Exercise recorder
First Claim
1. The portable exercise measuring device, comprising, in combination, a mechanical sensor-transducer, having outputs representative of muscular movements of an exercising body, said transducer comprising a movable inertial mass;
- a computer for converting said output to signals representative of the number of Calories expended by said exercising body, said computer including means for accumulating the total number of said signals and displaying said total; and
timing means connected to said computer for modifying the sum of said accumulation dependent upon the type, vigor or period of the exercise.
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Abstract
A combined sensor-transducer with a calculator or computer is provided in which the sensor senses mechanical motions as in muscular exercising to provide a transduced pulse to the calculator or transducer to tally the number of muscular movments or by inserting a factor in the computer to read out the pulses in terms of calories or energy. An improved type of reed switch is provided for sensing mechanical motions in which a magnet is slidably supported near magnetically responsive metal lead wires, the magnetic flux with each movement of the slidable magnet bending the wires into conductive contact.
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14 Claims
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1. The portable exercise measuring device, comprising, in combination, a mechanical sensor-transducer, having outputs representative of muscular movements of an exercising body, said transducer comprising a movable inertial mass;
- a computer for converting said output to signals representative of the number of Calories expended by said exercising body, said computer including means for accumulating the total number of said signals and displaying said total; and
timing means connected to said computer for modifying the sum of said accumulation dependent upon the type, vigor or period of the exercise. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
- a computer for converting said output to signals representative of the number of Calories expended by said exercising body, said computer including means for accumulating the total number of said signals and displaying said total; and
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13. The portable exercise measuring device, comprising, in combination, a mechanical sensor-transducer, having outputs representative of muscular movements of an exercising body, said transducer comprising a movable inertial mass;
- a computer for converting said output to signals representative of the number of Calories expended by said exercising body, said computer including means for accumulating the total number of said signals and displaying said total; and
timing means connected to said computer for modifying the sum of said accumulation dependant upon the type, vigor or period of the exercise, said computer and transducer being pocket-sized and both are mounted in a carrying case portably supported by the exercising user in his pocket or belt, said carrying case permanently having mounted therein the sensor-transducer to mechanically connect to the removable computer to transfer the sensed mechanical exercising signals to the inserted computer. - View Dependent Claims (14)
- a computer for converting said output to signals representative of the number of Calories expended by said exercising body, said computer including means for accumulating the total number of said signals and displaying said total; and
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