Patents Examined by Stephen Crow
  • Crawling exercise device
    Patent number: 9186551
    Abstract: A crawling exercise device having a base with a quartet of spaced apart notches disposed within the top side, a block slidably disposed above each notch, respectively, a pad disposed atop each block, a wheel connected to each block through each notch, each wheel supported on the bottom side interior, a first connecting rod in operational communication with the wheels of the first small block and the first large block, a second connecting rod in operational communication with the wheels of the second small block and the second large block, a dual inertia wheel disposed at the first end, each of the first connecting rod and the second connecting rod pivotally affixed to the dual inertia wheel, the first connecting rod affixed to the dual inertia wheel 180 degrees out of phase with the second connecting rod, wherein sliding movement of the blocks turns the dual inertia wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Inventor: Allen D. Smith
  • Walking slide mill
    Patent number: 9186539
    Abstract: A reversible walking slide mill for a person seeking walking or jogging exercise has first and second plastic molded slide mill platforms horizontally interlockable to each other in side by side arrangement as for one platform for each person's foot. The platforms are disconnectable as to reduce width when in storage or transportation. A smooth slippery foot sliding surface is on top of each platform having an uphill inclined front surface and a rear surface shorter than the front surface with a flat surface therebetween. A pair of extensible rotatable gripping handles are mounted to each of the platforms for gripping and rotating by the person during exercise. Resilient feet on the bottom of the platforms provide vertical shock absorption, flexibility and recoil independently to each platform when a person is exercising on the slide mill platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Inventors: Paul G. Kahmann, Adam M. Roussopoulos
  • Elliptical trainer
    Patent number: 9186541
    Abstract: An elliptical trainer comprises a base, a rotational mechanism, a left and a right coupling mechanism, and a rising device. The rotational mechanism is arranged on the base. The left and right coupling mechanisms are arranged at a side of the rotational mechanism, respectively. One end of the left and right coupling mechanism couples to the rotational mechanism, and the other couples to a pedal making a moving path. The rising device comprises a frame, two guiders, at least a ladder component, and a driving assembly. The driving assembly comprises a motor, a screw, a tube, a linkage component, and a cable. The tube has internal thread to engage with the screw. The linkage component couples with the tube, and the cable couples with the linkage component and the ladder component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Dyaco International Inc.
    Inventor: Brian Murray
  • Compressive exercise device
    Patent number: 9180332
    Abstract: A compressive exercise device facilitates exercises utilizing compressive force to develop multiple parts of the body. The device includes an elongated tube. A top section of the tube is slidably inserted into a bottom section wherein the tube is telescopic. A longitudinal slot extends through the bottom section of the tube. A resilient loop has a first end coupled to the bottom section of the tube proximate a bottom end of the bottom section. Each of a pair of rollers is coupled to an associated side of the bottom section between the top end of the slot and a top end of the bottom section. The loop extends over each roller. A pin coupled to the top section extends through the slot and slides in the slot when the tube is compressed. The loop is coupled to the pin such that the loop resists compression of the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Inventors: Juan M. Tenorio, Luis Tenorio
  • Leg rehabilitation apparatus
    Patent number: 9180331
    Abstract: A leg rehabilitation apparatus is provided. The leg rehabilitation apparatus includes a base, a seat, an oscillating set, a linking-up set, a resisting device and a buffer. The seat is disposed on the base. The oscillating set is pivotally connected to the base. The linking-up set is connected with the oscillating set and coupled with the oscillating set. The resisting device is connected to the oscillating set and provides a resisting force to the oscillating set during the leg rehabilitation. The buffer is disposed on the base and connected to the linking-up set. The buffer provides a buffering force during the leg rehabilitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: PREVENTIVE MEDICAL HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ching-Yu Yeh
  • Method of providing resistance for use with a resistance training device
    Patent number: 9180339
    Abstract: A method of using a resistance training device including mounting a mounting device onto a game table, wherein a placement of the mounting device onto the game table corresponds to an opening on a sidewall of the game table, and utilizing a resistance article with a game table rod that extends into a game space of the game table, the resistance article coacting with the game table rod to gradually increase a resistance during rotation of game table rod is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: FIRST PRINCIPLES, INC.
    Inventor: Keith A. Raniere
  • Modular exercise pole and anchoring system
    Patent number: 9174080
    Abstract: A modular exercise pole and anchoring system is provided. The present invention relates to an exercise pole with multiple vertical and horizontal attachment points for connecting resistance training devices, the pole being attached to a base having a base post that accepts a plurality of plate-type weights for anchoring. The exercise pole and anchoring system have application to resistance training for fitness, among other uses, while the anchoring system alone has application to a number of uses where convenient, removable anchoring is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hark'n Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Shon L. Harker
  • Free standing training bag with tripod base
    Patent number: 9174108
    Abstract: A free standing training bag comprising a base with three legs and an upper body mounted atop the base, where the upper body has at least one striking surface suitable for use in martial arts training. Both the upper body and the base may be padded, allowing the free standing training bag to be used as a combat simulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: Century, LLC
    Inventors: Tibor Siklosi, Kurt Hafeken, Jeffrey Woodson
  • Exercise machine for providing weight lifting exercises similar to those provided by a free weight barbell
    Patent number: 9168412
    Abstract: An exercise machine for performing barbell type free weight lifting exercises has a power cage or Smith press type frame, an elongated bar held on the frame in a substantially horizontal resting position, and an adjustable exercise mass assembly that allows a user to select an exercise weight from among a plurality of choices of different exercise weights provided by the exercise mass assembly. The exercise mass assembly is separate from the bar and any auxiliary weight plates carried on the bar. A cable and pulley system operatively connects the bar to a movable portion of the exercise mass assembly that provides the selected exercise weight. A powered actuator sets up the bar for performing a weight lifting exercise by lifting the movable portion of the exercise mass assembly up above a second portion of the exercise mass assembly that remains stationary during the particular weight lifting exercise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Power Block Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl K. Towley, III, Gregory S. Olson
  • Abdominal exercising apparatus
    Patent number: 9168417
    Abstract: An exercising apparatus for exercising muscles in the abdominal region of a user's body may include a stationary primary body support configured to support upper portions of the user's body including the abdominal region. The primary body support may include a primary body support surface oriented to support a user's back in a rearwardly inclined position and a secondary body support surface for supporting the user's buttocks. A movable carriage may be configured to be engaged by the user's lower leg portions and may be movable along a substantially linear path extending generally toward and generally away from the secondary body support surface. A resistance application assembly may be configured to apply an adjustable degree of biasing force to the carriage in a direction generally away from the secondary body support surface to resist movement of the carriage toward the secondary body support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Inventor: Torrey M. Vaughns
  • Foldable treadmill
    Patent number: 9168415
    Abstract: A foldable treadmill includes a base for running or walking, a frame set pivotally connected with the base, and a folding mechanism for folding the frame set. The folding mechanism has a control assembly and a sliding rod connected with the frame set and capable of being locked or released by the control assembly. When the control assembly locks the sliding rod at a first position, the frame set cannot be rotated, and when the control assembly releases the sliding rod, the frame set can be rotated to a storage position thus pulling the sliding rod to a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: Dyaco International Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Wei Liu, Hsuan-Fu Huang
  • Gymnastic machine
    Patent number: 9162103
    Abstract: Regulating group for adjusting the initial operating position of an interface associated with a gymnastic machine comprising a frame; a load group connected to the interface through a respective transmission device; a support group designed to carry the interface movable relative to the frame; the regulating group comprising a return device suitable, in use, to define, at the initial operating position, a stop for the movement of the interface relative to the frame; wherein the return device can be connected, in use, to the transmission device through a given coupling, so that to each variation in the initial operating position actuated through the return device corresponds a respective given variation in the operating configuration of the transmission device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: TECHNOGYM S.P.A.
    Inventor: Marco Lorusso
  • Removably mounted exercise station
    Patent number: 9149677
    Abstract: A removably mounted exercise station includes an elongated anchoring member disposed on a first surface of an external stationary object, such as a door. The anchoring member has a plurality of apertures and rails formed between the apertures. A securing strap wraps around a second surface of the external stationary object to secure the exercise station onto the external stationary object. A resistance band connects to one of the rails to provide resistance during an exercise routine. A clamp allows for quick connect and disconnect of the resistance band to the rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: LIMITLESS WELLNESS PROJECT LLC
    Inventors: Richard Villagonzalo-Moby Rountree, Josue Jeffrey Sandoval
  • Exercise device
    Patent number: 9144708
    Abstract: An exercise device (20) having a hand graspable movable part (24) mounted to a mounting part (25) for movement with respect to the mounting part. The mounting part (25) is affixable to a hand movable object (12) so that the hand movable object may be moved by a user by hand grasping the movable part (24) while also executing reciprocatory movement of the movable part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Inventor: Ali Selek
  • Powder delivery devices
    Patent number: 9144652
    Abstract: A nasal delivery device for delivering substance to a nasal cavity of a subject, the delivery device comprising: a substance supply unit for supplying a dose of substance to be delivered to the nasal cavity of the subject, the substance supply unit including an inlet and an outlet; a nosepiece unit including a nosepiece for fitting to a nasal cavity of the subject and being in fluid communication with the outlet of the substance supply unit; and a mouthpiece unit including a mouthpiece in fluid communication with the inlet of the substance supply unit and through which the subject in use exhales such as to entrain substance from the container chamber and deliver the same through the nosepiece, and at least one temperature modifier for reducing a temperature of the exhaled air flow such as to reduce the absolute humidity thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: OptiNose AS
    Inventors: Per Gisle Djupesland, Roderick Peter Hafner, Colin David Sheldrake
  • Exercise equipment
    Patent number: 9138610
    Abstract: Exercise equipment comprising a grippable handle at which said exercise equipment can be lifted by a user, and at least one docking assembly connected to the grippable handle. The docking assembly has opposing arms that define a slot in which at least one weight plate can be removably mounted. At least one locking member is located on the docking assembly to capture and/or lock at one weight plate to the docking assembly once received in the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Les Mills International Limited
    Inventors: David Neil Lovegrove, Darryl John Best, William Davies, Tyrone David Low
  • Exercise assemblies having linear motion synchronizing mechanism
    Patent number: 9138614
    Abstract: An exercise assembly comprises elongated first and second rocker arms that pivot with respect to each other in a scissors-like motion about a first pivot axis. A slider has a slider body that slides along a linear axis extending through and perpendicular to the first pivot axis. A linkage pivotally couples the first and second rocker arms to the slider body. Pivoting the first and second rocker arms with respect to each other causes the slider body to slide in a first direction along the linear axis. Opposite pivoting of the first and second rocker arms with respect to each other causes the slider body to slide in an opposite, second direction along the linear axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
    Inventors: Zhi Lu, William James Kreuger, Byron T. DeKnock, Gary Scott Clayton
  • Lower leg and foot exercise device
    Patent number: 9132308
    Abstract: An exercise device for a lower leg and foot is provided. The exercise device provides a user with the ability to exercise multiple muscles in both lower legs and both feet, and provides the user with multiple exercises with a single exercise device. Additionally, the exercise device is capable of providing variable resistances during exercise to accommodate users of different strength and to accommodate a user's increase in strength. To provide variable resistance, the exercise device includes a plurality of resilient resistance member interchangeably coupled to a housing of the exercise device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: RK INVENTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Michael Kole, Naftali Mayer Garber
  • Multifunctional arms and wrists trainer
    Patent number: 9132315
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a multifunctional arms and wrists trainer which is a bar assembled by a shaft and two handles. An interior of the bar is provided with an elastomer formed by a torsion spring or torsion leaf in a shape of ?. When two handles are held with two hands of a user and twisted against each other, muscle groups of arms are exercised by torsion resulted from the elastomer when the handles are twisted leftward and rightward. A handle bracket inside the handle can be also connected with a rotating dish which can be used as a roller for exercising abdominal muscles, in addition to being used to exercise the muscle groups of the arms by twisting the rotating dishes at a side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Inventor: Chien-Rung Chen
  • Trampoline swingset suspension
    Patent number: 9132307
    Abstract: A trampoline swingset suspension includes a trampoline frame having at least three legs. A trampoline bed is suspended from the trampoline frame. Springs connect between the trampoline bed and the trampoline frame to provide resilient restoring force for a user. The trampoline enclosure frame includes a plurality of vertical trampoline enclosure frame members. An enclosure net is mounted to the trampoline enclosure frame. A swingset frame is mounted to at least two of the at least three legs of the trampoline frame. A swing seat is suspended from the swingset frame. A spring suspension connects the swingset frame to the trampoline frame. The spring is a coil spring having an upper end bounded by an upper pin and the coil spring has a lower end bounded by a lower pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Inventor: Samuel Chen