Tiltable Or Turnable Ground Trainer Patents (Class 434/55)
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Patent number: 8773238Abstract: The present document describes a device and method for synchronizing a motion signal corresponding to a media content with a media signal for the media content, the motion signal being for controlling a motion feedback system. The method comprises: receiving a portion of the media signal; obtaining a fingerprint corresponding to the received portion of the media signal; from reference fingerprints associated with time positions of at least one reference media content, identifying a reference time position of the media content corresponding to the obtained fingerprint; obtaining the motion signal associated with the identified reference time position of the media content; and outputting the motion signal synchronized with the media signal using the identified reference time position of the media content for controlling the motion feedback system.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: D-Box Technologies Inc.Inventors: Jean-Francois Menard, Pierre-Anthony Stivell Lemieux
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Patent number: 8734157Abstract: An exercise and video game control apparatus comprising a carriage suspended from a frame by support cables; a first handle coupled to the support cables within arm-reach of the suspended carriage; and a first sensor that generates game related signals when the user biases the game chair away from the first handle. Some embodiments may further comprise a sway bar coupled to the game chair and a plurality of cables, wherein the sway bar reduces motion of the game chair when the user biases the game chair away from the first handle; a rocker coupled to a bottom surface of the frame; and a footpad coupled to the frame within leg-reach of the game chair, the footpad adapted to rotates the frame from a neutral position along the rocker.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2011Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Inventor: Julius Andrew Hummel, III
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Patent number: 8733028Abstract: A display retraction assembly for a multi-display visualization device is provided comprising a first track in a first vertical plane, a second track in a second vertical plane offset from the first track, a display support member operably connected to the first track and second track and a display connected to the display support member wherein the display is movable simultaneously with the display support member along the first track and second track.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2010Date of Patent: May 27, 2014Assignee: Mechdyne CorporationInventors: Chris Garrett, Doug Betts, Clint Collins
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Patent number: 8721464Abstract: A dynamic simulator includes a carrying platform, a movable platform, a load carrying seat, a first actuator pivotally coupled to carrying platform, and a second actuator pivotally coupled to movable platform, and an included angle is formed between the first actuator and the carrying platform, and an included angle is formed between the second actuator and the load carrying seat, and an included angle is formed between the second actuator and the first actuator, so as to simplify the dynamic simulator.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2012Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Brogent Technologies Inc.Inventors: Chih-Hung Ou Yang, Deng-Horng Lai, Ke-Cheng Chien
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Patent number: 8641540Abstract: A system for patron movement and entertainment comprising a track, and at least one vehicle engaged with and positioned below the track, capable of carrying at least one patron in a passenger portion and moving along the track. Each vehicle preferably includes a motion base between the track and the passenger portion, and a turntable between the track and the motion base for rotating the passenger portion in the yaw direction, and particularly for directing the patron's viewpoint toward desired show elements.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Inventors: Roland Feuer, Matthew Sellers
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Patent number: 8468280Abstract: The present description relates to the interfacing of a computer with a motion platform using a USB audio-class computer peripheral. The computer peripheral receives a digital audio-format signal according to the USB specification and provides a motion signal to up to four motion platforms. As the computer peripheral is a USB audio-class peripheral, no device-specific driver is required to play motion synchronously with a movie or a video game. The general purpose audio driver included in the operating system of the computer is advantageously used and the computer peripheral can alternately be used with any operating system comprising such a general purpose audio driver, such as Windows 2000, Windows XO or Mac OSX. The computer peripheral is seen by the computer as a USB sound card.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2007Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: D-Box Technologies Inc.Inventor: Bruno Paillard
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Patent number: 8454366Abstract: An actuated support frame for transmitting motion to a seat with respect to a ground as a function of motion signals associated with video output, comprises a frame. The frame is expandable/retractable along translational degrees of freedom. Support surfaces are provided on the frame. The support surfaces are displaceable with respect to one another by expansion/retraction of the frame so as to be sized to support a seat. Actuators are provided between the frame and the ground. The actuators receive signals and selectively displace the frame with respect to the ground in synchronization with a video output, whereby a seat supported on the frame is displaceable within the frame. A method for installing a seating system of a motion simulator system is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2005Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: D-Box Technologies Inc.Inventors: Gauthier Orban, Michel Bérubé, Philippe Roy
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Patent number: 8403673Abstract: The present invention relates to a motion platform system comprising of a base (1), a moving platform (2) displaceable by five actuators along and about the three axes in five degrees of freedom, said moving platform (2), connected to said base (1) by at least three links, wherein one of the said links is a column (3) capable of having at least one rotational freedom at the base of the column (3); the other two links include actuators controlling rotational degrees of freedom about the ‘X’ and ‘Y’ axes; another actuator controlling rotational degree of freedom about the ‘Z’ axis; other two actuators controlling translational degrees of freedom along the ‘X’ and ‘Y’ axes; said column (3) including a joint (12) at the top of the said column (3), said joint (12) capable of providing at least one rotational degree of freedom about any of the three axes.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2007Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Zen Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Kishore Dutt Atluri, Ravikumar Midthala, Samson Jayaprakash Anga
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Patent number: 8393902Abstract: The invention relates to a method to control the movements of a flight simulator involving linear and angular accelerations perceived at a pilot's seat and involving mathematical transformations of a lateral position y and a roll angle ? for said accelerations, wherein mathematical transformations are used with at least one of the following corrections: —Feed-forward of a specific force error due to the y-position wash-out into a roll angle transformation function; —Decomposition of specific force at pilot's position and addition of complementary filters to reproduce suitable side forces in the pilot's seat due to lateral accelerations; —Mathematical transformations linking a pilot's position in an aircraft and flight simulator to a motion base centroid.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2006Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: W.ING.S. sprlInventor: Filip VanBiervliet
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Patent number: 8356996Abstract: The invention relates to a motion and orientation simulator with a cardanic suspension (4) for a cabin (5) that is carried by a heave carriage (3) that can be moved in a straight line in a carriage cage (2), characterized in that the carriage cage (2) is rotatable and that a cable drive is provided for the straight-line movement of the carriage (3) in the carriage cage (2).Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2009Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: AMST-Systemtechnik GmbHInventor: Michael Mayrhofer
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Patent number: 8355897Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for generating motion controls for a mobile platform of a vehicle simulator. The method uses, as input, accelerations calculated by a process for simulating the behavior of the vehicle. The method according to the invention comprises the steps of: filtering the accelerations calculated accelerations by use of a filter constructed according to a mathematical model of human perception of a motion; calculating successive positions of the mobile platform as a function of the filtered acceleration controls; scaling the positions of the mobile platform as a function of physical limitations of the mobile platform, to produce scaled successive positions of the mobile platform; and calculating acceleration controls to be applied by the mobile platform, as a function of the scaled successive positions of the mobile platform, to produce calculated acceleration controls.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: ThalesInventors: Nathan Morali, Serge Couvet
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Patent number: 8287394Abstract: A seat assembly comprises a plurality of stabilizing members mounted to a base. A passenger support member is moveably mounted along the plurality of stabilizing members. A plurality of spaced apart inflatable actuators are drivingly connected to the passenger support member.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Simex Inc.Inventors: Alex L. Gil, Michael Berinde
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Patent number: 8206230Abstract: An entertainment structure and apparatus principally comprising a 360-degree 2D and/or 3D cinematic theater. Seating for audience members is arrangeable on a circular motion base platform. A compound curved screen may lower from above to surround the theater upon a circular motion base platform, providing seamless media. A 2D/3D projection system is oriented within the structure to provide 2D/3D images on the screen through projection overlap for edge blending. A control system is used to rotate, pitch and roll the motion base platform. The control system can be synchronized with the media presentation. The structure includes a number of variations such as a variety of seating orientations, a stationary screen, a variety of screen configurations, and modular tracking seating.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2011Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Falcon's Treehouse, L.L.C.Inventor: Cecil D. Magpuri
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Patent number: 8147344Abstract: A ride system for moving a passenger vehicle through a dynamically-defined work space. The system includes a track structure that guides one or more motorized or driven carriers on the track structure. The system includes winches on the carrier(s) that are independently operable to set lengths of the vehicle supporting cables, which extend outward from the winches to the vehicle. During operation, the winch systems provide upper anchor points for suspending the passenger vehicle such that these anchor points are selectively positioned. The winches may be independently operated as the carrier(s) travels from a first position to a second position, such that the vehicle body pitches, rolls, or yaws and moves transversely relative to the track. The winches may be operated concurrently to drop or raise the vehicle to define the work space for the vehicle in the vertical direction. Passenger input may interactively control motion of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2010Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: David W. Crawford, Edward A. Nemeth
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Patent number: 8137205Abstract: The present disclosure provides a motion-based attraction device engagable with a plurality of spaced guest supports that are movable along a path, having a rotatable carousel configured to temporarily and separately synchronize with the plurality of spaced guest supports, at least one pair of domes supported by the carousel, each dome having a viewing portion that is positioned towards the guest supports and the dome being movable to temporarily cover the guest supports, and an image projecting assembly supported by each dome and configured to display an image on the viewing portion.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2009Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Universal City Studios LLCInventors: Robert J. Cortelyou, Steven C. Blum, Thierry Jean-Andre Coup, Brian McQuillan
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Patent number: 8113839Abstract: An image and motion corresponding to the image are presented in response to a request issued by an user. The user transmits image data from a terminal to a motion data generating apparatus. The motion data generating apparatus generates motion data from the received image data. The motion data generating apparatus transmits the generated motion data together with the image data, in a mutually related fashion, to an image/motion control apparatus. The motion data generating apparatus also transmits ID data assigned to the image data and the motion data to the terminal. The image/motion control apparatus stores the received data. When the image/motion control apparatus receives ID data input by a user via an image/motion presenting apparatus, the image/motion control apparatus reads image data and motion data corresponding to the received ID data and transmits the image data and the motion data to the image/motion presenting apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2001Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tetsushi Kokubo, Kazuyuki Marukawa, Yasuhiro Yukawa
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Publication number: 20100266994Abstract: A motion platform providing motion for roll, pitch, heave, surge, yaw, and sway from only three electric motors. Each motor moving one of three frames in a particular direction (roll, pitch, or yaw) via either a pulley style system or a direct system. The motion platform having a control system to precisely move the motion platform in response to received commands. The motion platform capable of operating in a room with at least eight foot ceilings and one standard power outlet. The motion platform utilizing pneumatic cylinders and infrared beams as safety devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2009Publication date: October 21, 2010Applicant: REDBIRD FLIGHT SIMULATIONS, INC.Inventors: Jerry N. Gregoire, Todd B. Willinger, Jerry T. Gregoire, Bradley J. Whitsitt, John Land, Darren Bien, Charles Gregoire
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Publication number: 20100184524Abstract: A motion simulator has a motive device having a base, a moving panel, twelve universal joints mounted on the base and the moving panel and six actuators connected to the universal joints and retractable. A seat assembly is mounted on the moving panel. Therefore, as the actuators retract, the seat assembly is moved in six degrees of freedom such as heave, sway, surge, pitch, roll and yaw. Audiences sitting on the seat assembly feel excited and experience a real virtual reality. Moreover, the actuators bear axial force such as drag force and thrust force and are endurable and safety.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Deng-Horng LAI, Ke-Cheng Chien
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Patent number: 7717711Abstract: A collapsible, portable motion platform for use with video games, personal computers, simulators, and virtual reality systems is disclosed. The motion platform may include a motion control system including user adjustable regulating devices for setting the range of motion, acceleration and other motion elements in one or more degrees of freedom. The framing may be collapsible and may include an enclosure case. One embodiment of the platform is lightweight and portable, and includes an enclosure case for protection in storage.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2005Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Inventor: Sean Patrick MacDonald
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Patent number: 7608017Abstract: In a balance exercise machine, a swing mechanism swings a seat with composition of a swing motion in an anteroposterior direction and a swing motion in a widthwise direction. The swing motion of the seat in the anteroposterior direction is driven faster than, preferably twice as fast, as that in the widthwise direction. The origin of the swing motion of the seat in the widthwise direction is discrepant from origin of the swing motion of the seat in the anteroposterior direction within a half-cycle.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2007Date of Patent: October 27, 2009Assignee: Panasonic Electric Works Co., Ltd.Inventor: Ryusuke Nakanishi
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Publication number: 20090246741Abstract: A flight control structure for supporting various components of a flight simulator. The flight control structure includes a plurality of elongated members, the plurality of elongated members being adapted to receive a plurality of connectors for connecting the plurality of elongated members and for mounting a plurality of components of the flight simulator. One or more of the plurality of connectors are movable and/or removable so that the flight control structure assumes a first flight simulator configuration adapted to simulate a first aircraft or a second flight simulator configuration adapted to simulate a second aircraft.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2008Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventors: MARK SOODEEN, Marc Goudreault
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Patent number: 7547854Abstract: A platform of the type holding a plurality of normally-open electric switches in position for activation of a selected individual switch by application of a force in a direction normal to a surface of the switch by a portion of a human body. An exemplary platform according to the invention forms a dance platform on which a user steps to activate switches in accordance with instructions viewed on a video display device. A joining structure may by used to hold two platforms in a side-by-side competition arrangement. A security vault may be affixed to structure associated with platform to resist theft of a commercially available game controller adapted to operate the video display and to receive switch input from a platform. Certain aspects of the invention include one or more, typically inert, practice platforms structured to represent the user interface surface of an activatable platform. A method for using a system of active and inert platforms is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2006Date of Patent: June 16, 2009Assignee: Cobalt FluxInventor: Ladd Anderson
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Patent number: 7530929Abstract: A motion platform system includes a support and a motion platform supported by the support and rotatable about a plurality of bearing axes The motion platform is further rotatable with respect to the support about at least one axis that is offset from the plurality of bearing axes. The motion platform may include an intermediate frame supported by the support, where the intermediate frame is rotatable about a first bearing axis with respect to the support. The motion platform may further include an inner frame supported by the intermediate frame, where the inner frame is rotatable about a second bearing axis with respect to the intermediate frame. Rotations of the inner and intermediate frames about the first and second bearing axes facilitate rotation of the inner frame with respect to the support about at least one axis offset from the bearing axes.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2006Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: PowerGrid Fitness, Inc.Inventors: Philip Feldman, Thomas Bruni, Greg Merril
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Publication number: 20090047636Abstract: The invention relates to a method to control the movements of a flight simulator involving linear and angular accelerations perceived at a pilot's seat and involving mathematical transformations of a lateral position y and a roll angle ? for said accelerations, wherein mathematical transformations are used with at least one of the following corrections: —Feed-forward of a specific force error due to the y-position wash-out into a roll angle transformation function; —Decomposition of specific force at pilot's position and addition of complementary filters to reproduce suitable side forces in the pilot's seat due to lateral accelerations; —Mathematical transformations linking a pilot's' position in an aircraft and flight simulator to a motion base centroid.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2006Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventor: Filip Van Biervliet
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Patent number: 7448953Abstract: The invention provides a structure of a horse riding machine and directs to a mechanism composed of a swinging device and a guiding device. The mechanism can produce the back-and-forth motion, the swinging motion, and the left-and-right and up-and-down motions and thus the 8-shaped motion. Thus, the effect of actually riding a horse can be obtained such that the horse riding machine having the effect of overall exercising the buttock, the waist and the leg and the body-shaping effect can be obtained.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2006Date of Patent: November 11, 2008Inventor: Chiu-Ku Chen
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Publication number: 20080268404Abstract: Various methods and systems are disclosed. For example, a training apparatus includes a moveable platform configured to allow an operating aircraft to land upon it, a set of actuators mechanically coupled to the platform to cause the platform to be controllable moved in a plurality of degrees of freedom. Control circuitry may be coupled to the set of actuators, the control circuitry configured to cause the moveable platform to move according to a simulated environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2007Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventor: Rick Burt
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Patent number: 7438554Abstract: A motion simulator, comprising a platform carried by at least three pairs of length-adjustable legs, wherein the connection between each leg and the platform comprises a first coupling, wherein the distance between the first coupling of one pair of legs is smaller than the distance between the first coupling of different pairs, wherein, viewed in the top plan view, at least two first couplings are located on a first circle and at least two further first couplings on a second circle, wherein the first and the second circle are concentric and have a different radius.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2002Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: ADSE B.V.Inventor: Sunjoo Kan Advani
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Publication number: 20080254416Abstract: The invention concerns a device for producing movements of a cabin (or of a platform) along 3, 4 or 6 axes, enabling a dynamic simulator to obtained, easy to produce, light and with little vertical space requirement. It consists of a structure (7) designed to receive a cabin whereof the movement is controlled by a set of six passive or active arms acting in traction/compression connected to the frame (1), the number of active arms being equal to the number of axes of displacements. The drawing represents a version with 4 axes and 4 active arms (12) (13) (14) (64) and 2 passive arms (61) (62). The displacement can be shifted from 4 to 6 axes by activating the arms (61) and (62) and from 4 to 3 axes by rendering passive the arm (64). In certain embodiments, the active arms are mechanized by connecting rods actuated by rotary motors or actuators.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2006Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventors: Bernard Claudinon, Jean Broquet
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Publication number: 20080241801Abstract: A system includes a plurality of flight simulators provided with a plurality of control posts and at least one display, wherein at least one control post is movable from a first fixed station to a mobile station.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2008Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: Airbus FranceInventors: Philippe Bocquet, Brice Miquel
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Patent number: 7402041Abstract: Disclosed is a motion simulating device that includes a first scissor jack having a helical screw and a motor that rotates the helical screw of the scissor jack thereby raising or lowering the first scissor jack. Also included is a second scissor jack also having a helical screw and a motor that rotates the helical screw thereby raising or lowering the second scissor jack. At least one platform can be connected to the first and second scissor jacks. A controller is in communication with the first and second motors so that rotation of the helical screws of the first and second scissor jacks raises or lowers the scissor jacks thereby moving the platform up and down in accordance with movement of the scissor jacks. The controller can be a joystick, a steering wheel, foot pedals, a voice trigger, a gear shifter, roller ball, or any other device capable of translating mechanical energy into an electrical signal. The motion simulating device can also include at least one additional controller.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2005Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: KB3, Inc.Inventors: Michael Craig Nelms, Raymond Charles Gordon, Lester Best, Jr.
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Patent number: 7115039Abstract: A contents distribution system for a simulation ride system has a seat rocking unit, a video unit, an acoustic unit, and a simulation ride control apparatus. The simulation ride control apparatus has the simulation ride system controlling operations of the seat rocking unit, the video unit, and the acoustic unit by using content data, and a distribution apparatus for a ride contents administration center. The distribution apparatus for the ride contents administration center distributes the content data and the simulation ride control apparatus receives the distributed content data.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2001Date of Patent: October 3, 2006Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Keiyo Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yuji Matsuda, Tsukasa Shiina, Masayuki Oshiro, Kazuhide Ebine, Kenjiro Fujii, Katsumasa Nagai
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Patent number: 7094157Abstract: A pneumatic motion platform is disclosed, adapted to allow an open center to handle shear stress without the need for a central support. In an embodiment, the platform comprises a deck; a base; a plurality of inflatable actuators, each actuator attached to the deck at a predetermined location intermediate the base and the deck, the plurality of inflatable actuators adapted for use as an active motive force with respect to the deck in a plurality of planes; a plurality of compliant stabilizers disposed intermediate the deck and the base, at least one portion of each stabilizer disposed proximate a predetermined one of the plurality of inflatable actuators; a fluid controller in fluid communication with the plurality of inflatable actuators; and a source of fluid in fluid communication with the fluid controller. A ride vehicle may comprise a cabin attached to a deck attached to the motion platform attached to a rotator such as a turntable.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2004Date of Patent: August 22, 2006Assignee: Oceaneering International, Inc.Inventors: Stephen F. Fromyer, Samuel T. Foster, Eric A. King, Clifford A. Jennings, Brian M. Welsh
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Patent number: 7033176Abstract: A motion platform system includes a support and a motion platform supported by the support and rotatable about a plurality of bearing axes. The motion platform is further rotatable with respect to the support about at least one axis that is offset from the plurality of bearing axes. The motion platform may include an intermediate frame supported by the support, where the intermediate frame is rotatable about a first bearing axis with respect to the support. The motion platform may further include an inner frame supported by the intermediate frame, where the inner frame is rotatable about a second bearing axis with respect to the intermediate frame. Rotations of the inner and intermediate frames about the first and second bearing axes facilitate rotation of the inner frame with respect to the support about at least one axis offset from the bearing axes.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2002Date of Patent: April 25, 2006Assignee: Powergrid Fitness, Inc.Inventors: Philip Feldman, Thomas Bruni, Greg Merril
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Patent number: 6910971Abstract: The current invention is an apparatus for and a method of producing a virtual reality effect of changing acceleration direction and magnitude by rotating a subject relative to a center axis to produce a centrifugal force, rotating the subject relative to a second axis perpendicular to centrifugal force and rotating the subject relative to a third axis perpendicular to the axis perpendicular to centrifugal force, and changing the magnitude of the centrifugal force. As a consequence the subject will perceive the acceleration upon his center of mass as changing in magnitude and angle. It is further enhanced by projecting a simulated image on a screen which is rotating in the same frame of reference as the subject.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2004Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Inventor: Richard H. Alsenz
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Patent number: 6902402Abstract: Flight simulator with the ability to subject a passenger in a passenger compartment to sudden and possibly substantial horizontal and vertical thrusts in addition to a full 360 degrees of motion along a pitch, roll and yaw axes is described. In some embodiments, sustained G forces are also possible by mounting the passenger compartment in a support arm which includes an additional boom around which the passenger compartment is rotated to provide sustained acceleration to passenger compartment occupants.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2003Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: MaxFlight CorporationInventor: Frank McClintic
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Patent number: 6902488Abstract: To provide a lateral steady acceleration simulation system for railway vehicle, which is capable of simulating a situation in which lateral steady acceleration is applied to a railway vehicle for a long period of time, while having a compact structure. In a riding quality simulation system of the invention, a control unit activates each of actuators (40), thereby making a simulated passenger room (10) roll. Then, the simulated passenger room (10) is gradually inclined, while a component force, along an inclined plane, of gravitational acceleration g, that is, a first reproductive acceleration G1 is generated depending on an angle of inclination ?. In this manner, a person riding on the simulated passenger room (10) bodily senses the first reproductive acceleration G1 by the roll. At the same time, the control unit moves the simulated passenger room 10, by means of a laterally moving device, in either of the left or right direction with acceleration G.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2001Date of Patent: June 7, 2005Assignee: Central Japan Railway CompanyInventors: Atsushi Hashimoto, Hitoshi Okabe, Eiichi Morimoto
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Patent number: 6808458Abstract: A horse riding sporting apparatus comprises a saddle support 10 for supporting a saddle 2, the support being disposed in the upper central part of a frame 1; a sliding assembly 20 for moving forward and backward the saddle support 10, the sliding assembly being disposed in the front part of the frame 1; an elevating assembly 30 for moving up and down the saddle support 10, the elevating assembly being disposed in the central part of the frame 1; a buffering member 40 connected to the elevating assembly 30; a first working assembly 50 and a second working assembly 60, for moving up and down the buffering member 40, the assemblies being respectively disposed in the rear and the central part of the frame 1; a driving assembly 70 for driving the sliding assembly 20 as well as the first and second working assemblies 50 and 60; a distance adjusting assembly 80 as well as a first and a second elevation adjusting assembly 90 and 100, respectively for adjusting the sliding distance as well as the vertical elevation; aType: GrantFiled: October 7, 2003Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Inventor: Seung-Joo Jung
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Patent number: 6796908Abstract: The invention provides an interactive dark ride configured and designed to stimulate the development of creative thinking and problem solving abilities and to encourage group cooperation and team work. A dark ride vehicle is also provided having inward-facing seating adapted to facilitate socializing and group gaming activities among ride participants during the ride sequence. Various interactive effects are provided along a defined ride path and/or along various associated ride cueing areas. The interactive effects are configured and arranged such that ride participants selectively actuate the various effects by successfully completing various requested tasks. Some or all of the interactive effects require the cooperation of multiple ride participants (either on the same vehicle, other vehicles and/or in adjacent queuing areas) in order to actuate the desired effect(s).Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2002Date of Patent: September 28, 2004Assignee: Creative Kingdoms, LLCInventor: Denise Chapman Weston
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Patent number: 6793495Abstract: Disclosed a virtual reality simulator for enabling a user to feel motion in virtual reality as the real.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2002Date of Patent: September 21, 2004Assignee: Vision Technology System Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shin-Chang Kang
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Patent number: 6786727Abstract: A simulator apparatus with at least two degrees of freedom of movement for an instrument which has an elongated shaft, has a holding device for the instrument, the holding device being designed such that the instrument has at least a first degree of freedom of rotary movement about the longitudinal axis of the shaft and at least a second degree of freedom of translatory movement in the direction of the shaft. The holding device has a gear arrangement for the first and second degrees of freedom, which has a first bevel gear, which is connected to the shaft and corotates with the latter about the longitudinal axis thereof, and has a second and a third bevel gear which are arranged on either side of the first bevel gear and are in rolling engagement therewith.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2003Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Klaus M. Irion, Ralph Boehm, Stefan Kolberg, Thomas Viebach
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Patent number: 6776722Abstract: An amusement ride includes an output member having an anthropomorphic robot arm adapted for six degrees of movement. The ride further includes a passenger station in moveable engagement with said output member, a platform, and optionally a ticket reader.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2002Date of Patent: August 17, 2004Assignees: Robocoaster Limited, Kuka Roboter GmbHInventor: Gino Daniel De-Gol
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Patent number: 6749431Abstract: An apparatus and method for connecting simulator instruments to a simulator host computer includes a plurality of panel modules, a data bus having a connection to each panel module, and a control computer connected to the data bus and to the host computer. Each panel module further comprises at least one simulated instrument and a local computer. The local computer runs a computer program adapted to the instrument or instruments controlled by that panel module, so that the local computer communicates with the data bus for bi-directional communication between the instrument and the control computer. Each panel module has a unique address on the data bus.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2002Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Control Products CorporationInventors: Hoke Smith, James Johnson, Eric Dickey
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Patent number: 6733293Abstract: A reliable, cost effective motion simulator system wherein a motion platform controlled by three inexpensive fractional horsepower induction AC motors to provide n-axis of motion where n is two, three, four, five or six. A dynamic boost is applied to maintain the position of the motion platform at low speed or zero speed and to handle transient motion demands without use of an encoder. The personal simulator motion base includes a support structure for positioning a rider coupled to the motion platform. A support pedestal and a plurality of linkages support the motion platform. A plurality of motor assemblies 114 is coupled to the motion plate by the linkages. A control algorithm enables the use of low cost power electronics to drive the AC motor-linkage assemblies. The personal simulator may be controlled in response to user-initiated commands, remote-user initiated commands or by commands embedded in game software or the audio track of a video stream.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2002Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Provision Entertainment, Inc.Inventors: Edward-Bruce Baker, Michael K. Forster, Jeffrey L. Vrachan, Curtis L. Thornton
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Patent number: 6716106Abstract: The present invention relates to a real-scene tour simulation system and method of the same. As illustrated in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the user could select a tour location (tour destination) through the Geographic Information System (GIS) or an expert system and set up the parameters for the tour such as the tour speed and the tour timeframe. The real-scene tour simulation system and method of the present invention will load in environment parameters based on the selected tour location, simulate the real scene of the tour based on the environment parameters, for example the terrain, the atmospheric temperature, the sunshine intensity and the environment sound effect, associated with the selected tour location and present the simulation result to the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2003Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Assignee: Via Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Cher Wang, Parkson Kuo
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Patent number: 6659773Abstract: The system produces movements in a home entertainment chair. It has a motor controller and a plurality of movement generator units for generating small amplitude and low frequency movements in the viewers chair according to desired effects. A synchronization is achieved using an audio/video stream.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2001Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: D-Box Technology Inc.Inventors: Philippe Roy, Michel Bérubé, Michel Jacques
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Patent number: 6641399Abstract: In a VR motion producing apparatus and an apparatus, comprising: a reception unit for receiving a presently projected picture frame No. from a picture apparatus; a detection unit for detecting a frame No. of operation data of a motion base presently executed by a motion base; a difference unit for comparing the picture frame No. with the motion frame No. to calculate a difference between them; a calculation unit for calculating an operation velocity of a motion base so as to correct this difference value; and a synchronization unit for reducing the difference between the picture frame No. and the motion frame No.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2002Date of Patent: November 4, 2003Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Keiyo Engineering Co. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tsukasa Shiina, Minoru Katoh, Masayuki Oshiro, Takayuki Kamiya, Hiroshi Sakairi, Masami Otomo, Kenji Seino
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Patent number: 6634885Abstract: A method and apparatus for scaling a large commercial flight simulator into a more compact flight simulator, without losing the look and feel of a corresponding aircraft in-flight, by modifying movement of the motion platform to conform to the recommendations of one knowledgeable of the actual aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2001Date of Patent: October 21, 2003Assignee: Fidelity Flight Simulation, Inc.Inventors: Graham L. Hodgetts, Gary L. Van Drie
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Patent number: 6632092Abstract: A propelled-pivoting motion base with a rotating disc that provides an occupant with an unlimited range of motion on the horizontal plane of movement and a method for manipulating the inertia of a center mass by physically following a natural path of motion as it occurs in realtime. The vehicle chassis base is propelled and steered upon and along the available operating floor area using two main drives which alternatively propell and pivot each drive assembly in a manner that shifts the center mass and its' inertia when changing directions on the horizontal plane of movement along its' realtime motion path, thus reducing the computational resources normally needed to remove un-natural movenment.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2001Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Inventor: Gregory Kristen Moran
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Patent number: 6629896Abstract: A motion machine comprised of a lightweight spherical capsule (40) with locations for occupants. The capsule floats on a cushion of compressed air. Drive wheels (46) are positioned around the capsule's circumference controlling capsule pitch and roll. The drive wheels themselves are mounted in a rotatable drive assembly (49) controlling capsule yaw. The activation of drive wheels while in rotation about the capsule provides unlimited rotation of capsule in any direction.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2001Date of Patent: October 7, 2003Inventor: Steven Jones
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Publication number: 20030180693Abstract: A motion simulator provided with a movable housing, preferably carried by a number of length-adjustable legs, in which housing projection means are arranged for visual information supply, while in the housing a control environment of a motion apparatus to be simulated is situated, the control environment being incorported in a removable unit, which unit is exchangeable for another, comparable unit having a different control environment to be simulated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2003Publication date: September 25, 2003Inventors: Jan Albert Mulder, Adriaan Beukers, Max Baarspul, Michael Johannes L van Tooren, Stefaan Emiel E de Winter