Ice Skating Measuring Apparatus

• US 20180333628A1
• Filed: 06/20/2017
• Published: 11/22/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University
• Original Assignee: The Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University
• Inventors: Stastny, Petr, Kubovy, Petr, Lopot, Frantisek, Jelen, Karel
• Granted Patent: US 10,500,463 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 5/16 Skating boots
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/40 Acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/51 Force
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/803 Motion sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/833 Sensors arranged on the exercise apparatus or sports implement
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2244/183 Artistic or figure skating
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0062 Monitoring athletic performances, e.g. for determining the work of a user on an exercise apparatus, the completed jogging or cycling distance
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0022 for skating
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 1/06 with sole and heel plates each equipped with clamps
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 1/22 with special foot-plates of the boot
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 1/303 removably fastened to the blade holder
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 2203/18 Measuring a physical parameter, e.g. speed, distance
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 2203/22 Radio waves emitting or receiving, e.g. remote control, RFID
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 2203/24 Processing or storing data, e.g. with electronic chip
• CPC Class Codes: A63C 2203/42 Details of chassis of ice or roller skates, of decks of skateboards
• CPC Class Codes: G01L 5/00 Apparatus for, or methods of, measuring force, work, mechanical power, or torque, specially adapted for specific purposes

Abstract

An ice-skating measuring apparatus includes an ice-skate blade holder and an ice-skate blade. The blade holder has a front beam column and a rear beam column. The blade includes at least one sensor configured to measure forces acting on the blade, and the blade is detachable from the blade holder.

Claims

1. An ice-skating measuring apparatus comprising an ice-skate blade holder and an ice-skate blade, wherein the blade holder comprises a front beam column and a rear beam column, wherein the blade comprises at least one sensor configured to measure forces acting on the blade, and wherein the blade is detachable from the blade holder.

2. The ice-skating measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the least one sensor is selected from a group of wire and foil strain gauge sensors, capacitive displacement sensors, semiconductor strain gauge sensors and piezoelectric sensors.

3. The ice-skating measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a signal from the at least one sensor is acquired as a separate signal.

4. The ice-skating measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the measuring apparatus further comprises a temperature sensing element.

5. The ice-skating measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one sensor is placed in a spline in the blade.

6. The ice-skating measuring apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising at least one electrical component selected from a group of a kinetic unit, a datalogger, an A/D transducer, an energy supply and a force amplifier.

7. The ice-skating measuring apparatus according to claim 6, wherein at least the kinetic unit or the datalogger or the A/D transducer or the energy supply or the force amplifier is placed inside the front beam column or the rear beam column.

8. The ice-skating measuring apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the kinetic unit and the force amplifier are attached to an adjustable clamp, wherein the adjustable clamp is placed between the front beam column and the rear beam column, wherein the kinetic unit and the force amplifier are connected to the datalogger, wherein the A/D transducer and the energy supply are placed in an external unit.

9. The ice-skating measuring apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the blade comprises at least one sensor selected from a group of a front medial sensor, a front lateral sensor, a rear medial sensor and a rear lateral sensor.

10. The ice-skating measuring apparatus as defined in claim 1, wherein the front medial sensor and the rear medial sensor are placed on a medial side of the blade in a region under the front beam column and the front lateral sensor and the rear lateral sensor are placed on a lateral side of the blade in a region under the rear beam column.

11. The ice-skating measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a signal from sensors is synchronized and acquired together with data from a kinetic unit, which contains at least one gauge selected from a group of a three-axis gyroscope, a three-axis accelerometer and a distance sensor.

12. The ice-skating measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one sensor on the blade is wired to force amplifiers and the force amplifiers are wired to an A/D transducer, which is further wired to a datalogger and an energy supply, and at the same time a kinetic unit is wired to the A/D transducer which is further wired to the datalogger and the energy supply.

13. The ice-skating measuring apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one sensor on the blade is wired to force amplifiers and the force amplifiers and a kinetic unit are wired to an energy supply, further the force amplifiers and the kinetic unit are wired to an A/D transducer, which is further wired to a datalogger.

14. The ice-skating measuring apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the at least one sensor on the blade is wired to the force amplifiers and the force amplifiers and the kinetic unit are wired to the energy supply, further the force amplifiers and the kinetic unit are wired to the A/D transducer, which is further wired to the datalogger.

15. The ice-skating measuring apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the at least one sensor on the blade are wired to the force amplifiers and the force amplifiers are wired to A/D transducer, which is further wired to the datalogger and the energy supply, and at the same time the kinetic unit is wired to the A/D transducer which is further wired to the datalogger and the energy supply.