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Granted Patent B2
US 10,500,442 · App. 15/542,217 · Granted Dec 10, 2019

Actuator and exercise equipment using same

Inventors: Yoon Shik Hong (Daejeon, KR); Sung Nam Oh (Seoul, KR); Han Jong Ju (Daejeon, KR); Hyun Soo Park (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: MICROAUTOMATION CO., LTD.
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Patent No.
US 10,500,442
App. No.
15/542,217
Granted
Dec 10, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An actuator and an exercise equipment using the same are disclosed. The exercise equipment comprises a post which is a main body of the exercise equipment, a shoulder installed on an upper side of the post and rotates in left and right direction, an arm combined with the shoulder and rotates in up and down direction, a hand combined with one terminal of the arm and rotates by using the arm as an axis, a handle located on one terminal side of the hand, a force control actuator outputs a force corresponding to weight set by a user, and a wire passes via plural sheaves included in the hand, the shoulder and the post and deliver a force generated by pulling of the handle, one terminal of the wire being connected to the handle.

Claims (39)

1. An exercise equipment comprising:

a post which is a main body of the exercise equipment;

a shoulder installed on an upper side of the post and configured to rotate in left and right directions;

an arm combined with the shoulder and configured to rotate in up and down directions;

a hand combined with one terminal of the arm and configured to rotate by using the arm as an axis;

a handle located on one terminal side of the hand;

a force control actuator configured to output a force corresponding to a weight set by a user; and

a wire configured to pass via plural sheaves included in the hand, the shoulder and the post and deliver a force generated by pulling of the handle, one terminal of the wire being connected to the handle,

wherein the post includes a fixing sheave block fixed in the post, an upper part moving sheave block located below the fixing sheave block and a lower part moving sheave connected to a lower part of the upper part moving sheave block,

wherein the wire passes via the fixing sheave block by one or more times and passes via the upper part moving sheave block by one or more times, and a belt of the force control actuator passes via the lower part moving sheave,

wherein

the hand includes plural fixing sheaves, and

the wire passes through the arm and is connected to the handle via the fixing sheave, and

wherein

the wire passes via at least one fixing sheave according to a direction in which the handle is pulled,

the fixing sheaves includes a first fixing sheave passed firstly by the wire passing through the arm and a second fixing sheave adjacent to the first fixing sheave,

a diameter of the second fixing sheave is smaller than a diameter of the first fixing sheave, and

the diameter of the second fixing sheave has a predetermined distance from a rotation axis of the hand in order to have an offset centering on the rotation axis of the hand.

2. An exercise equipment comprising:

a post which is a main body of the exercise equipment;

a shoulder installed on an upper side of the post and configured to rotate in left and right directions;

an arm combined with the shoulder and configured to rotate in up and down directions;

a hand combined with one terminal of the arm and configured to rotate by using the arm as an axis;

a handle located on one terminal side of the hand;

a force control actuator configured to output a force corresponding to a weight set by a user; and

a wire configured to pass via plural sheaves included in the hand, the shoulder and the post and deliver a force generated by pulling of the handle, one terminal of the wire being connected to the handle,

wherein the post includes a fixing sheave block fixed in the post, an upper part moving sheave block located below the fixing sheave block and a lower part moving sheave connected to a lower part of the upper part moving sheave block,

wherein the wire passes via the fixing sheave block by one or more times and passes via the upper part moving sheave block by one or more times, and a belt of the force control actuator passes via the lower part moving sheave,

wherein

the arm and the shoulder are combined by a first pin having a hollow shaft and the arm rotates in up and down directions on the first pin,

an up angle or a down angle of the arm is fixed by inserting a clamp into fixing holes formed respectively in a specific angle space on the arm and the shoulder,

the shoulder is combined with the post by using a second pin having a hollow shaft and rotates in left and right directions, and

a left angle or a right angle of the shoulder is fixed by inserting a clamp into fixing holes formed respectively in a specific angle space on the shoulder and an upper side of the post,

wherein the shoulder includes a first fixing sheave, a second fixing sheave and a third fixing sheave, and

wherein

the first fixing sheave is inserted by the first pin,

a radius of the first fixing sheave is matched with an offset of a wire passing vertically from a rotation axis of the arm and the shoulder,

the wire passes, from the post, the first fixing sheave via a lower part of the second fixing sheave after passing via an upper part of the third fixing sheave through the hollow shaft of the second pin, and

a path of the wire wound on the upper part of the third fixing sheave through the hollow shaft of the second pin matches with a rotation axis of the shoulder.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 7, 2017
From: HONG, YOON SHIK; OH, SUNG NAM; JU, HAN JONG; PARK, HYUN SOO
To: MICROAUTOMATION CO., LTD.
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Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2015-0002003 · Jan 7, 2015 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170361166A1 · Dec 21, 2017
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