Exercise ball device

• US 6,837,836 B2
• Filed: 12/09/2002
• Issued: 01/04/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yang-Chin Huang
• Original Assignee: Yang-Chin Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Yang-Chin
• Primary Examiner(s): Lucchesi, Nicholas D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HWANG, VICTOR KENNY
• Application Number:
  US10/316,586
• Publication Number:
  US 20040110613A1
• Time in Patent Office: 757 Days
• Field of Search: 482/51, 482/77, 482/49, 482/55, 482/121, 482/122, 482/123, 482/125, 482/126, 482/130, 482/139, 482/82, 482/140, 601/132, 601/120, 472/135, 472/134, 472/129, 473/428, 446/153
• US Class Current: 482/126
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0442 Anchored at one end only, the other end being manipulated by the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0552 Elastic ropes or bands
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0557 Details of attachments, e.g. clips or clamps
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0228 Sitting on the buttocks
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0211 moving torso with immobilized lower limbs
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 23/0233 Muscles of the back, e.g. by an extension of the body against a resistance, reverse crunch
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 43/007 Arrangements on balls for connecting lines or cords

Abstract

An exercise ball device has a big ball having a hole, an elastic cable penetrating a hole of a big ball, two end hooks disposed on two ends of the elastic cable, and two small ball having retainer rings to receive one of the end hooks.

Claims

1. An exercise ball device comprising:

a large ball for supporting a user'"'"'s body, the ball having a hole through the center thereof;

an elastic cable extending through the hole, the elastic cable having two ends;

two end hooks, one end hook disposed on each respective end of the cable; and

two small balls for grasping by the user, each small ball having a retainer ring to receive a respective end hook.