Posture correcting tool

• US 7,086,958 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2005
• Issued: 08/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tomomori Eigiro
• Original Assignee: Tomomori Eigiro
• Inventors: Eigiro, Tomomori
• Primary Examiner(s): Legesse, Nini F.
• Application Number:
  US11/214,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20060046865A1
• Time in Patent Office: 343 Days
• Field of Search: 473/266, 473/269, 473/274, 473/275, 473/276, 473/277, 473/215, 602/17, 602/18, 602/19, 434/247
• US Class Current: 473/266
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0694 Visual indication, e.g. Indicia
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/09 Adjustable dimensions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0024 for hockey
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0059 worn by the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/3608 Attachments on the body, e.g. for measuring, aligning, restraining A63B69/0059, A63B69/3673 take precedence

Abstract

A posture correcting tool is provided which allows a golf player to practice so that the forward inclination angle of the upper-half body when impacting on a ball with a club can be controlled appropriately and extend the ball flight distance. Being a posture correcting tool worn by a player when practicing club swings, it has a wearing unit which can be fixed to the player'"'"'s waist, a back fitting unit which is rotatably joined with the wearing unit, arranged so that it can fit with the player'"'"'s back when worn, and can regulate the forward inclination angle of the upper-half body when the player swings a golf club, and an angle indicating unit with which the forward inclination angle can be visually checked.

Claims

1. A posture correcting tool being worn when a player performs a swing practice comprising:

a wearing unit which can be fixed to the player'"'"'s waist,

a back fitting unit which is fixed to the wearing unit and arranged so that it can fit with the player'"'"'s back when it is worn, and can regulate a forward inclination angle of the player'"'"'s upper-half body when the player swings, and

an angle indicating unit with which the forward inclination angle can be visually checked.

2. The posture correcting tool as claimed in claim 1, wherein the player is a golf player, comprising:

a wearing unit which can be fixed to the player'"'"'s waist,

a back fitting unit which is fixed to the wearing unit, is arranged so as to fit with the player'"'"'s back when it is worn, and can regulate the forward inclination angle of the player'"'"'s upper-half body when the player swings a golf club, and

an angle indicating unit with which the forward inclination angle can be visually checked.

3. The posture correcting tool as claimed in claim 2, wherein the back fitting unit is constituted so as to regulate the specified forward inclination angle of the player'"'"'s upper-half body so that kinetic energy can be transmitted to the ball most efficiently when the golf club impacts on the ball.

4. The posture correcting tool as claimed in claim 3, wherein the wearing unit has locking pieces which can grab the player'"'"'s waist, the back fitting unit has a regulating piece which is fixed at about a right angle to the locking pieces and can fit with the player'"'"'s back along the height direction of the player, and the angle indicating unit has an angle indicating piece which protrudes along a width direction to the regulating piece, and an angle indicating bar which is rotatably fixed to an end of the locking pieces, the angle indicating unit can display an angle on the angle indicating piece, and the bar can form a vertical axis passing the waist when it is worn.

5. The posture correcting tool as claimed in claim 4, wherein the locking pieces are formed with a right-and-left pair of curved elastic pieces, and the regulating piece is equipped with a back fitting face which fits with the player'"'"'s back, and the angle indicating piece comprises an arc-shape member which is formed curved and installed on the opposite back fitting face of the regulating piece.

6. The posture correcting tool as claimed in claim 4, wherein the locking pieces comprise a pair of elastic pieces and is formed in a plane U-shape as the whole.

7. The posture correcting tool as claimed in claim 4, wherein the regulating piece and the arc-shape member are joined in a J-shape as the whole side face.

8. The posture correcting tool as claimed in claim 1, being constituted such that the forward inclination angle is 30˜

35 degrees centering the hip joint relative to a vertical axis line passing the waist.