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US 8,572,764 B2Granted
Exercising glove
OwnerDieter Thellmanninventor
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Abstract
One or more gloves are disclosed herein. A glove body comprises a glove body internal surface that defines a palm compartment enveloping at least part of a user's palm, a glove body external surface, and a wrist aperture that provides an opening for the user's hand. Digit appendages comprise a digit appendage internal surface that extends the palm compartment to envelop all/part of the user's digit, and a digit appendage external surface. One or more sensors are attached to the glove body to detect one or more hand exercise events that involve a user hand exercise. A memory component, powered by a battery, stores the hand exercise event, upon receiving a hand exercise event detected by a sensor. A device interface delivers the one or more hand exercise events from the memory to a device, upon connection to the device.
Claims20
A glove, comprising:
- a glove body comprising:
- a glove body internal surface defining a palm compartment enveloping at least a portion of a palm of a user;
- a glove body external surface;
- and
- a wrist aperture;
- one or more digit appendages comprising:
- a digit appendage internal surface extending the palm compartment to envelop at least a portion of a digit of the user;
- and
- a digit appendage external surface;
- at least one sensor attached to the glove body and configured to detect at least one hand exercise event involving a hand exercise of the user;
- a memory attached to the glove body and configured to, upon receiving an indication of a hand exercise event detected by a sensor, store data corresponding to the hand exercise event;
- a battery powering at least the memory;
- and
- a device interface configured to, upon connecting to a device, provide at least some of the stored data corresponding to the hand exercise event to the device,
- the memory configured to store a hand exercise regimen comprising at least one prescribed hand exercise event to be performed by the user;
- and
- the memory configured to, upon receiving from a second sensor an indication of a performance of a second hand exercise event by the user:
- match the second hand exercise event with a corresponding prescribed hand exercise event;
- and
- store data corresponding to the second hand exercise event associated with the corresponding prescribed hand exercise event.
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A glove, comprising:
- a glove body comprising:
- a glove body internal surface defining a palm compartment enveloping at least a portion of a palm of a user;
- a glove body external surface;
- at least one reflector attached to the glove body external surface;
- a glove pocket attached to the glove body external surface;
- a wrist aperture;
- an expandable wrist adjustment attached to the glove body external surface near the wrist aperture and configured to expand the glove body external surface to accommodate a wrist of the user;
- an elastic wristband encircling at least a portion of the wrist aperture and configured to secure the wrist aperture to the wrist of the user;
- and
- a weight pouch attached to a dorsal region of the glove body external surface of the glove body and configured to receive a weight, and comprising a sealable weight pouch aperture comprising:
- a velcro hook strip attached to a first portion of the sealable weight pouch aperture;
- and
- a velcro strip attached to a second portion of the sealable weight pouch aperture, the second portion opposing the first portion and, when conjoining the velcro hook strip, substantially sealing the weight pouch;
- five digit appendages comprising:
- a digit appendage internal surface extending the palm compartment to envelop at least a portion of a digit of the user;
- a digit appendage external surface comprising a porous fabric;
- and
- a digit aperture configured to expose a distal portion of the digit of the user;
- a first pull loop attached to a first digit appendage for an index digit of the user and a second digit appendage for a middle digit of the user;
- a second pull loop attached to a third digit appendage for a ring digit of the user and a fourth digit appendage for a little digit of the user;
- at least one sensor attached to the glove body and configured to detect at least one hand exercise event involving a hand exercise of the user and corresponding to a prescribed hand exercise event of a hand exercise regimen, the at least one sensor selected from a sensor set comprising:
- a pressure sensor configured to detect at least one pressure event at a glove body external surface location;
- a glove motion sensor configured to detect at least one motion event of the glove;
- a digit motion sensor configured to detect at least one motion event of at least one digit of the user;
- a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature at a glove body external surface location;
- and
- a contact sensor configured to detect a contact event of the glove with a contact object;
- a gesture identifying component configured to identify at least one hand gesture detected by at least one sensor;
- a clock attached to the glove body;
- a stopwatch attached to the glove body external surface and comprising:
- a stopwatch output component, and
- a stopwatch control set;
- a cadence generating component comprising:
- a cadence control set configured to receive from the user an indication of a desired cadence;
- a cadence measuring component configured to measure a second desired cadence of the user;
- and
- a cadence output component configured to signal at least one of the desired cadence or the second desired cadence to the user;
- and
- a memory attached to the glove body and configured to:
- store the hand exercise regimen comprising at least one prescribed hand exercise event to be performed by the user;
- and
- upon receiving an indication of a hand exercise event detected by a sensor:
- match the hand exercise event with a corresponding prescribed hand exercise event, and
- store data corresponding to the hand exercise event associated with the corresponding prescribed hand exercise event with an event time indicated by the clock;
- and
- upon receiving an indication of a hand gesture identified by the gesture identifying component, store data corresponding to the hand gesture;
- a battery powering at least some of at least one of the memory, the clock, the stopwatch, or the cadence generating component;
- and
- a device interface configured to, upon connecting to a device:
- provide stored data corresponding to at least one hand exercise event to the device, and
- provide stored data corresponding to at least one hand gesture to the device.
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A glove, comprising:
- a glove body comprising:
- a glove body internal surface defining a palm compartment enveloping at least a portion of a palm of a user;
- a glove body external surface;
- and
- a wrist aperture;
- one or more digit appendages comprising:
- a digit appendage internal surface extending the palm compartment to envelop at least a portion of a digit of the user;
- and
- a digit appendage external surface;
- at least one sensor attached to the glove body and configured to detect at least one hand exercise event involving a hand exercise of the user;
- a memory attached to the glove body and configured to, upon receiving an indication of a hand exercise event detected by a sensor, store data corresponding to the hand exercise event;
- a battery powering at least the memory;
- and
- a device interface configured to, upon connecting to a device, provide at least some of the stored data corresponding to the hand exercise event to the device,
- at least one of:
- the memory configured to, upon receiving from a second sensor an indication of a performance of a second hand exercise event by the user:
- match the second hand exercise event with a corresponding prescribed hand exercise event;
- and
- store data corresponding to the second hand exercise event associated with the corresponding prescribed hand exercise event;
- the glove comprising a clock attached to the glove body and powered by the battery;
- the memory configured to, upon receiving an indication of a third hand exercise event detected by a third sensor, store with data corresponding to the third hand exercise event an event time indicated by the clock;
- at least one digit appendage comprising a digit aperture configured to expose a distal portion of the digit of the user;
- at least a portion of at least one digit appendage external surface comprising a porous fabric;
- the glove comprising a weight pouch attached to the glove body and configured to receive a weight, and comprising a sealable weight pouch aperture;
- the glove comprising at least one reflector attached to the glove body external surface;
- the glove comprising a glove pocket attached to the glove body external surface;
- the glove comprising a stopwatch attached to the glove body external surface and comprising at least one of:
- a stopwatch output component;
- or
- a stopwatch control set;
- the glove body comprising a cadence generating component comprising at least one of:
- a cadence control set configured to receive from the user an indication of a desired cadence;
- a cadence measuring component configured to measure a second desired cadence of the user;
- or
- a cadence output component configured to signal at least one of the desired cadence or the second desired cadence to the user;
- or
- a pull loop attached to a first digit appendage for a first digit of the user and a second digit appendage for a second digit of the user.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.