EXERCISE DEVICE

• US 20140342885A1
• Filed: 05/13/2014
• Published: 11/20/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Coulter Ventures, LLC
• Original Assignee: Coulter Ventures, LLC
• Inventors: JONES, Dylan
• Granted Patent: US 9,833,650 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 482/132
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2023/006 for stretching exercises
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0004 Exercising devices moving as a whole during exercise bar bells or dumb bells A63B21/072; on wheels A63B22/20
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/00185 using resistance provided by the user, e.g. exercising one body part against a resistance provided by another body part A63B21/068 takes precedence; isometric exercise A63B21/0023
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/0046 Details of the support elements or their connection to the exercising apparatus, e.g. adjustment of size or orientation attachments of resisters or weights to the body of the user A63B21/4001; using rollers, wheels, castors or gliding means to be moved over the floor or guide tracks A63B22/20
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/18 with elements, i.e. platforms, having a circulating, nutating or rotating movement, generated by oscillating movement of the user, e.g. platforms wobbling on a centrally arranged spherical supporthoop exercising apparatus A63B19/00; eccentric weights put into orbital motion by nutating movement of the user A63B21/0608; pots rotating or rocking by moving the whole body A63G23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 26/003 for improving balance or equilibrium balance beams A63B4/00; apparatus for rope dancing A63B7/08; balancing drums, balancing boards or the like A63B22/16
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 43/00 Balls with special arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 45/00 Apparatus or methods for manufacturing balls working of plastics or substances in a plastic state B29

Abstract

A exercise ball device can include a ball and one or more panels supported by the ball. The ball can be substantially rigid and the at least one panel can be soft or resiliently deformable. The exercise ball can include a belt for guiding and positioning the one or more panels on the ball.

Claims

1. An exercise ball device, comprising:

a ball;

a belt applied to the ball; and

one or more panels connected to the ball, the one or more panels comprising one or more edges abutting one or more edges of the belt, and the belt and one or more panels providing an outer surface of the exercise ball device.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein the exercise device is a sphere-shaped exercise device.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein the belt is configured to guide or align the at least one panel.

4. The device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one panel is multiple panels.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein two or more of the multiple panels are of different size and shape.

6. The device according to claim 4, wherein the belt and multiple panels fit together edge-to-edge like a puzzle on an outer surface of the ball.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein an edge shape of the belt matches an edge shape of the at least one panel.

8. The device according to claim 1, wherein the at least one panel is multiple panels, and an edge shape of the belt matches an edge shape of the multiple panels when the exercise ball device is assembled.

9. The device according to claim 8, wherein the belt defines unique shaped regions on the surface of the ball, and each panel fit a particular region like a three dimensional puzzle on an outer surface of the ball.

10. The device according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the belt is less than a thickness of the at least one panel.

11. The device according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the belt is the same as the thickness of the at least one panel.

12. The device according to claim 1, wherein the thickness of the belt is more than a thickness of the at least one panel.

13. The device according to claim 1, wherein the belt comprises multiple belt elements connected together at one or more belt nodes.

14. A method of making an exercise ball comprising:

providing a substantially rigid ball;

applying a belt to a surface of the ball to define multiple unique-shaped regions on the surface of the ball;

fitting multiple unique-shaped panels into the multiple unique-shaped regions on the surface of the ball edge-to-edge with the belt.