MULTIFUNCTIONAL ELECTRONIC RESISTANCE STRENGTH TRAINING FITNESS DEVICE

Abstract

An exercise device comprising a metallic box, two motors mounted at left and right sides of the box, a mirror touch screen, a camera, a loudspeaker, two motors mounted at the left and right bottom of the box, movable arms at slide tracks at both sides, a voltage transformer for the mirror touch screen, and four drive boards for four motors. All these four motors connect with gear reducers. Four carriages ride on both sides of slide tracks. The upper left and right two carriages provide support for upper limbs exercise. The lower left and right two carriages provide support for lower limbs exercise.

Claims

1. An exercise device comprising: a main body, wherein the main body has an upper part, a lower part, and a front surface; at least two upper motors of a cylinder style or cuboid style or polygon cuboid style being mounted at the upper part of the main body, wherein each of the upper motors is configured to produce adjustable and dynamic resistance; at least two gear reducers, with one of the two gear reducers being connected with one of the two upper motors, and the other one of the two gear reducers being connected with the other one of the two upper motors, wherein each of the at least two gear reducers has an axle; at least two spools, with one of the two spools being mounted on the axle of one of the at least two gear reducers, and the other one of the two spools being mounted on the axle of the other one of the at least two gear reducers; at least two movable arms slidably attached to the main body, wherein each of the movable arms comprises a rope having two ends, with one end being connected to a handle, and the other end being connected to one of the at least two upper motors through one of the at least two spools, with one of the two movable arms being connected with one of the at least two upper motors, and the other one of the movable arms being connected with the other one of the at least two upper motors; at least two lower motors for facilitating moving the at least two moveable arms, with the at least two lower motors being mounted on the lower part of the main body, a display device disposed at the front surface of the main body, wherein the display device comprises an interactive touch screen; an intelligent control system operably coupled with at least one of the display device, upper motors, and lower motors, wherein the intelligent control system comprises a central controller to control at least one of the upper motors, lower motors, and the display devices; and the device is mountable on a wall and/or is capable of standing alone on ground.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein the display device comprises an electronic display layer to display video imagery of a fitness instructor.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein the display device comprises a mirror reflection layer to reflect an image of a user opposite the display device.

4. The device of claim 1 further comprising a dismountable footboard attached on the lower part of the main body so that a user may lie on a bench with feet on the footboard to resist pull forces generated by the at least two upper motors the left and right motors and therefor train leg muscles of the user.

5. The device of claim 4 wherein the main body has a left side and right side, the left side comprises an upper left side and a right left side, the right side comprises an upper right side and a lower right side, the device comprises a left slide track on the left side, and a right slide track on the right side, two lower carriages with one being slidably attached to the lower left side of the main body and the other one being slidably attached to the lower right side of the main body, and the dismountable footboard on the lower part of the main body through connection with the two lower carriages for facilitating lower body exercise.

6. The device of claim 1 wherein the main body has a left side and right side, the left side comprises an upper left side and a lower left side, the right side comprises an upper right side and a lower right side, the device comprises a left slide track on the left side, and a right slide track on the right side, two upper carriages with one being slidably attached to the upper left side of the main body and the other one being slidably attached to the upper right side of the main body, and the at least two movable arms slidably attached to the main body through connection with the two upper carriage for facilitating upper body exercise.

7. The device of claim 6 wherein the device comprises at least two threaded rods operably coupled with the at least two lower motors for moving the arms up or down the left slide track and right slide track respectively at a desired position, with one threaded rod being disposed on the left side of the main body, and the other threaded rod being disposed on the right side of the main body.

8. The device of claim 1 further comprising a camera disposed on the upper part of the main body, wherein the camera is configured to collect image and/or exercise information and/or data of the user.

9. The device of claim 1 wherein each of the at least two upper motors contains a sensor for counting velocity and step length.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein at least one of the at least two upper motors is a three-phase brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor or servo motor.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is configured with artificial intelligence (AI) to learn muscle strength of both an exerciser and to output personalized resistance weight for the exerciser.

12. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is configured to adjust the resistance through voice recognition technology.

13. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is configured to output different resistance simultaneously by adjusting each of the at least two upper motors separately.

14. The device of claim 1 wherein each of the two upper motors and lower motors is coupled with a drive board.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0062] FIG. 1 shows a front view of an exercise device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[0063] FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of FIG. 1, where arms, arm carriages, thread rod and slide track are omitted.

[0064] FIG. 3 shows one slide track.

[0065] FIG. 4 shows an alternative of FIG. 2. The two motors were installed inside of the device.

[0066] FIG. 5 is a complete structural diagram in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

[0067] 1a and 1b in FIG. 1 respectively depict two motors on left and right top of the device. They may be BLDC or servo motors. Each motor may generate 100-150 pounds resistance force. They may be cylinder style, cuboid style, or polygon cuboid style that lay across the left and right top of the device. A fan may be incorporated into each motor for cooling when the motor is running. Each motor (1a or 1b) is mounted solidly on top of the device.

[0068] 2a and 2b are two-motor gear reducers each being connected with the two motors 1a and 1b. A gear reducer is generally used in a transmission device with low rotation and large torque to enable a gear with fewer teeth on an input shaft of the gear reducer to mesh with a large gear on an output shaft so as to decelerate in an electric motor, internal combustion engine or other high-speed device. With disposal of the gear reducer in this device, the motor can be accurately adjusted and controlled to output rotation and power so as to satisfy the requirements of an exerciser for strength stability and safety in a training.

[0069] 3a and 3b respectively depict two motors mounted underneath both slide tracks 8a and 8b. Each of the motors 3a and 3b connects with a threaded rod 7a (or 7b). When the motor 3a (or 3b) spins, it will drive the rod 7a (or 7b) to spin so as to push and pull the arm deck 6a (or 6b) up and down along slide tracks 8a (or 8b). A power on-off button is disposed on the touch screen. These two motors 3a and 3b help the device to move the arms 11a and 11b easily and automatically.

[0070] 4a and 4b respectively depict gear boxes connected with two motors 3a and 3b underneath which drive the rod 7a (or 7b) to rotate at a slow speed. The gear boxes 4a and 4b make the device much safer.

[0071] 5a and 5b respectively depict two spools connected with two top motors 1a and 1b through the shafts. There are high-strength nylon ropes wound on the spools 5a and 5b. The end of rope 16a (or 16b) goes to handle 12a (or 12b).

[0072] 6a and 6b depict two device arm carriages (also referred to as “decks” or “arm decks” hereinafter). These two carriages 6a and 6b can move up and down on the track (8a or 8b) under the drive of spinning threaded rod (7a or 7b). There are six wheels on each side to assist sliding and bear a force.

[0073] 6a-1 and 6b-1 depict six wheels underneath each arm deck 6a (or 6b) to help the deck 6a (or 6b) to move smoothly. They also stabilize the arm deck 6a (or 6b) as well.

[0074] 7a and 7b respectively depict two threaded rods. The threaded rods 7a and 7b spin to move the decks 6a and 6b up and down. When the threaded rod 7a and 7b spin, they turn toward one direction. The decks 6a and 6b are pushed up because of their opposite direction threaded. Then, the threaded rod 7a and 7b change the spin direction, the decks 6a and 6b are pulled down. One end of threaded rod 7a (or 7b) connects with underneath gear box 4a (or 4b). Another end is fixed on top of the frame.

[0075] 8a and 8b respectively depict two slide tracks. The threaded rod (7a or 7b) is inside it. A deck 6a (or 6b) sits on top of each track 8a (or 8b). The threaded rod (7a or 7b) spins to drive the deck 6a (or 6b) to move. There are six wheels 6a-1 (or 6b-1) underneath deck 6a or 6b to help the deck 6a (or 6b) to move smoothly.

[0076] 9 depicts four motor drive boards. Each individual motor (1a, 1b, 3a, or 3b) has its own drive board 9. Software is installed in the drive board 9.

[0077] 10 depicts power source, which supplies a constant or dynamically changing voltage, current and resistance to four motors (1a, 1b, 3a, or 3b).

[0078] 11a and 11b respectively depict device arms. The arms 11a and 11b may be adjusted to different positions by deck 6a or 6b 's move and slide track (8a or 8b)'s move.

[0079] 12a and 12b respectively depict handles as an example of accessories or parts that can be connected with the arm (11a or 11b). The handle (12a or 12b) is connected with arm (11a or 11b) by a connector. It may be connected with bar, rope or other exercise parts.

[0080] 13a and 13b respectively depict another two carriages on the lower left and right slide tracks 8a and 8b. They have six wheels 6a-1 (or 6b-1) sliding on the slide tracks 8a and 8b. The two carriages 13a and 13b are provided with holes for inserting fixed short rods on the left and right sides of the footboard for mounting one footboard.

[0081] 14 illustrates a footboard 14. The footboard 14 is detachable and inclined at a particular angle. There is one short rod at the left and right sides respectively for being inserted into the left and right carriages 13a and 13b and then clamped by clamping pins of the carriages or tightened by screws. The footboard 14 can slide up and down with a load due to the supporting of the left and right carriages 13a and 13b. A tensioned rope is led from the arm (11a or 11b) of the device above and passed through the pulleys 15a and 15b and then fixed on the carriages 13a and 13b at both sides respectively. An exerciser may lie on a long bench with feet on the footboard 14 to resist pull forces generated by the left and right motors (1a and 1b), so as to train the leg muscles.

[0082] 15a and 15b depict two pulleys with concave grooves. Because the pulleys 15a and 15b are fixed at left and right sides of the bottom of the device, they can swing left and right freely. They may automatically adapt their angle and direction to a direction of the rope 16a (or 16b) leading from the arm (11a or 11b) of the device above, thereby preventing the rope 16a or 16(b) from slipping out of the concave groove of the pulleys 15a and 15b.

[0083] 16a and 16b depict two ropes. Each rope has two ends. One end is connected to a handle 12a (or 12b) and another end twines on a spool 5a (or 5b).

[0084] 17b depicts a bearing pedestal of a spool 5a or (5b), in which one shaft rotatable with 5a or (5b) is mounted on a bracket. When the rope is pulled from the distal end of the arm, a downward tension transmitted can be shared, there protecting 5a or (5b) from being bent.

[0085] 18 depict a discharge resistor. It is connected in parallel with the output of a high voltage power supply circuit with the express purpose of discharging the residual electric charge stored in the filter capacitors of the power supply.

[0086] 19 depicts a side wall of the device, on which a plurality of screw holes are disposed to be connected with screw holes on a bracket mounted on the wall through screws so as to ensure the device can be tightly fixed on the wall.

[0087] 20b depicts an electromagnetic tensioner, which can produce a pull force once powered on to pull a far-end spring to shrink and thus disengage a far-end latch from a circular wheel disk on ARM, such that the ARM adjusts position by loop rotation.

[0088] 21b depicts a reinforced portion on a side wall 19. This portion is a thickened square iron frame welded into the side wall of the device because this portion will receive a strong torsion transmitted by the far-end latch of the electromagnetic tensioner from the ARM top wheel disk.

[0089] 22a depicts a fan which is used to dissipate heat generated by a motor during a running process.

[0090] 23a depicts a speaker for playing audio contents.

[0091] 24a depicts a small pulley for aligning the rope on 5a to accurately enter slide track, thus avoiding friction with surroundings. In this way, the power of the motor can be smoothly transmitted to the distal end of the arm.

[0092] 25a depicts a small pulley for driving the ARM DECK to slide on the slide track. Each ARM DECK has six pulleys which are clamped in the slide track, to prevent the ARM DECK from being pulled off the slide track when pulling the rope on the arm.

[0093] 26a depicts a slide track position adjusting gear. When the electromagnetic tensioner works, the distal end latch will be disengaged due to shrinkage of spring connected to the electromagnetic tensioner. At this time, the gear can be rotated by rotating the ARM manually to adjust the entire slide track to a different position, so as to satisfy the requirements for different positions for strength trainings of the muscles of different body parts. When the electromagnetic tensioner stops working, the distal end spring will push the latch to engage on the position adjusting gear due to its elastic force, thereby locking the slide track at a fixed position.

[0094] 27a depicts a portion of the top of a threaded rod embedded into 26a, which is a square metal block with four corners being well clamped into an inner ring of the position adjusting gear, thereby realizing linkage.

[0095] 28a depicts a bevel gear which is a driving wheel directly connected with a shaft of a gear box on the motor and rotates along with rotation of the shaft.

[0096] 29a depicts a bevel gear which is a driven wheel coupled with 28a to change a transmission direction of the power of the motor, i.e., changes a transverse power into a longitudinal power so as to facilitate mounting spool. This way, the spool can be paralleled to device housing, thereby reducing a thickness of the entire device.

[0097] 30a depicts a device top pulley fixing bracket in which at least two pulleys are mounted to transmit the power of the motor to the arm through the rope. One of the at least two pulleys leads the rope into the slide track and the other is directly connected to the spool.

[0098] 31a depicts a pulley leading the rope into the slide track on the device top. This pulley is a pulley with a concave groove along outer circumference for the rope to run through. The pulley is made of metal or plastic.

[0099] 32 depicts a power source of a display screen, which is a direct current power source.

[0100] 33 depicts a driving board of threaded rod motors for controlling start, stop, velocity and stroke and the like of the threaded rod motors.

[0101] 34 depicts a camera for remote exchange between an instructor and a trainee. At the same time, the camera can capture 3D bone points of a human body to correct wrong practice actions of the trainee under the analysis of AI.

[0102] 35 depicts a microphone for remote exchange between an instructor and a trainee or between trainees.

[0103] 36 depicts a mirror layer covered on the LED display screen 37. In this case, when a trainee practices, the trainee may see the contents played on the display screen while seeing his/her own mirror image through the mirror layer, thereby facilitating correcting actions in time.

[0104] 37 depicts an LED display screen for playing fitness video contents. This is a touch screen on which operations can be made directly by a finger.

[0105] 38 depicts a semi-circular bracket, the bottom of which is welded to the carriage. One row of round holes arranged annularly are disposed on the bracket. Pins can be inserted through the round holes and also through the distal end hole of the ARM, so as to tightly fix together the ARM and the carriages. The arm can be fixed at a different position on the carriages by changing a different hole on the bracket, so as to meet the requirements of arm for different positions during strength exercise.

[0106] 39 depicts a bracket of a footboard. The bracket is detachable. When the lower limbs practice strength trainings, the bracket can be mounted. Both ends of the bracket are connected to the carriages on the slide tracks at the left and right sides respectively. The bracket can be directly inserted into small hollow columns of the carriages and then tightened with a thick screen.

[0107] In addition to the above descriptions, various modifications may be made to the embodiments and implementations of the present invention without departing from the scope of protection of the present invention. Thus, the accompanying drawings and examples herein are merely intended to be non-limiting. The scope of protection of the present invention is only indicated by the appended claims.