KR20210103127A - Trouble self-diagnosing system for fitness equipment - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a self-failure diagnosis system for fitness equipment and, more specifically, to a self-failure diagnosis system for fitness equipment, which self-diagnoses whether the fitness equipment is malfunctioning when a failure occurs, thereby easily performing measures and repairs according to the failure. According to the present invention, the self-failure diagnosis system comprises: fitness equipment operated by a driving unit which performs reciprocation by receiving power generated from a power unit receiving power from the outside to generate the power and whose operation is controlled by a control unit; a sensor unit provided in the fitness equipment and collecting physical or electrical information of the, the power unit, the driving unit, and the control unit according to the operation of the fitness equipment; a data processing unit processing the physical or electrical information measured from the sensor unit according to a preset processing method to enable fault diagnosis and outputting the processed physical or electrical information; a failure diagnosis unit comparing the processed physical or electrical information output from the data processing unit with stored reference information to determines whether a failure occurs and detecting failure location information and defective part information to generate a failure diagnosis result; and a wireless communication unit performing wireless communications by any one of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth communication methods and transmitting the fault diagnosis result generated by the fault diagnosis unit to a server unit capable of wireless connection.

Description

A self-diagnosing system for fitness equipment {Trouble self-diagnosing system for fitness equipment}

The present invention relates to a self-failure diagnosis system of a fitness equipment, and more particularly, when a failure of the fitness equipment occurs, self-diagnosis of the failure of the fitness equipment so that measures and repairs according to the failure can be easily performed. It relates to a self-failure diagnosis system.

Modern people living in cities always lack time or space to exercise due to their busy daily life and limited activity radius.

However, with the recent improvement in living standards and the widespread trend of placing importance on health, the number of people who want to exercise in the city center even in busy daily life has increased. The number of people who enjoy it has increased a lot, and fitness equipment such as a treadmill (treadmill) and a health cycle are becoming more common.

With the generalization of fitness equipment, the installation of fitness equipment is continuously increasing not only in the gym, but also at home and at work. Also, with the increase in market demand and diversification of demand due to the generalization of fitness equipment, Korean Utility Model No. 20-0348842 (far infrared rays) Aerobic exercise equipment equipped with generator), Korean Patent No. 10-1051039 (Health bike exercise equipment with exercise and game functions), Korean Patent No. 10-1233861 (Treadmill and treadmill with virtual running imaging device) As known by the driving method of the machine), fitness equipment having new and various functions is continuously being developed.

However, as the driving elements of the fitness equipment become more complex due to the addition of various functions, in addition to failures due to simple aging, failures due to causes such as electrical errors of the fitness equipment, sensor defects, and instability of the amount of electricity occur, There is a problem in that it is difficult to determine the presence or absence of a malfunction.

In addition, if it is difficult to move depending on the size of the fitness equipment, a repair technician will personally visit and determine the failure and cause of the failure. It causes time inefficiency from determining whether there is a problem to replacement and repair, and there is a problem that the economic cost is also increased.

Republic of Korea Registered Utility Model Publication No. 20-0348842 (2004.04.16.) Republic of Korea Patent Publication No. 10-1051039 (July 15, 2011) Republic of Korea Patent Publication No. 10-1233861 (2013.02.08.)

The present invention has been devised to solve the above problems, and an object of the present invention is to self-diagnose whether the fitness equipment is malfunctioning and to quickly and easily identify the cause of the failure, so that quick measures and repairs can be made according to the failure. It is to provide a self-failure diagnosis system for fitness equipment.

Objects of the present invention are not limited to the objects mentioned above, and other objects not mentioned will be clearly understood by those of ordinary skill in the art from the following description.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is operated by a driving unit for reciprocating by receiving power generated from a power unit for generating power by receiving power from the outside, and a fitness equipment whose operation is controlled by a control unit, It is provided in the fitness equipment, and a sensor unit for collecting physical information or electrical information of the power unit, the driving unit, and the control unit according to the operation of the fitness equipment, respectively, and physical information or electrical information measured from the sensor unit is broken A data processing unit that processes according to a preset processing method to enable diagnosis and outputs processed physical information or electrical information, and reference information that stores the processed physical information or electrical information output from the data processing unit in advance A fault diagnosis unit that detects fault location information and faulty parts information to generate fault diagnosis results and wireless communication is It is possible, and includes a wireless communication unit for transmitting the failure diagnosis result generated in the failure diagnosis unit to a server unit capable of wireless connection, the sensor unit is installed in the power unit of the fitness equipment, including whether the power is applied to the power unit A first sensor module that collects electrical information and physical information including the operating speed of the power unit, and is installed in the driving unit of the fitness equipment, and collects physical information including the movement direction, the number of movements, and the movement speed of the driving unit and a third sensor that is installed in the control unit of the fitness equipment and collects electrical information including whether a response to a control request signal input to the control unit and whether to respond to an operation command signal output from the control unit It is characterized in that it includes a module.

In addition, the fault diagnosis unit has a reference information DB pre-stored with reference information including physical information and electrical information during normal operation of the fitness equipment, and the processed physical information or electrical information output from the data processing unit is the A failure determination module that determines whether there is a failure by comparing it with reference information stored in the reference information DB, and a failure detection module that detects failure location information and failure parts information when the fitness equipment is determined to be defective in the failure determination module; and a fault signal generation module that generates a fault diagnosis result including fault location information and faulty part information detected by the fault detection module, and encodes the fault diagnosis result into a fault signal in the form of a wireless signal. do it with

Here, the control unit is characterized in that it controls at least one of ON/OFF, rotational driving speed, driving time, and rotational direction of the power unit.

The present invention has an advantage in that it is possible to quickly and easily identify the cause of the failure by self-diagnosing whether the fitness equipment is malfunctioning, and through this, quick measures and repairs can be made according to the failure.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a self-diagnosis system of a fitness equipment according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the self-failure diagnosis system of the fitness equipment according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the fitness equipment according to the first embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 4 is an exploded perspective view showing a part of the fitness equipment shown in Figure 3;

Advantages and features of the present invention and methods of achieving them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but will be implemented in a variety of different forms, and only these embodiments allow the disclosure of the present invention to be complete, and common knowledge in the technical field to which the present invention belongs It is provided to fully inform the possessor of the scope of the invention, and the present invention is only defined by the scope of the claims.

Detailed contents for carrying out the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings below. Irrespective of the drawings, like reference numbers refer to like elements, and "and/or" includes each and every combination of one or more of the recited items.

Although the first, second, etc. are used to describe various elements, these elements are not limited by these terms, of course. These terms are only used to distinguish one component from another. Accordingly, it goes without saying that the first component mentioned below may be the second component within the spirit of the present invention.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing the embodiments, and is not intended to limit the present invention. As used herein, the singular also includes the plural unless specifically stated otherwise in the phrase. As used herein, “comprises” and/or “comprising” does not exclude the presence or addition of one or more other components in addition to the stated components.

Unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein may be used with the meaning commonly understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention belongs. In addition, terms defined in a commonly used dictionary are not to be interpreted ideally or excessively unless clearly defined in particular.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a schematic configuration diagram of a self-failure diagnosis system of a fitness equipment according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1 , the self-failure diagnosis system 100 of the fitness equipment is provided in the fitness equipment 1000 operated by receiving power from the outside and self-diagnosing whether the fitness equipment 1000 is malfunctioning to determine the cause of the failure. It is a system that can easily and quickly identify 120 , a fault diagnosis unit 130 , and a wireless communication unit 140 .

Here, the fitness equipment 1000 operates the power unit 1200 for generating power by receiving external power, and the fitness equipment 1000 for reciprocating motion by receiving the power generated by the power unit 1200 . Consists of a driving unit 1300, a control unit 1400 for controlling the operation of the power unit and the driving unit, and an LCD panel or a touch panel for displaying the operating state of the fitness equipment 1000 so that the user can visually check the operation state It may be made of a conventional trade mill (treadmill) including a display unit 1500, a health cycle, a belt massager, and the like.

The sensor unit 110 is provided in the fitness equipment to collect physical information or electrical information of the power unit 1200, the driving unit 1300, and the control unit 1400 according to the operation of the fitness equipment, respectively, In this case, the sensor unit 110 may include a first sensor module 112 , a second sensor module 114 , and a third sensor module 116 , and the first sensor module 112 , the second A detailed description of the sensor module 114 and the third sensor module 116 will be described later.

The physical information or electrical information of the power unit, the driving unit 1300 and the control unit 1400 measured from the sensor unit 110 is processed according to a preset processing method to enable the data processing unit 120 to diagnose a failure. processed and output.

At this time, the processing performed by the data processing unit 120 is to convert the physical information or electrical information in the form of an analog signal measured from the sensor unit 110 into a digital signal.

Thereafter, the failure diagnosis unit 130 compares the processed physical information or electrical information output from the data processing unit 120 with the pre-stored reference information to determine whether the fitness equipment 1000 has a failure, and the When the fitness equipment 1000 is determined to be a failure, a failure diagnosis result is generated by detecting the failure location and failure parts information.

The fault diagnosis result generated by the fault diagnosis unit 130 is transmitted to the server unit 300 capable of wireless connection by the wireless communication unit 140 capable of wireless communication, and in this case, the wireless communication unit 140 is connected to Wi-Fi. (Wi-Fi) and Bluetooth (Bluetooth) any one of the communication method can transmit the fault diagnosis result to the server unit 300, preferably the server unit 300 through Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi) communication method ) to transmit the fault diagnosis result.

In this case, the wireless communication unit 140 may wirelessly access the server unit 300 through the access point 200 serving as a gateway.

The failure diagnosis result transmitted to the server unit 300 is stored in the server unit 300 and connected to the developer or repair technician server unit 300 using the terminal 400 in real time of the fitness equipment 1000. It allows you to check the fault diagnosis result.

At this time, the terminal 400 is composed of a computer or a portable terminal device. In this case, the portable terminal device is a generic term for devices that can be used while being carried, such as a smart phone or a tablet PC, and the fault diagnosis stored in the server unit 300 . Applications designed to check the results and run in a manageable way can be installed.

first embodiment

Figure 2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the self-failure diagnosis system of the fitness equipment according to the first embodiment of the present invention, Figure 3 is a perspective view of the fitness equipment according to the first embodiment of the present invention, Figure 4 is shown in Figure 3 It is an exploded perspective view showing a part of the fitness equipment.

2 to 4, the self-diagnosis system of the fitness equipment according to the first embodiment of the present invention is installed in the fitness equipment 1000 made of a trade mill (treadmill).

Specifically, the fitness equipment 1000 is formed by a frame 1100 having an upper frame 1110 and a lower frame 1130, and the inner front of the frame 1100 is powered by receiving external power. A power unit 1200 including a motor 1210 for generating is installed.

The first sensor module 112 of the sensor unit 120 is installed in the power unit 1200 , and the first sensor module 112 includes electrical information including whether power is applied to the power unit 1200 . , and physical information including the operating speed of the power unit 1200 is also collected.

* Preferably, the first sensor module 112 detects whether the external power supplied to the motor 1210 is applied, whether there is a short circuit, whether there is a short circuit, whether there is an overload, whether or not to cut it, and collects it as electrical information, and the motor The operation speed of 1210 is measured and collected as physical information.

A driving unit 1300 that reciprocates by receiving power generated by the power unit 1200 is provided in the central portion of the frame 1100, and preferably, the driving unit 1300 includes a driving pulley 1311, a driven pulley ( 1312 ), a transmission belt 1313 , a front roller 1320 , a rear roller 1330 and a running belt 1340 .

The front roller 1320 installed in front of the central portion of the frame 1100 rotates in one direction by receiving power from the motor 1210 provided in the power unit 1200 in a belt-pulley manner, and specifically, on a rotating shaft. The driven pulley 1311 and the driven pulley 1312 axially coupled to the central axis of the front roller 1320 installed in the It is transferred to the front roller 1320 .

In addition, the running belt 1340 is wound around the front roller 1320 and the rear roller 1330 installed at the rear of the frame 1100, and as the front roller 1320 rotates, the running belt 1340 ) is allowed to perform endless orbital rotational motion, and at this time, a rolling plate 1120 for supporting the user's load may be installed inside the running belt 1340 .

Accordingly, the driving unit 1300 is operated by power, and as a user's load is applied, there is a high probability of failure due to wear, deterioration, and separation of parts, so that the sensor unit 11 is installed in the driving unit 1300. ) of the second sensor module 114 is installed.

The second sensor module 114 collects physical information including the motion direction, the number of motions, and the motion speed of the driving unit, and preferably, the second sensor module 114 is composed of a plurality of optical sensors and the transmission belt 1313 and the running belt 1340 measure the displacement difference according to the respective rotational motion, and convert the measured displacement difference in the motion direction, the number of motions, and the motion speed to the power belt 1313 and the running belt ( 1340) is collected as physical information including each movement direction, number of movement, and movement speed.

In this case, the second sensor module 114 may include a microcomputer (not shown) in order to convert the displacement difference according to the motion of the driving unit to the motion direction, the number of motions, and the motion speed.

On the other hand, a control unit 1400 for controlling the operation of the power unit 1200 is provided at the inner front side of the frame 1100 , and the control unit 1400 controls ON/OFF of the motor 1210 . , as a part for controlling the rotational driving speed, driving time, rotational direction, etc., the operating state of the fitness equipment 1000 is displayed, and can be connected to the display unit 1500 made of a touch panel to enable input of a control command. .

Accordingly, the third sensor module 116 of the sensor unit 110 is installed in the control unit 1400 to determine whether a control request signal input to the control unit 1400 is responsive and an operation output from the control unit 1400 . Collects electrical information including whether the command signal is responsive or not.

On the other hand, the data processing unit 120, the fault diagnosis unit 130, and the wireless communication unit 140 are provided inside the frame 1100, and preferably installed on the side of the control unit 1400 from the inside front as well. .

The data processing unit 120 is an A/D conversion module (not shown) that converts the physical information or electrical information of the fitness equipment 1000 collected by the sensor unit 110 from an analog signal form to a digital signal form (not shown) may include.

In addition, the failure diagnosis unit 130 compares the processed physical information or electrical information output from the data processing unit 120 with reference information stored in advance to determine whether there is a failure, failure location information and failure parts In order to detect information and generate a failure diagnosis result, as shown in FIG. 2 , a failure determination module 132 , a failure detection module 134 , and a failure signal generation module 136 are included.

The failure determination module 132 has a reference information DB (not shown) in which reference information including physical information and electrical information during normal operation of the fitness equipment 1000 is stored in advance, and stored in the reference information DB in advance. The physical information or electrical information processed through the reference information and the data processing unit 120 is compared to determine whether the fitness equipment 1000 is malfunctioning.

In the failure determination module 132, when the fitness equipment 1000 is determined to be a failure, the failure detection module 134 provides information on the failure location and failure parts of the fitness equipment 1000, that is, failure location information and The faulty part information is detected, and the faulty location information and faulty part information detected by the fault detection module 134 are processed into a fault diagnosis result by the fault signal generating module 136, and then in the wireless communication unit 140 It is converted into a fault signal that can be transmitted wirelessly.

In other words, the failure signal generation module 136 generates the failure diagnosis result including the failure location information and failure parts information of the fitness equipment 1000, and encodes the failure diagnosis result to the wireless communication unit 140 It is converted into a fault signal in the form of a wireless signal so that wireless transmission is possible.

At this time, the failure diagnosis result generated by the failure signal generating module 136 may be displayed on the display unit of the fitness equipment 1000 so that the user of the fitness equipment 1000 can also check it.

On the other hand, the system 100 is electrically connected to the fitness equipment 1000, preferably the system 100 is a part of the external power supplied to the power unit 1200 of the fitness equipment 1000 It may include a power supply unit (not shown) for supplying power to the system 100 to be supplied.

More preferably, a battery module (not shown) is provided in the power supply unit (not shown) so that a part of the external power supplied to the power supply unit (not shown) is charged, so that when an electrical failure of the fitness equipment 1000 occurs, the It may be used as an emergency power source or a standby power source for operating the system 100 .

Although embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the above and the accompanying drawings, those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains can practice the present invention in other specific forms without changing its technical spirit or essential features. You will understand that there is Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described above are illustrative in all respects and not restrictive.

100: self-failure diagnosis system
110: sensor unit
112: first sensing module
114: second sensing module
116: third sensing module
120: data processing unit
130: fault diagnosis unit
132: fault determination module
134: fault detection module
136: fault signal generation module
140: wireless communication unit
200: access point
300: server unit
400: terminal
1000: fitness equipment
1100 : frame
1200: power unit
1300: drive unit
1400: control unit
1500: display unit

Claims (3)

A fitness equipment that receives power from the outside and receives power generated from a power unit for generating power and operates by a driving unit for reciprocating motion, the operation of which is controlled by the control unit;
a sensor unit provided in the fitness equipment, each of which collects physical information or electrical information of the power unit, the driving unit, and the control unit according to the operation of the fitness equipment;
a data processing unit for processing the physical information or electrical information measured from the sensor unit according to a preset processing method to enable fault diagnosis, and outputting the processed physical information or electrical information;
a failure diagnosis unit that compares the processed physical information or electrical information output from the data processing unit with reference information stored in advance to determine whether there is a failure, and detects failure location information and defective part information to generate a failure diagnosis result; and
A wireless communication unit capable of wireless communication using any one of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth communication methods, and transmitting the fault diagnosis result generated by the fault diagnosis unit to a server unit capable of wireless connection; and ,
The sensor unit,
A first sensor module that is installed in the power unit of the fitness equipment and collects electrical information including whether the power unit is powered on and physical information including the operating speed of the power unit;
a second sensor module installed in the driving unit of the fitness equipment and collecting physical information including the movement direction, the number of movements, and the movement speed of the driving unit;
It is installed in the control unit of the fitness equipment, characterized in that it comprises a third sensor module for collecting electrical information including whether the response of the control request signal input to the control unit and whether the response of the operation command signal output from the control unit A self-failure diagnosis system for fitness equipment. The method of claim 1,
The fault diagnosis unit,
It has a reference information DB in which reference information including physical information and electrical information during normal operation of the fitness equipment is stored, and the processed physical information or electrical information output from the data processing unit is stored in the reference information DB in advance. a failure determination module that determines whether there is a failure by comparing it with reference information;
When the fitness equipment is determined to be a failure in the failure determination module, a failure detection module for detecting failure location information and failure parts information;
and a fault signal generation module that generates a fault diagnosis result including fault location information and faulty part information detected by the fault detection module, and encodes the fault diagnosis result into a fault signal in the form of a wireless signal. A self-failure diagnosis system for fitness equipment.
The method of claim 1,
The control unit is
Self-failure diagnosis system of a fitness equipment, characterized in that controlling at least one of ON/OFF (OFF), rotational driving speed, driving time, and rotation direction of the power unit.

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