Connected reformer
AssigneeBalanced Body, Inc.
InventorTrent Canales
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Abstract
A connected reformer exercise apparatus includes a frame for resting on a surface and a carriage for reciprocal movement back and forth on the frame between a head end and a foot end of the frame. The apparatus includes a foot bar near the foot end of the frame and a pair of arm cord risers at the head end. The connected reformer has a plurality of force sensors on the carriage, the arm cord risers, and the foot bar for detecting forces exerted by a user during exercise and a controller/processor communicating with the plurality of force sensors and providing signals to a display for communicating sensed information to a user of the exercise apparatus.
Claims19
A reformer exercise apparatus comprising:
- a frame configured to rest on a horizontal surface, the frame having a head end and a foot end, a movable carriage supported on the frame for reciprocal movement between the head end and the foot end of the frame, and a foot support fastened to the frame adjacent the foot end;
- a pair of arm cords each extending from the movable carriage to the head end of the frame and thence to a free end for a user to grasp during an exercise while a portion of the user rests on the movable carriage;
- a pair of spaced risers fastened to the head end of the frame, each riser having a pulley attached to a distal end thereof receiving one of the arm cords therearound, wherein each riser has a force sensor fastened between the pulley and that riser, wherein the force sensor is a load cell mounted within a housing fastened to the distal end of that riser;
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- a controller/processor communicating with the force sensor configured to process a signal from the force sensor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.