Play equipment

• US 9,126,069 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2010
• Issued: 09/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BLD Oriental Company Limited
• Original Assignee: BLD Oriental Company Limited
• Inventors: Ochi, Yasushi
• Primary Examiner(s): Crow, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lo, Andrew S
• Application Number:
  US13/816,787
• Publication Number:
  US 20130150215A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,720 Days
• Field of Search: 482/23, 482 34- 38, 482 44- 48, D21/814, 472/1, 472 27- 31, 472/48, 472/127, 472/134, 472/137, 473/439
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 17/02 rigidly combined
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0065 Evaluating the fitness, e.g. fitness level or fitness index
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 22/025 electrically, e.g. D.C. motors with variable speed control
• 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 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
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 4/00 Balance beams
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/04 for small-room or indoor sporting games
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 9/00 Climbing poles, frames, or stages climbing walls for mountaineering training A63B69/0048; endless loop ladders A63B22/04
• CPC Class Codes: A63G 31/02 with moving substructures

Abstract

To provide play equipment on which a user can log-walk and which is capable of interfering with the user'"'"'s walking.

The play equipment is provided with a pair of pedestals that are placed on the floor, a shaft on which the user can walk, an obstacle that interferes with the user'"'"'s walking and a driving mechanism. The two ends of the shaft are supported rotatably on the pair of pedestals. The obstacle is disposed on the shaft.

A drive motor is provided in the pedestal and a drive mechanism drives the shaft by the rotation of the drive motor.

Claims

1. A play equipment, comprising:

a pair of pedestals placed on a floor;

a shaft on which a user walks, the shaft comprising two ends, the two ends of the shaft are supported rotatably on the pair of pedestals;

an obstacle placed on the shaft for interfering with the user'"'"'s walking, such that the user avoids the obstacle by passing through the obstacle;

a drive motor provided in the pedestal; and

a drive mechanism for driving the shaft by a rotation of the drive motor.

2. The play equipment according to claim 1, wherein said drive mechanism is a rolling mechanism for turning the shaft, and said obstacle is a spiral body.

3. The play equipment according to claim 1, wherein said obstacle is a plurality of rings, wherein the rings each comprise a circle shape, a lower end of each ring being placed to the shaft.

4. The play equipment according to claim 1,

wherein said drive mechanism, comprising:

a strut;

an upper swing pivotally supported by an upper part of the strut; and

a crank mechanism for swinging the upper swing.

5. The play equipment according to claim 1, wherein said drive mechanism, comprising:

a strut support;

a swing strut pivotally supported by the strut support;

an upper swing pivotally supported by an upper part of the swing strut; and

a crank mechanism for swinging the upper swing.

6. The play equipment according to claim 1, wherein the shaft is a sloping shaft, pivotally supported by the pedestals.

7. The play equipment according to claim 1, wherein a displacement of one or both ends of the shaft is controlled freely in intersection direction against longitudinal.

8. The play equipment according to claim 3, wherein at least one of the plurality of rings is displaced to a predetermined angle from a central axis of the shaft.

9. A play equipment, comprising:

a pair of pedestals placed on a floor;

a shaft on which a user walks, the shaft comprising two ends, the two ends of the shaft are supported rotatably on the pair of pedestals;

an obstacle placed on the shaft, for interfering with the user'"'"'s walking;

a drive motor provided in the pedestal; and

a drive mechanism for driving the shaft by a rotation of the drive motor,

wherein said drive mechanism is a rolling mechanism for turning the shaft, and said obstacle is a spiral body.

10. A play equipment, comprising:

a pair of pedestals placed on a floor;

a shaft on which a user walks, the shaft comprising two ends, the two ends of the shaft are supported rotatably on the pair of pedestals;

an obstacle placed on the shaft, for interfering with the user'"'"'s walking;

a drive motor provided in the pedestal; and

a drive mechanism for driving the shaft by a rotation of the drive motor,

wherein said obstacle is a plurality of rings, wherein the rings each comprise a circle shape, a lower end of each ring being placed to the shaft.