Patents Issued in July 25, 2019
  • Publication number: 20190224519
    Abstract: An exercise apparatus includes a base platform, first and second guide rails, first and second footwells, at least one grasping member, and a resistance device. The first guide rail is disposed on a corresponding first side of the base platform, while the second guide rail is disposed on a corresponding second side of the base platform, such that the second guide rail is parallel to the first guide rail. The first footwell is attached to the first guide rail and can slide along the first guide rail. Likewise, the second footwell attached to the second guide rail and can slide along the second guide rail. The first and second footwells are each configured to receive a foot of the user, such that the user may stand upon the two footwells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Ronald Lloyd Regular, Carly Regular
  • Publication number: 20190224520
    Abstract: Provided is an exercise guide system. The exercise guide system guides a user in an exercise on a treadmill, of which the speed is controllable according to the user's free will. The exercise guide system includes an input unit configured to receive at least one target exercise speed, a detection unit configured to detect an actual exercise speed of the user on the treadmill. The exercise guide system further includes an exercise guide unit configured to provide information related to the actual exercise speed and the target exercise speed so that the user personally adjusts an exercise speed on the treadmill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Seon Kyung YOO, Jae Sang PARK
  • Publication number: 20190224521
    Abstract: An apparatus, e.g. an omnidirectional treadmill, is configured to allow a user to move in an arbitrary direction. The apparatus comprises a platform (1) including a frame with a planar support surface for the user, and a continuous sheet (3) arranged to enclose the frame while extending along the planar support surface so as to define a moveable active surface (5). The apparatus further comprises a drive arrangement arranged in frictional contact with the sheet (3) to drive the sheet (3), and thus the active surface (5), in a given direction (D?) in relation to the planar support surface. The drive arrangement comprises at least three drive units (20) distributed around the frame, each drive unit (20) comprising a drive roller (21) arranged to rotatingly engage the sheet (3) in abutment to a circumferential edge surface (6) of the frame so as to establish the frictional contact with the sheet (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Henrik OLSSON, Sven-Erik DAHLROT
  • Publication number: 20190224522
    Abstract: A lateral tilting system comprising one or more crossbeams that are each pivotably supported by a respective base member for pivotable motion about a common longitudinal axis. A drive mechanism is operably connected to a drive shaft to mechanically drive pivotable motion of the crossbeams about the axis, and resulting lateral tilt of an associated treadmill deck. A control system may be included to receive a user's input for controlling an oscillation rate or other parameter of the lateral tilting, and optionally longitudinal incline of the treadmill deck. A novel treadmill including a lateral tilting system and a lateral tilting accessory for conventional exercise equipment are provided also.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: John Stelmach, Matthew Sommerfield, Brendan Haentjens
  • Publication number: 20190224523
    Abstract: Apparatus for facilitating core exercises comprises, in combination, (1) a pair of rolling handgrips, each of the rolling handgrips comprising a base having an upper side and an underside, a gripping bar connected to the base and adapted to allow a user to grip the rolling handgrip, and at least three wheels mounted on the underside of the base, each of said wheels providing a 360° freedom of movement, such that the rolling handgrip provides a 360° freedom of movement when the wheels are placed on a floor surface, and (2) a board adapted to be mounted on the pair of rolling handgrips, the board comprising an upper board surface, a lower board surface, a plurality of mounting brackets connected to the lower board surface, the plurality of mounting brackets adapted to contact the pair of rolling handgrips, to facilitate the secure mounting of the board upon the pair of rolling handgrips, whereupon, when the board is mounted upon the pair of rolling handgrips, the board provides 360° freedom of movement on the f
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Gbolahan O Okubadejo
  • Publication number: 20190224524
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multi-gym machine which enables a user to perform a plurality of different exercises for the whole body. More specifically the present invention relates specifically to a power tower machine in which the user utilizes a combination of the user body weight (calisthenics) in addition to variable elastic bands to provide additional assistance or resistance. This advanced power tower hereby disclosed incorporates an arrangement of multiple handles, various pulleys, elastic cables and steel wire connected to a special waist belt to be put on by the user. The elastic cables depending on their anchor points either from the top or the bottom pulley, generates assistance or resistance to the user respectively for the specific workout. A set of sensors, processor and Bluetooth transmission unit is integrated on the power tower to process, transmit, process and manage several workouts performance indicators via a dedicated mobile application offering a virtual coaching capabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2016
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Fadi Saadallah
  • Publication number: 20190224525
    Abstract: The present invention is directed, in part, to a system and methods for combining newly designed cardiovascular equipment with the added features of an upper body weight training regimen in order to provide a user a full body workout, cardiovascular exercise and weight training simultaneously. The invention does so by employing either a weight tray apparatus configured to newly designed cardiovascular equipment or machine or through the use of an adjustable weight training apparatus combined with the newly designed cardiovascular equipment or machine. More specifically, the present invention relates to a system and methods for combining newly designed cardiovascular equipment including stationary and recumbent bikes, elliptical machines, treadmills and stair steppers, with a tray apparatus that allows a user to employ free weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: David Romero
  • Publication number: 20190224526
    Abstract: An incline push-up stabilizer device and method, wherein the devise is comprised of a handle, spacer, and inflexible base. The inflexible base has a “W” profile, which allows the incline push-up stabilizer to temporarily, but securely, engage with a stair, so that a user may perform inclined push-ups. The incline push-up stabilizer device has a pair of orthogonally connected shared surfaces that are covered with a high-friction, flexible material, to create a gripping surface. The incline push-up stabilizer device is placed on a stair so that the gripping surface engages the stair. By doing push-ups on a positive incline, the user experiences less force with each push-up. This enables people who are fatigued, injured, out-of-shape, or old to perform push-ups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Theodore J. Barrie
  • Publication number: 20190224527
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for tracking the location of an individual during a fitness activity are disclosed. A method of tracking a participant engaged in a fitness activity includes determining a location of the participant during the fitness activity based on data received at a portable fitness device used by the participant; determining a location of a spectator during the fitness activity based on data received at a mobile spectator device used by the spectator; from a server, sending an alert to a spectator at a spectator device during the fitness activity indicating that the participant is within a predetermined distance of the spectator; and sending an alert to the portable fitness device during the fitness activity indicating that the spectator is within a predetermined distance of the participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Jon Harald WERNER, Christian DIBENEDETTO, Stephen John BLACK, Amy Jones VATERLAUS
  • Publication number: 20190224528
    Abstract: A system and method for analyzing and improving the performance of a body motion, which requires receiving, by a CPU, sensor data from sensors worn by a user; storing the transmitted sensor data in a data buffer; recognizing that a motion gesture occurred based on a signature of acceleration data in the buffered sensor data, extracting from the data buffer sensor data from a predetermined time window around the moment when the motion gesture occurred; automatically generating a regime file customized for the user based on the extracted sensor data, and generating in real-time a user interface displaying a representation corresponding to the motion indicated by the sensor data, wherein the CPU determines the signature of acceleration data by matching the buffered sensor data with stored motion signatures, wherein the regime file is automatically generated based on diagnostic parameters obtained from the sensor data associated with a motion activity category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Alex B. Omid-Zohoor, Brian Vermilyea, Erik Herter, Tony Morgan, Steve Diamond, Michael Chu, Eran Leshem
  • Publication number: 20190224529
    Abstract: An automatic coaching system and method for an exercise state of a user include: a metric calculating step of calculating at least one metric by using data collected by an acceleration sensor or a location sensor worn by the user; a new coaching target metric selecting step of calculating an error rate between the calculated metric and a prestored metric reference value, selecting a new coaching target metric based on the error rate, and outputting a coaching message related to the coaching target metric; a new metric improvement verifying step of verifying new metric improvement occurrence when the new coaching target metric is not selected and outputting an alarm when the new metric improvement occurs; and an exercise state outputting step of outputting an alarm for an exercise state when the metric improvement and the new coaching target metric are not present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: BEFLEX INC.
    Inventors: Ju Ho Jung, Chang Keun Jung, Seong Jae Yoo
  • Publication number: 20190224530
    Abstract: A balance tension exercise device includes a pair of spaced platforms interconnected by two rigid bars. A plurality of flexible straps span the two platforms. The bars have differing widths to provide different levels of difficulty by a user walking from one platform to another over the bars. Similarly, the straps have different widths to provide other levels of difficulty. Each platform may comprise the top wall of a box. One of the boxes is larger than the other box so that all of the components of the device can be stored in the larger box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Wayne GROSHEK
  • Publication number: 20190224531
    Abstract: Golf balls comprising a core having at least one layer and a cover having at least one layer are provided. At least one of the layers is made from a thermoplastic composition preferably comprising a telechelic ionomer derived from alkyl-cis-cyclooctene and cis-cyclooctene. The telechelic ionomer composition also may be used to form intermediate layers. Blends of telechelic ionomers and polybutadiene rubbers or ethylene acid copolymers can be prepared. The telechelic ionomer compositions can be used to make a cover layer having good impact durability and shear resistance and that also helps provide the ball with high resiliency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Erin C. McDermott, Brian Comeau, Michael J. Sullivan, Mark L. Binette
  • Publication number: 20190224532
    Abstract: An arm mounted golf ball holder and retriever having one or more ball holders and a ball retriever to allow a golfer with limited or no hand movement to more easily handle their golf balls while playing on a golf course.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Nicholas D. Manou
  • Publication number: 20190224533
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a rear body having a crown member coupled to a sole member, and a front body coupled to the rear body to define a substantially hollow structure. The front body includes a strike face and a surrounding frame that extends rearward from a perimeter of the strike face. The front body further includes a fabric reinforced thermoplastic composite layer and a filled thermoplastic layer each extending across the entire strike face. The fabric reinforced thermoplastic composite layer and the filled thermoplastic layer each comprise a common thermoplastic resin component, and are directly bonded to each other without an intermediate adhesive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Clayson C. Spackman, Jeremy S. Pope, Tyler A. Shaw, Eric J. Morales, Atiqah Shahrin
  • Publication number: 20190224534
    Abstract: A resilient face insert for a golf club head, preferably a putter head, is disclosed herein. In particular, the face insert comprises a plurality of hinge features spaced from a striking surface to ensure consistent ball speed across the striking surface. At least a portion of each hinge feature extends parallel to the striking surface without making contact with the striking surface. In the preferred embodiment, each hinge feature comprises a tab portion that is spaced from the striking surface by a stem portion and that extends parallel to the striking surface. The hinge features may be co-molded with a polymeric backing material having a plurality of parallel grooves in order to further improve performance of the face insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Craig E. Abbott, Augustin R. Rollinson, Patrick Dawson, Sean Toulon
  • Publication number: 20190224535
    Abstract: A golf club head having elevated internal weighting that improves ball speed, reduces backspin, and increases launch angle is disclosed herein. In particular, the golf club head comprises a hollow body with a face, sole, and elevated weight bar, which is disposed inside the body and is fixed to heel and toe sides of the body, preferably with mechanical fasteners such as screws or bolts. The weight bar bridges a central portion of the sole, and a central section of the weight bar, which preferably comprises at least 50% of the overall mass of the weight bar, extends towards the face without actually making contact with the face. The sole also includes at least one slot extending perpendicular to the face and underneath the central section of the weight bar, the slot having a front-to-back length that is greater than a maximum front-to-back length of the weight bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Brandon D. DeMille, Bradley C. Rice, William C. Watson, Irina Ivanova, Joel B. Erickson
  • Publication number: 20190224536
    Abstract: A head includes a face surface, a back surface, and a top blade. The back surface includes a top-side region and a sole-side region. The top-side region includes a toe recess part located on a toe side relative to a face center, a heel recess part located on a heel side relative to the face center, and a first thick portion extending along the top blade and located on an upper side relative to the toe recess part and the heel recess part. In a reference state in which the head is placed on a horizontal plane, an angle between a lower edge of the first thick portion and the horizontal plane is denoted by ?1, and an angle between the top blade and the horizontal plane is denoted by ?2. The angle ?1 is smaller than the angle ?2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuki SHIMAHARA
  • Publication number: 20190224537
    Abstract: Golf clubs and golf club heads, such as iron heads, may include an iron body and a ball striking plate engaged with the iron body. The ball striking plate may include a face layer and a backing layer. The face layer of the ball striking plate may be formed of a metal material, while the backing layer may be formed of a polymeric material. The backing layer isolates the face layer from the iron body. In some arrangements, the backing layer of the insert may be visible at the top, the bottom, the side and/or the front surfaces of the iron head. Methods for making such iron devices are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Jeremy N. Snyder
  • Publication number: 20190224538
    Abstract: A golf club head includes a front body and a rear body coupled to the front body to define a hollow cavity therebetween. The front body includes a strike face that defines a ball striking surface, a hosel, and a frame that at least partially surrounds the strikeface and extends rearward from a perimeter of the strikeface away from the ball striking surface. The strike face and frame are formed from a thermoplastic composite comprising a thermoplastic polymer having a plurality of discontinuous fibers embedded therein. Each of the plurality of discontinuous fibers have a length of less than about 40 mm, and between a center of the strike face and the hosel, greater than about 50% of the plurality of discontinuous fibers are aligned within about 30 degrees of parallel to a horizontal axis extending from the center of the strike face to the hosel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Clayson C. Spackman, Jeremy S. Pope, Tyler A. Shaw, Eric J. Morales, Atiqah Shahrin
  • Publication number: 20190224539
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, a heel portion, a top portion, a bottom portion having an outer surface portion, and a skirt portion between the top portion and the bottom portion. The golf club head may include a first plurality of weight ports in the outer surface portion and a second plurality of weight ports in the outer surface portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Bradley D. Schweigert, Michael R. Nicolette
  • Publication number: 20190224540
    Abstract: Some embodiments include club heads having reinforced club head faces. Other embodiments of related club heads and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Eric J. Morales, Ryan M. Stokke, Eric V. Cole, Cory S. Bacon, Travis D. Milleman, Jacob T. Clarke, Calvin Wang, Xiaojian Chen, Martin R. Jertson
  • Publication number: 20190224541
    Abstract: A golf tee insert device is provided herein. More specifically, a hand-held device for punching a hole in the ground is provided, where the hole is designed to receive a golf tee. The device may include a punch that is spring-activated, pneumatic, or electromagnetic. The punch is propelled out of the device a predetermined distance to create a tee-sized hole in the ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Amy Knott
  • Publication number: 20190224542
    Abstract: An apparatus for aiding the re-gripping golf clubs is presented. In an embodiment, a support base comprises an aperture, wherein the aperture is wider than at least a portion of a tapered elongated shaft and narrower than a second wider portion of the tapered elongated shaft. A slot extends from an end of the support base to the aperture. A user may then slide a golf club through the slot and push down to secure the club in place during re-gripping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Steven Hoss
  • Publication number: 20190224543
    Abstract: A ball bat including one of a left-hand configuration designated for a left-handed batter and a right hand configuration designated for a right-handed batter. The left hand configuration is different than the right hand configuration. The ball bat further includes one of a left-hand indicia indicating the left hand configuration and a right hand indicia indicating the right hand configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Joshua S. Stenzler, Richard E. Moritz, Brent R. Slater, Ty B. Goodwin, Mark A. Fritzke, Edwin D. Vander Pol, Robert T. Thurman, Sean S. Epling, Ryan M. Raagas
  • Publication number: 20190224544
    Abstract: A bat customization method includes the steps of capturing images of a batter's swing, determining a swing plane angle of the batter's swing at ball impact at a middle elevation of a strike zone of the batter based upon the captured images, and providing a bat for the batter. The bat has circumferentially spaced launch angle boosters. Each of the launch angle boosters extends along the axis at an angle based upon the determined swing plane angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Joshua S. Stenzler, Richard E. Moritz, Brent R. Slater, Ty B. Goodwin, Mark A. Fritzke, Edwin D. Vander Pol, Robert T. Thurman, Sean S. Epling, Ryan M. Raagas
  • Publication number: 20190224545
    Abstract: An apparatus for playing hacky sack game comprising a hoop stand that provides multiple shooting targets for players. The hoop stand includes a base support and a number of netted hoops, which includes a center netted hoop and a plurality of radial netted hoops. The netted hoops are connected to the base support, which is positioned within a target zone of a playing surface. The system of the hacky sack game includes a plurality of footbags, the hoop stand and the playing surface which also comprises an offensive boundary positioned outside the target zone to separate the offensive and defensive zones. The method of the game comprises a process of interactive offensive and defensive plays between a first team of at least two offensive players, a second team of at least two defensive players playing the hack sack using the system. The present invention offers an innovative, challenging, yet simple and fun method for playing the hacky sack game, which has not been achieved before in the past.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Zachary Thomas Torgerson
  • Publication number: 20190224546
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for collaboratively playing golf in an optional selective shot format by a group of golf players on a golf course using a single set of golf clubs and a single golf ball. Players use a novel golf tee configured particularly for team golf to inhibit side spin of the golf ball upon impact by the golf club.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Young Sung Park
  • Publication number: 20190224547
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a stick-handling training system for use in at least sports like hockey, ringette and field hockey. The system is comprised of height adjustable bases and cross members positioned in those bases. The height adjustable bases are vertically adjustable between a first and a second position and elevate the cross members from the ground at heights that can vary based on the object used to be passed underneath in stick-handling training.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Jonathan THÉRIAULT, Christian GAUTREAU, Todd SMITH
  • Publication number: 20190224548
    Abstract: A baseball and softball training aid is worn to prevent a batter's lead arm from extending too far backward in rotation during swing windup, thus collapsing the “box” or “barrel” referred to in batting training that exists between the batter's lead arm and chest during at least an initial portion of a swing of a bat. The training aid has a vertical stop providing a surface that is aligned vertically along a chest of the batter so that the lead arm of the batter is prevented from traveling past the vertical stop by contacting the vertical stop when the batter winds up to strike a ball and a pair of braces rigidly coupled to the vertical stop and extending across the chest of the batter to transfer energy from the vertical stop to the chest of the batter when the lead arm of the batter contacts the vertical stop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Aaron Paramore English
  • Publication number: 20190224549
    Abstract: A training device comprising a plurality of arms, each arm having two or more markings, the two or more markings being disposed at a position that is related to one of (a) a type of maneuver to be practiced, (b) anthropometric data of typical players, (c) anthropometric data of a specific player performing an exercise, and (d) a diameter of a basketball, and at least one junction, each junction being disposed between each pair of the plurality of arms, and a base coupled to each of the at least one junction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Tyrell Rashawn Grant
  • Publication number: 20190224550
    Abstract: A striking assembly for martial arts training is provided. The striking assembly includes a base plate configured to be secured to the ground, a support unit having a support plate and a post extending from the support plate, and a striking unit having a main body configured to receive a portion of the post and a striking pad covering at least a portion of the main body. The support plate and the base plate are connected by three or more resiliently deformable isolators. In response to striking impacts, the isolators resiliently deform to create a deflection angle between a normal to the support plate and a normal to the base plate, and resiliently return to their undeformed dimensions at the conclusion of the striking impact such that the normal to the support plate returns to being substantially parallel to the normal to the base plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Asi SHOSHAN, Gidon GABBAY
  • Publication number: 20190224551
    Abstract: Apparatus for assisting a golfer in aligning a golf swing to a ball target includes an elastic strap removably connected to strap fasteners, one associated with a respective toe portion of each golfer's shoe. Shoe covers providing the strap fasteners need not cover the entire shoe, and instead may be partial shoe covers with toe portions and heel portions connected with elastic and/or adjustable side straps. The elastic strap, taunt when the golfer assumes a stance for swinging a club, is in alignment with a desired golf ball target. A sliding marker may be provided on the elastic strap to indicate ball position prior to a swing. The elastic strap is easily removable via connectors, such that after a shot, the golfer need only remove the strap and put it in a pocket, for example, until used again for a subsequent swing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Timothy Hinson Bele
  • Publication number: 20190224552
    Abstract: A ball tracking system is disclosed which includes a display, sensors, a launch monitor and a processor that receives data from the sensors and launch monitors and outputs a rendering to the display. Specifically the sensors are positioned to detect a plurality of observed ball flight paths, each in the plurality originating from a different ball strike at a different location. The sensors field of view is correlated to three-dimensional space. The launch monitor is positioned to detect one of the ball strikes, and measures the launch parameters of that ball strike. The processor performs several processing steps to match the ball strike detected by the launch monitor to the ball flight paths observed by the sensors, and creates a rendering using both the predicted and observed data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Chris Kiraly, Paulo Merloti
  • Publication number: 20190224553
    Abstract: A golf training putting aid that attaches to or is built into any putter club head to assist with self-teaching and development of professional putting fundamentals of posture and stroke. The removable aid will produce a professional, consistent, and repeatable putting posture through muscle memory habits with immediate visual feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: 911 GOLF, LLC
    Inventor: Casey A. Schiel
  • Publication number: 20190224554
    Abstract: A quarterback training device is an electric football launcher that is able to mimic the snap of a center as performed during a football game and to place a spin on the launched ball. The speed of the launch is adjustable via a remote control and the device provides for a handoff shelf to be attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Richard West, Guy Grover
  • Publication number: 20190224555
    Abstract: A ball launching apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a funnel residing at an upper end of a housing. The funnel includes a channel for gravitationally directing a ball into a launch point within an interior compartment of the housing. The apparatus includes a hammer that strikes a ball through a chute, thereby releasing the ball from the housing. Both the distance at which the ball travels and the angle at which the ball leaves the chute may be adjusted by the operator. A method of exercising a dog is also provided herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Eric A. Ward
  • Publication number: 20190224556
    Abstract: A method of generating an outcome for a sporting event is disclosed herein. A computing system retrieves tracking data from a data store. The computing system generates a predictive model using a deep neural network. The one or more neural networks of the deep neural network generates one or more embeddings comprising team-specific information and agent-specific information based on the tracking data. The computing system selects, from the tracking data, one or more features related to a current context of the sporting event. The computing system learns, by the deep neural network, one or more likely outcomes of one or more sporting events. The computing system receives a pre-match lineup for the sporting event. The computing system generates, via the predictive model, a likely outcome of the sporting event based on historical information of each agent for the home team, each agent for the away team, and team-specific features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: STATS LLC
    Inventors: Hector Ruiz, Sujoy Ganguly, Nathan Frank, Patrick Lucey
  • Publication number: 20190224557
    Abstract: Described is a bouncing ball with bounce counter. The bouncing ball includes a ball housing with a bounce counter embedded therein. In various aspects, the bounce counter includes an integrated circuit and a motion switch. The motion switch is operable for indicating a bounce against a surface and the integrated circuit is operable for maintaining a bounce count based on cumulative actions of the motion switch. A display can be connected with the integrated circuit for displaying a bounce count. In some aspects, the integrated circuit is configured for communicating the bounce count to an external mobile device. Finally and in other aspects, the ball housing has an external surface that is textured with a plurality of bumps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Damian Mucaro
  • Publication number: 20190224558
    Abstract: A latching device that can latch two splitboard skis together over their lengthwise common edge. The latching device accommodates variation in the distance between latching device mounting holes. The latching device rotates about a fastener assembly secured through one of the latching device mounting holes through the first of the two splitboard skis. A slot in the latching device, engages a second fastener assembly by tension between the outside edge of the slot and the lengthwise common edge between the splitboard skis. The slot includes a series of detents that can engage the second fastener assembly. The detents are distanced progressively closer to the axis of rotation of the latching device to accommodate various distances between the first mounting hole and the second mounting hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: William J. Ritter
  • Publication number: 20190224559
    Abstract: A ski binding with a binding element mounted displaceably on a slide rail arranged on a ski and which can be fixed in different positions by a latching device, wherein the latching device has latch elements which engage in each other in a blocking position on the binding and ski sides, and the binding-side latch element has a pivotable lever element, that in a displacement position the latch elements are not in engagement with each other, wherein the binding element has an operating element with an oblique run-on surface which is can be transferred between open and closed positions, wherein the operating element, upon transfer of the operating element to the open position, cooperates with an oblique contact surface of the lever element such that the lever element is moved out of the blocking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: Nicolas FELLIN
  • Publication number: 20190224560
    Abstract: A mechanism for locking the heel portion of a snow glide board boot binding. The heel-locking device locks and unlocks by rotating a lever. The heel-locking device allows the rider to lock their boot binding hands-free to the snow glide board by pressuring the back of the boot binding baseplate with their boot while the heel-locking device is in the locked position. Once locked, the rider must rotate the lever to a predetermined position to unlock the boot binding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: William J. Ritter
  • Publication number: 20190224561
    Abstract: A mounting device for snowboards and other snow glide boards that includes a puck assembly. The adjustment system can be adjusted with three degrees of freedom with respect to the snowboard: foot placement, foot angle, and heel and toe centering. The puck assembly can attach directly to the snowboard or can be built into the snowboard boot binding. The mounting device can include a slider block/snowboard binding base plate and a disk. The disk includes a series of projections. The slider block/snowboard binding base plate receives the disk in a recess indented in the slider block/snowboard binding base plate top surface. The recess is patterned with a series of detents sized and shaped to receive the projections from the disk. The detents arranged as a series of arcs, of equal radius, translated linearly on even increments. This combination allows for the foot angle and heel and toe centering adjustments to be made concurrently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventor: William J. Ritter
  • Publication number: 20190224562
    Abstract: A system for analysis of use of a sliding board comprising at least one piezoelectric element configured to be secured to the sliding board and generate electric energy during deformations of the sliding board; and an electronic processing circuit configured for estimating at least one parameter of use of the sliding board and configured to be connected to the sliding board. The electronic processing circuit is powered by the electric energy generated by the at least one piezoelectric element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Nicolas Puget, Johan Vailli, Pierre Gasnier, Sébastien Brulais, Prince Arnaud Ramahefa-Andry, Jean-Philippe Gros
  • Publication number: 20190224563
    Abstract: A control method performed by a computer including a storage module and configured to control progress of a game played by a user registered in an application, includes storing, in the storage module, identification information of each of a plurality of users in association with registration information indicating whether the user is registered in the application, retrieving a game progress request including identification information of a first user from a first terminal device of the first user, determining whether or not the first user is registered in the application, transmitting display data for displaying a game screen used in the game to the first terminal device when the first user is registered in the application, and transmitting display data for displaying a registration screen for registering the first user in the application to the first terminal device, when the first user is not registered in the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Gree, Inc.
    Inventors: Midori MORIYAMA, Shuhei SATO
  • Publication number: 20190224564
    Abstract: A method is provided, including: providing a first view of a virtual environment to a first HMD, the first view having a first view direction towards a virtual object, the first view being from a first-person perspective positioned at the first location; simultaneously, providing a second view to a second HMD, the second view being from a first-person perspective positioned at the first location, and rendering in the second view a virtual character associated to the first view, the rendering configured to present the virtual character as being positioned at a second location, and configured to present the virtual character having a second view direction adjusted relative to the first view direction so as to be from a first-person perspective of the virtual character as the virtual character is positioned at the second location, and so as to be towards the virtual object as shown in the second view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Richard L. Marks, Steven Osman
  • Publication number: 20190224565
    Abstract: An operation device has a movable portion movable between a first position and a second position. The movable portion is operated by a user while the operation device is gripped by the user. The operation device receives information identifying a control mode and control information defined for each control mode as an instruction related to control of a tactile force sense, and controls the tactile force sense presented to the movable portion by using the received control information in the control mode identified by the received information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Ikuo Yamano, Yusuke Nakagawa, Shinichi Hirata, Yuichi Machida, Yoichi Nishimaki
  • Publication number: 20190224566
    Abstract: A program, a game control method, and an information processing apparatus, which are capable of improving operability of a game. A program causing an information processing apparatus to execute a step of causing an object arranged on a field object in a virtual space in which a coordinate system having a first axis and a second axis is set to be displayed on a screen in which a coordinate system having a third axis and a fourth axis is set, a step of detecting first and second positions on the screen while the first user operation is being detected, and a moving step of moving the object according to a first user operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: GREE, Inc.
    Inventors: Daisuke TAKA, Motoshi ABE, Masaru IDA, Kiyoto SUZUKI
  • Publication number: 20190224567
    Abstract: Disclosed is a video game program for causing a computer to realize an acquisition function of acquiring replay data for reproducing play contents already ended of a user in a game space in which a plurality of characters including a player character of the user appear, an image generation function of generating a replay image to be displayed on a display based on the acquired replay data, and a selection function of selecting one or more characters from among the plurality of characters as a focus character based on a selection operation on an operator by the user. In the image generation function, the replay image is generated in a display format for the focus character.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroaki OHNO, Kei ODAGIRI
  • Publication number: 20190224568
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a prompt method and a related apparatus in a virtual scene, and a computer storage medium. The method includes obtaining, by a device comprising a memory and a processor in communication with the memory, at intervals of a preset duration or when a specified event occurs within a life cycle of a virtual scene, performance data of a plurality of virtual characters in the virtual scene within a specified time period. The method also includes determining, by the device, a best-performing virtual character currently in a best performance state in the plurality of virtual characters according to the performance data of the plurality of virtual characters within the specified time period. The method further includes generating and outputting, by the device, prompt information used for indicating the best-performing virtual character, so that a client corresponding to each virtual character in the plurality of virtual characters presents the prompt information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventor: Weiqing YANG