JP2009160186A - Exercising apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an exercising apparatus capable of appropriately informing a user of an exercise effect. <P>SOLUTION: The exercising apparatus includes a movable part 2 where the user is to ride and a drive part 3 for moving the movable part, and a force detection means S for detecting force given to the movable part by the user riding on the movable part, a standard physical strength database D wherein the values of the force and physical strength ages are stored in correspondence, and an operation control part C for referring to the standard physical strength database, calculating the physical strength age from the force detected in the force detection means and reporting the physical strength age to the user through a reporting means are provided. The physical strength age is obtained from the force given to the movable part by the user when the user moves the body matched with the movement of the movable part, and is imparted to the user. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an exercise device, and more particularly to an exercise device that causes a user to move according to the movement of a movable portion by moving a movable portion on which the user rides.

  As an exercise device that causes the user to perform body movement according to the movement of the movable part by causing the movable part on which the user rides to perform a periodic motion, the user sits on the seat by swinging the seat on which the user is seated The thing which gives the exercise load imitating is known. There is also a type of exercise device that forces the user to maintain balance by swinging a stand on which the user stands.

  Such exercise devices that allow the user to perform passive exercise have been widely used from medical facilities for the purpose of rehabilitation to general households as simple exercise equipment that can be used by children and elderly people. Patent Documents 1 and 2 are typical prior arts of this type of exercise apparatus.

  By the way, in such an exercise device, the user does not actively move the body, but moves the body in accordance with the movement of the movable part, for example, in order to keep the balance. When the user performs synchronized movements, the most effective movement is performed.

Here, the exercise by the exercise device is other dynamic such as movement in order to maintain balance in response to the movement of the movable part, and does not actively move the body. It is difficult for the user to realize the exercise effect due to use.
Japanese Patent No. 3394890 JP 2001-286578 A

  This invention is invented in view of said conventional problem, Comprising: It aims at providing the exercise device which can alert | report a exercise effect appropriately to a user.

  In order to solve the above-described problems, an exercise device according to the present invention includes an exercise device including a movable part on which a user rides and a drive unit that moves the moveable part. Force detection means for detecting the force applied to the body, a standard physical strength database in which the value of the force and physical strength age are stored in association with each other, and the physical strength with reference to the standard physical strength database from the force detected by the force detection means An arithmetic control unit that calculates the age and notifies the user of the physical strength age through the notification means is provided. When the user moves his / her body in accordance with the movement of the movable part, the physical strength age is obtained from the force applied to the movable part by the user, and this is notified to the user.

  The driving unit is provided with an input means for inputting a real age, and the driving unit can change a movement given to the movable unit, and the calculation control unit calculates the corresponding physical strength age of the standard physical fitness database from the input real age. , The corresponding force value may be obtained, and the movement of the movable portion by the drive unit may be changed so that the force detected by the force detecting means becomes the corresponding force value. When the physical fitness age is inferior to the standard physical fitness, it is possible to perform an exercise approaching the standard physical fitness.

  At this time, it is preferable that the said calculation control part changes the motion of the movable part by a drive part so that the force detected by a force detection means may become the value of the said corresponding force in steps.

  In the present invention, in order to obtain the user's physical strength age and notify the user of this, it is possible for the user to realize the effect of using the exercise device from the change in physical strength age due to repeated exercise. Therefore, the user's motivation about the exercise | movement which uses an exercise device for this can be heightened.

  Hereinafter, the present invention will be described based on embodiments shown in the accompanying drawings. First, from the mechanical point of view of the exercise device, the exercise device shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 uses the seat 2 on which the user sits on the seat 2 by periodically swinging the seat 2 back and forth and left and right. This exercise allows the person to perform exercises for balance training. The seat 2 has a shape imitating the back of a horse or a saddle, and the upper surface is a seating surface. A main body 1 containing a drive unit 3 is arranged. On the front end side of the seat 2 is disposed a reins 6 having a semicircular arc shape and both ends pivotably connected to the seat 2 back and forth, and an operation panel 8. In addition, ridges 7 and 7 are suspended from both front sides of the seat 2, respectively.

  The main body 1 is provided with grounding legs 15 at four corners and a drive unit 3 (described later) accommodated in a portion that rises obliquely rearward from the central portion so that its vertical position can be adjusted. And covers 17 and 18.

  On the other hand, the seat 2 includes a seating surface 21 attached to the upper surface of the seat frame 20 and protective covers 23 and 23 attached to the left and right of the seat frame 20. Further, the flange 7 includes a fixed piece 71 fixed to the side surface of the sheet frame 20, a connecting piece 72 suspended from the fixed piece 71, and a leg piece 70 suspended from the connecting piece 72.

  As shown in FIGS. 3 to 5, the drive unit 3 includes a motor 31 and a gear group 34 that transmits the rotation of the motor 31 to the two output shafts 32 and 33 in a box-shaped movable frame 30. , And a movable plate 40 positioned above the movable frame 30 is connected to the movable frame 30 by two types of link plates 41, 42. The movable frame 30 includes bearing portions 300, The main body 1 is attached to the main body 1 by being connected to a support frame (not shown) disposed in the main body 1 in the main body 1 so as to be rotatable about the axis A shown in FIG.

  Here, the link plate 41 connected to the rear end side of the movable plate 40 is connected to the rear side surface of the movable frame 30 by the shaft 301, whereas the link plate 42 is connected to the inside of the movable frame 30. The link plate 42 is supported on the front end side of the movable plate 40 on the front end side of the movable plate 40, and the link plate 42 is supported on the front end side of the movable plate 40. It is connected through.

  The output shaft 32 of the two output shafts 32 and 33 that are rotationally driven has an eccentric portion located on the outer surface side of the movable frame 30, and this eccentric portion is connected to the support frame 13 by a link 35. It is connected.

  The other output shaft 33 has two eccentric portions 33a and 33b located on the outer surface side of the movable frame 30, and the eccentric portion 33a having a small eccentric amount is connected to the link plate 42 and has an eccentric portion having a large eccentric amount. 33b is connected to a connecting link 36 having one end connected to the link plate 41 to form a pitch driving unit.

  Of the two output shafts 32 and 33, the rotation of the eccentric portion of the output shaft 32 connected to the support frame 13 by the link 35 causes the movable frame 30 to reciprocate around the axis of the axis A.

  Further, the eccentric rotation of the eccentric portion 33a of the other output shaft 33 swings the front end side of the movable plate 40 back and forth and up and down via the link plate 42 and the telescopic actuator 45, and the eccentric rotation of the eccentric portion 33b is connected to the connecting link 36. The rear end side of the movable plate 40 is mainly swung back and forth through the link plate 41. At this time, when the trajectory of the connecting shaft 40a between the link plate 41 and the movable plate 40 is T1, and the trajectory of the connecting shaft 40b between the telescopic actuator 45 and the movable plate 40 is T2, the trajectory of the connecting shaft 40a is shown in FIG. As shown, although the strokes of both T1 and T2 are the same, the vertical component is set to be different between the two trajectories T1 and T2.

  Incidentally, the trajectory T1 moves only substantially back and forth, but the trajectory T2 moves up and down in addition to the front and rear because the shaft 303 in the link plate 42 is located behind the shaft 40b. There are many ingredients. In addition, in order to move the rotary plate 39 up and down the position of the shaft 303 serving as the pivotal fulcrum of the link plate 42 in the component for swing driving on the front end side of the movable plate 40, The trajectory T2 takes a route that is shifted up and down between the outward path and the return path.

  Here, the seat 2 is configured such that the seat frame 20 is fixed on the movable plate 40 which is driven to swing back and forth and right and left as the output shafts 32 and 33 rotate. The seat 2 also swings back and forth and right and left together with the plate 40. The rotational speeds of the output shafts 32 and 33 are set so that the back and forth swing is performed during one cycle of the left and right swing. Therefore, the center point 21a at the center in the left-right direction and lowest in the front-rear direction on the seating surface 21 of the seat 2 is 8 in plan view as shown in FIG. The character is drawn. Further, due to the difference between the trajectories T1 and T2, as shown in FIG. 6B, the central point 21a sinks forward and draws a trajectory returning to the rear while rising.

  FIG. 6 is a plot of the movement of the center point of the sheet 2 at predetermined time intervals. For this reason, when the point interval is large, the speed is large, and the speed changes quickly from a small interval to a large interval. However, it shows that acceleration is large. That is, in the case shown in FIG. 6, the acceleration when moving forward is larger than the acceleration when moving backward. This means that if you sit on the seat 2 and receive the movement of the seat 2, you will feel that you are moving forward, and for this you can get the feeling of actually riding. .

  Further, since the left and right swings are not about the axis of the horizontal axis substantially parallel to the movable plate 40 and the seating surface 21, but the front side is made about the axis of the axis A in the front-rear direction lower than the rear side. Although the plate 40 swings left and right in the same angular range on both the front side and the rear side, since the front side is longer than the rear side with respect to the front and rear axis A, the left and right movements of the front end side of the movable plate 40 are performed. The stroke is larger than the left / right movement stroke on the rear end side. For this reason, the movement in the shape of figure 8 in plan view by combining the rocking in the front-rear direction (pitch) and the rocking in the left-right direction (roll) is as shown in FIG. The lateral movement width of the seat 2 is larger than the lateral movement width on the rear side, and the forward oblique movement includes a yaw component in which the front end side of the seat 2 moves while being twisted obliquely forward.

  The expansion / contraction actuator 45 in the drive unit 3 is provided to change the front / rear inclination angle of the seat 2, and the expansion / contraction actuator 45 is extended / contracted by an operation on an operation panel 8 described later to change the front / rear inclination angle of the seat 2. Then, the forward tilting posture, the horizontal posture, and the backward tilting posture are switched. It is also possible to increase or decrease the vertical movement component by performing expansion and contraction in conjunction with the above-described swinging back and forth and left and right.

  FIG. 7 shows the operation panel 8 arranged at the front end of the seat 2. In the figure, 80 is a power switch, 81 is a height adjustment switch for adjusting the height of the seat 2 by operating the electric slide unit 14, and 82 is for adjusting the inclination angle of the seat 2 by operating the telescopic actuator 45. 83 is a speed adjustment switch for adjusting the swinging speed by changing the rotational speed of the motor 31 of the driving unit 3, 84 is an up / down switch for inputting a weight value of the user, and 85 is a swinging switch. An operation mode selection switch for suppressing the movement operation to be suitable for beginners, 86 an operation mode switching switch for switching the exercise intensity by the swinging operation, 87 an exercise object changeover switch for switching the exercise object, and 88 a liquid crystal panel It is a display composed of When the movement object changeover switch 87 is operated, the front / rear inclination angle of the seat 2 is switched to a state suitable for each by the telescopic actuator 45.

  The display 88 displays the inclination state of the sheet 2, the display of the speed adjustment state, the display of the operation time, the display of the exercise intensity, the display of the calculated amount of exercise (calorie consumption), and the sheet 2 by the expansion and contraction of the expansion / contraction actuator 45. By displaying the posture change of the front / rear inclination of the human body, what value load is applied to which muscle of the abdominal muscles / back muscles / thigh front / thigh rear of the human body is displayed. The amount of exercise is calculated based on the output of the acceleration sensor provided on the seat 2 and the input weight value. Regarding the degree of load on each muscle accompanying the posture change of the front and rear inclination of the seat 2, Data on how the myoelectric potential of each muscle changes due to the difference in the front and rear inclination angle of 2 and the speed of the motor 31 is taken and determined based on this data.

  Next, a configuration for calculating the physical fitness age of the exercise device will be described. The exercise device includes a force sensor S disposed on the heel 7 and the reins 6 to provide a force applied to the seat 2 by the user. The standard physical fitness that is stored in association with the force and the physical strength age, so that it can be detected by S and how much force can be given to the seat 2 if it is a person of a certain age And a database D. The force sensor S and the standard physical strength database D are connected to the arithmetic control unit C that also controls the driving of the driving unit 3.

  The arithmetic control unit C moves the seat 2 on which the user is riding by the driving unit 3 and applies a force that the user gives to the seat 2 from the force sensor S when the user performs a movement corresponding to the movement of the seat 2. The corresponding physical strength age is derived from the standard physical strength database D from the acquired and obtained power, and the physical strength age (the physical strength age of the user) is displayed on the display 88 of the operation panel 8.

  For users, it is possible to know the age of physical fitness during exercise, and if you exercise continuously, the physical fitness age displayed with changes in physical fitness will change, The effect of using the exercise device can be realized, and for this reason, the user's motivation for the exercise using the exercise device can be enhanced.

  Further, since a user using such an exercise device often has a physical strength age higher than the actual age (physical strength is inferior to the standard), the operation panel 8 is used to input the actual age of the user. The force corresponding to the input real age is acquired from the standard physical fitness database D so that the force detected by the force sensor S matches the force corresponding to the real age acquired from the standard physical fitness database D. The exercise control unit C may increase the exercise intensity by increasing the swing speed or changing the inclination angle of the seat 2. The user's physical strength can be improved.

  However, the change in the movement of the seat 2 is preferably such that the force detected by the force sensor S gradually approaches the force corresponding to the actual age, as shown in FIG. This is because sudden changes in movement may cause problems for the user.

  In addition, the calculation control unit C may calculate the muscle mass of the user from the force detected by the force sensor S and display the muscle mass. In addition, a storage unit K for storing past physical fitness age measurement values is provided, and when the display is performed, the past physical fitness age can be displayed on the display 88 in a state where the past physical age is written together. Can easily recognize changes in physical fitness age.

  If the physical fitness age is not improved compared to the past, warning information may be notified at the same time. If improvement is seen, preferable music and video are output. It is also preferable. The user's willingness to improve can be stimulated.

  In addition, as described above, the exercise device can change the swing speed, the inclination angle of the seat 2, and the like. The information regarding such a change in movement and the calculated physical strength age are displayed. By making it possible to display on the screen 88 at the same time, it is possible for the user to know what kind of movement is performed on the seat 2 that is most effective for the user.

  In the above embodiment, the swing type exercise device that loads the user with exercise simulating riding is shown, but the present invention is not limited to this type, and the platform on which the user stands is periodically arranged. For example, as shown in FIG. 9, a footrest 90 for swinging the seat 2 on which the user sits and individually placing each foot of the user is placed. It can also be applied to those that load the user with an exercise simulating a walking movement by vertically moving the.

  The display 88 provided on the operation panel 8 functions as a notification means for notifying the user of the physical age calculated as described above. In addition, it has a customization function that can change the background image etc. to the user's preference, calculates the user's exercise amount from the output value of the force sensor, displays the past exercise history The user can raise awareness about performing exercise using the exercise device. As a notification means, you may notify by an audio | voice instead of notifying by the above displays.

  Furthermore, it is good also as what incorporates the game sensation that a virtual character is nurtured when the physical strength age can be exercised.

It is a block diagram of an example of an embodiment of the invention. It is a perspective view same as the above. It is a perspective view of a drive part same as the above. It is a side view of a drive part same as the above. It is a disassembled perspective view of a drive part same as the above. (a) and (b) are operation | movement explanatory drawings of the front-back / left-right direction rocking | fluctuation of the movable part by the drive part same as the above. It is a front view of an operation panel same as the above. It is a flowchart which shows operation | movement same as the above. It is a perspective view of another example.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body 2 Sheet | seat 3 Drive part S Force sensor C Calculation control part

Claims (3)

  In an exercise apparatus comprising a movable part on which a user rides and a drive part that moves the movable part, a force detection means for detecting a force applied to the movable part by a user riding on the movable part, and A standard physical fitness database in which values and physical fitness age are stored in association with each other, and a physical fitness age is calculated by referring to the standard physical fitness database from the force detected by the force detection means, and the physical fitness age is notified to the user through the notification means. An exercise apparatus comprising: an arithmetic control unit that performs the operation.   The driving unit is provided with an input means for inputting a real age, and the driving unit can change a movement given to the movable unit, and the calculation control unit calculates the corresponding physical strength age of the standard physical fitness database from the input real age. And obtaining a corresponding force value, and changing the movement of the movable portion by the drive unit so that the force detected by the force detecting means becomes the corresponding force value. The exercise device according to claim 1.   3. The arithmetic control unit is configured to change the movement of the movable unit by the driving unit so that the force detected by the force detection unit gradually becomes the value of the corresponding force. Exercise equipment.

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