Vibratory apparatus of exercise

• US 20060094990A1
• Filed: 10/31/2005
• Published: 05/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seong Bae Kim
• Original Assignee: Seong Bae Kim
• Inventors: Kim, Seong Bae
• Granted Patent: US 7,141,029 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 601/33
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 1/005 Moveable platforms, e.g. vibrating or oscillating platforms for standing, sitting, laying or leaning
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 2203/0406 Standing on the feet
• CPC Class Codes: A61H 23/0218 with alternating magnetic fields producing a translating or oscillating movement

Abstract

A vibratory exercise apparatus capable of providing a sufficient vertical movement force is provided, which adopts a structure that a bobbin coil connected with a vibration plate is employed in a magnetic gap of a magnetic circuit using a permanent magnet which can generate a strong magnetic force. The vibratory exercise apparatus includes a magnetic gap type vertical vibrator which generates vertical vibration by a permanent magnet and a bobbin coil, a bobbin guide which is installed at the center of a yoke, a bobbin guide rod which is reciprocally movably coupled with the bobbin guide and whose one end is coupled with the upper portion of a bobbin, a joint whose one end is coupled with the upper portion of the bobbin, a vibration plate which is coupled with the other end of the joint, a guide which guides vertical movement of the vibration plate, and a spring which limits a range of movement of the vibration plate and absorbs impact when the vibration plate descends.

Claims

1. A vibratory exercise apparatus comprising:

a vertical vibrator including lower and upper magnets which are disposed at a predetermined distance so that mutually magnetic poles oppose each other, for generating a non-alternating magnetic field;

a first yoke integrally having a loop-type circulating circuit portion extended from the lower surface of the lower magnet to the upper surface of the upper magnet and an extension portion which is extended perpendicularly upwards at a constant gap from the lower-inner circumferential surface of the lower magnet;

a second yoke which connects between the lower and upper magnets and whose inner circumferential surface forms a magnetic gap between the second yoke and the extension portion of the first yoke;

a driving coil which generates an alternating magnetic filed when an electrical driving signal is applied, and which is disposed in the magnetic gap so as to be displaced up and down according to a mutual action with the non-alternating magnetic field generated from the lower and upper magnets; and

a cylindrical bobbin around the cylindrical portion of which the driving coil is wound;

a joint whose one end is coupled with the upper portion of the bobbin;

a vibration plate which is coupled with the other end of the joint;

a base on one surface of which the vertical vibrator is installed;

a guide both ends of which are connected with the vibration plate, respectively, and which guides vertical movement of the vibration plate; and

a vibration absorption unit which limits a range of movement of the vibration plate when the vibration plate moves vertically, and absorbs impact when the vibration plate descends.

2. The vibratory exercise apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a bobbin guide which is installed at the center of the first yoke; and

a bobbin guide rod which is reciprocally movably coupled with the bobbin guide and whose one end is coupled with the upper portion of a bobbin.

3. The vibratory exercise apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the guide comprises a number of guide bearings which are installed in the base;

and a guide rod whose one end is installed in the vibration plate and whose other end is coupled with the guide bearings.

4. The vibratory exercise apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the lower and upper magnets are disposed so that N poles oppose each other, respectively, and are formed of a number of divided discs made of Neodymium (Nd).

5. The vibratory exercise apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a manipulator for setting an operational condition of the vertical vibrator;

a signal generator for generating a driving signal for the coil of the vertical vibrator; and

a controller which drives the signal generator according to the operational condition set via the manipulator, and displays a driving state of the signal generator on a display.

6. The vibratory exercise apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

an object sensor which detects whether or not an object exists on the vibration plate, wherein the controller stops driving of the vertical vibrator if it determines that the object disappears from the vibration plate via the object sensor during driving of the vertical vibrator.

7. The vibratory exercise apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a load sensor which is installed in the vibration plate, for detecting a load, wherein the controller detects the weight of the object loaded on the vibration plate via the load sensor, to thereby drive the vertical vibrator with the number of vibrations and a vibration width appropriate for the detected load.

8. The vibratory exercise apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a frame on one side of the lower end of which the base is installed.

9. The vibratory exercise apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

a display which is installed in the upper end of the frame, for displaying an operational state.

10. The vibratory exercise apparatus according to claim 8, further comprising:

an infrared ray generator which is installed in the direction toward the vibration plate, for generating an infrared ray.

11. The vibratory exercise apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the joint has a structure of transferring only a force of the vertical direction among the force components of the load applied via the vibration plate to the bobbin.

12. A vibratory exercise apparatus comprising:

a vertical vibrator including lower and upper magnets which are disposed at a predetermined distance so that mutually magnetic poles oppose each other, for generating a non-alternating magnetic field;

a first yoke integrally having a loop-type circulating circuit portion extended from the lower surface of the lower magnet to the upper surface of the upper magnet and an extension portion which is extended perpendicularly upwards at a constant gap from the lower-inner circumferential surface of the lower magnet;

a second yoke which connects between the lower and upper magnets and whose inner circumferential surface forms a magnetic gap between the second yoke and the extension portion of the first yoke;

a driving coil which generates an alternating magnetic filed when an electrical driving signal is applied, and which is disposed in the magnetic gap so as to be displaced up and down according to a mutual action with the non-alternating magnetic field generated from the lower and upper magnets; and

a cylindrical bobbin around the cylindrical portion of which the driving coil is wound;

a bobbin guide which is installed at the center of the first yoke;

a bobbin guide rod which is reciprocally movably coupled with the bobbin guide and whose one end is coupled with the upper portion of a bobbin;

a joint whose one end is coupled with the upper portion of the bobbin;

a vibration plate which is coupled with the other end of the joint;

a base on one surface of which the vertical vibrator is installed;

a guide both ends of which are connected with the vibration plate, respectively, and which guides vertical movement of the vibration plate; and

a vibration absorption unit which limits a range of movement of the vibration plate when the vibration plate moves vertically, and absorbs impact when the vibration plate descends.

13. The vibratory exercise apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the guide comprises a number of guide units which are symmetrically around the vertical vibrator.

14. The vibratory exercise apparatus according to claim 12, further comprising a heat radiation pipe which is installed between the bobbin guide and the extension portion of the first yoke and which discharges out heat generated from the coil, the upper and lower magnets, and the first and second yokes, by an air cooling method.

15. The vibratory exercise apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the lower and upper magnets are disposed so that N poles oppose each other, respectively, and the second yoke forming an S pole is surrounded by the loop type circulation circuit portion of the first yoke forming an N pole and the lower and upper magnets so that leaking of the magnetic flux is suppressed from the second yoke.