Apparatus for testing skis or snowboards
AssigneeMolibso Entwicklungs-Und Vertriebs GmbH
InventorJens Hollenbacher
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Abstract
The invention relates to a measuring arrangement (1) for testing skis and snowboards (2) or sports equipment with a planar contact surface, the arrangement comprising a sensor device, onto which at least one ski or snowboard (2) or piece of sports equipment can be laid. The sensor device has a sensor surface (3) which is predominantly sub-divided in a longitudinal and transverse direction into a plurality of sensor-surface sections (4), each of said sensor-surface sections (4) having at least one force sensor which outputs the force acting on the sensor-surface section (4) as an electrical signal that is evaluated by a computer unit (5).
Claims7
A method of using a measuring system having:
- a sensing apparatus having a sensor surface subdivided into a plurality of longitudinally and transversely subdivided sections onto which a ski or snowboard can be placed;
- a respective force sensor on each the sections that outputs an electrical signal that corresponds to a force applied by the ski or snowboard to the respective section;
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- a computer connected to the force sensors for receiving the electrical signals therefrom,
- the method comprising the steps of:
- placing the ski or snowboard with its sliding surface on the sections of the sensor surface and thereby loading the sections of the sensor surface with forces that a person atop the ski or snowboard generates by his/her weight such that the force acting on each section is converted into a respective electrical signal,
- inclining the surface relative to a longitudinal and/or transverse axis of the sensor surface before the force distribution is determined, and
- determining from the electrical signals with a computer a distribution of the forces exerted by the ski or snowboard on the surface over an area of the sensor surface.
A method of using a measuring system having:
- a sensing apparatus having a sensor surface subdivided into a plurality of longitudinally and transversely subdivided sections onto which a ski or snowboard can be placed;
- a respective force sensor on each of the sections that outputs an electrical signal that corresponds to a force applied by the ski or snowboard to the respective section;
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- a computer connected to the force sensors for receiving the electrical signals therefrom,
- the method comprising the steps of:
- placing the ski or snowboard with its sliding surface on the sections of the sensor surface and thereby loading the sections of the sensor surface with forces that a person atop the ski or snowboard generates by his/her weight such that the force acting on each section is converted into a respective electrical signal,
- determining from the electrical signals with a computer a distribution of the forces exerted by the ski or snowboard on the surface over an area of the sensor surface, and
- on the basis of the force distribution determined by the computer, adjusting for a foot position of the person by altering an angular position of a binding securing a foot of the person to the ski or snowboard and/or by putting a modified sole in or on footwear worn by the person on the ski or snowboard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.