Exercise monitoring device

US4408183A · kind A · utility

Inventor

• Thomas A. Wills · Philadelphia, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 6, 1977
• Grant date: Oct 4, 1983
• Expiry date: Jun 6, 1997

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S482/901
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A display device is coordinated with a keyboard which permits a preselection of time and effort to be spent in a given repetitive physical exercise. The display graphically compares the elapsed time on a scale of total time to be taken with proportion of the total repetitions of exercise performed on a comparable scale representative of total repetition to the exercise. Thus, the display shows the relative pace of the exerciser so that the person doing the exercise can see whether or not he is keeping up the pace which he has set for himself. A preferred display uses adjacent parallel bar graphs which progressively become visible as time expires and the exercise is performed to permit a direct comparison of the bar graphs. A suitable computation device sets the bar graph scales in accordance with the keyboard inputs. A pickup transducer of appropriate type is used to display the proportional part of the repetitive exercise already done and is coordinated to start with the display real time on appropriate scale for the total elapsed time selected which corresponds exactly with the scale showing total number of repetitions to be completed in that time.