Training machine for golf swing

• US 7,001,283 B2
• Filed: 01/20/2005
• Issued: 02/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Yun Jeong Jeong
• Original Assignee: Yun Jeong Jeong
• Inventors: Jeong, Yun Jeong
• Primary Examiner(s): Legesse, Nini F.
• Application Number:
  US11/039,435
• Publication Number:
  US 20050261070A1
• Time in Patent Office: 397 Days
• Field of Search: 473/219, 473/220, 473/221, 473/222, 473/224, 473/226, 473/233, 473/234, 473/333, 473/223, 734/92
• US Class Current: 473/219
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 15/005 with a weight movable along the longitudinal axis of the club due to centrifugal forces
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0068 Comparison to target or threshold, previous performance or not real time comparison to other individuals
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2209/08 magnetic
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/51 Force
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 60/04 Movable ballast means A63B15/005 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3623 for driving A63B69/3608, A63B69/3658, A63B69/3661, A63B69/3667 and A63B69/3691 take precedence

Abstract

A training machine for golf swing includes a plurality of magnets provided in the opposite position to the grip; a collision device attachable to the magnets, and adapted to be separated from the magnets and collided with other objects by the centrifugal force more than a prescribed intensity and the instant swing speed upon swing; a magnetic force control device associated with the magnets and for controlling the intensity of magnetic force affecting the magnetic body from the magnets; an announcement mechanism positioned apart with the magnetic body, and for announcing the separation of the magnetic body and the magnets to contact the magnetic body when the magnetic body is separated from the magnets; and whereby a user can easily confirm by the announcement whether a swing more than a prescribed intensity was made to correspond to the intensity of magnetic force controlled by the magnetic force control device.

Claims

1. A training machine for golf swing including a club shaft having a grip at a top end thereof, and a club head engaged with a lower end of the club shaft, comprising:

a plurality of magnets provided in an opposite position relative to a grip end of a shaft;

a collision means attachable to the magnets, and adapted to be separated from the magnets and collided with other objects by a centrifugal force of more than a prescribed amount and an instant swing speed upon swinging the shaft;

a magnetic force control means associated with the magnets and for controlling the intensity of magnetic force affecting the collision means from the magnets; and

an announcement means positioned apart from the collision means, and for announcing the separation of the collision means and the magnets to contact the collision means when the collision means is separated from the magnets,

whereby a user easily confirms by the announcement means whether a swing more than the prescribed intensity was made to correspond to the intensity of magnetic force controlled by the magnetic force control means.

2. The training machine for golf swing of claim 1, further comprising an extension shaft extended from the lower end of the club shaft, the magnetic force control means being fixed to an outside of the extension shaft and the collision means being movably positioned on the extension shaft.

3. The training machine for golf swing of claim 2, wherein the magnetic force control means includes a first frame fixed to an outside of the upper end of the extension shaft and having a first space portion positioned and open below therein;

a circular sliding member positioned and slidable in the first frame and for moving the magnets upwardly;

a separation preventing cover positioned away from the first frame, fixed to the outside of the extension shaft for preventing the sliding member from being separated downwardly, and for exposing the magnets toward a bottom surface thereof; and

a control handle engaged and threaded with the outside of the sliding member under the condition that the up and down movement of the control handle is suppressed by the first frame and the separation preventing cover, and for controlling the intensity of the magnetic force affecting the collision means from the magnets along with sliding of the sliding member.

4. The training machine for golf swing of claim 3, further comprising a plurality of magnet fixtures for fixing each of the magnets such that the magnets are moved upwardly together with the sliding member when the sliding member is slid by adjusting the control handle.

5. The training machine for golf swing of claim 4, wherein the magnet fixtures includes a magnet fixing element passing through the sliding member and the separation preventing cover and for fixing the magnets to a lower end of the magnet fixing element;

a locking portion formed integrally at an upper end of the magnet fixing element and adapted to be locked to a bottom of a locking groove formed in an upper part of the sliding member when the sliding member is moved upwardly, a cross-sectional area of the locking portion being greater more than a cross-sectional area of the magnet fixing element; and

a first spring for applying force to press the locking portion downwardly and having upper and lower ends such that the upper end of the spring is fixed to a fixing groove formed at the upper surface of the space portion of the first frame and the lower end of the spring is inserted into the locking groove of the sliding member.

6. The training machine for golf swing of claim 5, wherein the magnet fixtures are provided in an even number concentrically around the extension shaft, each set of the two magnet fixtures is arranged symmetrically with each other, and heights of the magnet fixing element and the locking portion of the magnet fixtures which are symmetrically positioned with each other are the same on one side whereas the heights on the other side of the magnet fixing element and the locking portion of the magnet fixtures which are neighboring each other are different.

7. The training machine for golf swing of claim 6, further comprising a spring guide portion extended from the upper surface of the locking portion and for guiding the first spring positioned at the outside of the spring guide portion such that an elastic force of the first spring is accurately applied to the locking portion.

8. The training machine for golf swing of claim 3, wherein the magnets are positioned radially around the extension shaft above the separation preventing cover, provided in an even number of rows around the extension shaft, each of the two rows is symmetrically positioned with each other, and the magnets are arranged such that, when the two rows symmetrically positioned each other are to be one group, a different number of the magnets is included in each of the neighboring groups and thereby the intensity of the magnetic force is varied in each of the groups.

9. The training machine for golf swing of claim 8, further comprising an exposure cover made of diamagnetic material, and the exposure cover is positioned under the control handle such that the exposure cover is rotated with the control handle under the condition that the separation preventing cover is surrounded, and a shaft perforating hole through which the extension shaft passes and a magnet exposing hole for exposing the magnets are formed in the bottom of the exposure cover.

10. The training machine for golf swing of claim 3, wherein the announcement means includes a second frame positioned in an inner side of the club head and having a second space portion opened upwardly therein such that the collision means is moved upwardly and downwardly within the second space portion;

and a collision plate positioned below the collision means in the second frame such that the collision plate is collided with the collision means which is separated from the magnets upon the swing.

11. The training machine for golf swing of claim 10, wherein the collision means is supported elastically by a second spring such that the collision means is returned to the original position and then attached to the magnets by the elastic force of the second spring after the centrifugal force is removed.

12. The training machine for golf swing of claim 11, wherein the collision plate is supported elastically by a third spring such that the collision plate is moved downwardly when the collision plate collides with the magnetic body, and the collision plate is returned to the original position by the third spring when the centrifugal force is removed.

13. The training machine for golf swing of claim 12, wherein a first lighting switch is positioned on the bottom of the second frame and adapted to be lighted by the contact with the collision plate which is moved downwardly upon the swing, a swing LED is positioned on the outside of the club head for being lighted by the contact with the first lighting switch, and a battery for applying power to the swing LED is provided in the club head.

14. The training machine for golf swing of claim 3, wherein a sliding switch which generates different signals according to the degree of rise of the sliding member is positioned above the control handle, a display window which displays distances upon the operation of the sliding switch is positioned at the outside of the club head, and a control portion for converting signals from the sliding switch to distances is positioned in the club head.

15. The training machine for golf swing of claim 1, wherein at least one or more trace identifying LEDs through which swing traces upon the swing is identified with the naked eye and a second lighting switch for lighting the trace identifying LEDs are provided on the outside of the club head, respectively, and a battery for applying power to the trace identifying LEDs is provided in the club head.