# US 11,439,864 B2 · Foldable treadmill

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- Number: US 11,439,864 B2
- Document ID: US11439864B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 17/252,896
- Filed: 2020-05-26
- Published: 2021-09-09
- Granted: 2022-09-13
- Earliest claimed: 2019-08-19
- Assignees: Xiamen Dmaster Health Tech Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Xiamen Dmaster Health Tech Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Ching Tseng
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11439864B2

## CPC

- A63B 22/02: with movable endless bands {, e.g. treadmills (other training appliances for running on the spot A63B69/0028)}
- A63B 21/4035: {for operation by hand}
- A63B 71/0619: {Displays, user interfaces and indicating devices, specially adapted for sport equipment, e.g. display mounted on treadmills}
- A63B 2071/025: {on rollers or wheels}
- A63B 2210/50: Size reducing arrangements for stowing or transport
- A63B: APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT (apparatus for passive exercising, massage A61H)

## Abstract

A foldable treadmill includes a chassis, a running platform, a dashboard, a dashboard bracket and two support rods. Each of two sides of a front portion of the chassis is pivotally connected with a pin shaft. The two pin shafts are parallel to each other. An end of each pin shaft is fixedly connected with a hook, and hook ends of the two hooks can be clamped into clamp positioning slots on the two support rods, respectively, with rotation of the two support rods. The two pin shafts are driven to rotate or reset synchronously through a linkage mechanism so that the two pin shafts drive the hook ends of the hooks to be separated from or clamped into the clamp positioning slots, respectively.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A foldable treadmill, comprising:
a chassis;
a running platform, mounted on the chassis;
a dashboard;
a dashboard bracket, wherein the dashboard is mounted on the dashboard bracket; and
two support rods, wherein upper portions of the two support rods are connected together through the dashboard bracket;
wherein lower portions of the two support rods are pivotally connected to two sides of a front portion of the chassis, respectively, and each of the lower portions of the two support rods is provided with a clamp positioning slot;
wherein each of the two sides of the front portion of the chassis is pivotally connected with a pin shaft, and the two pin shafts are parallel to each other; an end of each of the two pin shafts is fixedly connected with a hook, a hook end of the hook is clamped into the clamp positioning slot on each of the two support rods, respectively, with a rotation of the two support rods, and the rotation of the two support rods is restricted through cooperation of the hooks and the clamp positioning slots, respectively; and
wherein the two pin shafts are driven to rotate or reset synchronously through a linkage mechanism so that the two pin shafts drive the hook ends of the hooks to be separated from or clamped into the clamp positioning slots, respectively.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The foldable treadmill of claim 1, wherein each of the lower portions of the two support rods is fixedly connected with a fixing plate, the clamp positioning slot on each of the two support rods is disposed on the fixing plate, the fixing plate is further provided with a limiting part, each support rod is in a standing state when the corresponding hook end of the hook cooperates with the corresponding clamp positioning slot, and each support rod is in an inclined state and leans toward the chassis when the corresponding hook end of the hook cooperates with the corresponding limiting part.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The foldable treadmill of claim 2, wherein each support rod is a square tube, the corresponding fixing plate is welded on an inner side surface of the lower portion of the support rod, a relief through hole is correspondingly disposed between the inner side surface of the lower portion of the support rod and the fixing plate, a fixing pin passes through the relief through hole so that a first end of the fixing pin is fixedly connected on the chassis and a second end of the fixing pin is hinged with a first end of a buffer cylinder, a second end of the buffer cylinder is hinged on the support rod, and the buffer cylinder is disposed so as to pass through a middle of the support rod.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The foldable treadmill of claim 1, wherein the dashboard bracket comprises two armrests and a crossbar connecting the two armrests, the two armrests are connected at the upper portions of the two support rods, respectively, the dashboard is pivotally connected on the crossbar, and a limiting structure for mutual positioning is further provided between the dashboard and the crossbar.

### Claim 5 (depends on 4)

The foldable treadmill of claim 4, wherein for each respective connection between the two armrests and the upper portions of the two support rods:
a lower portion of each armrest is fixedly connected with a positioning member;
a side of the positioning member is hinged with an upper end of the support rod;
a shiftable positioning pin is mounted on the positioning member;
a spring is coiled around the shiftable positioning pin, a first end of the spring abuts against the positioning member and a second end of the spring abuts against the shiftable positioning pin so that an end of the shiftable positioning pin protrudes from the positioning member;
a positioning hole is provided at the upper end of the support rod displaced from the side of the positioning member, and the end of the shiftable positioning pin is inserted into the positioning hole when the armrest leans toward the support rod;
a housing is fixedly connected with the upper end of the support rod;
the housing is pivotally connected with a button, the button drives the shiftable positioning pin to be separated from the positioning hole when the button is pressed, and the armrest and the positioning member are rotatable relative to the support rod.

### Claim 6 (depends on 4)

The foldable treadmill of claim 4, wherein the limiting structure comprises two support plates that are fixedly connected with the crossbar, the dashboard is pivotally connected with the two support plates, each of the support plates is provided with a limiting slot, the dashboard is provided with two limiting projections, the two limiting projections and the two limiting slots cooperate with each other, respectively to position the dashboard.

### Claim 7 (depends on 4)

The foldable treadmill of claim 4, wherein the two armrests are integrally connected with the crossbar.

### Claim 8 (depends on 1)

The foldable treadmill of claim 1, a front lower portion of the chassis is hinged with a rotating rack, the rotating rack is hinged with an end of a driving rod, an adjusting motor is connected on a reducer, the reducer is hinged on the chassis, an outside of an output shaft of the reducer is provided with external thread, the driving rod is fixedly connected with a nut, the external thread on the outside of the output shaft cooperates with inner thread of the nut, and two sides of a front end of the rotating rack are respectively mounted with two support wheels.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The foldable treadmill of claim 1, wherein the linkage mechanism comprises two driving arms and two crank arms, a first end of each of the crank arms is fixedly connected with the two pin shafts, respectively, and a second end of each of the crank arms is fixedly connected with two driving pins, respectively, each of the driving arms is pivotally connected on the chassis, an end of each of the driving arms is movably connected with the two driving pins, respectively, the two driving arms are fixedly connected together through a connecting rod, at least one driving arm and the chassis are connected to each other through a tension spring, at least one driving arm is fixedly connected with a pedal rod, the two driving arms rotate simultaneously when the pedal rod is depressed and then drive the two crank arms, the two pin shafts and the two hooks to rotate through the two driving pins, and the tension spring drives the two driving arms to reset.

### Claim 10 (depends on 9)

The foldable treadmill of claim 9, wherein the end of each of the driving arms is provided with a U-shaped groove and is movably connected with each of the two driving pins, respectively, through the corresponding U-shaped groove.