Goal detection equipment for football

• US 20060135297A1
• Filed: 01/22/2003
• Published: 06/22/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gabriele Cruciani
• Original Assignee: Gabriele Cruciani
• Inventors: Cruciani, Gabriele
• Application Number:
  US10/527,873
• Publication Number:
  US 20060135297A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 473/570
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0037 on a target surface or at impact on the ground
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0046 Mechanical means for locating the point of impact or entry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/13 Relative positions
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/51 Force
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/80 Special sensors, transducers or devices therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/805 Optical or opto-electronic sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/806 Video cameras
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/83 characterised by the position of the sensor
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/833 Sensors arranged on the exercise apparatus or sports implement
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/89 Field sensors, e.g. radar systems
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/305 Remote servicing
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2243/0025 Football American football A63B2243/007
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0021 Tracking a path or terminating locations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 43/00 Balls with special arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 63/00 Targets or goals for ball games golf cups A63B57/40
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 63/004 Goals of the type used for football, handball, hockey or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0605 Decision makers and devices using detection means facilitating arbitration
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0669 Score-keepers or score display devices

Abstract

For the realization of the industrial project above mentioned, look at all the phases for creating the electronic bladder. Ten different versions have been invented to lodge the microsensors, up to the enough quantity, or the pressure system itself. Pictures (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), show how the electronic sensors of survey and transmission can be lodged. Pictures (9), (10), show the cobweb that can be created in the center of the bladder to lodge the pressure microsensors, the metallic surveying microsensors, or the infrared rays ones. Picture (11) shows the lodging of the electronic surveying system under the grass cover, that immediately transmits any signal noticed to the chronometer or bracelet in endowment to the central referee or to his collaborators. Always in the figure (11) the signs show as: (A) the electronic football is going to enter the goal line, (B) half of the electronic football over the goal line, (C) the electronic football has (B) gone beyond the goal line. The referee immediately receives communication of the happened goal.

Claims

1. An electronically detectable ball usable for a ball game, comprising:

a bladder,

an external covering enclosing said bladder, and

a sensor, at least a portion of which is integrated into said bladder.

2. The electronically detectable ball of claim 1, wherein said portion of the sensor comprises a plurality of individual sensor elements.

3. The electronically detectable ball of claim 1, further comprising supporting means for supporting at least said portion of the sensor.

4. The electronically detectable ball of claim 1, further comprising an electronic sensor located within said external covering.

5. The electronically detectable ball of claim 1, wherein said sensor comprises a plurality of sensor elements in an inner space enclosed by said bladder.

6. The electronically detectable ball of claim 5, wherein one of said plurality of sensor elements is accommodated by a pocket fixed to an inner surface of said bladder.

7. The electronically detectable ball of claim 5, wherein one of said plurality of sensor elements is accommodated by a pocket formed by a portion of said bladder.

8. The electronically detectable ball of claim 5, wherein one of said plurality of sensor elements is positioned in said inner space by a filling material.

9. The electronically detectable ball of claim 1, wherein said sensor is configured to be responsive to pressure and/or infra-red radiation and/or to a metal detector.

10. A sensor system for detecting a position of an electronically detectable ball, the system comprising:

a transceiver configured to detect an electronically detectable ball, and

a support structure configured to support said transceiver at a predefined area of a game field.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein said transceiver is configured to detect said electronically detectable ball with a spatial resolution that is equal to or less than a diameter of said electronically detectable ball.

12. The system of claim 10, further comprising an indicator means configured to indicate, when said electronically detectable ball is within a specified region of said predefined area.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein said indicator means comprises a mobile display means configured to wirelessly communicate with said indicator means.

14. The system of claim 10 wherein the electronically detectable ball comprises:

a bladder;

an external covering enclosing said bladder; and

a sensor, at least a portion of which is integrated into said bladder.