretched on the surface of the back pad part. The massage machine includes breakage detection devices 71, each of which comprises a photodetection sensor 72 and a microswitch 76 or the like, each of which dashes out outside the cover together with the massaging ball from a broken part when the cover 70 is broken, and which are equipped near the massaging balls. When the breakage detection device detects the breakage of the cover, the massage machine stops the operation of massage. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
