WO2011056089A1

WO2011056089A1 - Inertial exercising apparatus (variant embodiments)

Info

Publication number: WO2011056089A1
Application number: PCT/RU2009/000668
Authority: WO
Inventors: Александр Иванович ЕВТУШЕНКО
Original assignee: Evtushenko Aleksandr Ivanovich
Priority date: 2009-11-05
Filing date: 2009-12-04
Publication date: 2011-05-12

Abstract

The invention relates to the field of sport, entertainment and amusements. The inertial exercising apparatus consists of a body in the form of the lower part of a torus, wherein the toroidal surface can be of variable cross section in the form of a helix. The inertial exercising apparatus can be set into rotation about the axis thereof by a motor with a drive providing a variable and reverse speed of rotation, and is in the form of the lower part of a torus with an immoveable platform and is mounted on support wheels, at least one of which is connected to the rotational drive of the apparatus. A shaft which passes through the centre of the body platform and has doorways and a device for lifting a user onto the platform and a fire escape on the outside is mounted on the supporting surface. The body can be filled with water up to the level of the platform and the water can overflow via collectors which are interconnected spirally by means of pipes.

Description

Inertial simulator (options)

The invention relates to the field of sports, entertainment and attractions. The simulator allows you to simulate situations in which a person experiences physical exertion de facto and is forced to respond to them, performing the same actions as a surfer in a real situation on the crest, slope or "in the pipe" of a running sea wave.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION For the development of these components in an athlete, the training conditions should be as close as possible to real actions. Since the use of mechanical training devices, due to their designs, does not allow to develop an algorithm for influencing an athlete that is adequate to real conditions, it seems advisable to change the conditions of training. The change in conditions consists in the fact that training should be a set of actions aimed at the formation of power supporting structures, a certain position of which organizes the athlete's high positional stability to external influence.

This utility model is intended for use in inertial simulators described, for example, in patents RU N ^Q 85094, A63B22 / 00, publ. 07.27.2009 and 83929, A63B21 / 00, publ. 07/27/2009, which are designed to create real physical sensations on the water surface for a surfer.

So, for example, in RU N ^Q 85094 an inertial simulator is described, which comprises a housing driven in rotation from an engine with a drive providing variable rotation speed and reversing, the housing is made in the form of a lower part of the torus and is mounted on supporting wheels, according to at least one of which is associated with the drive of its rotation, an elevator shaft with doorways mounted through the center of the platform is mounted to lift the user to the platform, and a carousel is fixed on the elevator shaft, which is made with radial carriages relative to the slings, intended for attachment to the user, while the housing is configured to be filled with water and flowing through collectors connected by pipes, one of which is ted at the top of the housing wall around the perimeter of the latter, and the other - at the site.

And in RU Ns 83929 an inertial simulator is described, containing a platform on the axis, driven by a motor with a drive providing variable rotation speed and reversal, the housing is located under the platform and is made in the form of the lower part of the torus, in the center of which there is a platform axis surrounded by the platform with an inclination to the axis, while the housing is connected with an axis rotation drive, the axis of the platform is made in the form of an elevator shaft with doorways for lifting from the platform to the platform, and the body is configured to fill with water and etoka through its interconnected pipe collectors, one of which is mounted in the upper part of the housing wall and the other at the site. This decision was made as a prototype.

In well-known simulators, autovisual and muscle loads on an athlete are achieved when moving around a circle, when inertia acts on the body. Creating a "centrifugal force" causes a physical sensation, for example: movement on a mountain slope for a snowboarder. The simulator body, filled with a certain volume of water, simulates a crescent-shaped water surface during rotation. The athlete is forced to take actions: muscular efforts to lay bends, inclinations to fix the center of gravity of the body in space, etc., as a reaction to the conditions created by the simulator, simulating the selected environment. The work of the simulator is based on the presence of inertial forces of rotation, creating a field of centrifugal forces, which, due to the selected housing configuration gives the water surface the required curvature.

The disadvantage of this solution is that in the framework of training, the real conditions under which the athlete will have to perform certain technical methods cannot be achieved. This is due to the fact that when the hull rotates, water forms a relatively flat surface on the wall of the hull, which corresponds to the calm state of the water surface of the sea (ocean). It doesn’t allow waves to form on the surface, and even more so waves that would allow training in a dynamic mode, close to the real state of the sea’s water surface.

Disclosure of invention

The technical result that can be obtained by implementing the proposed device is to increase the training efficiency by creating a “traveling wave” effect on the water surface of the body of an inertial simulator, which will allow developing coordination of the athlete’s statokinetic noise immunity to external force exposure in real conditions that repeat the conditions sports competition.

The specified technical result is achieved in that the inertial simulator containing a housing in the form of a lower part of the torus, driven into rotation by an engine with a drive providing variable rotation speed and reversal, and the platform is fixed motionless relative to the shaft of the shaft with doorways for lifting from the supporting surface to the platform and the simulator is equipped with a water circulation system for filling the housing with water and for its overflow through collectors connected by pipes, one of which is mounted in the upper part of the wall case, and the other at the site, and the torus surface of the body, which is filled with water to the level of the site, is variable cross section in the form of a street, and the shaft of the shaft is made with a device for lifting the user to the site.

The technical result is more fully achieved when the inner surface of the simulator body is ribbed in the form of lagging spirals, which will allow you to change the characteristics of the wave by increasing its height, and thereby the slope of the ramp or reduce the speed of rotation of the simulator body without changing the characteristics of the wave.

The maximum technical result is achieved with the device on the simulator water circulation system, which will allow the rotation of the body of the simulator to give the wave a great height and slope up to twisting "into the pipe". To do this, we carry out the movement of water along the inner surface of the casing from the bottom and the middle to the periphery and up, creating a backwater near the site due to the constant influx of water. A water circulation system is used for water inflow, which is designed in such a way that the water, moving along the inner surface of the casing from bottom to top, is collected in the upper collector around the entire perimeter of the casing, and from there through the overflow pipes it is sent to the lower collector around the perimeter of the platform, from where, in turn, the pressure is again fed into the inside of the housing. If water from the central and lower part of the housing rises upward on the inner surface due to the acceleration of the portable movement directed towards the walls of the simulator body, then to transfer water from the upper peripheral collector to the lower collector at the site, a network of overflow pipes located on the simulator housing is used in the form leading spirals and connecting collectors to each other, which allows for the presence of karyolis inertia forces to pump water from the peripheral collector into the central zone.

These features are significant and interconnected with the formation of a stable set of essential features sufficient to obtain the desired technical result.

Description of the figures of the drawings The present invention is illustrated by the specific examples shown in FIG. 1-3. Where:

FIG. 1 - a simulator device with a water circulation system, a first embodiment;

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a body with ribs in the form of spirals

FIG. 3 - a simulator device with a water circulation system providing a counterflow is presented.

The best embodiment of the invention

The present invention is considered an inertial simulator with a water circulation system that provides the formation of waves on a water surface.

The inertial simulator contains a housing made in the form of the lower part of the torus, when the torus surface can be made of variable cross-section, for example, as a street rotating around its axis from an engine with a drive through a system of driving and driven wheels, while the housing is configured to fill with water from the water circulation system and its overflow from the collector to the collector through pipes connecting collectors, one of which is mounted in the upper part of the housing wall along the perimeter of the latter, and the other around the perimeter DKI,

Below is an example of the execution of such an inertial simulator with a water circulation system.

An inertial simulator, for example, an attraction (Fig. 1), is a bowl consisting of a housing 1 made in the form of the lower part of the torus, while the torus can be of variable cross-section along the inner working surface, for example, in the form of a street 2. The housing rotates around its axis from the motor 3, connected to the drive in the form of a variator 4 to provide rotation with a given variable speed of rotation and reverse 5, associated with the drive wheel 6 sitting on the axis 7. There may be several such drive wheels. The housing is supported by a system of driven wheels 8. The driven wheels 8, in turn, are mounted on frames 9, which are fixedly mounted on the supporting surface 10. In the center of the simulator housing 1, on the supporting surface 10, a stationary, for example elevator, passed through, for example, the center of the housing platform 11 is made shaft 12 with doorways 13 and with a device for lifting the user to a fixed platform 11, the lifting device may be an elevator (not shown or a staircase 14 mounted outside the shaft and which is used as e additional means for lifting or lowering the users: the simulator case is the lower part of the torus with the formation of a torus concave surface, which can be made of variable cross section in the form of a convolute 2 (Fig. 12), as well as the working surface of the lower part of the torus can be ribbed for example, with ribs 15 (Fig. 2) in the form of lagging spirals (with respect to the direction of rotation of the housing). The cavity of housing 1 is filled with water 16 from the simulator’s water system, but not higher than level 17 (elevation mark of platform 11). A collector 18 is located along the perimeter of the housing 1, in its upper part, and a collector 19 is located around the perimeter 11. The collectors 18 and 19 are interconnected by overflow pipes 20, through shut-off and control valves 21, providing distribution of water flows. This water circulation system may include water treatment devices (water treatment, water heating, etc.).

In this case, when the simulator’s body rotates at a certain speed around its axis, the water will evenly distribute along the surface of the toroidal body at the periphery and form a funnel in the form of a rotation paraboloid, similar to the profile of a traveling wave. In this case, we consider three characteristic points on the surface of the water layer during rotation of the simulator body, similar to a vertical centrifuge. In the car "A", the effect of rolling down is observed, since the weight force in the composition of the resulting forces is dominant. At point "B", the effect of rolling down to the periphery is observed. Between them is the boundary point "B", where the resultant of the forces is perpendicular to the free surface of the water and the effect of being on a horizontal surface appears. As can be seen from the description and figure, when the simulator body rotates, a traveling wave is formed in the form of a crescent month.

The main idea of the simulator is to create autovisual and muscle loads on the surfer that correspond to the real ones, which is achieved when the water surface is formed according to its configuration and its movement is comparable to a sea traveling wave. The main task is to create a "centrifugal force", which by its action causes the formation of a traveling wave. To increase the curvature and height of the wave, the simulator’s water circulation system is used when the pipes connecting the collectors 18 and 19 are arranged in a spiral on the housing 1.

A feature of such a simulator is that its design features allow the formation of waves simulating waves in the sea on the water surface in the hull. This effect is obtained as follows.

We bring into rotation with constant angular velocity around the vertical axis the housing 1 in the form of a bowl or lower part of the torus, filled with some volume of water. In this case, the casing should have the shape of a rotation paraboloid, so that when the paraboloid rotates with the liquid around the vertical axis with a certain angular velocity, water will be distributed on its surface with a thin layer of almost constant thickness. This will happen when the vessel rotates around the vertical axis, when the liquid experiences an acceleration of the transport movement directed towards the walls of the body, then the resultant of two forces (gravity and centrifugal force) will be directed normal to the free surface of the liquid at each point on the surface. From here: the free surface of the liquid located in the vessel uniformly rotating around its vertical axis will have the form of a paraboloid of revolution. Therefore, the water attraction has the form of an elliptical paraboloid, and the difference in levels on the periphery and in the center of the paraboloid, relative to the horizontal surface, forms a “standing wave” of considerable height.

The effect of the "traveling wave" is enhanced by giving the inner surface of the rotating vessel ribbing in the form of convex spirals such as convexities, spirally stretched along the wall of the housing. Depending on the direction of rotation of the attraction, the characteristics of the "standing wave" change. With leading spirals, the standing wave is lower, but deeper, and vice versa with lagging spirals. The wave effect is formed due to the flow of water through an obstacle from the bulges. Since the bulges are spirally arranged, a visual sensation of a “standing wave” is created.

To organize the movement of the water flow along the inner rotating surface of the casing from the bottom up (which enhances the similarity of the artificially created "traveling wave" to the ocean), the previously described water circulation system can be used. The water circulation system is designed so that the water flowing over the perimeter of the attraction along the perimeter collects in the upper collector and flows through the pipes into the lower collector, from where it in turn flows into the attraction's internal cavity. During the rotation of the casing, water formed a free surface in the form of a paraboloid, and the difference in levels relative to the horizontal surface means only the same statistically equal pressure at any point on the free surface. And if there is no pressure drop, then it can be created artificially by backwater from the lower manifold. For the movement of the water layer on the inner surface of the housing from the bottom up, it is necessary to organize the selection of water from the upper collector with its overflow through pipes into the lower collector. This is achieved by arranging the pipes connecting the collectors in the form of spirals. To obtain the opposite effect, i.e. water directions on the inner surface of the rotating housing from top to bottom, the pipes are arranged in the order of lagging spirals. Well, if the overflow pipes are placed along the meridians, then the water circulation system will not work. Reducing or increasing the curvature of the spiral due to the displacement of the ends of the pipes relative to the collectors (the pipes are not rigid), as well as the use of shut-off and control valves, will evenly distribute water throughout the entire inner surface of the casing even when its surface is made in the form of a snitch (one part turn screw). If necessary, the ejection of water to the inner surface of the housing can not be provided evenly, depending on the planned trick or obtaining the desired effect, namely, by regulating the flow of water from the pipes using shut-off and control valves, namely increasing or decreasing the water supply to the surface area of the working surface corps.

Industrial applicability

The present invention is industrially applicable, can be implemented using known technologies for the construction of sports facilities.

Claims

Claim

1. Inertial simulator containing a housing in the form of a lower part 5 of the torus, driven into rotation by an engine with a drive providing variable rotation speed and reversal, and the platform is fixed motionless relative to the shaft of the shaft with doorways for lifting from the supporting surface to the platform, and the simulator is equipped with water-circulation system for filling the housing with water and flowing it through the collectors connected by pipes, one of which is mounted in the upper part of the housing wall, and the other at the site, characterized in that The torus surface of the body, which is filled with water to the level of the site, is made of variable cross section in the form of a street, and the shaft of the shaft is made with a device for lifting the user to the site.

15 2. Inertial simulator containing a housing in the form of a lower part of the torus, driven into rotation by an engine with a drive providing variable rotation speed and reversal, and the platform is fixed motionless relative to the shaft of the shaft with doorways for lifting from the supporting surface to the platform, and the simulator is equipped with water circulation system 0 for filling the housing with water and flowing it through collectors connected by pipes, one of which is mounted in the upper part of the housing wall, and the other at the site, characterized in that Torus surface of the housing, which is filled with water to a level platform, is provided with ribs in the form of spirals lagging with respect to the preferential rotation direction 5 the housing, wherein the shaft is configured with the device user lifting the platform.

3. An inertial simulator containing a housing in the form of a lower part of a torus driven by rotation from an engine with a drive providing variable rotation speed and reversal, and the platform is fixed 0 motionless relative to the shaft of the shaft with doorways for lifting from the supporting surface to the platform, and the simulator is equipped with a water circulation system for filling the casing with water and flowing it through manifolds interconnected by pipes, one of which is mounted in the upper part of the housing wall, and the other at the site, characterized in that the pipes of the water circulation system are located on the housing in the form of leading spirals and are configured to supply water countercurrently to the direction of water flowing from the collector to the upper parts of the housing wall into the collector at the site.