Method for managing the strain of a user of a human propulsion vehicle, and vehicle adapted for said method
AssigneeIMW-Productions
InventorsEric Jean, Bruno Garin
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Abstract
A method of managing physical effort expended by a user of a human-propelled vehicle provided with a control unit connected to an electric motor that is powered by a battery and that is arranged to take the place at least in part of the user for the purposes of propelling and of braking the vehicle, as a function of a program executed by the control unit in order to manage the physical effort expended by the user. A vehicle adapted to this method.
Claims24
A method of managing physical effort expended by a user of a human-propelled vehicle provided with a control unit connected to an electric motor that is powered by a battery and that is arranged to take the place at least in part of the user for the purposes of propelling and of braking the vehicle, as a function of a program executed by the control unit in order to manage the physical effort expended by the user, the control unit being connected to a GNSS device, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining firstly target values for at least one physiological value and for the effort delivered by the user, and secondly a route towards a predetermined point of arrival;
- acquiring information used by the control program, namely at least one geographical location of the vehicle, the physiological parameter of the user, a state of charge of the battery, an effort delivered by the motor, and the effort delivered by the user;
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- controlling the motor as a function of the information and of the target values.
A human-propelled vehicle provided with a control unit connected to an electric motor that is powered by a battery and that is arranged to take the place at least in part of the user for the purposes of propelling and of braking the vehicle, as a function of a program executed by the control unit, the control unit further being connected to a GNSS device and to acquisition means for acquiring at least one physiological parameter of the user, an effort delivered by the user, a state of charge of the battery, and external data that is external to the user and to the vehicle, the program being arranged to control the GNSS and to manage the effort delivered by the motor as a function of:
- target values for the physiological parameter and for the effort delivered by the user;
- a location of the vehicle relative to a predetermined point of arrival, and information from the acquisition means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.