Patent Application
20220280826
The present invention relates to innovation of resistance training bands, and more particularly to a training band that possesses excellent characteristics of firmness of connecting, allowing easy disconnecting by a user and also exhibiting powerful resisting.
Resistance training bands that are commonly available in the market for looping around a user's body are generally made of a band body and a hook-and-loop fastener. The band body of such a kind of resistance training bands is generally elastic, and a hook part and a loop part of the hook-and-loop fastener are respectively mounted to two ends of the band body. As such, a user may wrap the band body around the body and secured with the hook-and-loop fastener, in order to perform training or do exercise, or to carry out resistance training by connection with assisting equipment.
However, connecting or bonding with the hook-and-loop fastener, of which each part is arranged in a one-sided form is not strong enough to support high intensity exercise training and consequently, the hook-and-loop fastener may get disintegrated and separated or even broken. This may in turn cause injury to a user during the course of exercise or training.
The primary objective of the present invention is to overcome and improve the above-discussed shortcomings of the prior art by making use of a combination of a first coupling unit and a second coupling unit to enable fast wearing by a user and to provide an excellent property of firm connecting, allowing an elastic unit to exhibit powerful resistance and easing disconnecting by a user after exercise training.
To achieve the above objective, the provides a resistance training band, which comprises: an elastic unit, a first coupling unit, and a second coupling unit. The first coupling unit is arranged at one end of the elastic unit. The first coupling unit comprises a pinch section. The second coupling unit is arranged at an opposite end of the elastic unit. The second coupling unit is connectable with the pinch section of the first coupling unit in a detachable and removable manner.
In an embodiment of the resistance training band, the elastic unit comprises one of an elastic fabric, an elastic band, and an elastic rope.
In an embodiment of the resistance training band, the pinch section has two inner sides that are respectively provided with hooked surfaces facing each other and the second coupling unit has two outer sides that are respectively provided with looped surfaces facing away from each other, such that the hooked surfaces of the pinch section of the first coupling unit are respectively connectable with, and thus pinched between, the looped surfaces of the second coupling unit in a detachable manner.
In an embodiment of the resistance training band, the pinch section has two inner sides that are respectively provided with looped surfaces facing each other and the second coupling unit has two outer sides that are respectively provided with hooked surfaces facing away from each other, such that the looped surfaces of the pinch section of the first coupling unit are respectively connectable with, and thus pinched between, the hooked surfaces of the second coupling unit in a detachable manner.
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The first coupling unit 2 is mounted to one end of the elastic unit 1. The first coupling unit 2 comprises a pinch section 21.
The second coupling unit 3 is mounted to an opposite end of the elastic unit 1. The second coupling unit 3 is connectable to the pinch section 21 of the first coupling unit 2 in a detachable manner.
Thus, a user, when attempting to do exercise or training, may wrap the elastic unit 1 around his or her body through pulling of the elastic unit.
With the elastic unit 1 so wrapped around the body, the first coupling unit 2 may use the pinch section 21 to pinch and fix the second coupling unit 3, so as to connect with the second coupling unit 3 through pinching realized with the pinch section 21. This would secure the elastic unit 1 around the body and resist disintegration and separation when subjected to strong pulling. As such, the user may make use of the collaborative combination of the first coupling unit 2 and the second coupling unit 3 to achieve fast wearing and ensure excellent property of firm connection, allowing the elastic unit 1 to demonstrate powerful resistance.
To remove from the body, the pinch section 21 is separated and the second coupling unit 3 is removed from the pinch section 21. This enables easy removal and detachment after exercise training and also helps prevent injury caused by undesired detachment of the connection.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the elastic unit 1 can be an elastic fabric, an elastic band, or an elastic rope. In this way, powerful resistance can be exhibited according to requirement for actual exercise or training.
In an embodiment of the present invention, the pinch section 21 has two inner sides, which are provided with hooked surfaces 211 (or looped surface) facing each other, while the second coupling unit 3 has two outer sides, which are provided with looped surfaces 31 (or hooked surfaces) facing away from each other, so that the hooked surfaces 211 of the pinch section 21 of the first coupling unit 2 may connect with the looped surfaces 31 of the second coupling unit 3 in a detachable or removable manner.
As such, the first coupling unit 2 makes use of each hooked surface 211 of the pinch section 21 to pinch and connect with each looped surface 31 of the second coupling unit 3, allowing the pinch section 21 to use each of the hooked surfaces 211 on the two inner sides thereof to pinch and connect with each of the looped surfaces 31 on the two outer sides of the second coupling unit 3, and thus preventing the elastic unit 1 from easily disintegrating and separating when it is wrapped around a human body. As such, the user may make use of the collaborative combination of the first coupling unit 2 and the second coupling unit 3 to achieve fast wearing and ensure excellent property of firm connection, allowing the elastic unit 1 to demonstrate powerful resistance.
On the other hand, the user, when attempting to remove the band from his or her body, separates and detach the pinch section 21 to allow one of the hooked surfaces 211 of the pinch section 21 to disengage from one of the looped surfaces 31 and then, the other one of the looped surfaces 31 of the second coupling unit 3 is disengaged from the other one of the hooked surfaces 211 of the pinch section 21. This allows for easy detachment and removal after exercise training and helps prevent injury caused by undesired separation and detachment of the connection.
In summary, the present invention provides a resistance training band, which could effectively and significantly improve the commonly known shortcomings of the prior art and allows a user to fast wearing through the collaborative combination between the first coupling unit and the second coupling unit. Further, with the characteristics of firm connecting, the elastic unit is allowed to exhibit powerful resisting. Further, detachment and removal can be easily done by the user after exercise training. All these make the invention practical and suit general needs.
