Exercise balance trainer

• US 6,872,175 B2
• Filed: 10/31/2002
• Issued: 03/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2002
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Asia Regent Limited
• Original Assignee: Asia Regent Limited
• Inventors: Lin, William
• Primary Examiner(s): DeMille, Danton D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): BAKER, LORI LYNN
• Application Number:
  US10/286,629
• Publication Number:
  US 20040087421A1
• Time in Patent Office: 880 Days
• Field of Search: 482/34, 482/77, 482/80, 482146-147, 482121-130, 482/148
• US Class Current: 482/146
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2022/0033 Lower limbs performing together the same movement, e.g. on a single support element
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0004 Exercising devices moving as a whole during exercise bar bells or dumb bells A63B21/072; on wheels A63B22/20
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 21/0552 Elastic ropes or bands
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/18 with elements, i.e. platforms, having a circulating, nutating or rotating movement, generated by oscillating movement of the user, e.g. platforms wobbling on a centrally arranged spherical supporthoop exercising apparatus A63B19/00; eccentric weights put into orbital motion by nutating movement of the user A63B21/0608; pots rotating or rocking by moving the whole body A63G23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2208/0233 in 90/90 position, like on a chair
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 26/003 for improving balance or equilibrium balance beams A63B4/00; apparatus for rope dancing A63B7/08; balancing drums, balancing boards or the like A63B22/16

Abstract

An exercise balance trainer includes a hard board and a resilient ball body connected to the board. The ball body has a first curved wall with a first rim, a second curved wall with a second rim connected fixedly to the first rim so as to define an air-receiving chamber between the first and second curved walls, and an annular flange connected to the board and a junction of the first and second rims. The first and second rims have the same diameter. The first curved wall has a maximum height that is not greater than one-half of the diameter of the first rim. The second curved wall has a maximum height that is not greater than one-third of the diameter of the second rim.

Claims

1. An exercise balance trainer comprising:

a hard board having a planar first surface, a planar second surface opposite to said first surface, and a central opening extending through said hard board;

a resilient ball body connected to said hard board, said ball body having a first curved wall with a first rim, a second curved wall with a second rim connected fixedly to said first rim so as to define an air-receiving chamber between said first and second curved walls, and an annular flange connected to said board and a junction of said first and second rims, said first curved wall projecting from said first surface of said board, said second curved wall projecting from said second surface of said board, said first and second rims having the same diameter, said first curved wall having a maximum height that is not greater than one-half of said diameter of said first rim, said second curved wall having a maximum height that is not greater than one-third of said diameter of said second rim; and

an annular first clamping plate sleeved on said first curved wall, and an annular second clamping plate sleeved on said second curved wall, said first and second clamping plates being interconnected threadedly so as to clamp said board and said flange therebetween.

2. The exercise balance trainer of claim 1, wherein said hard board further has an annular edge face that confines said opening said edge face being tapered and abutting against said second curved wall in such a manner that said board is sleeved on said second curved wall.

3. The exercise balance trainer of claim 2, wherein said opening has a first end in said first surface of said board, a second end in said second surface of said board, and a diameter that increases from said second end to said first end.

4. The exercise balance trainer of claim 1, wherein said first curved wall of said ball body has an outer surface formed with a plurality of rounded projections.

5. The exercise balance trainer of claim 1, further comprising an auxiliary holding unit connected detachably to said hard board.

6. The exercise balance trainer of claim 5, wherein said auxiliary holding unit includes two long holding members and two short holding members that are shorter than said long holding members, said long and short holding members being flexible and being fastened detachably to said board.

7. The exercise balance trainer of claim 6, wherein said hard board is elongated and has two ends formed with a plurality of through holes, each of which is provided with a positioning rail disposed fixedly therein, each of said long and short holding members having a connecting end provided with a snap fastener that is sleeved on a respective one of said positioning rails so as to retain said long and short holding members on said hard board.

8. The exercise balance trainer of claim 1, further comprising an upright support member disposed adjacent to an assembly of said hard board and said ball body, said support member including two base seats flanking the assembly of said hard board and said ball body and adapted to be mounted on a ground surface, and two exercising rod units, each of which has a rigid lower rod portion connected fixedly to a respective one of said base seats, a rigid upper rod portion opposite to said lower rod portion, and a spring unit connected between said upper and lower rod portions so that said upper rod portion is twistable relative to said lower rod portion.

9. The exercise balance trainer of claim 8, wherein each of said exercising rod units includes a rotatable knob connected rotatably on a top end of said upper rod portion.