US 2015/0173931 A1Published application

Body exercise device

AssigneeOmron Healthcare Co., Ltd.

InventorsKenshin TANAKA, Hiroshi OGAWA

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Abstract

Body exercise device including: seat portion having a seat face; a pair of left and right airbags and/or a pair of front and rear airbags causing the seat face of the seat portion to be left-right or front-rear inclined; an air supply unit that supplies pressurized air to an airbag; air supply/discharge switching unit that switches between supplying air to and discharging air from an airbag; pressure detection unit that detects pressure in an airbag; and balance determination unit that, in a process of supplying air to or discharging air from the right and left or front and rear airbags according to the switching operation of the air supply/discharge switching unit, determines the left-right or front-rear balance state of the user based on a difference in pressure change in the pair of left and right airbags or the pair of front and rear airbags, detected by the pressure detection unit.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A body exercise device comprising:

a seat portion having a seat surface for a user to sit on;
a pair of left and right airbags and/or a pair of front and rear airbags provided in order to cause the seat surface of the seat portion to be left-right or front-rear inclined;
an air supply unit configured to supply compressed air to the airbags;
an air supply/discharge switching unit configured to switch between supplying air to and discharging air from the airbags;
a pressure detection unit configured to detect pressure in the airbags;
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a balance determination unit configured to, in a process of supplying air to or discharging air from the pair of left and right airbags or the pair of front and rear airbags using a switching operation performed by the air supply/discharge switching unit, determine a left-right or front-rear balance state of the user based on a difference in pressure change over time in the pair of left and right airbags or the pair of front and rear airbags, detected by the pressure detection unit.

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Facts

Application: 14/629,084Filed 23 Feb 2015
Priority: JP 2012-20444018 Sep 2012
Published: 25 Jun 2015
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification21 codes

A61F 5/04
Orthopaedic devices, e.g. long-term immobilising or pressure directing devices for treating broken or deformed bones such as splints, casts or…
A63B 21/0088
Using pneumatic force-resisters: by moving the surrounding air
A63B 21/068
User-manipulated weights: using user's body weight
A63B 22/16
Exercising apparatus specially adapted for conditioning the cardio-vascular system, for training agility or co-ordination of movements: platforms…