KR200342381Y1 - Apparatus for reform and recycle in a running machine - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention allows the user to perform posture correction while directly watching his or her stride, foot shape, foot angle, and foot shape, stride length and foot angle displayed for correction through a monitor. The present invention relates to a rehabilitation and correction device in a treadmill that allows a person with a disability or rehabilitation therapist who feels uncomfortable due to manual operation to easily operate the treadmill alone.

The present invention displays a preset calibration level when posture correction is selected, sets a calibration value corresponding to a specific level when selected, and sets a calibration foot corresponding to the calibration value when the start key is operated. It displays the shape on the monitor, and when the user starts walking, it detects the user's foot through the sensor unit, and processes the detected user's foot image by superimposing the image on the corrected foot shape displayed on the monitor. The similarity is determined by comparing the calibration foot shape data with the foot detection signal of the user. If the result is similar, an alarm sound is sent and the calibration method is displayed on the monitor as a text message.

Description

Apparatus for reform and recycle in a running machine}

The present invention relates to a rehabilitation and orthodontic device in a treadmill, especially when a person with a disability or a rehabilitation using a treadmill for orthodontic treatment is corrected while watching their stride, foot shape, foot angle, etc. directly on the monitor. The present invention relates to a rehabilitation and orthodontic device in a treadmill that can assist in overcoming disability and rehabilitation treatment by performing treatment.

More specifically, when a person with a disability or rehabilitation using a treadmill performs orthodontic treatment, the monitor corrects the user's stride, foot shape, foot angle, and foot shape, stride length, and foot angle displayed for correction. The present invention relates to a rehabilitation and calibration device in a treadmill that enables a person with a disability or rehabilitation therapist who feels inconvenient in manual operation to easily operate the treadmill by himself. .

In general, the treadmill is an exercise device designed to allow walking running indoors, and in recent years, its use has been increased due to the importance of aerobic exercise.

Such a general treadmill includes a running belt, a driving device for transferring the running belt, a control means for controlling the driving device, and an indicator for displaying speed, time, calories burned, and distance according to a level selected by a user. And the like.

Among them, the driving device includes a plurality of rollers for supporting the running belt and a motor for driving the rollers, and the control means includes a control panel associated with the motor.

This general treadmill allows the belt to move by the user operating the motor through the control panel, and then climbs on the belt to get the movement effect by walking or jumping at the speed of the belt.

As it is known, the general treadmill is designed from the ground up for the normal person, which helps the normal person perform aerobic exercise such as walking or running. However, many people with disabilities or rehabilitation use treadmills for the purpose of treatment or rehabilitation.In this case, the general treadmills are developed for normal people. There was a lack of functionality to get the effect.

In this regard, the present invention is proposed to solve the deficiency of the treatment effect that occurs when a disabled or a rehabilitation person uses a general treadmill as described above.

The purpose of the present invention is to assist in overcoming rehabilitation and rehabilitation treatment by having the treadmill, foot rehabilitation, foot angle, foot angle, and the like corrective treatment by using a treadmill. It is to provide a rehabilitation and correction device in a treadmill to give.

More specifically, when a person with a disability or rehabilitation using a treadmill performs orthodontic treatment, the monitor corrects the user's stride, foot shape, foot angle, and foot shape, stride length, and foot angle displayed for correction. It provides a rehabilitation and calibration device in a treadmill that enables the treadmill and the rehabilitation therapist to easily operate the treadmill by himself or herself. Its purpose is to.

"Rehabilitation and calibration device in a treadmill" according to the present invention for achieving the above object,

In a conventional running machine having a running belt, a guide plate for supporting a load of a user, a motor and a roller for transferring the running belt,

A key input unit for inputting a calibration function, level selection, time, etc .;

A sensor unit provided at a predetermined position of the guide plate and provided with a plurality of detection sensors for detecting the shape and angle of the user's foot when the user walks or runs on the running belt;

A signal processing unit for processing the sensing signal output from the sensor unit into a signal that can be recognized by a microprocessor;

A remote control receiver for receiving infrared rays transmitted from the remote control when the user uses the remote control;

An interface unit for processing the remote control signal received by the remote control receiver into a signal recognizable by the microprocessor;

The function is determined by a signal input through the key input unit or the interface unit, and during the calibration function, the display unit controls the display of the standard foot angle and stride length corresponding to the calibration level selected by the user, and the user's foot detection signal output from the signal processor. A microprocessor for controlling a display of a corresponding image, comparing the foot detection signal with an angle and a stride of a foot set corresponding to the calibration level, and controlling an alarm sound generation control and a display of a calibration character according to the result;

A memory coupled to the microprocessor and storing foot angle and stride data corresponding to a calibration level;

In response to an image display control signal output from the microprocessor, a foot shape having a foot angle and a stride length corresponding to a calibration level is displayed on a monitor, and a foot shape having a foot angle and a stride length of a user detected by a sensor unit is corrected. An image signal processing unit for superimposing the level-shaped screen on the monitor and displaying the corrected character data output from the microprocessor on a screen of the monitor;

And an alarm sound generator configured to generate an alarm sound and transmit the sound to a speaker in response to the alarm sound generation control signal output from the microprocessor.

1 is a perspective view of a treadmill to which the present invention is applied,

2A and 2B are partial perspective views of the guide plate and the belt of FIG. 1,

Figure 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the rehabilitation and calibration device in the treadmill according to the present invention,

4a to 4c is a screen configuration diagram of the shape (angle) of the user displayed on the monitor in the present invention,

5 is a flowchart illustrating a rehabilitation and calibration operation using a treadmill in the present invention.

<Explanation of symbols for the main parts of the drawings>

102 ..... Remote control receiver

104 ..... Sensor

106 .... Microprocessor

108 ..... Monitor

110 ..... Alarm sound generator

114 ..... Belt

114a ..... Porous Belt

115 ..... Information board

115a ..... Pressure sensor

115b ..... light sensor

Hereinafter, described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, preferred embodiments of the present invention according to the technical spirit as described above.

1 is a perspective view of a treadmill to which the present invention is applied.

Here, reference numeral 100 denotes a treadmill, reference numeral 108 denotes a monitor that displays the shape of the calibration foot, and displays the angle and the stride length of the detected user's foot, and reference numeral 112 denotes an operation panel provided in a general treadmill. Reference numeral 113 denotes a handle, and reference numeral 114 denotes a belt which is a part which comes into contact with the user's foot when the user actually walks or runs.

The treadmill 100 to which the present invention configured as described above is applied includes a calibration function using a remote control carried by a user (a handicapped person or a rehabilitation person performing treatment with a treadmill) or selecting a calibration function provided on the operation panel 112. If selected, the controller recognizes this and displays the foot shape for the calibration level selected by the user on the monitor 108.

Thereafter, when the user starts walking, the user's foot is detected by a sensor provided at a predetermined position of the guide plate (in the belt) to realize an image of the foot shape, and the detected foot shape image is formed according to the correction level. Superimposed on the screen and displayed on the monitor 108.

Then, while walking, the user determines how he / she is walking through the monitor, and by correcting the walking posture by viewing the screen, the user helps the posture correction during the disability or rehabilitation treatment.

In addition, by comparing the foot shape data corresponding to the correction level and the detected foot shape data, if not similar, an alarm sound is generated so that the user can easily recognize his or her walking posture incorrectly. Then, the user looks at the shape of the foot displayed on the monitor, and corrects the posture by identifying the wrong point such as the angle of the foot or the stride length.

2A and 2B are partial perspective views of the guide plate 115 and the belt 114 of FIG. 1.

First, in the case of FIG. 2A, a plurality of pressure sensors 115a are installed at predetermined positions of the guide plate 115, and when the user starts walking on the belt 114, the user presses the pressure to detect the angle and the length of the user's foot shape by the pressure. That's the way.

In the case of FIG. 2B, when the optical sensor 115b is installed at a predetermined position of the guide plate 115, and the user starts walking on the porous belt 114a, light transmission and reflection are detected to detect the angle of the foot shape of the user. This is a way of detecting stride length.

In practice, only one of the two methods is applied to the production, and hereinafter, it is assumed that the product is implemented only in the manner as shown in FIG. 2A.

Figure 3 is a block diagram showing the configuration of "rehabilitation and calibration device in a treadmill" according to the present invention.

Here, reference numeral 101 is provided in the operation panel 112 to indicate a key input unit for inputting a calibration function, level selection, time, and the like, and reference numeral 104 is provided at a predetermined position of the guide plate 115 to allow the user to enter. When walking or running on the running belt 114 indicates a sensor unit having a plurality of detection sensors 115a for detecting the shape and angle of the user's foot, etc. Reference numeral 105 is an output from the sensor unit 104. Represents a signal processing unit for processing the detected signal as a signal that can be recognized by the microprocessor 106, reference numeral 102 is a remote control for receiving the infrared rays transmitted from the remote control 200 when the user uses the remote control 200 Receiving unit, reference numeral 103 is a signal that can be recognized by the microprocessor 106 the remote control signal received from the remote control receiver 102 Represents the interface unit to process.

In addition, reference numeral 106 determines a function by a signal input through the key input unit 101 or the interface unit 103, and controls the display of the standard foot angle and stride length corresponding to the calibration level selected by the user during the calibration function. And controlling the display of the image corresponding to the foot detection signal of the user output from the signal processing unit 105, comparing the foot detection signal with the angle and the stride of the foot set corresponding to the correction level, and alarming according to the result. The microprocessor controls the generation control and the display of the calibration character. Reference numeral 109 denotes a memory connected to the microprocessor 106 and storing the foot angle and the stride data corresponding to the calibration level.

In addition, reference numeral 107 displays on the monitor 108 a foot shape having a foot angle and stride length corresponding to a calibration level in response to an image display control signal output from the microprocessor 106, and at the sensor unit 104, A foot shape having the detected user's foot angle and stride length is superimposed on the foot level screen for the calibration level and displayed on the monitor 108, and the correction character data output from the microprocessor 106 is displayed on the monitor 108. An image signal processing unit is displayed on the screen, and reference numeral 110 denotes an alarm sound generation unit that generates an alarm sound and transmits it to the speaker 111 in response to the alarm sound generation control signal output from the microprocessor 106.

Referring to the operation of the rehabilitation and correction device in the treadmill according to the present invention configured as described in detail as follows.

Here, since the operation of the general treadmill operates in the same manner as the operation of the general treadmill described in the prior art, a detailed description thereof will be omitted, and only the rehabilitation and calibration which are the features of the present invention will be described below.

First, the user operates a calibration function key provided in the key input unit 101 provided in the operation panel 112, selects a calibration level, enters a function such as other time, presses the start key, and walks. In operation, the microprocessor 106 extracts the shape data corresponding to the calibration level selected by the user from the memory 109 and transmits the shape data to the image signal processor 107. The image signal processor 107 which receives this is displayed on the monitor 108. Here, the calibration level is different for each user, and the stride length is different according to the key. Therefore, the stride length is determined in advance to match the height.

In addition, when the user uses the remote controller 200 without using the key input unit 101, the remote controller receiver 102 receives the signal and processes the signal, and the interface unit 103 can recognize the microprocessor 106. The data is converted into data and input to the microprocessor 106. The following operations are the same as the method of manually operating a function key provided in the key input unit 101.

Next, the sensor unit 104 detects the user's foot when the user walks on the running belt 114 with the pressure sensor 115a provided at a predetermined position of the guide plate 115, and the signal processing unit 105. After processing the sensed signal in the microprocessor 106 converts it into data that can be recognized and transferred to the microprocessor 106.

Here, when the user's foot is detected by the pressure sensor 115a, the user can check the angle and position of the user's foot, thereby realizing the shape of the foot, and also knowing the user's stride length by the detection timing of the left foot and the right foot. .

The microprocessor 106 that receives the sensing data of the user's foot controls the image signal processor 107 to display an image corresponding to the foot detection signal of the user output from the signal processor 105.

4A-4C illustrate an embodiment of an image displayed on the monitor 108.

In FIGS. 4A-4C, the solid foot shape 108a is a foot shape having a standard foot angle corresponding to the level of correction selected by the user, and the dotted foot shape 108b shows the user's foot shape detected by the sensor. .

In the case of FIGS. 4A and 4B where the two foot shapes do not coincide, the user can visually identify how his posture is wrong, so the user may look at the monitor and correct the posture correctly.

In the case of FIG. 4C, the walking posture of the user is correct.

On the other hand, the microprocessor 106 determines the similarity by comparing the detected foot detection signal and the angle and stride of the foot set corresponding to the calibration level, and if the result is different, the alarm sound generation control and the calibration character. To control the display.

Here, the similarity determination of the two foot shapes may be determined by the same method as the method of determining whether two fingerprints are identical in the existing fingerprint recognition device.

Alternatively, the similarity can be determined by extracting only a few feature points and comparing the positions thereof. However, the method described below is easy to implement and the design cost is low when the product is implemented.

The alarm sound generation control signal generated when it is determined that the similarity is determined to be different from each other is input to the alarm sound generator 110, and the alarm sound generator 110 generates an alarm sound and transmits the sound to the speaker 111. This allows the user to acoustically recognize that his or her walking posture is incorrect. The user, who is aware of this, can look at the monitor to see what is wrong with him and correct his posture on his own.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a rehabilitation and calibration operation using a treadmill in the present invention.

As shown in the drawing, checking whether the calibration is selected, and if the calibration is not selected, operating as a general treadmill, and if the calibration is selected, displaying a level corresponding to a preset calibration value (S101). S103); Setting a calibration value corresponding to a specific level among the displayed levels, and displaying a calibration foot corresponding to the set calibration value on the monitor when a start key is operated (S105 to S108); Detecting a user's foot through the sensor unit when the user starts walking, and superimposing the detected user's foot image on the corrected foot shape image displayed on the monitor (S109 to S111); The degree of similarity is determined by comparing the foot shape data for correction and the foot detection signal of the user. If the result is similar, the method returns to the step of detecting the foot of the user. And displaying the method on the monitor as a text message (S112 to S116).

The rehabilitation and calibration operation using the treadmill in the present invention made as described above in more detail as follows.

First, in step S101, it is checked whether the correction function is selected. In this case, the calibration function may be input by operating a calibration function key included in the key input unit 101 or by operating a calibration function key provided in the remote controller 200.

If the check result calibration function is not selected, go to step S102 to operate as a general treadmill. In contrast, if the check result calibration function is selected, go to step S103 to increase the level corresponding to the preset calibration value. Display on the monitor 108.

Next, in step S104, it is checked whether the user has selected a level. If the level is not selected as a result of the check, the control proceeds to step S103 to display the level. In contrast, the user selects a specific level suitable for the key. In the case, the flow advances to step S105 to set a correction value corresponding to the selected level. The correction value is set in advance in the memory 109 and stored.

Next, in step S106, it is checked whether the start key is operated. If the start key is not operated as a result of the check, the process moves to step S107 and maintains a standby state. To display the calibration foot shape corresponding to the set calibration value on the monitor.

Next, in step S109, when the user starts walking, the user detects the user's foot through the sensor unit 104, and in step S110, the detected user's foot image is processed, and in step S111, the monitor 108 is displayed. The detected user foot image is superimposed on the displayed correction foot image (refer to FIGS. 4A to 4C).

Thereafter, in step S112, the degree of similarity is determined by comparing the correction foot shape data with the foot detection signal of the user. In step S113, it is determined whether they are similar to each other. If the user does not operate the end key as a result of the check, the process moves to the step S109, and the following steps are repeatedly performed until the end.

In addition, if the similarity check result is not similar, the process moves to step S114 to send an alarm sound and displays the calibration method on the monitor 108 as a text message in step S115. Then, the user checks the displayed text and corrects the walking posture accordingly.

Here, the text message for the correction method compares the corrected foot shape data with the detected foot shape data, calculates differences in the angle and position of the foot, and generates a text message for correction based on the calculated difference. To display.

For example, in the case of FIG. 4A, if a text message indicating that the user moves slightly to the left and the stride length is wider is displayed, the walking posture can be corrected.

According to the present invention as described above, when the disabled or rehabilitation of the treadmill using the treadmill to monitor their strides, foot shape, foot angle and the like displayed for correcting the foot shape, stride length, foot angle, etc. Since it can be directly confirmed, there is an effect that posture correction becomes easy.

In addition, by allowing the remote control to operate all, there is an effect that makes it easy for the disabled or rehabilitation therapist who feels inconvenient in manual operation to easily operate the treadmill alone.

Claims (3)

In a conventional treadmill having a drive device including a belt 114 in contact with a user's foot, a guide plate 115 supporting a load of the user, a motor and a roller for transporting the belt 114, A key input unit 101 for inputting a calibration function, level selection, time, etc .; A sensor unit 104 provided at a predetermined position of the guide plate 115 and provided with a plurality of sensors for detecting the shape and angle of the user's foot when the user walks or runs on the belt 114; A signal processor 105 for processing the sensed signal output from the sensor unit 104 into a signal recognizable by the microprocessor 106; A remote control receiver 102 for receiving an infrared function signal transmitted from the remote controller 200 when the user uses the remote controller 200; An interface unit 103 for processing the remote control signal received by the remote control receiver 102 into a signal recognizable by the microprocessor 106; The function is determined by a signal input through the key input unit 101 or the interface unit 103, and the display unit 105 controls the display of the angle and the stride of the standard foot corresponding to the calibration level selected by the user during the calibration function, and the signal processor 105 Control the display of the image corresponding to the foot detection signal of the user, and compares the foot detection signal with the angle and the stride of the foot set corresponding to the calibration level, and generates an alarm sound control and displays a correction character according to the result. A microprocessor 106 for controlling the; A memory 109 connected to the microprocessor 106 and storing angle and stride data of a foot corresponding to a calibration level; In response to the image display control signal output from the microprocessor 106, the angle of the foot corresponding to the correction level and the shape of the foot having the stride length are displayed on the monitor 108, and the angle of the foot of the user detected by the sensor unit 104 is detected. And displaying a foot shape having a stride length on the monitor 108 by superimposing the foot shape for the correction level on the screen, and displaying the corrected character data output from the microprocessor 106 on the screen of the monitor 108. A signal processor 107; Rehabilitation and calibration in a treadmill, characterized in that it comprises an alarm sound generating unit 110 for generating an alarm sound in response to the alarm sound generation control signal output from the microprocessor 106 to the speaker 111 Device. According to claim 1, The guide plate 115 is a treadmill, characterized in that provided with a plurality of pressure sensors (115a) for detecting the shape and angle of the user's foot by the pressure when the user walks or runs on a normal belt Rehabilitation and orthodontic device. According to claim 1, The guide plate 115 is provided with a plurality of optical sensors 115b for detecting the shape and angle of the user's foot by using light when the user walks or runs on the porous belt (114a) Rehabilitation and calibration device in the treadmill, characterized in that.