JP5255782B2 - Bathtub - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a bathtub. Specifically, it relates to a bathtub where hot yoga and stretching exercises are performed.

  Yoga, which combines breathing and gymnastics, is one of the diet methods at fitness clubs and the like as aerobics.

  In addition, one type of yoga is called “hot yoga”. Hot yoga is a yoga practice in a space of high temperature and high humidity, for example, 38 ° C and 65% humidity. By increasing the temperature of the muscles and increasing the stretchability, higher flexibility and sweating effects can be achieved. We can expect and are gaining popularity. Also, stretching exercise, a flexible gymnastic exercise developed from yoga, is performed after raising the temperature of the muscles in a hot and humid environment and increasing the elasticity, thereby improving the muscle flexibility and blood circulation, It is gaining popularity because it accelerates the recovery of fatigue and provides a relaxing effect.

And the mist sauna apparatus which can perform a stretching exercise in the state where the bather warmed the body to some extent in such a hot and humid environment has been proposed (for example, see Patent Document 1).
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram for explaining a bathroom in which a conventional mist sauna apparatus is installed and a side wall unit of the conventional mist sauna apparatus. The remote controller 105 connected to the control device 140 of the mist sauna device 150 is provided on the side wall of the bathroom 101. By operating the remote controller 105, an operation instruction is given to the control device 140. The side wall unit 120A is provided with a blower outlet 112 for blowing warm air and a suction port 113 for sucking air in the bathroom 101 as a blowing means for blowing air into the bathroom 101. The temperature of hot water supplied to the nozzle 110 is set to a relatively high temperature, and about 40 to 50 ° C. from the mist nozzle 110. Relatively high hot mist temperature range of the warm mist is described that the blown in. Patent Document 1 describes that a warm mist is blown out toward the bather's head, buttocks, back, legs, and front.
Moreover, with such a configuration, a comfortable exercise in the bathroom can be provided to a bather who exercises in the bathroom while reducing the burden on the body.

JP 2006-280502 A

However, in the conventional mist sauna device, although the hot mist is blown toward each part of the bather's body, there are not a few places where the hot mist does not hit, and the hot mist does not sufficiently warm the bather's body. The bathers may not be able to get the full effect of hot yoga and stretching exercises even if they move their bodies.
In addition, it is possible to obtain hot yoga effects by filling hot water in the bathtub in the bathroom and performing flexible exercises while bathing in hot water, but in the bathtub at the depth of the floor that can be immersed to the normal shoulder, Even if you do flexible gymnastics while soaked in hot water, you will not be able to take a posture that makes your body feel buoyant. In addition, even if flexible exercises are performed in the bathtub without reducing the amount of hot water so that it is not soaked in the shoulder, the normal bathtub floor is hard, so the amount of hot water was simply reduced so that it is not affected by buoyancy. Can take various postures, but by avoiding the influence of buoyancy, if a part of the body in contact with the floor of the bathtub takes weight, a heavy burden is placed on that part, causing pain, I can't do hot yoga enough.

  The present invention was devised in view of the above points, and provides a bathtub in which the body of a bather can be sufficiently warmed so that the bather can move the body and sufficiently obtain the effects of hot yoga or stretching exercise. The purpose is to do.

In order to achieve the above object, the bathtub of the present invention includes a first region having a chaise lounge and a second region having an exercise table, and the seat surface of the exercise table is a seat of the chaise lounge. A bathtub in which a wall portion is formed at a position higher than the surface and in which a liquid is placed, and an elastic member is detachably attached to a seating surface of the exercise table, and the elastic member The distance from the upper surface of the wall portion to the upper surface of the wall portion corresponds to the distance between the buttocks and the abdomen of the bather when the bather sits on the elastic member, The distance to the upper surface corresponds to the distance between the buttocks and shoulders of the bather when the bather sits on the seat surface of the chaise lounge, and the chaise lounge and the exercise table are on the wall. Adjacent, the upper surface of the wall adjacent to the chaise lounge and the upper surface of the wall adjacent to the exercise table Are located at substantially the same height, and the first region has a floor surface located at a position lower than the seat surface of the chaise lounge, and the area of the second region is the first region. It is larger than the area .

Here, the distance from the upper surface of the elastic member to the upper surface of the wall portion corresponds to the distance between the bather's buttocks and the abdomen when the bather sits on the elastic member, thereby maximizing hot water in the bathtub. The bather sitting on the elastic member can only soak up to the abdomen even if put in the limit, so the bather can take various postures in the bathtub without being affected by buoyancy, and on the elastic member So, even if you take a variety of postures and put weight on a part of your body, you can relieve the burden and pain on that part.
In addition, bathers can have a great relaxing effect, unlike normal hot yoga because they can move their bodies in hot water.

In the bathtub of the present invention, the distance from the seat surface of the chaise lounge to the upper surface of the wall portion is the distance between the buttocks and shoulders of the bather when the bather sits on the seat surface of the chaise lounge base. by corresponding, back and forth to move the body in the second region, a bather can soak in hot water to the shoulder, it is possible to warm the whole body.

  The bathtub according to the present invention sufficiently warms the bather's body, and the bather can move the body to sufficiently obtain the effect of hot yoga or stretching exercise.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings to facilitate understanding of the present invention.
FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view illustrating a bathtub to which the present invention is applied. In FIG. 1, the bathtub 1 of the present invention has a wall portion 4 formed around it so that the entire shape is rectangular when viewed in plan, and is disposed on the floor 1 </ b> A along the wall portion 4. A first platform 2 having a chaise lounge 9 and a step platform 10 disposed opposite the chaise lounge 9 and an exercise platform (not shown) formed integrally with a region other than the first region, that is, the wall 4. .).

  A plurality of elastic mats (an example of an elastic member) 5 are detachably attached to a seating surface of an exercise table (not shown), that is, a seating surface of the second region 3. In addition, a first heating device 6 for heating the hot water stretched in the first region 2 is attached to the outside of the wall portion 4 adjacent to the first region 2. A second heating device 7 for warming the stretched hot water is attached to the outside of the wall portion 4 adjacent to the second region 3.

  Further, as a jacuzzi function, a jet discharge device 8 that discharges a jet containing bubbles in hot water stretched in the first region 2 is attached to the outside of the wall portion 4 adjacent to the first region 2. At the same time, a plurality of jet outlets 8 </ b> A from which jets are discharged are formed on the inner wall surface of the wall portion 4 adjacent to the first region 2.

Here, the seating surface of the second region 3 is located higher than the seating surface of the first region 2, and the bath was put into the bathtub from the upper surface of the elastic mat 5 on the seating surface of the second region 3. If the distance to the hot water surface corresponds to the distance between the buttocks and the abdomen of the bather 12 when the bather 12 sits on the elastic mat 5, the first heating device and the second warming device are not necessarily required. The heating device may not be attached to the wall portion, and the jet discharge device may not necessarily be attached to the wall portion.
Further, another jet discharge device that discharges a jet containing bubbles in the hot water stretched in the second region 3 may be attached to the outside of the wall portion 4 adjacent to the second region 3. In this case, a jet outlet from which a jet is discharged is formed on the inner wall surface of the wall 4 adjacent to the second region 3.

Each of the plurality of elastic mats 5 has a size of 2 m × 1 m, and twelve elastic mats 5 having such a size are spread on the seating surface of an exercise table (not shown). As a result, the area of the second region 3 is 4 m long × 6 m wide = 24 m ² , but is not necessarily limited to the size of the elastic mat 5 and the area of the second region 3. Absent.
Moreover, the area of the bathtub 1 of the present invention is 4 m long × 8 m wide = 32 m ² and the area of the second region 3 is 24 m ² , so the area of the first region 2 is the remaining 8 m ^2. However, it is not necessarily limited to such an area.

FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a cross section of a bathtub to which the present invention is applied. As shown in FIG. 2, the bathtub 1 of the present invention has a cubic-shaped chaise lounge 9 disposed on the floor 1 </ b> A along the wall 4 formed in the periphery, and a cubic shape disposed opposite to the chaise lounge 9. The first region 2 having the step 10 and the second region 3 having the exercise platform 14 formed integrally with the wall 4 are provided.
Further, the seating surface of the exercise table 14, that is, the seating surface of the second region 3, is located higher than the seating surface of the chaise lounge 9, that is, the seating surface of the first region 2.
Further, the upper surface of the wall portion 4 adjacent to the first region 2 and the upper surface of the wall portion 4 adjacent to the second region 3 are at substantially the same height.

  A plurality of elastic mats 5 are detachably mounted on the seating surface of the second region, that is, the seating surface of the exercise table 14, and the boundary between the first region 2 and the second region 3, that is, the exercise table. An anti-slip member 13 having a height that is at least half the thickness of the elastic mat 5 is detachably mounted on the seating surface of the exercise table 14 along one side. Further, a removable member such as the anti-slip member 13 is not necessarily used. For example, the anti-slip member is formed integrally with the exercise table, and a recess is formed on the seat surface of the exercise table. An elastic mat may be fitted.

Further, as shown in FIG. 2, the distance from the upper surface of the elastic mat 5 to the upper surface of the wall portion 4 adjacent to the second region 3, that is, the distance from the upper surface of the elastic mat 5 to the hot water surface 11 is bathing. This corresponds to the distance between the buttocks and abdomen of the bather 12 when the person 12 sits on the elastic mat 5.
In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, the distance from the seat surface of the chaise lounge 9 to the upper surface of the wall 4 adjacent to the first region 2, that is, the distance from the seat surface of the chaise lounge 9 to the hot water surface 11 is as follows. This corresponds to the distance between the bather's buttocks and shoulder when the bather 12 sits on the seat of the chaise lounge 9.

  Here, the depth from the hot water surface 11 extending to the upper surface of the wall 4 to the floor 1A is about 80 cm, and the depth from the hot surface 11 to the seat surface of the chaise lounge 9 is about 50 cm. In addition, the depth from the hot water surface 11 to the upper surface of the elastic mat 5 is about 25 cm, but the seating surface of the second region 3 is higher than the seating surface of the first region 2, The distance from the upper surface of the elastic mat 5 on the seat surface of the second region 3 to the hot water surface corresponds to the distance between the buttocks and the abdomen of the bather 12 when the bather 12 sits on the elastic mat 5. If so, such a depth is not necessarily required.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, the chaise lounge 9 is not disposed on the entire first region, and the bather 12 sitting on the chaise lounge 9 places his feet on the floor 1A of the bathtub 1, If the position of the seating surface of the first region is lower than the position of the seating surface of the second region, the chair does not necessarily have to be arranged in the first region. For example, the position of the seating surface of the first region May all be the same height.
Further, the step platform 10 is arranged so that the bather 12 moves from the first region 2 to the second region 3 so as to easily rise onto the elastic mat 5 of the exercise table 14. The position of the seat surface and the position of the tread surface of the step platform 10 are substantially at the same height.

  Moreover, although the bathtub in which only the 1st area | region and the 2nd area | region were formed is demonstrated here, while the elastic member is attached to the seating surface of a 2nd area | region so that attachment or detachment is possible, The distance from the upper surface to the liquid level of the liquid placed in the bathtub corresponds to the distance between the buttocks and the abdomen of the bather when the bather sits on the elastic member, and from the seating surface of the first region As long as the seating surface of the second region is at a higher position, a third region and a fourth region may be further formed in the bathtub.

Thus, in the bathtub of the present invention, the distance from the upper surface of the elastic member to the liquid level of the liquid placed in the bathtub is between the buttocks and the abdomen of the bather when the bather sits on the elastic member. Since the bather sitting on the elastic member can only soak up to the abdomen even if the hot water is put in the tub as much as possible, there are various bathers in the tub without being affected by buoyancy. It can take a posture and sits on an elastic member, so even if you take a variety of postures and get weight on a part of your body, you can relieve the burden and pain on that part, Soaked in hot water in the state, the muscles are warmed and the elasticity of the muscles is improved, and the acupressure effect of hot water can also be expected, so the bather's body is fully warmed and the bather moves the body to perform hot yoga or The effect of stretching exercise can be sufficiently obtained.
In addition, bathers can have a great relaxing effect, unlike normal hot yoga because they can move their bodies in hot water.

  Further, the distance from the seating surface of the first region to the liquid level of the liquid placed in the bathtub is between the buttocks and shoulders of the bather when the bather sits on the seating surface of the first region. Therefore, before and after moving the body in the second region, the bather can soak in the hot water up to the shoulder and warm the whole body. Thereby, the blood circulation of the whole body is improved and the stretchability of the muscle is further improved.

  Moreover, since the jet discharge apparatus which discharges the jet containing a bubble in the liquid stretched in the 1st area | region is attached to the bathtub, the bather can acquire the massage effect.

  In addition, since a plurality of elastic mats are used, even if the elastic mat is damaged by movement, it can be partially replaced.

  A non-slip member having a height at least half the thickness of the elastic mat is detachably mounted on the seat surface of the exercise table along the boundary between the first region and the second region, that is, one side of the exercise table. Therefore, the elastic mat can be easily replaced by removing the anti-slip member and sliding the elastic mat. Further, if a recess is formed in the seating surface of the exercise table and the elastic mat is fitted into the recess, there is no fear that the elastic mat is displaced due to the movement.

  Moreover, the 1st heating apparatus for heating the hot water stretched in the 1st area | region is attached to the outer side of the wall part adjacent to a 1st area | region, and the hot water stretched in the 2nd area | region is attached. Since the second warming device for warming is attached to the outside of the wall adjacent to the second region, for example, one warming device is stopped and the other warming device is operated. The temperature of the hot water in the first region and the temperature of the hot water in the second region can be made different.

It is a schematic plan view explaining the bathtub to which this invention is applied. It is a schematic sectional drawing explaining the cross section of the bathtub to which this invention is applied. It is the schematic explaining the side wall unit of the bathroom in which the conventional mist sauna apparatus was installed, and the conventional mist sauna apparatus.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Bathtub 1A Floor 2 1st area | region 3 2nd area | region 4 Wall part 5 Elastic mat 6 1st heating apparatus 7 2nd heating apparatus 8 Jet generation apparatus 8A Spout 9 Chaise stand 10 Step stand 11 Hot water surface 12 Bather 13 Non-slip member 14 Exercise table

Claims (1)

A first area having a chaise lounge and a second area having an exercise table are provided , and the seat surface of the exercise table is higher than the seat surface of the chaise lounge, and a wall portion is formed around it. A bath in which liquid can be placed;
The elastic member is detachably attached to the seating surface of the exercise table , and the distance from the upper surface of the elastic member to the upper surface of the wall portion is the buttocks of the bather when the bather sits on the elastic member Corresponds to the distance between and
The distance from the seat surface of the chaise lounge to the upper surface of the wall corresponds to the distance between the buttocks and shoulders of the bather when the bather sits on the seat surface of the chaise lounge,
The chaise lounge and the exercise table are adjacent to the wall,
The upper surface of the wall portion adjacent to the chaise lounge and the upper surface of the wall portion adjacent to the exercise table are at substantially the same height,
The first region has a floor surface at a position lower than the seat surface of the chaise lounge,
The bathtub is characterized in that the area of the second region is larger than the area of the first region .

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