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Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device intended in particular for sports training, comprising an exercise system on which an athlete acts to create a fictitious displacement with a certain speed, according to a certain positioning.
• This type of device finds important applications to facilitate the training of athletes and more particularly the bicycle training for which the exercise system is formed from a pedal unit driving a wheel of inertia.
• the invention can be applied to any other kind of training, such as running where in this case the exercise system is constituted by a treadmill at a speed depending on the movements of the runner .
• Another application is the training of rowers on boat.
• the movement system consists of sleeves simulating oars that the rower must maneuver to move the boat.
• the invention provides a device of the kind mentioned in the preamble which provides additional conditions for effective training.
• the device according to the preamble is remarkable in that it comprises a database relating to said displacement in which positioning information is inserted to determine said positioning.
• FIG. 1 shows a device according to the invention in which the positioning is in the low state
• FIG. 2 shows a device according to the invention in which the
• FIG. 3 shows an alternative embodiment of the device according to the invention
• FIG. 4 shows another variant embodiment of the device according to the invention
• FIG. 5 shows a diagram of the control system
• FIG. 6 shows the organization of the AVI format adapted to be used by the invention
• Figure 7 shows a flowchart explaining the operation of the device of the invention.
• the reference 1 indicates an exercise system 2 for an athlete.
• This system is, in this first embodiment, a drive bike with a flywheel. It is formed of a saddle 5 of a handlebar 6 of a pedal 8.
• the pedal 8 is connected to an inertia wheel 10 by means of a chain or a belt 11. All these elements are fixed on a frame formed of a first tube 15 on which is adjusted the saddle 5, a second tube 16 on which is fixed the handlebar 6 and on which are welded the first tube 15 and a third tube 17. This is on this third tube 17 that is fixed the axis of the flywheel 10.
• This inertia wheel is rotated by means of the pedal 8 fixed on the tube 16.
• a fourth tube 18 joins the two tubes 16 and 17 to level of their lower extremities. The whole is based on a seat 22. It is also provided a viewing screen 25 so as to scroll a landscape. This screen is fixed on a tube 26 resting on the seat 22.
• a so-called inclination or elevation position is distinguished to simulate the slope of a path; this is the case where the athlete climbs or descends a hill, or even pedal on a flat road.
• a lifting-lowering mechanism 35 acts on the ball 32 to move it vertically.
• the ball 32 is located at its lowest point.
• the lifting-lowering mechanism 35 comprises legs 44 and 45 which are joined at their upper parts to this ball 32 and their lower parts to a driving device 46 which bring these lower parts together to simulate a climb or to move them away for simulate a descent.
• the intermediate position is the simulation of a flat road.
• the drive device 46 is formed by a control cylinder which moves, therefore, the lower portions of said legs 44 and 45 according to a tilt control, which is applied thereto.
• a constraint device 50 constituted here by a brake brakes the freewheel 10 as a function of information.
• Figure 2 shows the position of the frame corresponding to a rise of the road on which the athlete is supposed to circulate.
• the legs 43 and 44 are brought together by raising the ball 32.
• the front of the bike is raised which is the case when you are in a hill.
• a control system 55 governs the operation of the device of the invention 1. This system uses as input parameters:
• This film is recorded on an optical engraving medium read in a reader 57. In this medium are further recorded slope information and / or constraints.
• a speed indication or a distance indication provided by a speed / distance counter 60 which makes it possible to adjust the scrolling of the landscape.
• FIG. 3 shows an alternative embodiment that allows to allow some variation of the cottage, as can occur on turns.
• a damper 85 fixed on the seat 22, acting at a point of the tube 18 at the ball 30 by a bearing portion 86 sliding in an opening on a workpiece fastening 87 attached to the tube 18.
• the action of the damper 85 allows to allow a certain cottage bike according to the reaction of the athlete mounted on the bike.
• Figure 4 shows another alternative embodiment of the device according to the invention.
• the exercise system is constituted by a treadmill whose one end is connected to the ball 30 and the other to the lifting-lowering mechanism 35.
• FIG. 5 schematically shows the structure of the control system 55.
• This system is built around a signal processor 100.
• a set of fixed memory 102 kind memory read-only rather intended to contain the instructions that make it possible to operate the system 55 a set of RAM-type memory, an interface circuit 1 to supply the data to the various components of the device, ie to the mechanism
• the interface circuit also allows the data provided by the speed / displacement counter 60 to be received.
• the landscape data is provided by the reader of the data. disk 57 via a reader interface circuit 112.
• the recording medium that the reader is processing contains different information about the landscape with the pen data. te and stress. This data is saved in the AVI format which allows the recording of images with other information at lower bit rate in synchronism.
• the system 55 also contains an interrupt generator 1 15 which provides interrupt pulses to the processor 100 so that it can roll out a same program at the appearance of each of them.
• This program accesses the information contained in the optical medium of the reader 57 to influence the behavior of the device of the invention. It must be executed at a frequency greater than or equal to the frequency of the filmed images of the landscape.
• Figure 6 explains how the AVI format is used in the context of the invention.
• PICT part which contains the images representing the landscape which will be displayed on the screen 25.
• a second part ALT contains the data representing the altitude and a third part CSTR, the data concerning the constraints which can be linked, in particular , to the unevenness of the filmed route.
• the operation of the device is shown schematically by the flowchart of FIG. 7. This flowchart relates to the program taking place from said interrupts.
• the program starts, box KO, as soon as an interrupt signal appears.
• the first task, box K2 consists of analyzing the contents of the speedometer. From the value of the speed one deduces the distance DST (box K4) traversed since the previous interruption. This distance thus calculated will increment, box K6, a distance counter from which the indexing counter of the AVI file will be determined. Thus, box K8, it will be possible to take the image from the optical media reader 57 and other information related thereto. Box K10 indicates the processing of this information to the various components of the device. If some do not involve a particular treatment, those concerning the slope must be treated to act on the brake 50 and the lifting-lowering mechanism. Notably, for a zero slope will correspond a certain position and a certain constraint, so that in case of descent, the stress will be released and the position lowered. For climbs, the constraint will be reinforced and the position higher. The program is then stopped, box K12.
• the content of the constraint information contained in CSTR can provide additional conditions for signaling, for example, a soft ground that must cause additional effort on the part of the athlete.
• the recording of AVI files is done from a high-definition, fast-paced camera so that for a slow speed the images do not appear jerkily.
• the sound track will be profiled for recording other information including altitude information that comes from a GPS device or simply a barometric altimeter.

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