US 10,633,055 B2 · Method and a system for estimation of a useful effort provided by an individual during a physical activity consisting in executing an alternating pedalling movement on a pedal device

Abstract

The method involves a step of measurement of a bearing force (Fpn) on a pedal (1) of the pedal set (4), different from the useful effort, exerted by the individual during a pedalling cycle, a step of determination of a maximum (max(Fpn)) of the bearing force measured during the pedalling cycle (CPj), and a step of estimation of a mean useful effort exerted by the individual during said pedalling cycle from the maximum of the bearing force determined and with the aid of a predetermined correlation function between a maximum bearing force during a pedalling cycle and a mean useful effort in said cycle.

Claims24

Dependent claims

A method of estimation of a useful effort provided by an individual during a physical activity comprising executing an alternating pedalling movement on a pedal device, comprising:

measuring a bearing force (Fpn) on a pedal of the pedal device, different from the useful effort, exerted by the individual during a pedalling cycle (CPj),
determining a maximum (max(Fpn)) of the bearing force measured during the pedalling cycle (CPj), and
estimating a mean useful effort exerted by the individual during the pedalling cycle (CPj) from the maximum of the bearing force (max(Fpn)) determined and with the aid of a predetermined correlation function between maximum bearing force during the pedalling cycle and mean useful effort in the pedalling cycle.

A device for estimation of a useful effort provided by an individual during a physical activity consisting in executing an alternating pedalling movement on a pedal device, comprising:

a sensor (CF) to measure a bearing force (Fpn) on a pedal of the pedal device, different from the useful effort, exerted by the individual during a pedalling cycle (CPj),
a module for determination of a maximum of the bearing force (max(Fpn)) measured during the current pedalling cycle, and
an estimator of useful effort designed to estimate a mean useful effort (Fu[CPj]) exerted by the individual during the current pedalling cycle (CPj) from the maximum of the bearing force (max(Fpn)) determined and with the aid of a predetermined correlation function between the maximum of the bearing force exerted during the pedalling cycle and the mean useful effort in the pedalling cycle.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/593,622Filed 12 May 2017

Priority

FR 16 5436617 May 2016

Published

US 2017/0334513 A123 Nov 2017

Granted

28 Apr 2020

Term ends

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Classification14 codes

B62M 6/50
Control or actuating devices therefor: characterised by detectors or sensors, or arrangement thereof
A63B 24/0062
Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of preceding groups; Controlling or monitoring of exercises, sportive games, training…
B62M 6/15
Rider propelled cycles with auxiliary combustion engine: control or actuating devices therefor
B62M 6/90
Accessories, e.g. power sources; Arrangements thereof: batteries

Method and a system for estimation of a useful effort provided by an individual during a physical activity consisting in executing an alternating pedalling movement on a pedal device

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Method and a system for estimation of a useful effort provided by an individual during a physical activity consisting in executing an alternating pedalling movement on a pedal device

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Abstract

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