This application claims priority to Taiwan Application Serial Number 104105372, filed Feb. 16, 2015 and Taiwan Application Serial Number 104129031, filed Sep. 2, 2015, which is herein incorporated by references.
Technical Field
The present disclosure relates to an exercising device. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to an exercising device with swinging function and the operating method thereof.
Description of Related Art
Because of the popularization of health, exercise becomes more and more important for modern people. Besides the outdoor exercise, like running, riding bike, and playing ball, people would like to go to the gym to do the muscle training so as to improve the blood circulating, the metabolism, and the body health. However, the acceptant exercising strength is different from each person and the health status of each person is also different. Therefore, the usage of the exercising device is limited. Some people develop a simple swinging device to decrease the difficulty of exercise and thus everyone can use the device easily.
The conventional swinging device includes a platform and at least one swinging unit for swinging the platform. When people stand on the platform, the human body can swing along with the platform and the muscle in body will be vibrated because of the swinging motion. Thus the exercise effect is achieved. Because there is no complicated step to use the swinging device and the only thing has to do before using is standing on the platform, the swinging device is very popular for old men and children.
But there is still a limitation of the swinging device. Physically challenged persons, or people who are unable to stand and have to lie on the bed cannot stand on the platform to use the swinging device. They can only do some simple stretching exercising by others' assistance so that the body will become weaker and weaker. Besides, some old people or patients having vertigo cannot have their necks hake for a long time and become another group that cannot stand on the platform to use the swinging device.
To solve the aforementioned problem, inventor invents an exercising device and the operating method thereof. The mode of the exercising device can be changed corresponding to a human body, and the swinging amplitude of the exercising device can be changed corresponding to the linear position of the exercising device. Thus the advantages of exercise strength adjusting and easy usage are achieved.
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, an operating method of an exercising device includes a linear moving step and a swinging step. The linear moving step includes providing a rail pivotally disposed at a base by at least one pivoting point and moving a swinging bed or a swinging chair movably disposed on the rail for a linear movement. The swinging step changes an angle between the rail and the base to make the rail moving along a swinging path reciprocatedly.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, an exercising device includes a base, a rail, a swinging chair, and a swinging unit. The rail is pivotally disposed at the base by at least one pivoting point. The swinging chair is movably disposed on the rail. The swinging unit is disposed between the rail and the base. The swinging unit is for changing an angle between the rail and the base.
According to further another aspect of the present disclosure, an exercising device for a human to lie includes a base, a rail, a swinging bed, and a swinging unit. The rail is pivotally disposed at the base by at least one pivoting point. The swinging bed is movably disposed on the rail. The swinging unit is disposed between the rail and the base. The swinging unit is for changing an angle between the rail and the base.
According to yet another aspect of the present disclosure, an exercising device includes a base, a rail, a swinging bed or a swinging chair, a supporting stick, and a swinging unit. The rail is pivotally disposed at the base by at least one pivoting point. The swinging bed or the swinging chair is movably disposed on the rail. One end of the supporting stick is connected to the swinging bed or the swinging chair and the other end of the supporting stick is connected to the base. The swinging unit is disposed between the rail and the base. The swinging unit is for changing an angle between the rail and the base.
According to yet another aspect of the present disclosure, an exercising device includes a base, a rail, a swinging chair, a swinging unit and an elastic unit. The rail is pivotally disposed at the base by at least one pivoting point. The swinging chair is movably disposed on the rail. The swinging unit is disposed between the rail and the base. The swinging unit is for changing an angle between the rail and the base. The elastic unit is disposed between the base and the rail, and the elastic is deformed by the reaction of the rail so as to reduce an impulse caused by the swinging unit.
The disclosure can be more fully understood by reading the following detailed description of the embodiment, with reference made to the accompanying drawings as follows:
The swing driving unit 210 includes a motor 211, a belt 213, a pulley 212, a motor wheel 215 and a motor belt 214. The motor wheel 215 is disposed at a shaft of the motor 211, the motor belt 214 is for connecting the motor wheel 215 to the pulley 212, and the belt 213 is for connecting the pulley 212 to the wheel 530. The motor 211 drives the motor wheel 215 and the motor belt 214 to rotate, thus the pulley 212 will be rotated simultaneously, i.e., the pulley 212 is driven by the motor 211 indirectly. When the pulley 212 is driven to rotate, the belt 213, the wheel 530, the roller 510, and the eccentric block 520 will rotate simultaneously, and the rail 300 will be pushed by the eccentric block 520. Of course, the pulley 212 can be directly disposed at the shaft of the motor 211, and the motor wheel 215 and the motor belt 214 can be omitted in other embodiment. The present disclosure will not be limited to the embodiment of
In other embodiment, the swing driving unit 210 can only include a motor 211, and the swinging unit 500 can include a roller 510 and an eccentric block 520. The motor 211 directly drives the roller 510 to rotate the eccentric block 520. Similarly, the swing driving unit 210 can include a motor 211 and a first gear (not shown) disposed on the shaft of the motor 211. The swinging unit 500 includes a roller 510, a second gear (not shown) engaged with the first gear, and an eccentric block 520. The first gear driven by the motor 211 is meshed with the second gear so as to rotate the roller 510 and the eccentric block 520. The structures are easily to be changed by a person skilled in the art, so that there is no need to describe the details and the present disclosure should not be limited to this.
The swinging chair 400 is driven by the horizontal driving unit 330 to move horizontally in the rail 300 so as to change a horizontal distance between the moving unit 360 and the pivoting point 310. The mode of the swinging chair 400 can be changed corresponding to a human body via the open-close driving unit 440. Therefore, an angle d between the swinging chair 400 and the rail 300, an angle e between the swinging chair 400 and the supporting stick 800, and/or an angle f between the supporting stick 800 and the base 200 will be changed to make the mode of the swinging chair 400 changing more smoothly. By controlling the open-close driving unit 440 to change each of the angles, the variation of the swinging amplitude for different human part at different position will increase. The structures of the swinging unit 500, the swing driving unit 210, the open-close driving unit 440, the swinging chair 400 and the horizontal driving unit 330 are similar to the aforementioned structures of
The elastic unit 930 is comprised by the rail 300b in
The swinging speed of the swing driving unit will affect the swinging status of the exercising device. As the aforementioned description, the swinging unit swings eccentrically to drive the exercising device swinging simultaneously. When the swinging speed of the swinging unit becomes higher, the exercising device will swing faster and the user will feel the body shaking up and down with small amplitude and higher speed. On the other way, when the swinging speed of the swinging unit becomes lower, the exercising device will swing slower and the user will feel the body swinging forward and backward. The swinging motion is smooth and the body swings in a circle. Further with the function of linear motion, the exercising device can be at different position and can have different swing speed so as to bring different feeling to users. Thus the user can choose a love way to swing.
When the user P is lying, his or her hands will be put on the armrest 910a, and the hands and the legs will be at a higher position than his or her heart. Because the blood is concentrated on the hands and the legs for a seating posture and a standing posture, the blood hardly returns to the heart. Therefore, the positions of the hands and the legs are designed to be higher than the position of the heart, and the blood returns to the heart from the hands and the legs to increase the blood circulating by the assistance of the swinging function of the exercising device 140.
Besides, the back portion 410a can includes a plurality of airbags (not shown) and a plurality of massagers (not shown). Through the inflation and deflation motion of the airbags, and the swinging and moving motion of the massagers, a massage effect on back can be achieved. Similarly, the seat portion 420a can also includes a plurality of airbags so as users can enjoy the massage effect for leg and hip. The inflation and deflation motion of the aforementioned airbags can be acted simultaneously or non-simultaneously and thus the massage effect becomes diversifying.
According to the aforementioned embodiments, the present disclosure has the following advantages.
1. Through the operating method of the exercising device, the horizontal position of the swinging chair or the swinging bed can be changed according to the demand of the user. The mode of the exercising device can be changed corresponding to a human body so that the user can choose different exercising posture, like sitting posture or lying posture. Moreover, the swinging level and swinging strength for different part of the human body can be changed according to the horizontal position of the exercising device.
2. Through the linear motion structures of the exercising device, the horizontal position of the swinging bed or the swinging chair can be changed, and the force arm between the pivoting point and the part of the human body will be changed together. When a person is sitting on the swinging chair to swing, the horizontal distance between the vertical line of the head and the pivoting point becomes short and thus the force arm becomes short too. Therefore, the swinging amplitude of the head is small and an unwell feeling from head shaking can be reduced. The swinging amplitude of other part of the human body is proportional to the force arm, and an exercising effect of other part of the human body can also be achieved. Specially, the changing of the horizontal position of the swinging bed or the swinging chair will result in changing the corresponding vibrating part of the human body. Choices of a user will increase.
3. Besides, when the distance between the pivoting point and the moving unit becomes closer, the swinging amplitude of the rail becomes smaller, too. On the other way, when the distance between the pivoting point and the moving unit becomes farer, the swinging amplitude of the rail becomes larger so that the swinging amplitude of the swinging bed or the swinging chair will also becomes larger. Therefore, the exercising strength of the exercising device can be changed.
4. If the swinging chair is pivotally connected to the rail, or the exercising device further includes a supporting stick for pivotally connecting to the rail and the swinging chair, the angle between the rail and the swinging chair, the angle between the supporting stick and the swinging chair, and/or the angle between the supporting stick and the base can be driven to changed. The swinging amplitude corresponding to the different part of the swinging chair becomes more diversified with the structure of multi-pivoting points, and the types of different swinging motion will be increased. For example, the swinging motion can be an up-and-down motion or a circular swinging motion. The smoothness of the open-close operation or the linearly moving operation can be increased with the structure and thus the comfortable feelings of users will also be improved.
5. When the swinging bed or the swinging chair further includes the supporting stick, the open-closed operation for changing the mode or the swinging bed or swinging chair becomes smoother. The structure stronger during the swinging process with the supporting of the supporting stick. The angles of the seat portion can also be changed so that the swinging motion becomes more diversified.
6. The sound making by the horizontal linear moving motion of the exercising device can be decrease via the pad portion which is disposed in the groove of the rail, and thus an operating noise can be prevented. Besides, a dimensional tolerance of the groove and the slider can be made larger if the pad portion is disposed in the groove. Therefore, a manufacturing cost as well as difficulties of manufacturing process can be reduced.
7. The mode of the exercising chair can be changed via the open-close structure of the exercising device and the operating convenience can be improved.
8. The different of the swinging speed of the swinging unit makes the user feeling different swinging motion. When the swinging speed is high, the swinging amplitude of human body is small, and the user will feel swing up and down with whole body shaking. When the swinging speed is small, the swinging amplitude of the human body is large, and the user will feel swing backward and forward with the body swinging circularly. Therefore, the exercising device can provides different exercising effect.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present disclosure without departing from the scope or spirit of the disclosure. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the present disclosure cover modifications and variations of this disclosure provided they fall within the scope of the following claims.
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