JP6579557B1 - Swing exercise equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a simple and inexpensive practice device having a mechanism capable of reproducing in detail and accurately all the movements of a club that change in a complicated manner along a trajectory drawn by a club from the start point to the end point of a swing. A traveling unit having a shaft that is gripped by a player for swing practice is a traveling drive unit that reproduces an ideal swing speed, and an ideal inclination of the shaft with respect to a plane parallel to the swing plane. The cock angle drive unit reproduces the ideal radial spacing of the shaft 37 with respect to the swing center, and the face angle drive unit reproduces the ideal inclination of the face of the virtual club head. Then, while synchronizing these with an ideal swing, the vehicle travels on the annular rail 3 provided with a tilt angle by the holding material 4. The ideal swing data can be set in the traveling unit 2. [Selection] Figure 2

Description

  The present invention relates to a swing practice device for the purpose of a golf player repeatedly experiencing the movement of a golf club leading to an ideal golf swing and effectively learning the ideal golf swing.

There are various ways to practice golf swings.
Typical methods include practical instruction by professionals and veterans, and self-learning using practice books and videos. In this method, emphasis is placed on the use of the body during swing and the correction of the swing form, but the body cannot fully follow the understanding of the head, and the improvement effect by practice is weak. It is known that a method in which the body learns by making the club operate more ideally and by attaching it to the club is known as an effective means, and devices and patents aimed at realizing it are introduced.

  The method of controlling the operation of the club with a robot is considered to be an effective means for reproducing the movement of the club in detail.

  Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-57103 proposes a device using two rings with a golf club attached, and introduces a method for measuring and simulating a swing of a professional golfer or the like using two rings and a ring support mechanism. Has been.

  Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication No. 2013-215254 proposes a swing guide. This is a sensation that it is preferable that a virtual disk (hereinafter referred to as “swing plane”) created by the track of the club shaft at the time of swing is a flat surface.

JP-A-8-57103 JP 2013-215254 A

  The method of realizing the movement of the club along the ideal swing with a robot requires a large robot capable of controlling the movement of an arc-shaped club having a diameter of about 2 meters, and is usually costly, heavy, and large in size. I am not familiar with the practice environment.

  Further, in the proposal in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 8-57103, a golf club is held by two rings and a swing is reproduced, and the structure of the holding mechanism is complicated and in order to set an ideal movement. It is necessary to actually measure the player swinging with this device for the player who makes an ideal swing, and it must be said that the feasibility is poor.

  The swing guide proposed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2013-215254 has a simple structure, but the complicated club movement that changes every moment during the swing is ideal depending on the player's individual movement. It cannot be a swing.

  None of the methods described above has reached a practical level in terms of accurately grasping and reproducing the movement of the club during the entire swing process, and cannot be an effective swing training device. The point of the present invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive practice device having a mechanism capable of reproducing in detail and accurately all the movements of a club that change in a complicated manner along the trajectory drawn by the club from the start point to the end point of the swing. It is in.

  In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention provides a swing practice device described in (1) to (4).

(1) the movement of the shaft 37 in accordance with the rotation angle and the direction of movement of the swing plane and has a shaft 37 Toritsui, equipped with units device such that control on the basis of the set data (hereinafter "traveling unit 2 ”) On the ring-shaped rail 3 that corresponds to the track of the club tip (hereinafter referred to as“ club head ”) that moves on the swing plane by a swing at a set speed and direction. Device configuration.

(2) In the swing training apparatus 1 having the features of (1), the driving unit to be mounted on the traveling unit 2, and the face angle drive unit 2d for rotating the shaft of the shaft 37, the shaft 37 axis length A drive unit 2c that moves in and out in the direction and a cock angle drive unit 2b that tilts the shaft 37 along a plane parallel to the swing plane, and travels the drive target positions of the drive units 2b, 2c, and 2d. The unit 2 is operated in synchronization with the traveling of the unit 2 .

(3) In the swing practice device 1 having all or any of the characteristics described in (1) and (2), the rail 3 on which the traveling unit 2 travels has a circumferential surface inclined with respect to the ground. And it has a mechanism which makes the inclination angle variable.

(4) In the Sung practice device 1 having all or any one of the features described in (1) to (3), the rail 3 has a structure that can be disassembled and assembled into a plurality of pieces. .

According to the swing practice device 1 described in (1), the shaft 37 moves without coming off the swing plane, so that the player can experience the correct swing plane. In addition, a swing in which the club head is swung down toward the ball (hereinafter referred to as a “down swing”) from a swing in which the club head is placed behind the ball from a swing start point (hereinafter referred to as “back swing”). ) And the end point of the swing after the club head passes the starting point (hereinafter referred to as “follow swing”) can be arbitrarily set, so the swing can be made according to the flight distance and situation desired by the player. You can experience an ideal swing even if you change the width.

According to the swing practice device 1 described in (2), the direction of the hitting surface of the club head (hereinafter referred to as “face angle”) reproduced by the rotation of the shaft 37 is reproduced by the loading / unloading drive unit 2c. The distance between the body and the hand holding the shaft 37 (hereinafter referred to as “in / out ”) and the inclination of the shaft 37 reproduced in parallel with the swing plane (in this patent, this is defined as the cock angle and hereinafter referred to as “cock angle”). Are driven in synchronism with the running, so that the ideal movement of the complex shaft 37 that changes every moment during the swing can be experienced.

According to the swing practice device 1 described in (3), the inclination of the swing plane with respect to the ground can be adjusted according to the shape of the player and the shaft 37 used for the swing .

According to the swing practice device 1 described in (4), transportation and installation are easy.

According to the swing practice device 1 described in (1) to (4), in order to reproduce the ideal movement of the club, it is necessary to measure by actually swinging the professional or first-class player using this device. without the out dimensions from a continuous degradation photograph a face angle cock angle of the club swing is measured, depending on the various circumstances and clubs kinds of readily various players by entering set for each drive unit 2b, 2c, 2d Swing (hereinafter referred to as “swing type”) can be realized.

  Although this device contributes to the improvement of the player's competitive skills as a practice tool, it is also useful for instructors who encourage the improvement. For example, lesson professionals and coaches have their own teaching methods and theories. When teaching it, give examples and explain verbally, but the results are difficult to achieve, support the club with hands and experience the trajectory and movement, and forcefully push and pull the arms and body during the swing However, if a swing is set to be taught to this device, efficient guidance is possible.

Side view of a swing training apparatus 1 showing an embodiment of the present invention Front view of the device Front view of traveling unit 2 Rail 3 cross section and side view of traveling unit 2 Block diagram of swing practice device 1 Illustration of club motion extracted from disassembled photo Overlapping club action Figure quantified by club movement element Operation screen transition diagram of the swing training device 1

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  The traveling unit 2 travels on the rail 3.

The two divided rails 3 are connected by a rail holding member 4. One end of the extendable support 5 is hinged to the rear end of the base frame 6, and the other end is hinged to the rail holding member 4 at the top of the rail . The holding member at the lower part of the rail is hinged to a pillar provided at the front end of the base frame 6. The support 5 is composed of an outer pipe 5a and an inner pipe 5b, and a bolt is passed through a hole of the inner pipe and the hole of the outer pipe which are opened at a predetermined interval, and the length of the rail surface is adjusted to thereby tilt the rail surface with respect to the ground. Can be adjusted.

Each driver in the traveling unit 2 (travel drive unit 2a, the cock angle drive unit 2b, out driving unit 2c, the face angle drive unit 2d) the shaft 37 is mounted via.

The travel unit 2 includes a travel drive unit 2a, a cock angle drive unit 2b, a loading / unloading drive unit 2c, and a face angle drive unit 2d.

  The travel drive motor M1 rotates the travel gear 11, and the travel gear 11 travels by meshing with the chain 7 that is prevented from moving in the travel direction on the side surface of the rail 3.

The traveling unit 2 is in contact with the rail at three points, horizontally and vertically, by rollers 12 and 13, respectively, and is guided on the rail 3.

In order to run the traveling unit 2 , a method of pulling with a chain or rope with a motor fixed to a rail like an elevator may be used, but in the embodiment, the turning point and the end point are set to 180 degrees or more with respect to the start point, respectively. For ease of travel, the travel drive motor M1 is mounted on the travel unit 2 , and the chain 7 has a ring shape with no end.

The motor M2 rotates the table 20 to rotate the loading / unloading drive unit 2c attached to the table 20 via the hinge 21, thereby controlling the cock angle during the swing.

The motor M3 drives the pulley 34 to rotate, drives the timing belt 32 whose both ends are fixed to the slider 31, and the slider 31 reciprocates on the slider guide 30, thereby controlling the insertion and removal of the shaft 37 during the swing. .

There are various types of linear drive devices such as a screw method, but in the embodiment, belt drive is used for the purpose of teaching and simplification of the structure that the player forcibly moves the shaft 37 with the motor free.

  The slider guide 30 is attached to the table 20 via a hinge 21.

The hinge 21 is provided to make the vertical angle between the player P's arm and the shaft 37 unreasonable. Although this angle also changes during the swing, since it is sufficient if the angle at the starting point of the swing is 180 ° or less, it is only necessary to move freely. Yes.

The motor M4 that rotationally drives the shaft 37 rotates the shaft 37 via the coupling 36 to control the face angle during the swing.

  Each of the motors M1 to M4 is a stepping motor and can control a rotation position determined by the number of pulses output from the control output and a rotation speed determined by the pulse output frequency.

  In the embodiment, each of the motors M1 to M4 needs to be positioned at a variable speed, has a simple configuration, and does not apply excessive force to the player's body due to excessive holding force. A stepping motor with a built-in absolute encoder that exhibits the minimum holding force necessary for driving is used. However, in addition to a servo motor, a combination of a position detecting means such as a variable speed motor and a rotary encoder may be used.

Next, how to use the apparatus from creation of swing data will be described together with the configuration of the control system.

FIG. 5 is a control block diagram of this apparatus. The operation is performed from an operation touch panel 50 in which a display and an operation panel are integrated.

The swing data is created using a separate personal computer or the like, and is input to the data storage unit 52 of the swing practice device 1 .

6 from one continuous degradation photo professional player's swing is obtained by extracting only the state of the club 61 on decomposition photographs to set the common reference point 60 placed in the background.

FIG. 7 shows a circle 62 in which clubs 61 extracted with the same reference point 60 are overlapped so that all clubs intersect and the center 64 coincides with the center of the rail 3 of the present apparatus.

FIG. 8 shows the rotation angle of the straight line 63 with the swing start point 65 as 0 at the intersection of the circle 62 and the club 61 obtained in FIG. 7 and the center 64 of the circle 62 connected by the straight line 63. The travel position was measured, and the inclination angle of the club with respect to the straight line 63 at each travel position was measured as the cock angle, and the length from the intersection of the circle 62 and the club 61 to the rear end of the club 61 (the dimension of the solid line portion) was taken in and out . Each value is filled in.

Travel position, cock angle measured above, the value of out dimension, with a positive or negative sign to the driving direction of the respective values of the swing starting point 65 as 0, the running of the cock angle drive unit 2b and the out drive unit 2c The target value at the position is input to the data storage unit 52 .

  As for the face angle, the ideal value is almost the same depending on the swing shape, and therefore measurement is omitted in the embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a transition example associated with the operation of the operation touch panel 50 of the swing practice device 1 .

The operator presses the shot type button 81 on the initial screen 80a when the apparatus is turned on to switch to the swing type selection screen 80b, and presses any of the swing type buttons 81a to 81f to store the swing type to be experienced in the data storage. At the same time, the screen returns to the start screens 80a to 80f in which the swing type button is replaced with the swing type selected.

When the operator mode Press the set button 83 on the touch panel 50 or the starting point return command footswitch 40 players P I step, the traveling unit 2 is moved to a predetermined swing start point 65, the drive units on the traveling unit 2 2a to 2d are positioned in a predetermined swing start state.

After the player P has prepared holds the shaft 37 poised in a form indicated by dashed lines in FIGS. 1 and 2, when the operator or player P presses the start button 84 of the operation touch panel 50 steps on the start command footswitch 41 The traveling unit 2 performs a backswing at the set speed, switches to a downswing at the turning point, passes through the start point, and stops at the end point of the follow swing.

Motors of the drive portions 2a~2d of the traveling unit 2, forms a swing by being a call successively positioning operation target value corresponding to the traveling direction and the traveling position from the data storage unit 52.

After stopping at the end of follow swing, returning to paragraph [0049].

When the continuous button 86 that performs the alternate operation is turned on before the start button 84 is pressed, the button display becomes a continuous operation mode of black and white reverse display, and the set button 83 is automatically turned on after stopping at the end of the follow swing, and the drive unit 2a After ˜2d returns to the swing start point 65 , the start button 84 is automatically turned on, and the swing operation is repeated until the stop button 85 is pressed.

When the manual switching button 87 is pressed in a state where it has not started, the screen changes to the manual operation screen 81d, and the motors M1 to M4 of the corresponding driving units 2a to 2d can be rotated while the motor buttons 88a to 88h are pressed. Pressing the automatic switching button 89 returns to the start screen.

  In the present invention, the club is described as a golf club. However, the present invention can be applied not only to a ball game such as a baseball bat and a tennis racket but also to a movement of a boat oar.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Swing practice apparatus 2 Traveling unit 2a Traveling drive part 2b Cock angle drive part 2c Taking in / out drive part 2d Face angle drive part 3 Rail 4 Rail holding material 5 Support 6 Base frame
20 tables
21 Hinge
30 Slider guide
31 Slider 37 shaft 40 Start point return command foot switch 41 Start command foot switch 50 Operation touch panel 60 Club operation reference point 61 Club on exploded view
62 yen
63 Straight line 64 Rail center 65 Swing start point P Player

Claims (1)

A shaft 37 is incorporated, and in order to control the movement of the shaft 37, a face angle drive unit 2d for rotating the shaft 37, a loading / unloading drive unit 2c for moving the shaft 37 in the axial direction, and the shaft 37 as a swing plane Having a cock angle drive unit 2b that is inclined along parallel planes,
The traveling unit 2 equipped with the driving units 2b, 2c, and 2d travels on a ring-shaped rail 3 assuming a swing plane, and the driving units 2b, 2c, and 2d operate the shaft 37 in synchronization with the movement. Have a device configuration
The control unit 51 in the travel unit 2 drives the travel unit 2 using the swing data input to the data storage unit 52 as the travel position of the travel unit 2, the cock angle of the shaft 37, the face angle, and the target value of the in / out dimensions. It controls the travel drive unit 2a, the face angle drive unit 2d, the loading / unloading drive unit 2c, and the cock angle drive unit 2b ,
Extracting the moving state of the club from the continuous disassembled photograph of the swing of the professional player and making it the swing data;
In addition, the motor M <b> 2 rotates the table 20 to rotate the loading / unloading drive unit 2 c attached to the table 20 via the hinge 21 to control the cock angle during the swing. Swing exercise device.