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US 10,207,143 B2Granted
Low profile collapsible treadmill
AssigneeICON Health & Fitness, Inc.
InventorsWilliam T. Dalebout, Dale T. Buchanan
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Abstract
A manually operated treadmill a deck and a tread belt encircling the deck to provide a movable, continuous running surface during operation of the treadmill. Further, the treadmill includes a transmission connecting a flywheel to the tread belt and a resistance unit disposed to adjustably apply a resistance force to the inertial motion of the flywheel.
Claims16
A manually operated treadmill, comprising:
- a deck;
- a first pulley incorporated into the deck;
- a second pulley incorporated into the deck;
- a tread belt encircling the first pulley and the second pulley to provide a movable, continuous running surface during operation of the manually operated treadmill;
- a housing positioned in front of the deck;
- a flywheel located within the housing, in front of the tread belt, and being oriented to rotate about an axis that is orthogonal with respect to an axis of rotation of at least one of the first pulley and the second pulley;
- a transmission connecting the flywheel to the tread belt;
- and
- a resistance unit disposed to adjustably apply a resistance force to an inertial motion of the flywheel, wherein the resistance unit comprises a permanent magnet and the flywheel comprises a non-ferromagnetic metal, wherein the permanent magnet is mounted on an actuation arm that moves relative to the flywheel to adjustably apply the resistance force to the flywheel;
- wherein the flywheel has an axis of rotation transverse to the running surface.
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A manually operated treadmill, comprising:
- a deck;
- a first pulley incorporated into the deck;
- a second pulley incorporated into the deck;
- a tread belt encircling the first pulley and the second pulley to provide a movable, continuous running surface during operation of the manually operated treadmill;
- a housing positioned in front of the deck;
- a flywheel located within the housing, in front of and within the same plane as the tread belt, and being oriented orthogonally with respect to at least one of the first pulley and the second pulley, wherein the housing includes a substantially transparent window allowing the flywheel to be visible during operation;
- a resistance unit disposed to adjustably apply a resistance force to an inertial motion of the flywheel;
- and
- a transmission connecting the flywheel to the tread belt.
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A manually operated treadmill, comprising:
- a deck;
- a first pulley incorporated into the deck;
- a second pulley incorporated into the deck;
- a tread belt encircling the first pulley and the second pulley to provide a movable, continuous running surface during operation of the manually operated treadmill;
- a housing positioned in front of the deck, the housing includes a substantially transparent window allowing the flywheel to be visible during operation;
- a flywheel located within the housing and being oriented to rotate about an axis that is orthogonal with respect to an axis of rotation of at least one of the first pulley and the second pulley;
- and
- a transmission connecting the flywheel to the tread belt;
- wherein the flywheel has an axis of rotation transverse to the running surface.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.