US 12,508,461 B1Granted

Resistance band exercise machine

AssigneeOK Engineering Inc.

InventorsOmar Ismail KashKash, Yousef Ismail KashKash

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Abstract

A resistance band exercise machine for performing various exercises. An embodiment includes a housing for a cable-pulley variable resistance system. Some embodiments are configured to receive one or more safety bars to set a starting position of an exercise. Some embodiments include a training partner assistantship feature for a training partner to assist the user by imparting a secondary force on the machine. The configuration of the cable-pulley variable resistance system may be in any manner based on the exercise. In some embodiments, a user performs an exercise on the resistance band exercise machine to overcome a primary (e.g., resistance bands) and secondary (e.g., springs) sources of variably increasing resistance from the cable-pulley variable resistance system.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A resistance member exercise machine, the exercise machine comprising:

a first resistance attachment member secured to a cable-pulley system, wherein the first resistance attachment member is configured to temporarily receive one or more variable resistance members;
the cable-pulley system including a cable operably connected to a user-interaction element through which a user can impart a force to cause the first resistance attachment member to move;
a second resistance attachment member fixed to a base structure of the resistance member exercise machine, wherein the second resistance attachment member is configured to temporarily receive the one or more variable resistance members;
wherein the first resistance attachment member is configured to move away from the second resistance attachment member when force is imparted onto the user-interaction element that is greater than a resistance force of the one or more variable resistance members secured to both the first resistance attachment member and the second resistance attachment member;
a training partner assistantship feature operably connected to the first resistance attachment member, wherein the training partner assistantship feature is configured to allow another user to impart a force onto the first resistance attachment member via the training partner assistantship feature to reduce a total force imparted on the user;
and
a negative repetition assistance feature operably connected to the first resistance attachment member, wherein the negative repetition assistance feature is configured to allow another user to impart an additional force onto the first resistance attachment member to increase the total force imparted onto the user.

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A resistance member exercise machine, the exercise machine comprising:

a first resistance attachment member secured to a cable-pulley system, wherein the first resistance attachment member is configured to temporarily receive one or more elastic resistance bands;
the cable-pulley system including a cable operably connected to a user-interaction element through which a user can impart a force to cause the first resistance attachment member to move;
a second resistance attachment member fixed to a base structure of the resistance member exercise machine, wherein the second resistance attachment member is configured to temporarily receive the one or more elastic resistance bands;
wherein the first resistance attachment member is configured to move away from the second resistance attachment member when force is imparted onto the user-interaction element that is greater than a resistance force of the one or more elastic resistance bands secured to both the first resistance attachment member and the second resistance attachment member;
and
a negative repetition assistance feature operably connected to the first resistance attachment member, wherein the negative repetition assistance feature is configured to allow another user to impart an additional force onto a platform that transfers the additional force to the first resistance attachment member to increase the total force imparted onto the user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 18/475,964Filed 27 Sep 2023 · continuation in part
Priority: 29 Jun 2020
Granted: 30 Dec 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification20 codes

A63B 21/0442
Attached to static foundation , e.g. a user: anchored at one end only, the other end being manipulated by the user
A63B 21/00069
Mechanical means for varying the resistance: setting or adjusting the resistance level; Compensating for a preload prior to use, e.g. changing…
A63B 21/00076
Mechanical means for varying the resistance: on the fly, i.e. varying the resistance during exercise
A63B 21/022
Using resilient force-resisters: with springs acting at different parts of the stroke

Family

Application16/916,093Parent of this continuation · filed 29 Jun 2020
Application17/717,209Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 11 Apr 2022
US 11,324,984 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 10 May 2022
US 11,794,059 B1Parent of this continuation-in-part
Application17/717,209Parent of this continuation
US 2021/0402242 A1Published application
US 12,508,461 B1This patent

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