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Therapeutic chaise longue

Assignee: GFPE-GESELLSCHAFT fur PERSONLICHKEITSENTWICKLUNG A Co OF GERMANY GmbH
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Filing: 1989-07-24
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Granted: 1992-02-11
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Expires: 2009-07-24
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Abstract

Abstract A chaise longue for therapeutic treatment of a patient consists of three support sections hinged together so as to be pivotable relative to one another for comfortably supporting a patient which support sections have openings formed therein spaced along the longitudinal centerline of the chaise longue and electroacoustic transducers movably disposed below the openings and adapted to radiate upwardly through the openings at the lower back, the chest and the head/neck areas of a patient resting on the chaise longue with an enhanced signal of a frequency corresponding to the rhythm frequency of certain music to which the patient's body is exposed which rhythm frequency is in the non-audible range and adapted to achieve total relaxation of the patient.

Inventors

  • 👤 Helmut Schmid-Eilber

Bibliographic Details

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Jurisdiction US
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Last Synchronized 2026-11-03 15:22
CPC Classifications
A; A61; A61H; A61H23/00; A61H23/02; A61H23/0218; A61H23/0236; A61H2201/00; A61H2201/01; A61H2201/0119; A61H2201/0138; A61H2201/0149

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 7
Claim 1
Independent Claim 225 words
A chaise longue for the administration of therapeutic treatment adapted to facilitate total relaxation of a patient, said chaise longue including a first support section for the support of the back and the head of the patient, a second support section for the support of the lower back and a third support section for the shanks of the patient, said first and second support sections having openings formed therein in spaced relationship along the longitudinal centerline of the chaise longue and electroacoustic transducers mounted below said first and second sections and arranged so as to radiate upwardly through said openings onto a patient resting on said chaise longue, said first section having wide band speakers arranged at opposite sides of said centerline so as to be adjacent the head of a patient resting on said chaise longue for transmitting music to said patient wherein alternating current in the sound frequency range of the music is supplied to the wide-band speakers to be listened to by the patient on the chaise longue and means are provided for sensing the first of the repetitive beats of the beat pattern of the music and a signal generator is provided to supply to said electroacoustic transducers a signal based on the repetitive beat pattern sensed by said sensing means, said signal having an adjustable frequency below the audible range.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 225 words
A chaise longue for the administration of therapeutic treatment adapted to facilitate total relaxation of a patient, said chaise longue including a first support section for the support of the back and the head of the patient, a second support section for the support of the lower back and a third support section for the shanks of the patient, said first and second support sections having openings formed therein in spaced relationship along the longitudinal centerline of the chaise longue and electroacoustic transducers mounted below said first and second sections and arranged so as to radiate upwardly through said openings onto a patient resting on said chaise longue, said first section having wide band speakers arranged at opposite sides of said centerline so as to be adjacent the head of a patient resting on said chaise longue for transmitting music to said patient wherein alternating current in the sound frequency range of the music is supplied to the wide-band speakers to be listened to by the patient on the chaise longue and means are provided for sensing the first of the repetitive beats of the beat pattern of the music and a signal generator is provided to supply to said electroacoustic transducers a signal based on the repetitive beat pattern sensed by said sensing means, said signal having an adjustable frequency below the audible range.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 28 words
A chaise longue as defined in claim 1, wherein said first and third sections of said chaise longue are pivotally mounted to opposite ends of said second section.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 33 words
A chaise longue as defined in claim 1, wherein said second section has upwardly projecting bulges disposed along the sides thereof for retaining the arms of a patient resting on said chaise longue.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 18 words
A chaise longue according to claim 1, wherein said music has about 60 beat pattern repetitions per minute.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 74 words
A chaise longue according to claim 1, wherein said music has a certain beat pattern repetition frequency and said signal generator has an adjustable signal time and an adjustable output frequency so that its signals can be synchronized with the beat pattern repetition frequency of said music for supplying these signals to said electroacoustic transducers so as to energize said transducers at the beat pattern repetition rate with said signals of below audible frequency.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 32 words
A chaise longue as defined in claim 1, wherein said acoustic transducers are movable along said longitudinal centerline to permit appropriate position adjustment of said electrouacoutic transducers relative to a particular patient.

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