Control device for a jogging machine
AssigneeTonic Fitness Technology, Inc.
InventorsChin-Tang Huang, Ching-Tu Shih
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Abstract
A control device for a jogging machine includes a stepping board, and a plurality of non-touch sensors arranged in line spaced apart equidistantly on two sides of the stepping board for sensing the position of the two feet of a user dropping on the stepping board for a controller to figure out the speed of the user and then adjust the speed of a moving band moving on and below the stepping board. The control device automatically adjusts the speed of the moving band to suit to the speed of the user's feet. Further, the control device has two angle adjusting sensors respectively fixed on two sides of a handle for adjusting the inclining angle of the stepping board by the user extending a hand nearer to either of the two adjusting sensors.
Claims3
A control device for a jogging machine comprising:
- a stepping board provided with a plurality of non-touch sensors arranged in two lines spaced apart equidistantly on two sides of said stepping board, and an endless band moving on and under said stepping board for a user to jog thereon;
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- a controller connected with said non-touch sensors electrically;
- wherein said sensors sense contact positions and lift positions of two feet of a jogger on said stepping board to provide a width and time measurement of a pace of the jogger to said controller, said controller determines the speed of the user from said width and time measurement, and said controller controls the speed of said moving band according to the speed of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.