Training device

• US 20020198080A1
• Filed: 05/15/2002
• Published: 12/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Anton Reck
• Original Assignee: Anton Reck
• Inventors: Reck, Martin
• Application Number:
  US10/144,724
• Publication Number:
  US 20020198080A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 482/8
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 1/0214 by rotating cycling movement
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2201/1276 by the other leg or arm
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0652 Visualisation or indication relating to symmetrical exercise, e.g. right-left performance related to spinal column
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00181 comprising additional means assisting the user to overcome part of the resisting force, i.e. assisted-active exercising
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/002 isometric or isokinetic, i.e. substantial force variation without substantial muscle motion or wherein the speed of the motion is independent of the force applied by the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0058 using motors
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/0605 performing a circular movement, e.g. ergometers
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/833 Sensors arranged on the exercise apparatus or sports implement
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0476 by rotating cycling movement arrangements on or for real bicycles A63B69/16

Abstract

A training device is proposed which has actuating elements which can be moved continuously in rotation and are connected to one another and are intended for a pair of limbs of a person, drive means for driving the actuating elements, and an electronics unit for regulating and/or controlling the movement of the actuating elements, with means being provided for visual, acoustic, touch-based or smell-based notification or display of a training parameter objective and of an actual value which can be compared with it, or of a training parameter target deviation in relation to an actual value, and the training parameter target being the speed of rotation, the torque or the actuating element position, or a variable derived therefrom. Moreover, a side-related and an angle-related training parameter objective with corresponding notification or display is proposed. In addition, part of the invention is a training device which, in isokinetic training, changes a desired speed of rotation as a function of cardiovascular variables or the driving torque applied to the actuating elements by the person doing the training.

Claims

1. Training device which has actuating elements which can be moved continuously in rotation and are connected to one another and are intended for a pair of limbs of a person, drive means for driving the actuating elements, and an electronics unit for regulating and/or controlling the movement of the actuating elements, characterized in that means are provided for visual, acoustic, touch-based or smell-based notification or display of a training parameter objective and of an actual value which can be compared with it, or of a training parameter target deviation in relation to an actual value, the training parameter target being the speed of rotation, the torque, or the actuating element position, or a variable derived therefrom.

2. Training device according to claim 1, characterized in that the electronics unit is designed to automatically change the training parameter objective as a function of predetermined criteria.

3. Training device according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the change in the training parameter objective results in a change in a training parameter which is regulated or controlled by the electronics unit.

4. Training device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the electronics unit is designed to change a regulated or controlled training parameter as a function of predetermined criteria.

5. Training device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the electronics unit is designed to change an external stimulation parameter as a function of predetermined criteria.

6. Training device according to the precharacterizing clause of claim 1, in particular according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the electronics unit is designed for side-related pre-setting of a training parameter target, and in that means are provided for visual, acoustic, touch-based or smell-based notification or display of the side-related training parameter objective and of an actual value which can be compared with it, or of a training parameter target deviation in relation to an actual value.

7. Training device according to the precharacterizing clause of claim 1, in particular according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the electronics unit is designed for angle-related pre-setting of a training parameter target, and in that means are provided for visual, acoustic, touch-based or smell-based notification or display of the angle-related training parameter objective and of an actual value which can be compared with it, or of a training parameter target deviation in relation to an actual value.

8. Training device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the electronics unit is designed to evaluate the manner in which training parameter objectives are achieved.

9. Training device according to the precharacterizing clause of claim 1, in particular according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the electronics unit, in the context of isokinetic training, is designed to regulate the speed of rotation to a desired speed of rotation and to automatically change the desired speed of rotation as a function of cardiovascular variables of the person doing the training and/or the driving torque applied to the actuating elements by the person doing the training.

10. Training device according to the precharacterizing clause of claim 1, in particular according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the drive means, by at least temporary driving of the actuating elements, assist a person doing the training to achieve a training parameter objective.