EXERCISE MEASURING DEVICE, EXERCISE APPARATUS HAVING SAME, AND EXERCISE MEASURING METHOD

• US 20180156657A1
• Filed: 05/02/2016
• Published: 06/07/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/06/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lee, Ki Won
• Original Assignee: Lee, Ki Won
• Inventors: LEE, Ki Won
• Granted Patent: US 10,458,838 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0724 Bar-bells; Hand bars
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0728 with means for fixing weights on bars, i.e. fixing olympic discs or bumper plates on bar-bells or dumb-bells
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/08 magnetic
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/10 with adhesive type surfaces, i.e. hook and loop-type fastener
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/16 Angular positions
• 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 2220/40 Acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/803 Motion sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/54 Transponders, e.g. RFID
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0062 Monitoring athletic performances, e.g. for determining the work of a user on an exercise apparatus, the completed jogging or cycling distance
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0087 Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of groups A63B21/00 - A63B23/00, e.g. controlling load
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 19/00 Gyroscopes; Turn-sensitive devices using vibrating masses; Turn-sensitive devices without moving masses; Measuring angular rate using gyroscopic effects
• CPC Class Codes: G01G 19/52 Weighing apparatus combined with other objects, e.g. furniture with walking sticks A45B3/08
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 13/00 Indicating or recording presence, absence, or direction, of movement electric switches H01H; counting moving objects G06M7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01P 15/14 by making use of gyroscopes gyroscopes per se G01C19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 33/02 Measuring direction or magnitude of magnetic fields or magnetic flux G01R33/20 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 15/00 Tags attached to, or associated with, an object, in order to enable detection of the object record carriers for use with machines having a detectable tag or marker G06K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link

Abstract

An embodiment of the present invention discloses an exercise measuring device attachable to and detachable from a bar of an exercise apparatus, the exercise measuring device including: a main body; a coupling portion formed on the main body and configured to be coupled to at least an end portion of the bar; and a reader formed on the main body, wherein when a weight portion including a tag is fitted to the end portion of the bar, the reader detects a weight of the weight portion fitted to the bar by reading the tag of the weight portion.

Claims

1. An exercise measuring device comprising:

a main body;

a coupling portion formed on the main body and configured to be attachable to and detachable from at least an end portion of a bar of an exercise apparatus; and

a reader formed on the main body, wherein when a weight portion comprising a tag is fitted to the end portion of the bar, the reader detects a weight of the weight portion fitted to the bar by reading the tag of the weight portion,

wherein whether the weight portion is loaded onto the bar or unloaded from the bar is determined according to a direction in which the tag moves relative to the reader.

2. The exercise measuring device of claim 1, wherein the reader comprises at least one of an NFC reader, an RFID reader, and an identification image reader, and the tag comprises at least one of an NFC tag, an RFID tag, and an identification image.

4. The exercise measuring device of claim 1, wherein the coupling portion comprises a magnetic member and is attachable to and detachable from the bar.

5. The exercise measuring device of claim 1, wherein a hole is formed in the weight portion to receive the bar therethrough, and the exercise measuring device is coupled to a side of the bar and is smaller than the hole.

6. The exercise measuring device of claim 1, further comprising a sensor capable of measuring movement of the exercise measuring device.

7. The exercise measuring device of claim 6, wherein the sensor comprises at least one of a geomagnetic sensor, an acceleration sensor, and a gyro sensor.

8. The exercise measuring device of claim 6, further comprising a communication unit configured to transmit, to an external device, information about the weight of the weight portion read by the reader or the movement of the exercise measuring device measured by the sensor.

3. (canceled)

9. An exercise apparatus comprising:

an exercise measuring device comprising;

a main body;

a coupling portion formed on the main body and configured to be attachable to and detachable from at least an end portion of a bar of the exercise apparatus; and

a reader formed on the main body, wherein when a weight portion comprising a tag is fitted to the end portion of the bar, the reader detects a weight of the weight portion fitted to the bar by reading the tag of the weight portion;

a wearable device mountable on at least a part of a user; and

a distance determining unit configured to determine whether a distance between the exercise measuring device and the wearable device is within a predetermined length,

wherein the detecting of the weight of the weight portion comprises determining, based on a direction in which the tag moves relative to the reader, whether the weight portion is loaded onto the bar or unloaded from the bar.

10. An exercise measuring method comprising:

providing an exercise measuring device on at least an end portion of a bar, the exercise measuring device comprising a main body, a coupling portion formed on the main body and configured to be attachable to and detachable from at least an end portion of a bar of an exercise apparatus and a reader; and

when a weight portion comprising a tag is fitted to the end portion of the bar, detecting a weight of the weight portion fitted to the bar by reading the tag of the weight portion with the reader of the exercise measuring device,

wherein the detecting of the weight of the weight portion comprises determining, based on a direction in which the tag moves relative to the reader, whether the weight portion is loaded onto the bar or unloaded from the bar.

11. The exercise measuring method of claim 10, wherein the reader comprises at least one of an NFC reader, an RFID reader, and an identification image reader, and the tag comprises at least one of an NFC tag, an RFID tag, and an identification image.

13. The exercise measuring method of claim 10, further comprising measuring movement of the exercise measuring device with a sensor.

14. The exercise measuring method of claim 13, wherein the sensor comprises at least one of a geomagnetic sensor, an acceleration sensor, and a gyro sensor.

15. The exercise measuring method of claim 13, further comprising transmitting, to an external device, information about the weight of the weight portion read by the reader or the movement of the exercise measuring device measured by the sensor.

16. The exercise measuring method of claim 10, further comprising:

mounting a wearable device on at least a part of a user; and

determining whether a distance between the exercise measuring device and the wearable device is within a predetermined length.

12. (canceled)