Patents Assigned to Concept II, Inc.
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Patent number: 7201708Abstract: An exercise machine in which a fan has a rotor that generates drag by causing air to move in response to exercising by a user. A deflection structure deflects air that the rotor has moved and is adjustable to control the amount of drag generated by the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2001Date of Patent: April 10, 2007Assignee: Concept II, Inc.Inventors: Richard A. Dreissigacker, Peter D. Dreissigacker, Jonathan V. Williams
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Patent number: 6561955Abstract: An exercise machine in which a fan has a rotor that generates drag by causing air to move in response to exercising by a user. A deflection structure deflects air that the rotor has moved and is adjustable to control the amount of drag generated by the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 1999Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: Concept II, Inc.Inventors: Richard A. Dreissigacker, Peter D. Dreissigacker, Jonathan V. Williams
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Patent number: 6371892Abstract: Exercising is made more comfortable and effective by providing a foot rest that has a front end which holds the ball of the user's foot fixed and a back end that both cradles the user's heel and allows the user to pivot his heel around the ball of his foot in a natural manner. The frame of the machine can be easily and repeatedly taken apart and put back together because it has two arms which mate at a connector that can be mated and unmated by simple pivoting of the two arms.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 1997Date of Patent: April 16, 2002Assignee: Concept II, Inc.Inventors: Richard A. Dreissigacker, Peter D. Dreissigacker, Jonathan V. Williams
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Publication number: 20010008861Abstract: An exercise machine in which a fan has a rotor that generates drag by causing air to move in response to exercising by a user. A deflection structure deflects air that the rotor has moved and is adjustable to control the amount of drag generated by the rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2001Publication date: July 19, 2001Applicant: Concept II, Inc., Vermont corporationInventors: Richard A. Dreissigacker, Peter D. Dreissigacker, Jonathan V. Williams
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Patent number: 6231485Abstract: Exercising is made more comfortable and effective by providing a foot rest that has a front end which holds the ball of the user's foot fixed and a back end that both cradles the user's heel and allows the user to pivot his heel around the ball of his foot in a natural manner. The frame of the machine can be easily and repeatedly taken apart and put back together because it has two arms which mate at a connector that can be mated and unmated by simple pivoting of the two arms.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 1999Date of Patent: May 15, 2001Assignee: Concept II, Inc.Inventors: Richard A. Dreissigacker, Peter D. Dreissigacker, Jonathan V. Williams
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Patent number: 5707322Abstract: Exercising is made more comfortable and effective by providing a foot rest that has a front end which holds the ball of the user's foot fixed and a back end that both cradles the user's heel and allows the user to pivot his heel around the ball of his foot in a natural manner. The frame of the machine can be easily and repeatedly taken apart and put back together because it has two arms which mate at a connector that can be mated and unmated by simple pivoting of the two arms.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1996Date of Patent: January 13, 1998Assignee: Concept II, Inc.Inventors: Richard A. Dreissigacker, Peter D. Dreissigacker, Jonathan V. Williams
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Patent number: 4875674Abstract: The apparatus is adapted to an exercise device with an energy absorbing unit that has a self calibrating energy monitor. It comprises at least one rotating flywheel which is driven through a one way clutch. There is a braking mechanism to apply resistance to the flywheel. A self calibrating energy monitor computes the dissipated power with a formula relating power to angular velocity, typically a coefficient of resistance times the angular velocity of the flywheel raised by an exponent determined by the brake used. The monitor consists of a microprocessor that is programmed to periodically self calibrate the formula and receives its impulses from a sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 1988Date of Patent: October 24, 1989Assignee: Concept II, Inc.Inventors: Peter D. Dreissigacker, Richard A. Dreissigacker
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Patent number: D367508Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1994Date of Patent: February 27, 1996Assignee: Concept II, Inc.Inventors: Richard A. Dreissigacker, Peter D. Dreissigacker, Jonathan V. Williams