Patents Examined by Stephen Crow
  • Patent number: 9415259
    Abstract: A device for training the body of a user (1) includes a mechanism (2) with levers (3) arranged to be operated by no more than two limbs of the user. The levers are linked to a flywheel configuration (4) such that the flywheel configuration is actuated/driven by periodic push and/or pull forces exercised by the user to those levers. The resistance of the flywheel configuration can be varied. The device can be put into at least two orientations with respect to a base plate (13), so that the levers are moved by the user either forward and backward or upward and downward. The levers are arranged to be actuated by either the user's hands or the user's feet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Inventor: Saileshkoemar Ramdas
  • Patent number: 9415256
    Abstract: Embodiments of the current invention are directed towards solving the need for weightlifting wraps which prevent slippage, increase rebound potential, allow simpler application, and provide greater stability. An embodiment of the invention comprises: gripper wraps made of stretchable material; the gripper wraps having exposed rubber strands on one outer surface of the gripper wraps; the exposed rubber strands arranged in an offset lattice configuration, wherein the exposed rubber strands have a coefficient of friction sufficient to grip the previous layer of wrap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Inzer Advance Designs, Inc.
    Inventor: John Inzer
  • Patent number: 9409050
    Abstract: A treadmill assembly, respective kit-of-parts and method of assembling combined exercise apparatus are described. The treadmill assembly includes a couple of vertical struts, a couple of support tabs including a fastener affixable to the vertical struts, at least one structural element configured to sustain rotation relatively to the support tabs, a couple of add-on members including a driven subpart and a weight loading subpart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Inventor: Hagay Mintz
  • Patent number: 9403051
    Abstract: An exercise machine includes a frame and a console connected to the frame. The console has first member in a surface of the console and a second member in an adjustable portion of the console. Also, the machine has an assembly movably connected to the second member to translate the second member toward the first member with a sufficient force to hold an object in compression between the first member and the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: ICON Health & Fitness, Inc.
    Inventor: Gordon Cutler
  • Patent number: 9398995
    Abstract: A portable rehab station, including left and right outriggers, each having a forward end and a rearward end, the left and right outriggers being pivotally connected at the bottom ends of the respective left and right frame members to pivot between retracted and expanded positions, the retracted position including the left and right outriggers being generally mutually parallel, and the expanded position including the left and right outriggers being spread out at an angle of between about six and ten degrees relative to each other; a front, ground-engageable caster connected to the forward end of each of the left and right outriggers and a rear, ground-engageable caster connected to the rearward end of each of the left and right outriggers; and an actuator assembly connected with the frame and operably connected with the left and right outriggers to selectively pivot the left and right outriggers between the retracted and expanded positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Inventor: Daniel R. Tekulve
  • Patent number: 9393173
    Abstract: A rehabilitation and walking assisting assembly includes a pair of plates each having an upper edge, a lower edge, a first lateral ledge and a second lateral edge. The plates have an inner surface and an outer surface. A plurality of straps is attached to and extends between the pair of plates. A plurality of legs defines a first set of legs and a second set of legs. The first set of the legs is attached to the outer surface of one of the plates and the second set of legs is attached to the outer surface of the other one of the plates. Each of the legs includes a lower end terminating with a wheel. The plates are positionable on opposite sides of a torso of a person such that the legs assist the person while walking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Inventor: Javier Meza
  • Patent number: 9393453
    Abstract: An exercise device includes a frame having a cable and pulley system connected thereto. The cable and pulley system includes at least one pulley and at least one cable strand. The at least one cable strand has a handle connected thereto for use in performing exercises. One or more vibration assemblies are connected to the at least one pulley in order to vibrate the at least one cable strand. The vibrations from the vibration assemblies are transferred to a user during the performance of exercise to provide various physiological benefits to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: ICON Health & Fitness, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott R. Watterson
  • Patent number: 9387387
    Abstract: An exercise device may comprise at least one joint. The at least one joint may comprise at least one first surface positioned adjacent to at least one second surface, the at least one second surface movable relative to the at least one first surface at at least one interface. A damping grease having a dynamic viscosity greater than about 100 Pascal seconds at standard temperature and pressure may be positioned at the at least one interface between the at least one first surface and the at least one second surface of the at least one joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: ICON Health & Fitness, Inc.
    Inventor: William T. Dalebout
  • Patent number: 9381395
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a stationary articulated bicycle for physical exercise, especially for interiors (indoor), such as sports centers and fitness centers. In essence, it is aimed with the invention, the characterization of a new conception of stationary bike which has a hinge between two elements of a structure, to allow their relative angular displacement, which is intended to provide both a combination of balance and freedom, sensitive to forces applied to remove all and any impact that occurs in bone and nerve structure of the human body, providing comfort to the practitioner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Inventor: Cassiano Pinzon
  • Patent number: 9375603
    Abstract: Disclosed is a garment configured to receive resistance elements for elevating physiological load under motion. The garment includes left and right docking platforms for receiving left and right resistance elements which provide resistance to movement throughout an angular range of motion. The garment may be low profile, and worn by a wearer as a primary garment or beneath conventional clothing. Force transfer layers may be provided to transmit torque from the docking platforms to the garment while minimizing stretching or wrinkling of the garment. The garment may be a compression garment, including or constructed from fabric having at least about 30% stretch prior to tensile failure. Sensors may be provided for sensing any of a variety of biometric parameters and for determining exerted power or calories consumed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Tau Orthopedics, LLC
    Inventors: Belinko K. Matsuura, David G. Matsuura, Gerard von Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 9375609
    Abstract: Rope clamps and methods for attaching rope clamps to climbing structures are provided. Rope clamps illustratively comprises a clamp portion configured to be attached to a climbing structure, wherein the clamp portion comprises a clamp body, a cover, a rope path and a fastener. The clamp body is configured to engage a portion of the climbing structure. The cover is configured to engage with a front of the clamp body. The rope path extends between the clamp body and the cover. The fastener is configured to attach the cover to the clamp body. Further, at least one rope configured to enter the rope path at a first point, extend through the rope path and exit the rope path at a second point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Landscape Structures Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas L. Keller
  • Patent number: 9364706
    Abstract: A treadmill includes a base, a platform, a universal joint, two elevators and two telescopic elements. The universal joint is used to connect a rear portion of the base to a rear portion of the platform. Each of the elevators includes a post supported on a front portion of the base and a carriage movably supported on the post. Each of the telescopic elements includes an end connected to a front portion of the platform and another end connected to the carriage of a corresponding one of the elevators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: DK CITY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chiu Hsiang Lo
  • Patent number: 9364707
    Abstract: A lateral glide stationary elliptical exercise device (10) with foot support platform (90) yaw control. Yaw control is achieved by a four bar dual rocker linkage yaw control mechanism that includes (i) a foot link (70) with a pair of laterally offset first (p5) and second (p9) connection points constrained to move through generally elliptical paths within parasagittal planes, (ii) a glide link (80) pivotably connected at a first end to the first connection point (p5), (iii) a drawbar (100) pivotably connected at a first end to the second connection point (p9), and (iv) a foot support platform (90) pivotably connected proximate a second end of the glide link (80) and proximate a second end of the drawbar (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Octane Fitness, LLC
    Inventor: Brad H. Grossmann
  • Patent number: 9367668
    Abstract: A method and exercise system obtain at least one parameter of ongoing exercise on a fitness equipment unit and adjust at least one operational characteristic of the user interface while a person is exercising and based upon the obtained at least one parameter of ongoing exercise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Precor Incorporated
    Inventors: David W. Flynt, Salman A. Khilji, Piet H. Schouten, James S. Birrell
  • Patent number: 9357812
    Abstract: A footwear which includes a support member having an inner sole and an upper surface attachable to a foot, and two bulbous protuberances protruding from a lower surface of the support member on opposite sides of a latitudinal midline, is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: APOS—Medical and Sports Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Avi Elbaz, Amit Mor
  • Patent number: 9358416
    Abstract: It is possible to change the torque produced by a force on a joint during a repetition of an exercise having a kinetic chain comprising one or more several successively arranged intermediary joints dispersed between the said force and the said joint by changing the angles of the said intermediary joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Inventor: Hugh Gene Loebner
  • Patent number: 9358420
    Abstract: The exemplary embodiments herein provide an exercise device having a frame, comprising a first and a second arm, a first end of each arm meeting in fixed angular relationship at a vertex and a second end of each arm extending away from the vertex; a lever arm, having a first and a second end, the first end constrained to rotate about a pin located near the vertex; and a resistance arrangement, configured to convert rotation by a user of a first rotational assembly about an axis on the second end of the first arm into rotation of a second rotational assembly about an axis on the second end of the lever arm, which is converted into rotation of a third rotational assembly about an axis on the second end of the second arm, with the rotation of the third rotational assembly being resisted by a resistive element, the resistance arrangement providing a substantially constant resistance against the rotation of the first rotational assembly by the user over the entire range of the rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Assignee: Funk Engineering LLC
    Inventors: Nathan W. Funk, Justin H. Funk
  • Patent number: 9358422
    Abstract: A treadmill system, comprises: a sidewall member comprising a rim member extending around at least a portion of an upper edge of the sidewall member and a hatch member that provides access to an area enclosed by the sidewall member; a base member; a support pole member; a handle member coupled to the support pole member that extends from an upper portion of the support pole member and that is removably coupled to the rim member of the sidewall member; a rotatable platform member comprising an exercise surface, a peripheral sidewall and an interior sidewall, configured to rotate around the support pole member; and a particulate substrate disposed on the exercise surface. The exercise surface of the rotatable platform member is configured to evenly distribute the particulate substrate between the peripheral sidewall and the interior sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Inventor: Yuval Brontman
  • Patent number: 9358421
    Abstract: The integral vertical stepper is comprised by a mechanical system intended to generate a dependent and coordinated ascent and descent constant movement, sliding on an upright structure that holds the pedal system, and this in turn supports the two square profiles utilized as handles, thus achieving that all the elements work in a coordinate way, due that it unifies all its constituent elements, with the only purpose of giving stability, support and motor coordination when performing the exercises and routines proposed, thus avoiding risks and possible accidents. Also, said mechanical system is characterized by its simplicity in the design and its functional features, due that all its constituent parts are designed to carry out the adequate functions, i.e., a metal wire coated with a plastic layer, a pulley, a pedal system, two parallel rectangular profiles, two square profiles used as handles, two rails and three wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Inventor: Fernando Humberto Mercenari Uribe
  • Patent number: 9351901
    Abstract: A gait training tool has an elongate frame structure having a proximal end and a distal end, with a wheelchair clamp attached to the proximal end. The tool further includes a walker connection attachment, and a manual gripping attachment, which can be interchangeably mounted on the distal end of the elongate frame structure for performing different forms of gait training. The walker connection attachment has a walker clamp for attachment to a walker. The manual gripping attachment has a cylindrical gripping structure that is adapted for manually gripping and pulling the elongate frame structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Inventor: Cassi Lee Petsch