Display for exercise devices

• US 6,705,973 B1
• Filed: 01/02/2003
• Issued: 03/16/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Su-Jung Fon
• Original Assignee: Su-Jung Fon
• Inventors: Fon, Su-Jung
• Primary Examiner(s): Crow, Stephen R.
• Application Number:
  US10/335,799
• Time in Patent Office: 439 Days
• Field of Search: 482/1-10, 482/51, 482/54, 482/909, 482/900-902, 482/57, D21/696, 600/509, 600/519
• US Class Current: 482/8
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0622 Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 482/902 Employing specific graphic or video display
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 482/909 Mechanical indicator

Abstract

A display for exercise devices includes a holder, a display body, resilient members, two damper assemblies and a lock assembly. The holder has an open top and a central cavity. The display body has a bottom and is movably mounted in the central cavity of the holder with the resilient members and the damper assembly. When the display body moves downward in the central cavity and compresses the resilient members, the lock assembly mounted in the holder near the bottom of the holder locks the display body in position. When the lock assembly unlocks the display body, restitution forces in the resilient members push the display body smoothly out of the central cavity by means of the damper assemblies damping the speed of the display body.

Claims

1. A display for a exercise device and the display comprising:

a holder adapted to attach to an exercise device and the holder having

an open top,

a bottom with an inner surface,

a front with an inner surface,

a rear with an inner surface,

two opposite sides with an inner surface,

a central cavity, and

a through hole defined through the holder near the bottom of the holder and communicating with the central cavity;

a display body with a front and a bottom movably mounted in the central cavity of the holder, and the display body having

a display panel mounted in the front of the display body and adapted to show messages; and

a controlling device mounted on the front of the display body and adapted to control modes of operation and set settings of the display body;

at least one resilient member with a top end and a bottom end mounted between the holder and the bottom of the display body in the central cavity and adapted to provide a restitution force for moving the display body upward in the central cavity;

a damper assembly mounted between the display body and the holder in the central cavity and adapted to limit how quickly the display body moves; and

a lock assembly attached to the holder and adapted to hold the display body in the central cavity of the holder at a lower position and the lock assembly comprising

a release with an enlarged head and a releasing end movably mounted in the through hole, and the releasing end in the central cavity;

a pawl pivotally mounted on the bottom of the display body corresponding to the release; and

a latch formed on the holder in the central cavity over the release;

wherein the pawl engages the latch to keep the display body at the lower position in the central cavity of the holder.

2. The display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the damper assembly comprises

a rack attached to the inner surface of the rear at each opposite edge of the holder;

a spur gear rotatably attached to each opposite side of the holder and engaging with a corresponding one of the racks;

a stator mounted in the display body and corresponding to each spur gear;

a rotor with a shaft rotatably mounted in each stator, and the shaft of the rotor extending out of the display body to attach to a corresponding one of the spur gears; and

a high viscosity oil film formed between each stator and each rotor.

3. The display as claimed in claim 1, wherein

a positioning stub is formed in the central cavity on the inner surface of the bottom of the holder and corresponds to the bottom end of each at least one resilient member for the bottom of the corresponding at least on resilient member mounting around the positioning stub;

a positioning hole corresponding to each respective positioning stub is defined in the bottom of the display body for receiving the top end of the corresponding one of the at least one resilient member.

4. The display as claimed in claim 2, wherein

a positioning stub is formed in the central cavity on the inner surface of the bottom of the holder and corresponds to the bottom end of each at least one resilient member for the bottom of the corresponding at least on resilient member mounting around the positioning stub;

a positioning hole corresponding to each respective positioning stub is defined in the bottom of the display body for receiving the top end of the corresponding one of the at least one resilient member.

5. The display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the lock assembly further comprises

a torsion spring attached to the bottom of the display body and adapted to pivot the pawl toward the latch;

and

a spring mounted around the release between the enlarged head of the release and the holder.

6. The display as claimed in claim 5, wherein the at least one resilient member is a compressed spring.

7. The display as claimed in claim 4, wherein the lock assembly further comprises

a torsion spring attached to the bottom of the display body and adapted to pivot the pawl toward the latch;

and

a spring mounted around the release between the enlarged head of the release and the holder.

8. The display as claimed in claim 7, wherein the at least one resilient member is a compressible spring.

9. The display as claimed in claim 6, wherein the through hole is defined through the front of the holder, and the latch is formed on the inner surface of the front in the central cavity over the release.

10. The display as claimed in claim 8, wherein the through hole is defined through the front of the holder, and the latch is formed on the inner surface of the front in the central cavity over the release.

11. The display as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controlling device is pushbuttons attached to the front of the display body.