Health amount-of-exercise managing device

• US 7,008,350 B1
• Filed: 12/09/1999
• Issued: 03/07/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ya-Man Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Ya-Man Ltd.
• Inventors: Yamazaki, Iwao, Yamazaki, Kimiyo
• Primary Examiner(s): Richman, Glenn E.
• Application Number:
  US10/030,168
• Time in Patent Office: 2,280 Days
• Field of Search: 482 1- 9, 482900-902, 600/300, 600/547
• US Class Current: 482/8
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/053 Measuring electrical impedance or conductance of a portion of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/221 Ergometry, e.g. by using bicycle type apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4872 Body fat
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/70 body fat
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0075 Means for generating exercise programs or schemes, e.g. computerized virtual trainer, e.g. using expert databases
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/06 Indicating or scoring devices for games or players , or for other sports activities
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/006 Pedometers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising

Abstract

To permit a person to take a power-striding most effective to be healthy the quantity of exercising is managed by using, in combination, bioelectrical impedance measuring means 110; personal data inputting means 120; body fat rate calculating means 130 for determining the body fat rate on the basis of the personal data and the value of bioelectrical impedance; target body fat rate setting means 140; target calorie consumption calculator means 150 for calculating the calorie consumption required to attain the target body fat rate; management period setting means 160 for setting a length of period required to attain the target body fat rate; healthful calorie consumption calculator means 170 for calculating the calorie consumption per day within the management period; walking calorie per minute calculating means 180 for calculating caloric quantity consumed by walking per minute in consideration of the individual basal metastasis; healthful exercise quantity calculating means 190 for calculating the healthful exercise quantity per day required to consume the healthful calorie per day; exercise quantity measuring means 200; calorie consumption per day calculating means 210 for determining the calorie consumption on the basis of the so measured exercise quantity; and healthful exercise quantity correcting means 220 for comparing the calorie consumption per day of the previous day with the target value of the present day and for converting any difference therebetween in terms of exercise quantity, thereby renewing the healthful exercise quantity of the present day.

Claims

1. An apparatus for managing the quantity of exercising to be healthy, comprising:

a portable casing with a display fixed thereon, said portable casing having exercise quantity measuring means installed therein;

at least one set of electrodes fixed to the surface of said portable casing for measuring bioelectrical impedance;

data inputting means for inputting personal data including sex, age, height and weight;

and

body fat rate calculating means for determining the body fat rate on the basis of said personal data and the value of said bioelectrical impedance, which bioelectrical impedance appears between two selected electrodes when a controlled weak current flows between the two selected electrodes through a living body, whereby the exercise quantity along with the body fat rate are shown in said display.

2. The apparatus for managing the quantity of exercising to be healthy according to claim 1, further comprising:

basal metastasis estimating means for estimating the basal metastasis on the basis of said personal data and said body fat rate;

exercise quantity estimating means for estimating the total exercise quantity on the basis of data provided by means of said exercise quantity measuring means;

calorie consumption calculating means for determining the calorie consumption on the basis of the estimated basal metastasis and the total exercise quantity;

caloric intake inputting means for inputting the calorie taken in by drinking and taking food; and

caloric balance calculating-and-displaying means for determining the difference between the caloric intake per day and the calorie consumption and for displaying the balance between the caloric intake and the calorie consumption.

3. An apparatus for managing the quantity of exercising to be healthy, comprising:

a portable casing with a display fixed thereon, said portable casing having exercise quantity measuring means installed therein;

at least one set of electrodes fixed to the surface of said portable casing for measuring bioelectrical impedance;

data inputting means for inputting personal data including sex, age, height and weight;

body fat rate calculating means for determining the body fat rate on the basis of said personal data and the value of said bioelectrical impedance, which bioelectrical impedance appears between two selected electrodes when a controlled weak current flows between the two selected electrodes through a living body;

body fat rate setting means for setting a desired body fat rate as a target; and

healthful exercising quantity setting means for determining the quantity of exercising each day toward the desired body fat rate on the basis of the so determined body fat rate and for setting the so determined quantity of exercise per day, whereby the exercise quantity along with the body fat rate and the healthful exercising quantity per day are shown in said display.

4. The apparatus for managing the quantity of exercising to be healthy according to claim 3, further comprising:

healthful exercising quantity renewing means for renewing the healthful exercising quantity per day in consideration of the exercising quantity determined the day before, the required renewal being made every day.