Patents by Inventor Nerio Alessandri

Nerio Alessandri has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6409631
    Abstract: An exercise machine with a variable configuration of a type that includes at least one posture portion and one machine portion. The exercise machine includes a reader to read a portable medium constituting a device for storage of protocol data of a user and/or an exercise, a motor-driven adjuster for adjusting a relative position between the posture portion and the machine portion, and a control device, connected to the reader and to the motor-driven adjuster, designed to change the relative position between the posture portion and the machine portion in accordance with the protocol data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Technogym S.r.l.
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri
  • Publication number: 20020055417
    Abstract: The present invention concerns an exercise machine with variable configuration, of the type that includes at least one posture portion and one machine portion, the exercise machine having reading means of a portable medium constituting a device for the storage of protocol data of a user and/or an exercise, motor-driven means for adjusting the relative position between the posture portion and the machine portion, and control means, connected to the reading means and to the motor-driven means, designed to change the relative position between the posture portion and the machine portion in accordance with the protocol data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Inventor: NERIO ALESSANDRI
  • Publication number: 20010051565
    Abstract: An exercise machine comprises an organ able to be moved cyclically to exchange power with a user, interfacing means between the movable organ and the user to allow an exercise motion and means for supporting the user for the exercise; the machine comprises at least two portions connected to each other and mutually movable between two stable configurations, respectively: non operative in correspondence with which the two portions define a furnishing structure to cover the movable organ and the interfacing means and operative, for exercising, in correspondence with which at least a portion makes active the movable organ and the interfacing means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Publication date: December 13, 2001
    Applicant: Technogym S.r.l.
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri
  • Patent number: 6328676
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a treadmill (1) in which the running board (2) may be attached at the rear, while the portion designed for the actual performance of the exercise is cushioned by resilient elements (33) that may have an undulating surface positioned substantially perpendicular to the direction of cushioning; moreover, the present invention allows the treadmill (1) to respond to the force created following the impact of the user's feet with various values, according to the change in the resistance offered by the cushioning means (3; 3′; 3″).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Technogym S.r.l.
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri
  • Patent number: 6296596
    Abstract: An exercise machine for exercising the lower limbs; comprising a seating unit for the user, means for supporting the user's feet, opposite to said seating unit, and a load unit operatively connected to said means for supporting the user's feet to exchange power with the user's legs, said means for supporting the user's feet being movable between a position longitudinally approached to said seating unit, and a position longitudinally removed from said seating unit. Said means for supporting the user's feet comprise a first and a second foot board for providing support for a respective foot of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Technogym, S.r.l.
    Inventors: Nerio Alessandri, Massimo Massarini
  • Publication number: 20010014641
    Abstract: An exercise machine, having a frame that supports a gravitational load set; the load set comprising at least a first body of determined mass movable vertically and at least a first guiding element associated to the first body; the load set comprising at least an additional guillotine load unit, selectable at will.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Publication date: August 16, 2001
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri
  • Publication number: 20010004622
    Abstract: A computerized connection system between exercise stations, comprising an exercise machine or equipment item and interface means to allow the exchange of information between the user and the station itself, includes a telecommunication network operatively interposed between the exercise stations to allow the connection, information exchange and communication of the users of the individual stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: June 21, 2001
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri
  • Patent number: 6244999
    Abstract: Machine for exercising muscles wherein at least one lever able to be actuated in rotation to exercise upper body muscles terminates with an elongated portion presenting a first longitudinal axis oriented in a determined direction; a handle being supported by the lever in end position by means of a respective sleeve; a first body substantially cylindrical and able to gripped by a user being hinged to the sleeve in correspondence with a second axis substantially transverse to the first axis, the first body being mounted on the sleeve in a manner allowing it to rotate around a determined axis; an adjustment set being provided to adapt the trajectory of the first body to the anthropometric measurements of the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2001
    Assignee: Technogym S.r.L.
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri
  • Patent number: 6206810
    Abstract: Exercise machine (10) wherein a frame (20) is provided with at least one upr-ght (21) substantially vertical and prismatically shaped; the upright (21) presenting at least one elongated body (26) able to serve as a guide to a pack (P) of flat bodies (31) able to be actuated longitudinally for the execution of training exercises; the upright (21) being externally delimited by a longitudinal shell (22) shaped prismatically and laterally facing the flat bodies (31); at least one plate (14) engaging the upright (21) in sliding fashion to isolate the flat bodies (31) from the outside in co-operation with the shell (22); coupling organs being provided inside the shell (22) to connect said upright and the elongated body (26) rigidly to each other according to a longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Techogym S.r.l.
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri
  • Patent number: 6174265
    Abstract: A load selector, in particular for an exercise machine in which a load to be used in an exercise is variable and is determined by a value of a sum of a plurality of weight elements which are associated, through related fastening elements, to a tugging element comprising a rod kinematically connected to appropriate connectors able to exert a force by a user; the weight elements can be stacked on top of one another and present corresponding holed portions able to define a channel for the rod, the rod presents, along its own longitudinal development, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Technogym S.r.l.
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri
  • Patent number: 6132347
    Abstract: The invention relates to a physical training machine with attitude adjustment, of the type comprising at least a posture portion and an implement portion; the posture portion is provided with means able to allow a user to be positioned in an exercise configuration wherein the user him/herself is set to perform a physical training exercise; the implement portion is provided with action means, accessible to the user when he/she is positioned in exercise configuration and employable by him/her for the application of a force able to contrast, for the execution of the exercise, a resistance offered by the physical training machine; the physical training machine comprises means for adjusting the relative position between the posture portion and the implement portion acting on one thereof and connecting means, positioned and acting between the posture and the implement portions able to modify the position of one of the portions as derived by the change in position of the other one of said portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: Technogym S.r.l.
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri
  • Patent number: 5931763
    Abstract: A system for programming training on exercise apparatus, with a series of exercises defining a personalized program, includes a central unit with first processor and a bi-directional data transferor; a portable medium, with a portable memory for data storage; a plurality of stations, not connected to one another by a data transmission line, and located at the exercise apparatus, with a second processor and a bi-directional data transferor from and to the portable medium, so as to receive as input the data in the portable memory relative to the exercise to be performed on an individual apparatus, for programming the apparatus, and so as to transfer as output to the portable memory upon completion of the exercise, data relative to the performance of the exercise so as to allow such data to be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Technogym S.r.l.
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri
  • Patent number: 5916063
    Abstract: A system for programming training on exercise apparatus, with a series of exercises defining a personalized program, includes a central unit with first processor and a bi-directional data transferor; a portable medium, with a portable memory for data storage; a plurality of stations, not connected to one another by a data transmission line, and located at the exercise apparatus, with a second processor and a bi-directional data transferor from and to the portable medium, so as to receive as input the data in the portable memory relative to the exercise to be performed on an individual apparatus, for programming the apparatus, and so as to transfer as output to the portable memory upon completion of the exercise, data relative to the performance of the exercise so as to allow such data to be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1999
    Assignee: Technogym S.R.L.
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri
  • Patent number: D303558
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1989
    Assignee: Technogym s.r.l.
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri
  • Patent number: D420073
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Technogym S.r.l.
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri
  • Patent number: D425154
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2000
    Assignee: Technogym S.r.l.
    Inventor: Nerio Alessandri