Exercise assembly for performing different rowing routines

• US 10,155,131 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2017
• Issued: 12/18/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Coreyak, LLC
• Original Assignee: Coreyak, LLC
• Inventors: Machovina, Brian, McHale-Machovina, Eileen
• Primary Examiner(s): LEE, JOSHUA S
• Application Number:
  US15/627,740
• Publication Number:
  US 20170361153A1
• Time in Patent Office: 546 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2022/0033 Lower limbs performing together the same movement, e.g. on a single support element
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2022/0079 with a pulling cable
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0638 Displaying moving images of recorded environment, e.g. virtual environment
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00069 Setting or adjusting the resistance level; Compensating for a preload prior to use, e.g. changing length of resistance or adjusting a valve
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0088 by moving the surrounding air
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/153 wound-up and unwound during exercise, e.g. from a reel
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/0076 Rowing machines for conditioning the cardio-vascular system seats moving during exercise A63B22/0087; training appliances for rowing or sculling on boats A63B69/06
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/0087 with a seat or torso support moving during the exercise, e.g. reformers A63B22/0076 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/203 in a horizontal plane
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/17 Counting, e.g. counting periodical movements, revolutions or cycles, or including further data processing to determine distances or speed
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/30 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/40 Acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/53 Force of an impact, e.g. blow or punch
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/803 Motion sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/09 Adjustable dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/06 for rowing or sculling
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0622 Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user

Abstract

An exercise assembly structured to perform different rowing routines characterized different rowing motions. A resistance device is movable within a chamber and is cooperatively structured therewith to resist such movement. A drive assembly includes two drive sections each independently connected in driving relation to said resistance device. A connector structure includes two connector members each attached to a handle and connected in driving relation to a different one of said drive sections. The handle is selectively movable through the plurality of different rowing motions, at least one of which results in the two drive sections concurrently driving the resistance member and being concurrently driven by the two connector members. At least one other rowing motion of the handle is defined by each drive section alternately driving the resistance member and being alternately driven by interconnected ones of said connector members.

Claims

1. An exercise assembly structured to perform different rowing routines, said exercise assembly comprising:

a housing comprising a chamber including a resistance device movably disposed therein,

said resistance device cooperatively structured with said chamber to resist rotation thereof within said chamber,

a drive assembly including two drive sections independently connected in driving relation to said resistance device;

a handle and a connector structure;

said connector structure comprising at least two connector members each disposed in driving relation between said handle and a different one of said drive sections,

said handle concurrently movable with and relative to said driving assembly, through a plurality of different rowing motions,

at least one of said plurality of different rowing motions of said handle defined by said at least two drive sections concurrently connected in driving relation to said resistance device and in driven relation to interconnected ones of said at least two connector members,

at least one other of said plurality of different rowing motions of said handle defined by each of said at least two drive sections alternately connected in driving relation to said resistance member and in driven relation to interconnected ones of said connector member,

two ball joint mountings each including a cavity formed on an exterior of said housing, each of said ball joint mountings including a ball movably mounted within a corresponding one of said cavities, and

each of said balls including an opening dimensioned to allow passage of a different one of said connector members there through into said chamber.

2. The exercise assembly as recited in claim 1 further comprising a motion sensor assembly configured to detect and process said rowing motion of said handle, said motion sensor assembly structured to configure motion data associated with said processed rowing motion and said motion sensor assembly including transmission capabilities operative to transmit said motion data to a corresponding interactive display.

3. The exercise assembly as recited in claim 2 said motion data configured to replicate said rowing motion of said handle into a corresponding one of the rowing routines for visualization on the interactive display.

4. The exercise assembly as recited in claim 1 wherein each of said two connector members passes through a different one of said ball joint mountings into connected relation with a different one of drive sections.

5. The exercise assembly as recited in claim 1 where in each of said balls are disposable in and at least partially universal range of movement within a corresponding one of said cavities.