Patents Issued in March 7, 2024
  • Publication number: 20240075339
    Abstract: A manually powered treadmill includes a front rotatable element and a rear rotatable element coupled to a frame; a bearing assembly at least partially supporting one of the front or rear rotatable elements; and a running belt disposed about the front and rear rotatable elements. The bearing assembly includes a predefined low viscosity bearing fluid. The running belt defines a non-planar running surface. The running belt includes a first endless belt and a plurality of slats, each slat having a first side and a second side and coupled to the first endless belt. Each slat in the plurality of slats defines at least one aperture, and the at least one aperture is structured to receive a fastener to facilitate coupling to the first endless belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Woodway USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas G. Bayerlein, Nicholas A. Oblamski, Jose D. Bernal-Ramirez, Daniel D. Wagner, Robert L. Zimpel
  • Publication number: 20240075340
    Abstract: Presented are wearable sensor systems for monitoring user movement, methods for making/using such systems, exoskeletons employing such systems, and wireless-enabled wearable sensor devices for performing biometric measurements. A sensor system for monitoring movement of a user includes a wearable sensor device that is communicatively connectable to a sensor linking node. The sensor linking node wirelessly receives sensor data from the wearable sensor device and wirelessly communicates the received sensor data to a remote computing node. The wearable sensor device includes an expandable device body, such as an elastic compression sleeve or an adjustable strap, that is worn on an appendage of the user. The device body includes a mounting interface, such as mating hook-and-loop fastener pads, that removably mounts thereon a biometric sensor core (BSC) unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Motion Augmented LLC
    Inventors: Cameron Brandon Pinnock, Haroun Algahmi
  • Publication number: 20240075341
    Abstract: In a running analysis system, an information acquirer acquires position information and motion information of a user as a runner, measured at each point of passage in a run by a certain measurement device. A measurement value acquirer acquires measurement values of multiple types of motion analysis indices indicating a running motion state of a user for each certain unit measurement section, based on the position information and the motion information chronologically consecutive. A classification processing unit classifies measurement values in multiple measurement sections for each type of motion analysis indices, using a certain classification method for classification by property. A mode determination unit determines an output mode of a classified measurement value based on comparison with a certain comparison target. An output unit is capable of outputting at least information regarding the classified measurement value, based on the determined output mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: ASICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki KO, Nao HIRAKAWA, Yasuhiro NOMURA, Kazunaga NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20240075342
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to sport augmentation systems. For example, aspects of the present disclosure include systems and techniques for assessing a path of a ball during a sporting session to be used to augment a sporting experience. On example method includes receiving one or more frames capturing image data associated with movement of a ball on a surface during a sporting session, determine a state associated with throwing the ball based on the one or more frames, perform an assessment of the surface on which the ball is thrown, predict a path of the ball as thrown on the surface based on the state associated with the ball and the assessment of the surface, and output an indication of the path to be displayed on a display element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: NAGRAVISION SARL
    Inventor: Benjamin Gidley
  • Publication number: 20240075343
    Abstract: A system which determines a physical fitness level and an exercise and nutrition routine for the subject. The system comprises a non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with computer executable instructions coupled to a processor, image system and display. The image system captures a front and side image of the subject's body. The system comprises a human machine interface whereby the subject's biographic data is entered into the system and is stored and retrieved from the computer medium. The system determines measurements of the subject's body, such as circumference measurements of the torso, neck, and a limbs from the images. The subject's physical fitness level determination is based on the biographic data and the body measurement developed from the images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Damien Young
  • Publication number: 20240075344
    Abstract: A method for evaluating the exercise capability includes that: a target model equation pre-constructed for a user is invoked in response to an evaluation instruction for an exercise capability of the user, where the target model equation reflects a relationship between user paces and exercise time; and the exercise capability of the user is evaluated based on at least one user pace, where in the target model equation each of the at least one user pace corresponds to an exercise time point adapted in one of at least one exercise dimension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Xin LIU
  • Publication number: 20240075345
    Abstract: a resistance adjustable power generator having: an operating unit that receives commands of a user and is able to switch the resistance adjustable power generator to either a release mode or a resistance mode; a resistance generating unit that receive the commands from the operating unit and provides adjustable multiple levels of resistance to a connecting device, with the resistance generating unit having a resistance controlling center, multiple resistance generator, and an output controlling center; and a battery electrically connects to the resistance generating unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Chia Yu Lo, Kuang-Yang Liao
  • Publication number: 20240075346
    Abstract: An exercise monitoring method, an exercise monitoring device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes the following: obtaining an exercise course input by a user; detecting a reference respiratory pattern of the user performing the exercise course through a wearable device within a reference time interval; detecting a first respiratory pattern of the user performing the exercise course through the wearable device within a first time interval; and providing a first exercise adjustment suggestion based on a first comparison result between the first respiratory pattern and the reference respiratory pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: BOMDIC INC.
    Inventors: Yao Shiao, Shih-Chieh Wu
  • Publication number: 20240075347
    Abstract: A climbing cam can include a stem forming the main body of the climbing cam. A moveable latch can be disposed on the stem and operable to tether the steam to a climbing harness of a climber. A spring-loaded cam lobe can be disposed on a first end of the stem. A trigger can be connected to the cam lobe so that the trigger is actuatable to retract the cam lobe from an expanded position to a retracted position and to open the moveable latch, allowing the stem to untether from the climbing harness when the cam lobe is in the retracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Utah State University
    Inventor: Baylee Anne Vogler
  • Publication number: 20240075348
    Abstract: Golf balls include dimples for generating a turbulent boundary layer. At least some of the dimples include a fan-shape. The fan-shaped dimple has a plurality of blades. Each blade has a trailing edge flush with a land area of a spherical surface of the golf ball, a leading edge, and a side wall connected to the leading edge. The dimple also has a sloped floor extending from the trailing edge to the leading edge, a blade tip connecting the leading edge to the trailing edge at a distal end of the blade, and a blade root connecting the leading edge to the trailing edge at a proximal end of the blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Acushnet Company
    Inventor: Steven Aoyama
  • Publication number: 20240075349
    Abstract: In a golf ball having a core, an intermediate layer and a cover, the ball and the sphere obtained by encasing the core with the intermediate layer have respective surface hardnesses such that (surface hardness of ball)<(surface hardness of intermediate layer-encased sphere); the ball has an initial velocity of ?75.0 m/s; and the core has a hardness profile in which the center hardness, the hardness at a midpoint between the core center and core surface, and the hardnesses at specific positions inward from the midpoint and at specific positions outward from the midpoint are optimized. Given the possibility that the rules limiting the distance traveled by a golf ball on shots by long hitters will change, this ball reduces the drop-off in distance on driver shots and iron shots taken by average hitters while increasing the drop-off in distance on driver shots taken by long hitters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Bridgestone Sports Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hideo WATANABE
  • Publication number: 20240075350
    Abstract: Embodiments of golf club heads with energy storage characteristics are presented herein. In some embodiments, a golf club head comprises a hollow body comprising a strikeface, a heel region, a toe region opposite the heel region, a sole, a top rail and an inflection point. The inflection point provides increase bending of the strikeface thereby providing performance enhancement over clubs without an inflection point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Martin R. Jertson, Eric J. Morales, Cory S. Bacon, Calvin Wang, Xiaojian Chen, Travis D. Milleman
  • Publication number: 20240075351
    Abstract: A golf club head having a laser-generated features to create contrast on the club face of the golf club head. The club face includes a central region, a toe region, and a heel region. The central region includes a first plurality of laser-generated features that provide a height-intersection coverage of the central region, a width-intersection coverage of the central region, and a surface-area coverage of the central region. The toe region includes a second plurality of laser-generated features that provide a height-intersection coverage of the toe region, a width-intersection coverage of the toe region, and a surface-area coverage of the toe region. The heel region includes a third plurality of laser-generated features that provide a height-intersection coverage of the heel region, a width-intersection coverage of the heel region, and a surface-area coverage of the heel region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Stephanie LUTTRELL, Vincent JACOBSON, Kevin WOLFE
  • Publication number: 20240075352
    Abstract: A golf club head with a sole having a low stiffness compliance zone, which allows the face to deflect downward upon impact with a golf ball, is disclosed herein. The compliance zone comprises a plurality of through openings that are filled with one or more filler pieces comprising a low modulus material, all of which are located within three inches of a face section measured along a front-to-back axis of the golf club head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp.
    Inventors: Irina Ivanova, Brandon D. DeMille, Alan Hocknell, William C. Watson, Timothy G. Scott, Romulus M. Tomimbang, Justin Del Rosario
  • Publication number: 20240075353
    Abstract: An iron golf club head includes a face portion having a striking face with a face center thereon, a virtual vertical plane passing through the face center and perpendicular to the striking face, and a sole portion extending backward from the face portion to form a bottom surface of the head. The sole portion includes a toe side slit extending forward from a sole rear edge on the toe side of the virtual vertical plane, a heel side slit extending forward from the sole rear edge on the heel side of the virtual vertical plane, a sole center portion demarcated between the toe side slit and the heel side slit, a sole toe portion detached from the sole center portion on the toe side by the toe side slit, and a sole heel portion detached from the sole center portion on the heel side by the heel side slit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyofumi MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20240075354
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a golf club head with a plurality of stiffening members proximate the face, and particularly solid rods or a plate with one or more cutouts, is disclosed herein. The method includes the steps of preparing a wax of a golf club head body having at least one through-hole, a hollow interior, and at least one receiving pocket, preparing waxes of one or more stiffening members, inserting the wax of the stiffening members into the through-hole and seating its opposite end in the receiving pocket, bonding each of the stiffening members to the body with an adhesive material to form a combined wax mold, and casting a golf club head from the combined wax mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp.
    Inventors: Evan D. Gibbs, Alan Hocknell, Austin L. Frederickson, Christopher A. G. Nunez, James A. Seluga, Matthew Myers, Matthew Hannen, Bart R. Fliers, Robert S. Gonczi
  • Publication number: 20240075355
    Abstract: An iron golf club head includes a head body having a sole portion, a weight member disposed in the sole portion, and a fixing member for fixing the weight member to the head body. The head body is provided with a first hole and a second hole. The first hole opens at a bottom surface of the sole portion. The weight member is in the first hole by insertion from below the head in a first direction. The second hole opens at a surface of the head body. The fixing member is inserted into the weight member from the second hole in a second direction different from the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Sumitomo Rubber Industries, Ltd.
    Inventor: Kiyofumi MATSUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20240075356
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of iron-type golf club heads that include weight reducing features in the topline region of the club head that facilitate changing the Z-up location of the club head. In some embodiments the body includes a weight reducing feature in a topline weight reduction zone of the club head that extends over the entire face length from the par line to the toe portion ending at approximately the Z-up location of the iron type golf club head. The weight reducing feature results in a mass savings of about 2 g to about 20 g, and a Zup shift of about 0.5 mm to about 2.0 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason W. Issertell, Joshua J. Dipert, Bret H. Wahl, Maresala Milo, Zac Atwell, Scott Taylor
  • Publication number: 20240075357
    Abstract: A golf club head including a striking face; a periphery portion surrounding and extending rearwards from the striking face; wherein the striking face comprises a front surface configured to strike a golf ball and a rear surface opposite the front surface; a support arm spaced from the rear surface of the striking face; wherein the support arm abuts the periphery portion at two distinct locations; a damping element residing between the support arm and the rear surface of the striking face; wherein the damping element comprises a front surface in contact with the rear surface of the striking face and a rear surface in contact with the support arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Marni D. Ines, Jonathan Hebreo, Charles E. Golden, Oswaldo Gonzalez, Grant M. Martens, Doug M. Takehara, Jason A. Mata, Michael E. Franz, John Morin
  • Publication number: 20240075358
    Abstract: A golf club head, preferably a putter head, comprising at least one structural support member is disclosed herein. The structural support member has a smooth, organic-looking aesthetic, with a continuously changing curvature along its spline and at least one surface, and preferably connects one portion of the golf club head to another portion. Where the support member connects to other portions of the golf club head, the surfaces of the member have a curvature that changes smoothly and continuously, lacking any sharp corners. The support member may be part of a lattice structure formed via binder jetting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp.
    Inventors: Eric Stubben, William C. Watson, Brandon D. DeMille, David R. Handy, Irina Ivanova, Patrick Dawson
  • Publication number: 20240075359
    Abstract: Embodiments of multi-component putters comprising an upper portion and a lower portion are described herein. The upper portion is formed from a first material having a first density and the lower portion is formed from a second material having a second density. The first density is less than the second density. The upper portion is affixed to the lower portion via an adhesive or a combination of adhesives and interlocking geometry. The multi-component putter design provides increased forgiveness and moment of inertia compared to a putter formed from a single material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: David A. Higdon, Jacob T. Clarke, Anthony D. Serrano, Murphy R. Alexander
  • Publication number: 20240075360
    Abstract: The present invention includes a golf bag cover with interior surfaces lined with a flexible container filled with air and microbeads. The flexible container includes a plurality of openings each configured to receive a golf club. The flexible container includes at least one valve to evacuate air from within the flexible container to compactify the microbeads around the golf clubs, thereby securing them. In one embodiment, a snake-like retainer is threaded between golf clubs within the golf bag cover and air is evacuated from the snake-like retainer so as to compactify microbeads within the snake-like retainer around the golf clubs in order to secure them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: GSTC LLC
    Inventors: Gideon P. Searle, Theodore Bobrick Root, JR.
  • Publication number: 20240075361
    Abstract: A hybrid golf accessory and method of use thereof is described. Embodiments of the hybrid golf accessory can include a drinking vessel and a golf tee guide integrated with the drinking vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Osborne, Robert Batchelor
  • Publication number: 20240075362
    Abstract: Handles for athletic equipment, such as baseball bats. The handles include two different portions, or sides, each configured to achieve different results. A first portion has a flared shape and no knob, and is configured to interface with the hypothenar side of a batter/user's hand in a way that it promotes the gliding of the handle/knob over his or her hypothenar area, hamate bone and other anatomic areas included in such. A second portion has a least a partial knob and is configured to interface with the user's little finger with a protuberance that engages the little finger, wherein the engagement of the little finger facilitates better grip, a pivot point for proximal part to glide across hypothenar eminence of hand and better performance of the bat (or other athletic equipment) being used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Paul Re
  • Publication number: 20240075363
    Abstract: A gaming net system intended for table tennis that is held precisely and extremely securely in place by a grouping of four linear magnets affixed to the table with their longitudinal axes residing perpendicular to the axis of the table/net and play. The Neodymium magnets are affixed precisely on the table using an alignment template. Further, the magnets sit into magnet recesses in the net post plate to further increase the net post's resistance to movement. The entire net system is quick and easy to install and can be retrofitted onto any table tennis table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Jeffrey Carl Cowgill
  • Publication number: 20240075364
    Abstract: A transportable target game assembly being collapsible with laterally extending support wedges supporting the target face of the target assembly. The support wedges are secured laterally to the target face with a segmented hinge. Jointless support struts are provided between the support wedges and the bottom side of the target face. The jointless strut snaps into rigidity to erect the target assembly and collapses into recesses formed in the bottom side of the target face for collapse and transport. The jointless support strut comprises multiple layers of spring steel with a clearance riveted connection to allow the multiple layers to cooperatively bend and straighten for erection and collapse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Dan Olive
  • Publication number: 20240075365
    Abstract: A method of stabilizing a cornhole board on a support surface, comprising providing a cornhole board including an inclined board have a front, a rear, and a top with a target hole, one or more rear supports that support the rear of the inclined board at a height above the front of the board, and one or front supports that support the front of the inclined board; providing one or more stabilizing units for the one or more front supports that support the front of the inclined board and the one or more rear supports that support the rear of the inclined board, wherein the one or more one or more stabilizing units include one or more adhesion members that adhere to and stabilize the cornhole board relative to the support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: John Wallace Rockett, Mike Pontrelli
  • Publication number: 20240075366
    Abstract: The utility model relates to the technical field of throwing toys, and discloses a structure of a lighting effect structure for a sandbag game board. The lighting effect structure for a sandbag game board includes a lighting effect assembly, a sandbag board configured to mount the lighting effect assembly, and a remote control configured to remotely control the lighting effect assembly. The lighting effect assembly for a sandbag game board includes a hole light strip, a board light strip, a sensing detection module configured to detect that a sandbag enters a hole, a vibration detection module configured to detect that the sandbag hits a board, and a voice playback module configured to perform voice prompt in cooperation with the sensing detection module and the vibration detection module. The hole light strip is embedded in an inner part of a hole on the sandbag board, and the board light strip is embedded at an outer edge of the sandbag board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Wanghui Xiong
  • Publication number: 20240075367
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a puck having a body cavity and an aperture for accessing the body cavity. The body cavity defines a sidewall that includes a first portion and a second portion defining a first connector. The puck further includes a tracking device disposed in the body cavity and a cap that is received by the body cavity and closing the aperture. The cap includes a cap body with a peripheral portion having a peripheral surface and a chamfer surface extending away from the peripheral surface and abutting the first portion for distributing loads experienced by the puck. The cap body further includes a protruding portion extending from the peripheral portion. The protruding portion includes a lateral wall connected to the chamfer surface and defining a second connector. The second connector geometrically complementary to and engaging with the first connector to securely connect the cap with the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Roch GAUDREAU, Patrice DEMARTIN, Thomas ST-PIERRE
  • Publication number: 20240075368
    Abstract: A basketball dribbling training system for training a user to dribble a basketball while in motion includes a treadmill including a frame having a side edge, wherein a continuous belt is positioned on the frame. A platform has a top surface, and a vertical support is attached to and extends downwardly from the platform. The vertical support positions the platform above an upper surface of the frame, wherein the platform extends over the frame adjacent to the side edge. A connector releasably couples the vertical support to the treadmill to retain the vertical support in abutment with the treadmill such that the platform extends over the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Yahya El -Amin
  • Publication number: 20240075369
    Abstract: A system for restricting user movements in an aquatic medium relates to swimming systems and may be used for virtual reality (VR) simulation systems. By using the system, a swimmer returning force may be produced in response to the swimmer movement in any direction, the effect of presence in a VR may be increased, and requirements to the supporting portion and to the surface area of a zone utilized in a swimming pool may be reduced. The system comprises a flexibly resilient member retaining a swimmer (directly or via an intermediary) and anchored by means of a system of supports. The swimmer movements cause the resilient member to move in its entirety, without being deformed, such that its end elevation varies. The system responds by the resilient member flexing to the swimmer displacement in a horizontal direction. To provide for a vertical freedom, the resilient member is mounted on supports configured to rotate. Alternatively, the resilient member is configured to move translationally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Aleksei Vladimirovich Lysenko
  • Publication number: 20240075370
    Abstract: A striking practice device includes a striking body, a cover, a connecting rod and an outer fixing plate. The striking body includes a hollow portion inside, an assembly hole formed along a direction of the striking body and a cover bole formed along another direction of the striking body. The assembly hole has an inner junction at the hollow portion of the striking body and an outer junction outside the striking body; the cover has a shape corresponding to the cover hole for sealing the cover hole; the connecting rod is installed to the assembly hole and has an inner fixing plate at an end; the inner fixing plate is greater than the assembly hole and disposed at the inner junction; and the outer fixing plate is fixed to the connecting rod and the outer junction of the striking body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Ming-Hsiung Chen, Chun-An Lin
  • Publication number: 20240075371
    Abstract: A golf swing training device may comprise a first elongate member and a second elongate member each coupled at and extending orthogonally from a junction, wherein the second elongate member is shorter than the first elongate member, wherein a distal end of the second elongate member is sharply tapered to a point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Impacteez, LLC
    Inventor: Nolan Selby
  • Publication number: 20240075372
    Abstract: A deployable mobile trailer with multiple deployable walls is disclosed. The mobile trailer includes wheels rotatably coupled to a base and a frame attached to the base. The frame has vertical supports attached to the base and a top frame assembly disposed at a top end of the vertical supports. First and second elongate deployable walls are rotatably attached to respective first and second sides of the frame. The first and second walls include and are movable between respective retracted and deployed positions. A deployable end wall is rotatably attached to an end of the frame and has a retracted position and a deployed position between which it is movable. Multiple activity devices are removably attached to the top frame assembly, the first elongate deployable wall, the second elongate deployable wall, or the deployable end wall. A mobile activity structure and method for operating a mobile deployable activity structure are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Joshua L. McLain
  • Publication number: 20240075373
    Abstract: Disclosed is a compact, convenient carrier system for weight plates. The carrier system includes a strap, a carrying handle, and rigid loading bar. Preferably, the loading bar is a tubular member. Preferably, the carrying handle has an outer diameter that permits the carrying handle to be slidably disposed within the inner diameter of the loading bar. Preferably, the loading bar has an outer diameter that permits the loading bar to fit within the central opening on a standard Olympic weightlifting weight plate. The carrier system optionally provides a clip closure attached to the strap that allows easy opening and closing of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Steven Nock
  • Publication number: 20240075374
    Abstract: A method for controlling a fitness machine having a light. The method includes receiving a preset time for a user to perform an exercise using the fitness machine, receiving a request to start the exercise, and controlling the light in a first operating mode. The method further includes counting an elapsed time since the exercise was started, determining a remaining time as a difference between the elapsed time and the preset time, and comparing the remaining time to a threshold time. The method further includes changing the light to a second operating mode different than the first operating mode when the remaining time is less than the threshold time to thereby indicate that the exercise will be ending.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Life Fitness, LLC
    Inventors: Matt Brennand, Tracy Barrett, Kyle Spoo, Ray Reitz
  • Publication number: 20240075375
    Abstract: A protective sports equipment for protecting a body part of a wearer includes an inner layer comprising at least one protective pad, and a suspended panel located inwardly of the inner layer and connected thereto at first and second locations, the suspended panel being tensioned and defining a space with the inner layer, the space being located between the first and second locations. A method of assembling a protective sports equipment is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Marie-Jeanne HANDFIELD, Ryan BROWNRIDGE, Jean-François BÉLAND, Samuel MAHEUX, François-Olivier DAGNEAU
  • Publication number: 20240075376
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a part of a binding system for skiing, comprising a housing (3; 8) with, on the inside, a fully or partially through-going axial barrel (13) with an inner diameter (14), wherein two pins (1) moveable in each direction with at least one intermediate spring element (2) are arranged, and wherein the pins (1) are adapted to slide in the barrel (13) between a protruding and a retracted position. According to an aspect of the invention, the part of the pins (1) that is exposed when the pins (1) are in the protruding position, has a reduced outer diameter (15) compared with the inner diameter (14) of the barrel (13). The invention also relates to a method for lubricating the pins (1) with a lubricant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: ROTTEFELLA AS
    Inventors: Thomas GOVERUD-HOLM, Magnus ANDERSSEN, Øyvar SVENDSEN, Jørn Frode DANIELSEN, David Klovning FLEM, Edward JONES
  • Publication number: 20240075377
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a beginner's inline skate which can prevent rolling in place. A beginner's inline skate with an anti-rolling device according to the present disclosure includes an anti-rolling device installed on at least one wheel of wheels of the inline skate, wherein the anti-rolling device includes: an anti-rotation catching step formed around a rotating shaft of the wheel; and a rotator installed to rotate about a circumference of the rotating shaft of the wheel and having catching protrusions formed to be caught at the anti-rotation catching step and lock rotation of the wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Na Yoon LEE
  • Publication number: 20240075378
    Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, a system for facilitating a card game is equipped with RFID antennas or interrogators operable to detect initial wagers placed by players on a table surface of the system. The system is further equipped with an electronic shoe which deals cards for the game and a processor with is operable to receive data both from the RFID antennas and the electronic shoe. Upon receiving data from an RFID antenna that a player has placed an initial wager based on initial odds and receiving data identifying some (but not all) cards dealt for a hand, the processor is operable to calculate adjusted odds for a re-characterization wager that would replace the initial wager, and output on a display of the system an offer for the re-characterization wager that corresponds to adjusted odds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Jay S. Walker
  • Publication number: 20240075379
    Abstract: A game server provides game data of a location-based game to a plurality of client devices based on a first set of one or more game designs. First activity data associated with the location-based game is received from the plurality of client devices based on the first set of one or more game designs. The game server determines whether the first activity data from the plurality of client devices meets a predetermined starting condition associated with a local virtual event. The local virtual event is started for the plurality of client devices in response to determining that the first activity data meets the predetermined starting condition. The game server provides game data based on the local virtual event to the plurality of client devices. The virtual event has a second game design that is different from the first set of one or more game designs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Tim Aldridge, Gordon Paul Jeffery, III, Stephen Wang
  • Publication number: 20240075380
    Abstract: A location-based game may include language learning features to help a player learn a foreign language. To generate these features, the game may generate language information by allowing players to play language gathering games. For example, a virtual character can use a native language of a player to instruct the player to identify an object in an environment. The player may then identify the object in the environment. The player may also speak the name of the identified object. The name of the object, a recording of the player speaking the name, and pixel values representing the object may be associated together. By gathering this information across different languages, a database can be formed that includes language information for many objects. This language information may then be used to generate language learning features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Herbert Law
  • Publication number: 20240075381
    Abstract: A mobile game controller and full feature game controller combination device may include a first unit comprised of a first body that has a controller interface that is operatively connected to one or more processors disposed in the first body and configured to operatively connect to a gaming device The first body may include one or more rumble motors to provide haptic feedback to a user in response to the gaming device. A first communication port may be operatively mounted to the first body and operatively connected to the one or more processors. The combination device may further include a second unit that has a second body separate from the first body, one or more second rumble motors operatively installed to the second body, and a second communication port configured to communicatively connect to the first communication port such that the one or more processors effectively controls the one or more second rumble motors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Jason A. Biheller, Dalin Cienfuegos, Stephen Mitchell, Adam Noce, Ulises Gonzalez
  • Publication number: 20240075382
    Abstract: The invention provides an input apparatus (110) for a computer comprising an outer case (114) having a front face (F), a top face (T) and opposing side walls. The apparatus (110) comprises at least one control located on the top face (T) of the apparatus (110). The apparatus (110) is shaped to be held in both hands of a user such that the user's index fingers are positioned to operate the at least one control located on the top (T) of the apparatus (110). The at least one control comprising an actuator (101, 106), a first sensor (132), and a second sensor (130). The actuator (101, 106) comprises an actuator body (106B) and a detection target (134) mounted thereto. The actuator body (106B) extends through an opening in the outer case (114). The detection target (134) is detectable by the second sensor (130). The actuator (101, 106) comprises an actuator control mechanism (TC) having at least two configurations for controlling movement of the actuator (101, 106) relative to the outer case (114).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Duncan Ironmonger, Carl Jeffrey, Matthew Hooper
  • Publication number: 20240075383
    Abstract: At a position including coordinates of an input start possible point on a first display, an image indicating the input start possible point is displayed, and at a position including coordinates of an input target point on a second display, an image indicating the input target point is displayed. Then, if a coordinate input to the first display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input start possible point, and a coordinate input to the second display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input target point, based on trajectories of coordinates of the coordinate inputs to the first display and the second display, a positional relationship between the first display and the second display is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Toshiaki SUZUKI, Yoshinori TSUCHIYAMA, Izumi FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20240075384
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores instructions for an information processing device that includes a processor, a display device, and an audio output device. The instructions cause the processor to execute: acquiring a game video from a distribution server; identifying a game based on the game video; acquiring reference information for a viewer of the game video from a management system that stores various types of reference information such that a different type of the reference information is acquired depending on the game identified based on the game video; combining the game video and the reference information to generate a final video; and presenting the final video via the display device and the audio output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: SEGA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Nishiyama, Masahito Kurosawa
  • Publication number: 20240075385
    Abstract: An interactive dynamic narrative production system is provided that includes an editor tool set that facilitates collaboration to generate an interactive story file comprising a rich variety of media arranged together using story flow, branching, interaction, and timing elements. The system also includes a multiplatform player to allow for playback of the interactive story file on a variety of different platforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Rachid El GUERRAB, James RITTS
  • Publication number: 20240075386
    Abstract: A gaming device is provided for a vehicle. It contains a control device which is set up to run a computer game in a game mode, in which output image signals are determined based on input signals for influencing the gameplay of the computer game received from a user. It also includes a user interface connected to the control device which is set up to receive the input signals from the user and an output device on board the vehicle connected to the control device which is set up to output the output image signals to an external area of the vehicle. It is provided that the user interface is located in a vehicle interior of the vehicle and can be operated by a person in the vehicle interior as a user and that the output device includes at least one high-resolution vehicle headlamp of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Lars Junker
  • Publication number: 20240075387
    Abstract: Provided is a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a game control program controlling a video game in which characters battle against each other in a three-dimensional virtual space, and causing a computer to execute: determining whether a second character has received a predetermined attack from a first character when the first character is battling against the second character, who is an enemy of the first character; and controlling the second character to perform a predetermined move such as a knockback in a direction toward a troop to which the second character belongs, in a case where the second character has received the predetermined attack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Yuishin TAKAFUJI, Yusuke NORITA, Kenta SHIRAISHI, Masanori KAWAI
  • Publication number: 20240075388
    Abstract: A method for skill control of a virtual object comprises: displaying a virtual object and its corresponding base attack controls and a plurality of skill controls; the plurality of skill controls corresponding to skill attributes of N types where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; in response to a trigger operation for the target skill control, determining a target skill attribute corresponding to the target skill control and generating a target identification corresponding to the target skill attribute in the target area; in response to the target identification corresponding to the skill attribute of N types satisfying different predefined conditions, replacing an base attack corresponding to the base attack control with the target skill corresponding to different predefined conditions; in response to a trigger operation for the base attack control, controlling the virtual object to release the target skill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventor: Yichi Zhang