Yoga balance trainer

• US 6,676,579 B1
• Filed: 08/05/2002
• Issued: 01/13/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Asia Regent Limited
• Original Assignee: Asia Regent Limited
• Inventors: Lin, Danny
• Primary Examiner(s): Lucchesi, Nicholas D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BAKER, LORI LYNN
• Application Number:
  US10/213,753
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• Field of Search: 482/145-147, 482/70-75, 482/51, 482/134, 482/125, 482/121, 482/122, 482/110
• US Class Current: 482/146
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2022/0028 the movement path being non-parallel to the body-symmetrical-plane, e.g. support elements moving at an angle to the body-symmetrical-plane
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2022/0033 Lower limbs performing together the same movement, e.g. on a single support element
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2022/185 specially adapted for using with a single foot or hand
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2023/0411 Squatting exercises
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/0012 the exercises for arms and legs being functionally independent
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/14 Platforms for reciprocating rotating motion about a vertical axis , e.g. axis through the middle of the platform
• 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 2208/0209 on a single foot
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0233 in 90/90 position, like on a chair
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/1236 Push-ups in horizontal position, i.e. eccentric movement
• 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

Abstract

A yoga balance trainer includes a main frame, a base support, and two upright exercising rod units. The main frame has a first spring unit connected between bottom and top boards. The base support includes a number of interconnecting base tubes connected fixedly to the bottom board of the main frame, a plurality of positioning tubes connected removably, telescopically, and respectively to selected two of the base tubes, and positioning units for positioning the positioning tubes respectively relative to the base tubes. Each rod unit includes a lower rod portion connected to one of the selected two of the positioning tubes, an upper rod portion, and a second spring unit connected between the lower and upper rod portions so that the upper rod portion is twistable relative to the lower rod portion.

Claims

1. A yoga balance trainer comprising:

a main frame including a hard bottom board, a hard top board opposite to said bottom board, and a first spring unit connected between said bottom and top boards so as to permit flexible movement of said top board relative to said bottom board;

a base support including a plurality of interconnecting base tubes connected fixedly to said bottom board of said main frame, a plurality of positioning tubes connected removably, telescopically, and respectively to said base tubes, and a plurality of positioning units for positioning said positioning tubes respectively relative to said base tubes; and

at least two upright exercising rod units connected respectively and removably to selected two of said positioning tubes, each of said exercising rod units including a lower rod portion connected to the respective one of the selected two of said positioning tubes, an upper rod portion opposite to said lower rod portion, and a second spring unit connected between said lower and upper rod portions so that said upper rod portion is twistable relative to said lower rod portion.

2. The yoga balance trainer as claimed in claim 1, further comprising two horizontal rotatable disc units mounted removably on said top board of said main frame, each of said rotatable disc units having a horizontal lower disc portion mounted non-rotatably on said top board, and a horizontal upper disc portion opposite to said lower disc portion and rotatable relative to said lower disc portion.

3. The yoga balance trainer as claimed in claim 2, wherein said top board of said main frame has an upper surface formed with a plurality of vertical holes, said lower disc portion of each of said rotatable disc units having a bottom surface formed with a plurality of positioning posts that engage respectively said holes in said top board so as to prevent rotation of said lower disc portions of said rotatable disc units relative to said top board.

4. The yoga balance trainer as claimed in claim 2, wherein said top board of said main frame has an upper surface provided with a first hook-and-loop fastener, said lower disc portion of each of said rotatable disc units having a bottom portion provided with a second hook-and-loop fastener that engages said first hook-and-loop fastener so as to retain said lower disc portions of said rotatable disc units on said top board.

5. The yoga balance trainer as claimed in claim 1, wherein said upper rod portion of each of said upright exercising rod units includes an outer tube inserted into and fastened to said second spring unit, an inner tube inserted adjustably into said outer tube, and a retaining pin for retaining said inner tube on said outer tube, said outer tube having a retaining hole, said inner tube having a vertical row of positioning holes, said retaining pin extending through said retaining hole and into a selected one of said positioning holes.

6. The yoga balance trainer as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said upright exercising rod units further includes a rotatable knob connected rotatably on a top end of said upper rod portion.

7. The yoga balance trainer as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of said positioning units of said base support includes

a retaining hole formed in a respective one of said base tubes;

a horizontal row of positioning holes formed in a respective one of said positioning tubes; and

a positioning pin extending through said retaining hole in the respective one of said base tubes and into a selected one of said positioning holes.