US 6,231,482 B1Granted

System for climbing training

AssigneeAscent Products, LLC

InventorJames F. Thompson

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Abstract

A climbing trainer comprising a movable climbing training wall surface defined by a continuous belt rotatably disposed about a pivotable frame and controllably actuated to rotate at a selected speed, the pivotable frame and support being selected to provide a desired inclination of the climbing training wall within a range including positive inclinations and negative inclinations; the movement of said wall surface and inclination of said pivotable frame being controllable by electronic means; and wherein a wall controller comprising a microprocessor controls said trainer to provide a climb simulation having a plurality of segments of different difficulty; said differing difficulty being facilitated by alteration of at least one parameter of a group of parameters consisting of vertical distance of wall surface movement, speed of wall surface movement, inclination of said wall surface, and designation of particular holds affixed to said wall surface as available and unavailable; said simulating being a compilation of instructions for said wall controller which can be transferred to the wall controller from elsewhere via a data link, and may be transferred via a global computer network.

Claims11

Dependent claims

A powered exercise device comprising:

a support frame;
an exercise frame pivotably supported on the support frame for varying the inclination of said exercise frame relative to the support frame;
an exercise frame actuator connected to said exercise frame for tilting said exercise frame relative to said support frame;
a movable exercise surface mounted on said exercise frame for movement relative to said exercise frame;
a power drive connected to said exercise surface for moving said exercise surface relative to said exercise frame, the inclination of said exercise frame and exercise surface relative to said support frame being adjustable by said exercise frame actuator;
and
a computerized controller for controlling the speed of movement of said exercise surface and the pitch angle of said exercise frame, said controller comprising:
a memory programmed with data defining the parameters of a first simulated exercise;
a data link for transferring data defining the parameters of a second simulated exercise from a remote location to said memory;
a manually operable control panel for selecting a desired simulated exercise;
and
a visual display of parameters of the selected simulated exercise, said controller being operably connected to said actuator and to said power drive to control the speed of movement and inclination of said exercise surface in accordance with the desired simulated exercise.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 09/355,550Filed 21 Oct 1999
Granted: 15 May 2001
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

A63B 22/02
Exercising apparatus specially adapted for conditioning the cardio-vascular system, for training agility or co-ordination of movements: with…
A63B 24/00
Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of preceding groups
A63B 69/0048
Training appliances or apparatus for special sports: for mountaineering, e.g. climbing-walls, grip elements for climbing-walls
A63B 22/0023
With an adjustable movement path of the support elements: the inclination of the main axis of the movement path being adjustable, e.g. the…