PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress power consumption, to simplify a structure, to reduce the number of components, to lower costs, and to reduce noise or the like without lowering a massage effect, and to provide an optimum massage effect even when thickness varies for each user in a treatment part such as a lower leg or the like further in a massage apparatus.SOLUTION: The massage apparatus 1 includes: a massage section 7 having a stationary massage member 15 and a movable massage member 16 equipped so as to hold the treatment part therebetween rotary shafts 9, 10 disposed so as to pass through the proximal end side of the movable massage member 16 of the massage section 7 a driving section 11 for rotatably driving the rotary shafts 9, 10 a pair of left and right conversion sections 12, 12, 13, 13 for converting the rotational force of the rotary shafts 9, 10 into the action of the movement of the movable massage member 16 toward and away from the stationary massage member 15 and a breadth adjustment mechanism 14 capable of adjusting the position of the stationary massage member 15 in directions toward and away from the movable massage member 16.COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT【課題】マッサージ装置において、マッサージ効果を落とすことなく、消費電力の抑制や構造の簡潔化、部品点数の少数化、コストダウン、低騒音化などを可能にし、更に下肢等の施療部において使用者ごとに太さが異なる場合でも、最適なマッサージ効果が得られるようにする。【解決手段】本発明のマッサージ装置1は、施療部を挟み込むように配備された固定側マッサージ部材15及び可動側マッサージ部材16を備えたマッサージ部7と、マッサージ部7の可動側マッサージ部材16の基端側を貫通するように設けられた回転軸9,10と、回転軸9,10を回転駆動する駆動部11と、回転軸9,10の回転力を固定側マッサージ部材15に対する可動側マッサージ部材16の近接離反動作に変換する左右一対の変換部12,12、13,13と、固定側マッサージ部材15を可動側マッサージ部材16に近接離反する方向で位置調節可能にする幅調節機構14と、を有する。【選択図】図3
