EP2991738A1

EP2991738A1 - Muscle biasing device

Info

Publication number: EP2991738A1
Application number: EP14726702.5A
Authority: EP
Inventors: Arnaud VANNICATTE; Philippe CHAZALON; Aurélien VAUQUELIN
Original assignee: Eracles - Technology
Current assignee: Eracles - Technology
Priority date: 2013-04-29
Filing date: 2014-04-28
Publication date: 2016-03-09
Anticipated expiration: 2034-04-28
Also published as: FR3004958B1; EP2991738B1; FR3004958A1; US20160151656A1; US9901770B2; CA2910926A1; WO2014177797A1; CN105263588B; AU2014261288A1; CN105263588A

Abstract

The invention relates to a muscle biasing device which comprises: a frame to be wedged between a floor surface (30) and an upper structure (29) of a room, the frame comprising a structure bar forming an arc of circle, an upper element attached to a first end of the structure bar and a lower element attached to a second end of the structure bar intended for engaging with the upper structure of the room and the floor surface, respectively; a return element attached to the frame; a biasing element coupled with the return element suitable for being pulled by a user (27) toward the inside of the arc of circle of the structure bar and for exerting, on the biasing element, a return force that opposes the pulling force of the user.

Description

Muscle solicitation device

The invention relates to the field of muscle solicitation devices and more particularly to personal muscle solicitation devices that can be installed and used in the context of a sporting or medical practice at home or in spaces not reserved solely for sports practice. .

Exercise weight machines are known which are commonly installed in sports halls. In the context of a domestic practice, a disadvantage of these machines is their size. The document DE8701025 describes a device comprising a straight bar adjustable in height and fixed by screwing to the ground. The upper end of this bar is associated with a bend itself connected to a horizontal bar, said horizontal bar being attached to a wall. A biasing member is associated with the horizontal bar to allow exercise practice.

An idea underlying the invention is to provide a muscular exercise practice device for use in a home practice and that is simple and fast installation. An object of the invention is also to provide a muscular biasing device which, once installed, has a good operating safety and in particular a risk of impromptu uninstallation low.

For this, the invention provides a muscular biasing device for cooperating with a floor surface and an upper structure of a room, the device comprising

- A frame intended to be wedged between the floor surface and the upper structure of the room, the frame comprising a structure bar forming a circular arc, the structure bar being intended to be positioned vertically between the floor surface and the structure upper room, an upper member for cooperating with the upper structure of the room, the upper member being attached to a first end of the structural bar, a lower member for cooperating with the surface the lower element being attached to a second end of the structural bar,

A return element attached to the frame and a biasing element, said biasing element being coupled to the biasing element, said biasing element being able to be pulled by a user towards the inside of the bow of circle of the structural bar and the return element being able to exert on the biasing element a restoring force opposing the pulling force of the user.

Such a device allows rapid installation for example in a doorway of the home of a user, the latter having that move the device at the door frame and make coincide the upper element of the frame with a transverse upper amount of the door frame and orient the arc of the bar so as to move the structure bar away from the door frame, that is to say so that the center of the door frame the arc and the arc are located on either side of the door frame.

In use, the traction force of the user on the biasing element is transmitted to the frame whose arcuate bars work in flexion, thus tending to transform the user's effort into a resultant compression of the frame on the door jamb. Advantageously, the device is all the better fixed in the door jamb that the user exerts a significant pull on the biasing element.

According to embodiments, such a muscular biasing device may include one or more of the following additional features.

In one embodiment, the structural bar is telescopic, the structural bar having in a retracted position a length less than the length of the structural bar in the extended position. Preferably in this case there is provided a deployment blocking member of the structural bar adapted to selectively lock the structural bar in a position, preferably a plurality of positions, between the retracted position of the structural bar and the position deployed from the structure bar to adjust the length of the structure bar. In a preferred embodiment, the locking member is able to continuously adjust the length of the structural bar between two extreme values. The locking member can take a large number of different shapes, for example in the form of a locking latch cooperating with orifices located in the bar at predefined regular positions in order to block the telescopic parts relative to each other. the other in different positions, or by the presence of a locking screw passing through an opening of a telescopic portion forming a thread of the structural bar and blocking the other part by clamping In a preferred embodiment , the structure bar has a first portion and a second portion, the second portion of the structural bar being slidably mounted in the first portion of the structural bar, and wherein the locking member is adapted to exert on the second part of the structure bar a blocking force of which a first component develops in a direction tangent to a sliding direction of the second party e of the structure bar in the first part of the structure bar and a second component of which develops perpendicularly to the first component so as firstly to exert on the second part of the structure bar a force tending to extend the structure bar and, secondly, block the relative movement between the first part of the structure bar and the second part of the structure bar. In various embodiments, the locking member may take the form of a cam, a pressure lock, or a positive or negative control electrical system, such a member being secured to the fixed portion of the telescopic structure cooperating in support of the mobile part so as to immobilize it by adhesion against the fixed part.

This embodiment makes it possible to adjust the height of the frame and thus to adapt the device to different floor surfaces and rooms such as door frames of different heights, windows, floors and ceilings or the like. Moreover, this embodiment makes it possible to position the device prestressing during its installation, thus ensuring a better stability in use. In addition, this embodiment allows significant space saving, the user storing the device in the retracted position when it does not use it.

In an alternative embodiment, a carriage is movably mounted along the structural bar, the return element comprising an elastic member whose one end is attached to the carriage and a second end is attached to the biasing element. In this variant, the carriage cleverly adjusts the height of the point of attachment of the biasing element, thus allowing a user to change the direction of traction, and therefore the movements, that he will be able to perform with the device.

In another embodiment, the device comprises a carriage mounted movably along the structural bar, the return element comprises a flexible connecting element whose one end is anchored to the lower element of the frame and a second end is connected to the biasing element and wherein the carriage comprises a return element adapted to cooperate with the flexible connecting element so as to return the restoring force between a first direction joining the lower element of the frame to the a return member and a second direction joining the return member to the biasing member. The connecting member may take a plurality of shapes such as a strap, a rope, a cable, an elastic or the like.

In this embodiment, the biasing element may have a point of attachment on the frame. The presence of the carriage associated with the return element makes it possible to modify the direction of the effort that the user provides while maintaining an anchoring of the return element on the lower element of the frame.

In one embodiment, the return element comprises an electric motor adapted to generate the return force, the flexible connecting element being coupled to a motor shaft.

In one embodiment, the device comprises an electric cable winder housed in the lower element of the frame for winding a power cable of the electric motor.

In one embodiment, the frame comprises two identical and parallel structural bars, the lower element of the frame connecting the lower end of the two structural bars and the upper element of the frame connecting the upper end of the two structural bars. to form a frame.

Such a frame composed of two bars of identical structures interconnected by the lower element and the upper element of the frame provides a safer installation and better stability of the device in use.

In one embodiment, the upper element of the frame and the lower element of the frame each comprise a pad of flexible material intended to enter. in contact respectively with the upper structure of the room and the floor surface of the room. Such a buffer is in the form of any material capable of limiting the damage that may be suffered by the upper structure of the room or the floor surface when the frame exerts a compressive stress, either during the preloading of the device or by deformation of the structure bars in use.

In one embodiment, the lower element of the frame comprises a base having a flat seating surface intended to cooperate with the floor surface. Such a base provides better stability to the device. Furthermore, such a base facilitates the storage of the device, the latter can be maintained in position in ad hoc space by resting on the base.

In one embodiment, the upper element of the frame comprises a first tab and a second tab jointly forming an angle, the first tab and the second tab being oriented in two directions, the respective components in the plane containing the arc of a circle. and the center of the circular arc are secant, said angle being intended to cooperate with the upper structure of the room. This embodiment is particularly adapted to the installation of the device in upper structures of premises such as personal housing door frames, such angle conforming to the shape of the upper transverse amounts of most doors of this type of premises and in particular being able to form a stable support against a corner of the upper amount, such a device also to marry the shape of a beam or any other element of horizontal structure disposed in height in this type of premises.

In one embodiment, the lower element of the frame has wheels allowing its easy movement and simple installation.

In one embodiment, the upper element of the frame comprises a first spacer connecting the first legs of the two structural bars and extending perpendicularly to the two structural bars and a second spacer connecting the second legs of the two structural bars and s extending perpendicular to the two structural bars.

These spacers ensure better cooperation between the upper element of the frame and the upper structure of the room. In one embodiment, the spacers form two bearing surfaces intended to cooperate with said upper structure of the premises.

The invention will be better understood, and other objects, details, features and advantages thereof will appear more clearly in the following description of several preferred embodiments of the invention, given solely for illustrative and not limiting with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIGS. 1 and 2 are schematic perspective views of a muscular biasing device in a retracted position;

FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view of an embodiment of a muscular biasing device in a deployed position installed in a door frame;

• Figure 4 shows an alternative embodiment of the device in use;

FIGS. 5 and 6 describe a return element operating mode in the form of an electric motor used in the device of FIG. 1.

FIGS. 7, 8 and 9 describe a structure bar locking member in position of the device as in FIG. 1 respectively in an unlocked position, an intermediate position and a locking position.

A list of references used in the rest of the description is given below:

1. Muscle solicitation device

2. Built

3. Upper part of the frame

4. Lower part of the frame

5. Structure bar of the frame

A. First structure bar

B. Second structure bar

6. First part of a structure bar 5

7. Second part of a structure bar 5

8. Upper end of the structure bar 5 Lower end of the structure bar 5

Locking member in position of the bar 5

Reminder

Recall Force

Solicitation element

Connecting element

Tractive force

trolley

First direction of the returned force

Second direction of the returned force

Base of the frame 2

Bottom side of base 19

First leg of the upper end

A. First leg in the extension of a first structure bar 5A

B. First leg in the extension of a second structure bar 5B

Second leg of the upper end - -

A. Second leg in the extension of a first structure bar 5 A

B. Second leg in the extension of a second structure bar 5B

First spacer connecting the first legs 21 A and 21 B

Second spacer connecting the second legs 22A and 22B Buffer

Door frame

User

Lateral amounts of the frame 26

Upper structure of a room / Upper transverse amount of the frame 26

Floor area

Height separating the floor surface 30 from the upper transverse pillar 29

Bottom side of the cross member 29 33. Angle formed by face 32 and face 34

34. Side face of the cross member 29

35. Wheels of the device 1

36. Motor shaft 1 1

37. Pulley

38. Position encoder

39. Electronic card

40. Connection between the card 39 and the motor 11

41. Microprocessor

42. First diversion body

43. Incoming connection in the organ 42

44. Second branch body

45. Incoming connection in the body 44

46. Connection between the element 44 and the calculation module 47

47. Calculation module

48. Speed information connection

49. Connection of position information

50. Motor control connection 11

51. Cam

52. Cradle of the cam 51

53. Cam rod

54. Sliding direction of the second part 7 in the first part 6

55. Blocking force

A. Blocking force component 55 tangential to sliding direction 54

B. Blocking force component 55 perpendicular to component 55A

56. Face of the second part 7 of the structure bar 5 pressed against the face of the first part 6

57. Face of the first part 6 of the structure bar 5 cooperating with the face of the second part 7

58. Rounded surface of the cam 51 Figures 1 and 2 are schematic perspective views of a muscular biasing device in a retracted position.

The muscular biasing device 1 presented in FIGS. 1 and 2 comprises a frame 2. The frame 2 comprises an upper member 3 and a lower member 4. The upper member 3 is intended to cooperate with an upper structure of a room and the lower element is intended to cooperate with a floor surface of said room. The upper element 3 and the lower element 4 are connected by two identical structural bars 5. The two structure bars 5 form an arc having the same radius of curvature and located in parallel planes. A first end 8 of the structure bars 5 is attached to the upper member 3 and a second end 9 of the structure bars 5 is attached to the lower member 4.

These structural bars 5 are advantageously retractable for example in the form of a first hollow structural bar portion 6 into which is inserted a second structural bar portion 7 of shape complementary to the hollow section of the first portion of the bar The second part of the structural bar 7 is slidably mounted in the first part of the structural bar 6. Variations of telescopic systems can be envisaged, for example in the form of a first structural bar part. 6 having a guide rail cooperating with a guide element of the second part of the structural bar 7.

The structure bars 5 advantageously comprise a locking member 10 capable of locking in position the first part of the structural bar 6 and the second part of the structural bar 7. When the locking member 10 holds in relative position the first part 6 and the second part 7 of the structure bar, the structure bar 5 then has a fixed length.

Such a locking member 10 may be of any type such as a latch in the form of a removable rod cooperating with holes provided at regular spacing on the first part of the structural bar 6 and on the second part of the structural bar 7 , the latch being inserted simultaneously into two orifices respectively of the first part of the structure bar 6 and the second part of the structure bar 7. Such insertion of the latch simultaneously in the two orifices of the two parts 6 and 7 of the structure bar blocks the translation of said two parts together.

Such a locking member may also be in the form of a clamping screw cooperating with an orifice of the first part of the structure bar 6 forming a screw thread complementary to the locking member. The locking member 10 is intended to exert a bearing on the second part 7 of the structural bar 7 through the orifice of the first part of the structure bar 6, said support blocking the translation of the second part of the the structure bar 7 in the first part of the structure bar 6. A locking member in the form of screws advantageously allows adjustment of the structural bar in any position between two extreme lengths. A preferred embodiment of a locking member is shown with reference to FIGS. 7 to 9. In one embodiment, the height of the device can vary between 1800 mm and 2800 mm. The width of the device is preferably between 650 mm and 800 mm. The thickness of the device is preferably less than or equal to 200 mm.

The frame 2 comprises an electric motor 11 attached to the frame 2 on the lower element 3 of the frame. Such an electric motor 1 is able to exert a restoring force 12 on a biasing element 13. The electric motor 11 is described below with reference to FIGS. 5 and 6. Such a motor 11 is associated with a connecting element 14 The connecting member is flexible and may be a strap, cable, cord or other means for connecting the motor 11 to the biasing member 13 and being able to undergo directional changes. The motor 11 is ideally installed on the lower element 3 of the frame 2, the weight of the engine 11 thus contributing to the stability of the frame 2. In addition, in the context of a 1 1 electric motor, a power cable Electric winding is installed on the frame, a winding device of the type used on the vacuum cleaners being provided. Such an engine is for example supplied with 220V and 16A maximum.

The biasing element 13 is for example a handle having a gripping member such that a user can exert a tensile force on the biasing element, said pulling force opposing the return force 12. L the biasing element could also be a two-handed, joined or spaced-grip. In addition, it is advantageously provided that the biasing element is removable and interchangeable, thus offering the user the possibility of select different types of solicitation elements according to the exercises they wish to practice.

A carriage 16 is slidably mounted on the structural bars 5, the structure bars 5 advantageously serving as a guide rail for said carriage 16. This carriage 16 can be locked in position along the structural bars 5 by any means such as example by means similar to those used to block the sliding of the two parts 6 and 7 of the structure bars 5. The carriage 16 comprises a return element such as a pulley or any other element able to cooperate with the return element in order to return the restoring force between a first direction 17 joining the lower element 3 of the frame and the return element and a second direction 18 joining the return element and the biasing element.

The lower element 3 of the frame 2 comprises a base 19 forming a flat bottom surface 20. A rubbery adhesive material may cover this flat bottom surface 20.

The upper element 3 comprises at each structural bar 5 a first tab 21 and a second tab 22. The first tab 21 and the second tab 22 are located in the extension of each structural bar 5. The first tab 21 and the second tab 22 located at each structural bar preferably develop in the plane containing the arc of circle and the center of said arc formed by said structure bar 5. In a particular embodiment, the first tab 21 forms with the second leg 22 a right angle, such a right angle being complementary to a large number of upper structures of premises such as door frames.

A first spacer 23 is fixed together with the first tab 21 A located on the upper element 3 at a first structural bar 5A and the first tab 21 B located on the upper element 3 at a second structure bar 5B. A second spacer 24 is secured together with the second tab 22A located on the upper member 3 at the first structural bar 5A and the second tab 22B located on the upper member 3 at the second structural bar 5B . The first spacer 23 and the second spacer 24 are preferably developed in planes perpendicular to the planes containing the arc of the first structural bar 5A and the arc of the second structural bar 5B. Damping elements 25 are located on the lower element 4 of the frame 2 and on the upper element 3 of the frame 2. These damping elements 25 are of any type that can be adapted to the shape of the upper element 3 and the lower element 4. For example, the buffer 25 of the upper element 3 in FIG. 1 takes the form of two synthetic foam tubes respectively surrounding the first spacer 23 and the second spacer 24, the first spacer 23 and the second spacer 24 being each a cylindrical bar. The buffer 25 of the lower element 4 is in the form of a soft damping layer, for example made of rubbery material.

The lower portion 4 of the frame comprises wheels 35 for moving and placing the device 1 in a simplified manner. In this embodiment, the first spacer 23 surrounded by a first buffer 25A and / or the second spacer 24 surrounded by a second buffer 25B advantageously constitute transport handles of the device, a user can easily move the device in the manner a trolley. An independent handle of the pads 25 may also be installed on the upper element 3 of the device.

Figure 3 is a schematic perspective view of the embodiment of the muscular biasing device of Figure 1 in a deployed position installed in a door frame.

The device 1 of muscular biasing as shown in Figure 1 is intended to be installed in a door frame 26 such as a door jamb 26 door, bedroom, or other, a personal home of a user 27 Such a door jamb 26 has two vertical lateral uprights 28 and an upper transverse upright 29 perpendicular to the lateral uprights 28 and connecting them to form the door frame 26. This door frame 2 is located on a floor surface 30.

In use of a device 1 as in FIG. 1, the first structural bar 5A and the second structural bar 5B are deployed and locked in the deployed position by the locking member 10. The first structure bar 5A and the second structure bar 5B are installed vertically. The plane containing the arc formed by a structural bar 5 is perpendicular to a plane in which the door frame 26 is located and parallel to the vertical lateral uprights 28 of the door frame 26. Advantageously, the deployment of Structural bars 5 are such that their length is greater than a height 31 between a lower face 32 of the upper transverse post 29 and the floor surface 30. This length of the structural bars 5 is such that the device 1 can be installed in prestressing in the floor surface 30 and the upper transverse post 29 thus ensuring a good fixation of the device in the door frame 26.

The lower face 20 of the base 19 is placed on the ground surface 30. The buffer 25 in the form of an adhesive rubber layer, installed on the lower face 20 ensures a good adhesion to the device cooperating with the soil surface 30. The device 1 thus installed is not likely to slide on the floor surface 30. Moreover, the presence of the motor 11 on the lower element 4 of the frame 2 also ensures good stability to the device.

The angle formed by the first lugs 21 and the second lugs 22 is complementary to an angle 33 formed by a lateral face 34 of the upper transverse strut 29 and the lower face 32 of said upper transverse strut 29. This complementarity between on the one hand the angle formed by the first legs 21 and the second legs 22 and, secondly, the angle formed by the side face 34 and the lower face 32 of the upper transverse post 29 ensures a good fixation of the device 1 in the door frame 26 the buffers of the first between board 2

The presence of the buffers 25 on the first spacer 23 and the second spacer 24, as well as on the lower face 20 of the base 9, prevents any deterioration respectively of the upper transverse strut 29 and the floor surface 30 during installation and the use of the device 1.

In FIG. 3, the carriage 16 is adjusted to an intermediate height by the user 27 but said carriage 16 could be located higher or lower along the structural bars 5.

In use, the user exerts a pull on the biasing element 13 which then exerts on the frame 2 a force of stress. This force of stress is reflected on the structural bars 5 which then work in flexion and tend to exert a compressive force on the upper transverse post 29 on the one hand and on the other hand on the floor surface 30. compression force increases the adhesion between the biasing device and the upper transverse strut 29 on the one hand and, on the other hand, the adhesion between the biasing device and the ground surface 30. The increase in this adhesion ensures a much better fixing of the device in use, neither the upper element 3 nor the lower element 4 of the frame not likely to separate from the upper transverse amount 29 and the floor surface respectively.

Moreover, the presence of the first spacer 23 resting on the lateral face 34 of the upper transverse strut prevents the upper element 3 of the frame from passing through the door frame 26.

The structural bars 5 have a certain elastic stiffness in flexion. This stiffness makes it possible to position the compression structure bars between the upper transverse strut 29 on the one hand and the ground surface 30 on the other hand. The stiffness of the structural bars is, for example, of the order of 30 kN / m 100kN / m. In addition, the structure bars have an arc along their entire length, this arc having for example a radius of curvature of the order of 1 to 2.7m. Furthermore, the concavity of the angle formed between the first legs 21 and the second legs 22 is oriented on the same side as the concavity formed by the arc of the bars, that is to say towards the location of the user

A motor 11 as in Figure 1 is intended to cooperate with a connecting element 14. The motor 11 can rotate a shaft 36 and exert a torque on the shaft 36. A pulley 36 is mounted tightly on the shaft 36. The connecting element 14 is here a cable 14 is fixed at its first end in the groove of the pulley 37. This cable 14 can be wound in the groove around the pulley 37. At the second end of the cable 14 is attached the biasing member 13 through which a user can influence the device with its muscular strength when practicing muscle exercises.

The motor 11 comprises a position encoder 38 which measures the position of the motor shaft 36. The position is transmitted to an electronic card 39 in the form of a position signal. This electronic card 39 is adapted to receive this position signal and uses the position signal to generate a control signal. With this control signal, the electronic card 39 controls the torque generated by the motor 11 to control the force exerted by the motor 11, which is transmitted at the level of the biasing element 13 via the pulley 37 and the cable 14. For this, the electronic card 39 transmits the control signal to the motor 11 via the connection 40. This control signal is received by a power supply unit integrated into the motor 11 which, from this control signal, supplies a certain current to the motor 11. The current supplied by the power supply member thus induces a torque on the mobile part 36 and therefore by means of the pulley 37 and the cable 14 a force on the biasing element 13. The force exerted by the motor 11 is substantially proportional to the current supplied by the power supply member to the motor 1 1.

When a user manipulates the biasing element 13 during an exercise it opposes the force of the motor 11 with the aid of its muscular strength. For example, during a practicable exercise with this device, a user pulls the biasing element from a position close to the frame 2 to a position remote from the frame 2 with his hands. During this traction, the user must overcome the force directed towards the frame exerted by the motor 11 on the biasing element. When the biasing element arrives in the remote position, the user performs the reverse movement and returns the biasing element 13 to the frame 2 while still being constrained by the same force subjected in the same direction by the motor January 1. The exercise device thus simulates a mass to be alternately raised and rested by the user

During this exercise, the position signal is continuously transmitted to the electronic card 39 which calculates and transmits to the motor continuously the corresponding control signal. Thus, the device controls the force generated by the motor 11 throughout the exercise.

With reference to FIG. 6, the engine control means will now be described more precisely.

The electronic card 39 here comprises a microprocessor 41. A position encoder 38 measures the position of the motor shaft 36, this position is encoded into a position signal which is transmitted via the connection 40 to the microprocessor 41. Thus, in a This measurement can be emitted every 30 ms and preferably every 10 ms. In this microprocessor 41, the position signal is transmitted to a branch member 42 via the connection 43. The branch member derives the position signal thereby generating a speed signal which is transmitted to a second branch member 44 via the connection 45. The second branch member derives the speed signal thereby generating an acceleration signal. The acceleration signal is transmitted via the connection 46 to a calculation module 47. Furthermore, the position signal and the speed signal are respectively transmitted to the program via the connections 48 and 49. The calculation module 47 calculates the signal control to be supplied to the motor and transmitted to the motor via the connection 50.

More specifically, the control signal is calculated from the acceleration so that the force exerted by the motor 11 on the biasing element 13 comprises the load and a predetermined artificial inertia.

For this, the calculation module 47 takes into account the cumulative torque exerted by the motor 11 and the inertia of the rotating parts of the device connected to this motor which are the shaft 36, the pulley 37, the cable 14 and the element of solicitation 13.

Indeed, when a user manipulates the solicitation element 13:

m _r xy = F _m + F _s (1)

Where F _s is the force exerted by the user on the biasing element 13, F _m is the force exerted by the motor 11 on the biasing element 13 and controlled by the calculation module 47, m _r is the inertia of the moving parts brought back on the biasing element 13 and the mass of the biasing element 13 and γ is the acceleration of the biasing element 13.

Equation (1) corresponds to the fundamental principle of the dynamics applied to a system in translation. However, those skilled in the art will understand that torques exerted on a rotating system can be similarly modeled.

The force exerted by the motor F _m is composed of two components induced by the control signal: a fixed component F _ch representing the load and a component proportional to the acceleration Fj which represents the artificial inertia. So :

Fch + Fi (2)

Or the force Fj is defined according to a coefficient of proportionality k:

Fj = -kx γ (3) The coefficient k is a parameter that is programmed in the calculation module 47.

Equation (1) can be rewritten:

(m _r + k) x γ = F _ch + F _s (4)

In this way, if the coefficient of proportionality k used to produce the control signal is negative, the device simulates a lower inertia than the actual inertia of the device, that is to say the inertia of the rotating parts of the device. If the coefficient of proportionality k is positive, the device simulates greater inertia than the actual inertia of the device.

The user, through a not shown user interface can change the values of the fixed component F _ch and the proportionality factor k and thus determine the type of effort with which it wishes to practice. Thus, it is possible to independently vary the load of inertia. A wide range of types of muscle exercises can be offered to the user.

The user interface is connected to the calculation module 47 and is able to receive data on the position, speed, acceleration or information calculated from these data, for example, the effort provided or the power expended. These data and information are calculated by the calculation module 47 from the acceleration, speed and position signals transmitted to the calculation module 47 respectively by the connections 46, 48 and 49. With these data and this information, the user interface may sensually solicit the user by displaying this information. The user can in this way follow the level of his effort during his physical exercises. However, these solicitations can be of different natures, solicitations are for example possible. Furthermore, the user interface comprises control members allowing the user to vary the values of the fixed component F _ch and the proportionality factor k. These control elements are for example buttons on the user interface corresponding to fixed component pairs F _ch and proportionality factor k predetermined. These couples define several types of exercises. A storage device, for example a memory in the calculation module 47, stores this information and data. Thanks to this storage, the user can follow the evolution of his performances over time. In a variant of the device, the motor shaft 36 is connected to a speed reducer having a reduction ratio r. The presence of such a gearbox makes it possible to generate relatively large forces while reducing the size of the motor, in order to miniaturize the device. Pulley 37 is attached to an output shaft of the reducer. In this variant, the presence of a gearbox greatly increases the real inertia of the moving parts of the motor 11 reduced to the biasing element 13. The real inertia of the device is also increased by the reduced inertia of the rotating parts of the gearbox. . The inertia of the motor and the gearbox brought back to the output of the gearbox J _tot can be written:

with the inertia of the reducer J _red and the real inertia of the engine J _{m ot} . Thus, if the reduction ratio r is large, the real inertia of the system is greatly increased.

Thus, the use of a proportional factor k negative allows in this variant to compensate all or part of the inertia induced by the gear and allow the use of a small motor associated with a reducer high reduction ratio, without penalizing or affecting the feeling of the user.

Figures 7, 8 and 9 describe a locking member in the structure of the bar position of the device as in Figure 1 respectively in an unlocked position, an intermediate position and a locking position.

In the embodiment shown in FIGS. 7 to 9, the first part

6 of the structure bar 5 is hollow and the second part 7 of the structure bar 5 is of complementary shape to the hollow section of the first part 6 of the structure bar 5. The second part 7 of the structure bar 5 is slidably mounted in the first portion 6 of the structure bar 5. The locking member 10 takes the form of a cam 51 or a pressure lock (eg grasshopper), manually controlled. This cam 51 is rotatably mounted on a base 52 of the first portion 6 of the structural bar 5. The cam 51 has an irregular rounded cam surface 58, two consecutive sections of this round having distinct radii of curvature. In the unlocked position of the cam 51 as shown in FIG. 7, a rod 53 of the cam 51 is substantially perpendicular to a sliding direction 54 of the second portion 7 of the structure bar 5 in the first portion 6 of the bar of structure 5. In this non-locked position, the cam 51 exerts no stress on the second part 7 of the structure bar 5 and the second part 7 of the structure bar 5 can slide freely in the first part 6 of the bar of structure 5.

During the installation of the device, the user slides the second part 7 of the structure bar 5 in the first part 6 of the structure bar 5 so that the upper element 3 of the frame 2 is put into position. contact with the upper structure of the room. Once this contact is assured, the user makes the cam 51 rotate by exerting a bearing on the rod 53. During the rotation of the cam 51, the cam 51 exerts on the second part 7 of the structural bar 5 a blocking force 55 as represented in FIG. 8. A component 55A of this locking force is exerted in the sliding direction 54, tending to slide the second part 7 of the structure bar 5 into the first part 6 of the structure bar 5. When the upper element 3 of the frame 2 is already in contact with the upper structure of the room, this component 55A of the blocking force 55 immobilizes the frame 2 by putting it in prestressing between the upper structure of the room and the floor surface. A component 55B of the locking force, perpendicular to the component 55A, plates a face 56 of the second part 7 of the structural bar 5 firmly against a face 57 of the first part 6 of the structural bar 5, thereby immobilizing by adhesion between them the two telescopic parts 6 and 7 of the structure bar 5.

In another embodiment, the blocking of the structure in the deployed position can be done by a positive or negative control electric system for exerting a pressure of the second part on the first part ensuring the locking of the system in the deployed position or retracted by adhesion.

Figure 4 shows an alternative embodiment of the device. Elements similar or identical to the previous embodiment have the same reference number increased by 100.

In this variant, the return element is in the form of a spring 111 or an extensible elastic strap 11, a first end of which is anchored to the frame 02, for example on the lower member 103 of the frame 102. , and a second end of which is attached to the biasing member 113. In this variant, the frame has only one structural bar 105. The return element 11 1 is an elastic element whose anchorage point on the frame 102 is located on the carriage 1 16. The carriage 116 does not having no return element, the displacement of the carriage 116 on which is anchored the elastic return element 111 allows to change the direction of the restoring force.

Although the invention has been described in connection with several particular embodiments, it is obvious that it is not limited thereto and that it comprises all the technical equivalents of the means described and their combinations if they are within the scope of the invention.

The use of the verb "to include", "to understand" or "to include" and its conjugated forms does not exclude the presence of other elements or steps other than those set out in a claim. The use of the indefinite article "a" or "an" for an element or a step does not exclude, unless otherwise stated, the presence of a plurality of such elements or steps.

In the claims, any reference sign in parentheses can not be interpreted as a limitation of the claim.

Claims

1. A muscular biasing device for cooperating with a floor surface (30) and an upper structure (29) of a room, the device comprising

- A frame (2) intended to be wedged between the floor surface and the upper structure of the room, the frame comprising a structure bar (5) forming a circular arc, the structure bar being intended to be positioned vertically between the floor surface and the upper structure of the room, an upper member (3) for cooperating with the upper structure of the room, the upper member being attached to a first end (8) of the structure bar, a lower member (4). ) intended to cooperate with the ground surface, the lower element being attached to a second end (9) of the structural bar,

A restoring element (11) attached to the frame and a biasing element (13), said biasing element being coupled to the biasing element, said biasing element being able to be pulled by a user (27) in the direction of of the interior of the arc of the structural bar and the return element being able to exert on the biasing element a restoring force (12) opposing the pulling force (15) of the user,

and in which

the structure bar forms the arc from the first end of the structure bar to the second end of the structure bar,

- The structure bar is telescopic, the structure bar having in a retracted position a length less than the length of the structural bar in the deployed position, a blocking member (10) for deploying the structure bar being able to block selectively the structure bar in a position, preferably a plurality of positions, between the retracted position of the structure bar and the extended position of the structure bar to adjust the length of the structure bar.

Apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the locking member is adapted to continuously adjust the length of the structural bar between two extreme values.

Device according to one of claims 1 to 2, wherein the structural bar comprises a first portion (6) and a second portion (7), the second portion (7) of the structural bar being slidably mounted in the first part (6) of the structural bar, and wherein the locking member (10) is able to exert on the second part (6) of the structural bar a locking force (55), a first component (55A). develops in a direction tangent to a sliding direction (54) of the second part (7) of the structural bar in the first part (6) of the structural bar and a second component (55B) of which develops perpendicularly to the first component (55A) so as firstly to exert on the second part of the structural bar a force tending to extend the structural bar and, on the other hand, block the relative displacement between the first part of the bar of structure and the second by part of the structure bar.

Device according to one of claims 1 to 3, comprising a carriage (16) mounted movably along the structural bar, the return element comprising an elastic member whose one end is attached to the carriage and a second end is attached to the biasing element.

Device according to one of claims 1 to 3, comprising a carriage (16) mounted movably along the structural bar, the return element comprises a flexible connecting element (14) whose first end is anchored to the lower element of the frame and a second end is connected to the biasing element and wherein the carriage comprises a return element adapted to cooperate with the flexible connecting element so as to return the restoring force between a first direction (17). ) joining the lower member of the frame to the return member and a second direction (18) joining the return member to the biasing member.

6. Device according to claim 5, wherein the return element comprises an electric motor adapted to generate the return force, the flexible connecting element being coupled to a shaft (36) of the motor.

7. Device according to claim 6, comprising an electric cable winder housed in the lower element of the frame for winding a power cable of the electric motor.

8. Device according to one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the frame comprises two identical and parallel structure bars (5A, 5B), the lower member of the frame connecting the lower end of the two structural bars and the upper element of the frame connecting the upper end of the two structural bars so as to form a frame.

9. Device according to one of claims 1 to 8, wherein the upper element of the frame and the lower element of the frame each comprise a buffer (25) of flexible material intended to come into contact respectively with the upper structure of the local and the floor area of the room.

10. Device according to one of claims 1 to 9 wherein the lower element of the frame comprises a base (19) having a flat seating surface (20) for cooperating with the floor surface.

11. Device according to one of claims 1 to 10 wherein the upper element of the frame comprises a first leg (21) and a second leg (22) jointly forming an angle, the first leg and the second leg being oriented in two directions whose respective components in the plane containing the arc of circle and the center of the circular arc are secant, said angle being intended to cooperate with the upper structure of the local.

12. Device according to one of claims 1 to 11, characterized in that the lower element of the frame comprises wheels (35).

13. Device according to claim 8 in combination with claim 11, wherein the upper element of the frame comprises a first spacer (23). connecting the first legs of the two structural bars and extending perpendicular to the two structural bars and a second spacer (24) connecting the second legs of the two structural bars and extending perpendicular to the two structural bars.

The device of claim 10 combined with claim 11, wherein the second tab (22) is oriented parallel to the planar seating surface (20).