EP1731203A1 - Autonomes elektromagnetisches steuersystem zum binden von stiefeln an snowboards; skier oder ähnliches - Google Patents

Autonomes elektromagnetisches steuersystem zum binden von stiefeln an snowboards; skier oder ähnliches Download PDF

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EP1731203A1
EP1731203A1 EP04766970A EP04766970A EP1731203A1 EP 1731203 A1 EP1731203 A1 EP 1731203A1 EP 04766970 A EP04766970 A EP 04766970A EP 04766970 A EP04766970 A EP 04766970A EP 1731203 A1 EP1731203 A1 EP 1731203A1
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boots
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Ricard Delmuns I Carvajal
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63C—SKATES; SKIS; ROLLER SKATES; DESIGN OR LAYOUT OF COURTS, RINKS OR THE LIKE
    • A63C9/00—Ski bindings
    • A63C9/08—Ski bindings yieldable or self-releasing in the event of an accident, i.e. safety bindings
    • A63C9/0802—Ski bindings yieldable or self-releasing in the event of an accident, i.e. safety bindings other than mechanically controlled, e.g. electric, electronic, hydraulic, pneumatic, magnetic, pyrotechnic devices; Remote control
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63C—SKATES; SKIS; ROLLER SKATES; DESIGN OR LAYOUT OF COURTS, RINKS OR THE LIKE
    • A63C10/00—Snowboard bindings
    • A63C10/12—Yieldable or self-releasing in the event of an accident, i.e. safety bindings
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63C—SKATES; SKIS; ROLLER SKATES; DESIGN OR LAYOUT OF COURTS, RINKS OR THE LIKE
    • A63C10/00—Snowboard bindings
    • A63C10/16—Systems for adjusting the direction or position of the bindings
    • A63C10/18—Systems for adjusting the direction or position of the bindings about a vertical rotation axis relative to the board
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63C—SKATES; SKIS; ROLLER SKATES; DESIGN OR LAYOUT OF COURTS, RINKS OR THE LIKE
    • A63C10/00—Snowboard bindings
    • A63C10/16—Systems for adjusting the direction or position of the bindings
    • A63C10/20—Systems for adjusting the direction or position of the bindings in longitudinal or lateral direction relative to the board
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63C—SKATES; SKIS; ROLLER SKATES; DESIGN OR LAYOUT OF COURTS, RINKS OR THE LIKE
    • A63C9/00—Ski bindings
    • A63C9/08—Ski bindings yieldable or self-releasing in the event of an accident, i.e. safety bindings
    • A63C9/088—Ski bindings yieldable or self-releasing in the event of an accident, i.e. safety bindings with electronically controlled locking devices
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63C—SKATES; SKIS; ROLLER SKATES; DESIGN OR LAYOUT OF COURTS, RINKS OR THE LIKE
    • A63C9/00—Ski bindings
    • A63C9/08—Ski bindings yieldable or self-releasing in the event of an accident, i.e. safety bindings
    • A63C9/088—Ski bindings yieldable or self-releasing in the event of an accident, i.e. safety bindings with electronically controlled locking devices
    • A63C9/0885—Ski bindings yieldable or self-releasing in the event of an accident, i.e. safety bindings with electronically controlled locking devices remotely operated, e.g. by the skier
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63C—SKATES; SKIS; ROLLER SKATES; DESIGN OR LAYOUT OF COURTS, RINKS OR THE LIKE
    • A63C5/00—Skis or snowboards
    • A63C5/12—Making thereof; Selection of particular materials

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  • the present invention relates to an autonomous electromagnetic control system for binding boots to a snowboard, skis or, generally any board used in sports such as skateboarding and surfboard.
  • the inventive system is disposed on the clothing and boots of the sportsperson as well as on the board, in order to ensure the safe practice of said sports
  • the system is based upon a magnetic link between the boots and the snowboard or skis, a link that can be detached by the sportsperson at will by his/her own action on some electrical switches, either manually through an electric cable transmission or, with electromagnetic waves from voice commands by means of a voice recognition device and an emission-reception system, or by means of infrared rays transmission and a emission-receptor system.
  • fixation or fastening system in short, are the following:
  • Snowboarding is a sport all in itself with different origins from that of skiing, and that its' safety systems are also different. It is even more desired in Snowboarding than in Skiing that the boots do not detach automatically, from the bindings or from the board. In principle the boots should only detach from the board voluntarily (by manual control or remote). If this is not the case, the practicing is left unprotected it he does not have any point of grasp to the slippery surface and, what is just as or even more important, the other practicing are exposed to a risk of accident caused by an out-of-control snowboard sliding down a piste or slope
  • U.S Patent number 6,007,086 of Hopkins of December 28th 1999 entitled Electric Ski Binding System describes a boot fastening system for skis through permanent magnets situated in the back part of the toe end, and in the heel of the boots, and others of the opposite poles situated in the "anchor" spots or points of the ski bindings, being equipped with some electromagnets which void the magnetic field created by the permanent magnets to undo the fastening or grip.
  • the system is equipped with an active safety system composed of a microprocessor and sensors situated along the bindings that detect abrupt changes of force and pressure in the system and orders its lock clearing.
  • This system is not recommendable for a snowboard, as was stated earlier, neither is it for actual Carving type skis which bend sharply As indicated, this system needs bindings.
  • the Autonomous Electromagnetic System of Control for Fastening or Binding Snowboard and Ski boots is composed of several rechargeable batteries with electric or solar chargers which can also be of the valve-charger type or similar to it integrated in the boot, several electric switches, some electromagnets or electromagnetic grippers elements placed in each boot, several sheets or slabs, rollers or particles of ferromagnetic material which are housed in the board(s) on which the boots of the user are positioned and fixed for the transmission/reception of opening and closing commands of the switches through electric cables and optionally, through an emission-receptor system of commands using electromagnetic waves or infrared rays to control the switches which can be equipped with a voice-recognition device.
  • a switch for each boot activates or deactivates the corresponding electromagnets of each boot, connecting to or disconnecting them from the rechargeable batteries.
  • These switches are activated directly by the user either manually or by commands transmitted through an transmitter-receptor system of infrared rays with the transmitter situated, for example, in the gloves, or indirectly through a voice-recognition system that recognizes and interprets the voice commands of the sportsperson, transmitting the order or command to a transmitter that emits the codified command which is received by a receptor that operates by opening or closing the current flow from the rechargeable battery via to the electromagnets situated in the boots.
  • the setting is produced through permanent magnets whose magnetic force could be offset by the electric activation of the suction which creates a magnetic field opposed to that of the magnet when the switch is turned on, by any of the means indicated, producing the release.
  • the system is completed with a board or special boards which have sheets or slabs of ferromagnetic material incorporated on the surface on which the magnetic field is deactivated, created by the electromagnets of each boot, that way creating enough attraction strength so that the board or boards do not dettach from said boots
  • Fig. 1A shows the sportsman with the suit which includes an upper top(8), trouser(7), a belt(1) and boots(5).
  • Located in the belt or fanny back(1) are the rechargeable batteries, with the electric chargers or solars (2) battery, the manual switches(23) and the conneetors(3) in the trousers(7) we find the connection elements that fit to the belt connectors(3), the connectors(4) and the conductor cables (15) integrated in the trousers' fabric which join said connection elements to the conectors(4).
  • each boot(5) there are located: a boot connection element(4b) that fit to the connector(4) of the trousers, a joining cable(20) joined to the boot connection element mentioned and the electromagnets or electromagnetic grippers (6) connected in parallel to the cable (20).
  • connectors (3) and (4) and the connection elements that fit with them are some of the male type and others female types, with as many terminals as needed, normally 2, in the way to allow for the electrical connection between belt (1) - trousers (7) and trousers(7) - boots (5).
  • Fig. 1A shows a boot (5) in greater detail where one can note the elements of the system integrated in them.
  • Fig.2 shows the sportsperson with the suit which includes the top part (8),the trousers (7), and the boots (5').
  • the top body (8) includes a voice recognition device(14) which alternately can be placed in a support located in the sportsperson neck or in the helmet, and a command transmitter (13),
  • Each boot is equipped with, see Fig.2A, rechargeable batteries (9), integrated in the boots body, a valve-charger set (10), joining connections (21) of the rechargeable battery (9) with the valve-charger (10), a receiver-switch (11), electromagnets or electromagnetic grippers(6), some joining connections (21a) of the rechargeable batteries with the receiver-switch (11), and the connection (21b) of the receiver-switch union (11), with the electromagnets or electromagnetic grippers (6) integrated in the lower part of the boot in its contact with the ground.
  • the third preferred embodiment is similar to the second preferred embodiment except that it is complemented by several switch-transmitters (12) integrated in the sportsperson's gloves(24)
  • the receptor switches(11) of the boots are activated/deactivated by voice, and also through said switch-transmitters(12), the order generated by said switch-transmitters(12) being the one with priority over the voice commands, which gives this equipment greater reliability and safety.
  • the voice recognition equipment is similar to that of the second preferred embodiment described earlier; moreover, the equipment integrated in the gloves activates and deactivates the switch receptors(11)of the corresponding boot on the same side of the respective button of the switch transmitter (12) of the glove(24)
  • each boot could be controlled independently, they can also include the option of programming as well as the transmitters the switches receptors so that the binding or release be simultaneous on both boots by the corresponding command, be it by the switch or by voice command
  • the control devices could be changed of placement inside the sportspersons' clothing in that these could be integrated in backpanks, glasses, belts or fannypacks, gloves, etc.
  • Fig 4 schematically shows an interior view of the boot where a possible fixation of the electromagnets integrated in the surface of the boot is indicated(5, 5').
  • the number of electromagnets and the geometric shapes that are formed by them is determined in function with weight and degree of experience of the sportsperson
  • Fig.5 shows a flat view and another with perspective of the table(22), where one can appreciate the ferromagnetic material that covers the whole surface of the upper table(16)
  • Fig.6 shows a flat view and the other in perspective of a ski(25) wherein one can see the ferromagnetic material that covers the whole surface of the upper section of the ski(26)

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EP04766970A 2004-03-26 2004-10-04 Autonomes elektromagnetisches steuersystem zum binden von stiefeln an snowboards; skier oder ähnliches Withdrawn EP1731203A1 (de)

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