US 12,336,639 B2
Rocking device and control method
Yasuhiro Kato, Aichi (JP); Akio Shimizu, Aichi (JP); Takahiro Harita, Aichi (JP); and Takashi Abe, Ibaraki (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi (JP); and UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA, Ibaraki (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi (JP); and UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA, Ibaraki (JP)
Filed on Apr. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/134,168.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-075414 (JP), filed on Apr. 28, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0346125 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. A47C 3/025 (2006.01)
CPC A47C 3/0251 (2018.08) 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A rocking device comprising:
a support member which supports a body of a user;
a motor which rotates a rotation shaft in a first rotation direction and in a second rotation direction that is a rotation direction opposite to the first rotation direction, and thereby supplies motive power for rocking the support member via a gear attached to the rotation shaft; and
a controller which controls rocking of the support member via the motor,
the support member being configured to
make a first motion of moving in a first movement direction, in accordance with rotation of the rotation shaft in the first rotation direction, and
make a second motion of moving in a second movement direction, in accordance with rotation of the rotation shaft in the second rotation direction,
the controller being configured to
control rocking of the support member such that a prescribed stopped period is provided between the first motion and the second motion.