Waist training device

• US 9,687,688 B2
• Filed: 10/13/2015
• Issued: 06/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Liang Lang Hsiao
• Original Assignee: Liang Lang Hsiao
• Inventors: Hsiao, Liang Lang
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Joshua
• Assistant Examiner(s): Deichl, Jennifer M
• Application Number:
  US14/881,311
• Publication Number:
  US 20170100620A1
• Time in Patent Office: 623 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 19/00 Hoop exercising apparatus A63B21/0608 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0608 Eccentric weights put into orbital motion by nutating movement of the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0618 moving in a horizontal plane without substantial friction, i.e. using inertial forces
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/4009 to the waist
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/17 Counting, e.g. counting periodical movements, revolutions or cycles, or including further data processing to determine distances or speed

Abstract

A waist training device includes unit members of arc shaped and adapted to be assembled as a ring. The inner diameter of the ring is determined by the number of the unit members. Each unit member defines a passage, and the passages of the unit members are connected with each other to form a rail extended annularly along the ring. For each member, a pair of pivot shafts is located at one end of the passage, and a pair of pivot holes is located at the other end of the passage. The pivot shafts of each unit member are pivotally assembled with the pivot holes of an adjacent unit member. A counter weight member is assembled in the rail. The counter weight member has a seat connected to a counter weight block. The counter weight member moves along the rail by the sliding of the seat in the rail.

Claims

1. A waist training device, comprising:

a plurality of arc-shaped unit members, the unit members being adapted to be assembled as a ring, the ring having an inner diameter being determined by the number of the unit members, each of the unit members having a bottom wall and two sidewalls flexibly assembled to the bottom wall;

a passage being defined between the two sidewalls of each of the unit members, each passage of each of the unit members being connected with the passage of an adjacent unit member to form a rail extended annularly along the ring;

a pair of pivot shafts being defined at first ends of the sidewalls of each of the unit members;

a pair of pivot holes being defined at second ends of the sidewalls of each of the unit members, the first ends being opposite to the second ends, and the pivot shafts of each of the unit members being pivotally assembled with the pivot holes of one of two adjacent unit members; and

a counter weight member having a seat, wherein the seat is slidably assembled on the rail, and a counter weight block is connected to the seat;

wherein a guiding tapered section is formed on each of the sidewalls and each guiding tapered section is adjacent to a respective one of the pair of pivot holes, and a stopping portion is assembled on each of the sidewalls and atop each pivot hole of the pair of pivot holes.

2. The waist training device according to claim 1, wherein one of the unit members is a connecting member, the connecting member further including:

two guiding grooves respectively adjacent to the pair of pivot holes; and

two buckling members pivotally attached with the connecting member, each buckling member respectively corresponding to one of the pivot holes;

wherein the pivot shafts of an adjacent unit members are configured to be guided by the guiding grooves of the connecting member and configured to be inserted into the pivot holes of the connecting member, and

wherein each of the buckling members is configured to be inserted into a corresponding one of the guiding grooves and configured to be buckled with a corresponding one of the pivot shafts of the adjacent unit member.

3. The waist training device according to claim 1, wherein the seat comprises two slide units pivotally attached to one another.

4. The waist training device according to claim 1, wherein the seat and the counter weight block are connected by a length adjustable rope.

5. The waist training device according to claim 1, wherein each of the unit members defines a through hole, and an elastic band extends through the through holes of the unit members.

6. The waist training device according to claim 1, wherein a counter is assembled to the ring for counting the number of times the seat passes through the counter.

7. The waist training device according to claim 6, wherein the counter and the seat each has a sensing element, the sensing elements generate a sensing signal when the sensing elements meet with each other, and the sensing signal is recorded by the counter.

8. A waist training device, comprising:

a plurality of arc-shaped unit members, the unit members being adapted to be assembled as a ring, the ring having an inner diameter being determined by the number of the unit members, each of the unit members having a bottom wall and two sidewalls flexibly assembled to the bottom wall;

a passage being defined between the two sidewalls of each of the unit members, each passage of each of the unit members being connected with the passage of an adjacent unit member to form a rail extended annularly along the ring;

a pair of pivot shafts being defined at first ends of the sidewalls of each of the unit members;

a pair of pivot holes being defined at second ends of the sidewalls of each of the unit members, the first ends being opposite to the second ends, and the pivot shafts of each of the unit members being pivotally assembled with the pivot holes of one of two adjacent unit members; and

a counter weight member having a seat, wherein the seat is slidably assembled on the rail, and a counter weight block is connected to the seat;

wherein one of the unit members is defined as a connecting member, the connecting member further including;

two guiding grooves respectively adjacent to the pair of pivot holes; and

two buckling members pivotally attached with the connecting member, each buckling member respectively corresponding to one of the pivot holes;

wherein the pivot shafts of an adjacent unit member are configured to be guided by the guiding grooves of the connecting member and configured to be inserted into the pivot holes of the connecting member, and

wherein each of the buckling members is configured to be inserted into a corresponding one of the guiding grooves and configured to be buckled with a corresponding one of the pivot shafts of the adjacent unit member.

9. The waist training device according to claim 8, wherein the seat comprises two slide units pivotally attached to one another.

10. The waist training device according to claim 8, wherein the seat and the counter weight block are connected by a length adjustable rope.

11. The waist training device according to claim 8, wherein each of the unit members defines a through hole, and an elastic band extends through the through holes of the unit members.

12. The waist training device according to claim 8, wherein a counter is assembled to the ring for counting the number of times the seat passes through the counter.

13. The waist training device according to claim 12, wherein the counter and the seat each has a sensing element, the sensing elements generate a sensing signal when the sensing elements meet with each other, and the sensing signal is recorded by the counter.