Equipment for testing the kinesthetic abilities of a person's extremities

• US 3,973,332 A
• Filed: 01/28/1975
• Issued: 08/10/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Waclaw Kazimierz Slomski
• Original Assignee: Waclaw Kazimierz Slomski
• Inventors: Slomski, Waclaw Kazimierz
• Primary Examiner(s): Grieb, William H.
• Application Number:
  US05/544,202
• Time in Patent Office: 560 Days
• Field of Search: 35/11 R, 35/22 R, 73/132, 73/379, 272/DIG. 5
• US Class Current: 434/258
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/18 for vehicle drivers or machine operators
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/224 Measuring muscular strength
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/04 for teaching control of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 9/052 characterised by provision for recording or measuring trainee's performance devices for psychotechnics, e.g. for vehicle drivers A61B5/16, A61B5/18
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 273/05 Vinyl

Abstract

The equipment tests kinesthesic abilities of the tested person'"'"'s extremities. Although it tests psychologically drivers of all kinds of motor vehicles, this equipment can be also used in a variety of different situations.

The equipment consists of the following elements: (a) controlling and recording module; (b) dynamometer with a pressure indicator, which is connected with the recording module; (c) an adjustable seat for the tested person. In the testing method the dynamometer pedal is pressed with a certain strength. The tested person must remember this strain and repeat the procedure several times. The preliminary pressure and the subsequent ones are registered on the recording module in numerical form.

Claims

1. Apparatus for testing kinesthetic memory which comprises:

a rod including means for receiving a force exerted by the person being tested, said rod being moved by said force;

resilient means connected to said rod opposing with a progressively increasing counterforce the movement of said rod caused by said exerted force;

indicator means responsive to movement of said rod caused by said exerted force, said indicator means comprising circuit means, movement discrimination means responsive to the relative movement of said rod included in said circuit means, and indicia means interconnected into said circuit means whereby the amount of force applied to said rod in an individual test is registered by said indicia means, said indicia means comprising a series of separate characters for individually indicating the various forces which may be applied to said rod, said circuit means including clamping means for maintaining differentially relative to the other said characters in registration in said indicia means only one character of said series of characters, said one character indicating the highest force attained in each individual test; and

reset means for inactivating said clamping means for further individual tests.

2. Apparatus for testing kinesthetic memory in accordance with claim 1, wherein amounts of movement of said rod are proportional to said forces applied thereto.

3. Apparatus for testing kinesthetic memory in accordance with claim 1, wherein said rod is displaced in a direction of its longitudinal axis when moved by the application of force thereto, said resilient means comprising a compression spring which at least in part surrounds said rod.

4. Apparatus for testing kinesthetic memory in accordance with claim 1, wherein said indicator means comprises an electrical circuit, a contact from said electrical circuit connected to said rod, a plurality of segments rigidly secured relative to the apparatus adapted to receive said contact one-by-one in accordance with movement by said rod relative to said plurality of segments, said circuit connecting said segments separately to said indicia means whereby the amount of force applied to said rod is registered by said indicia means.

5. Apparatus for testing kinesthetic memory in accordance with claim 4, wherein said indicia means comprises a series of numbers indicating in unit measures for force.