Patents Assigned to Motion Analysis, Inc.
  • Patent number: 4280700
    Abstract: A set of golf clubs, including both woods an irons, is disclosed in which the various clubs are constructed in their various parameters to aid the user to insure that each and every swing of the club follows the correct path and also to resist rotation of the club head and shaft during impact with the ball about a variety of pivot points on the shaft to assure that the ball will travel in a true flight pattern. The club head is weighted to locate its center of percussion near the toe of the head to reduce rotation of the head at impact about the shaft axis and the handle of the club is weighted to locate the center of percussion of the club below the club head to reduce rotation of the club about the pivot point defined by the base of the index finger of the lower hand in the grip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1981
    Assignee: Motion Analysis Inc.
    Inventor: Stanley Plagenhoef
  • Patent number: 4235026
    Abstract: An elastomeric shoesole designed specifically for athletic activities wherein the sole contains at the outer side of the heel and/or the inner side of the ball transversely-extending, longitudinally-spaced openings which extend to approximately the longitudinal center line and wherein the respective opposite sides are substantially solid, thereby allowing the sole to yield at the outer side of the heel end to a greater extent than at the inner side and at the inner side of the ball to a greater extent than at the outer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1980
    Assignee: Motion Analysis, Inc.
    Inventor: Stanley C. Plagenhoef
  • Patent number: 4153249
    Abstract: A standard size tennis racket has a flex of substantially 1.2 centimeters at the throat, 2.4 centimeters at the head center and 5.8 centimeters at the tip when a force of substantially thirty pounds is applied to the racket tip with the racket cantilevered from the handle end. A weight between 15 and 25 grams is located on one side on the frame at the midpoint of the strings, and a weight of between 15 and 25 grams is placed at the end of the handle, the weights being concentrated in as small an area as possible, the total weight of the racket counting the side weight only being substantially the same as a conventional unweighted racket. For a 27 inch racket, the weights are selected to establish a center of gravity between 123/4 inches and 13 inches from the end of the handle and the center of percussion between 22 and 221/2 inches from the end of the handle determined by using a pivot point 43/4 inches from the end of the handle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1977
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1979
    Assignee: Motion Analysis, Inc.
    Inventor: Stanley C. Plagenhoef
  • Patent number: D260196
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Assignee: Motion Analysis, Inc.
    Inventor: Stanley C. Plagenhoef
  • Patent number: RE32412
    Abstract: An elastomeric shoesole designed specifically for athletic activities wherein the sole contains at the outer side of the heel and/or the inner side of the ball transversely-extending, longitudinally-spaced openings which extend to approximately the longitudinal center line and wherein the respective opposite sides are substantially solid, thereby allowing the sole to yield at the outer side of the heel end to a greater extent than at the inner side and at the inner side of the ball to a greater extent than at the outer side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1987
    Assignee: Motion Analysis, Inc.
    Inventor: Stanley C. Plagenheff