PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a massaging machine capable of safely altering massaging intensity.SOLUTION: In the massaging machine for performing massaging action with respect to the human body by periodically changing the protruding quantity of the treatment element, which comes into contact with the human body toward the human body, a massaging intensity altering means for changing the massaging intensity on the basis of the altering indication of the massaging intensity changes the peak keeping time of the pressure to the human body during one cycle of periodic massaging action to alter the massaging intensity.COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT【課題】マッサージ強度の変更を安全に行う。【解決手段】人体に接触する施療子の人体側への突出量を周期的に変化させて人体に対するマッサージ動作を行うものにおいて、マッサージ強度の変更指示に基づいて上記マッサージ強度を変化させるマッサージ強度変更手段は、周期的マッサージ動作の1サイクル中における人体押圧のピーク維持時間を変化させることで強度を変更する。【選択図】図1
