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Flex meter for sports game implements

  • US 5,796,005 A
  • Filed: 12/06/1993
  • Issued: 08/18/1998
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/12/1991
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A combination for measuring the flexing of an implement said implement being a second body employed by a player in a sports game to have an impact with a first body, a single said impact being for a short interval of time, said implement responsive to a single impact having a mode of natural vibratory flexing in said implement, said mode of natural vibratory flexing having a natural frequency having an unknown value fr and an amplitude having a value Ax at a location x on said implement;

  • said combination comprising a measuring means measuring said implement subsequent to said impact, providing a measured value indicating said value fr, said measuring means comprising at least one mechanical element having a known natural frequency of vibration;

    said natural frequency being substantially the same as said frequency fr ;

    a coupling means coupling said measuring means to said mode of natural vibratory flexing, the amplitude and natural frequency of vibration of said mechanical element indicating said value fr and thereby the vibratory flexing of said implement, a higher said value fr indicating said natural vibratory flexing having an amplitude having a value Ax being lesser.

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