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Auxiliary exercise equipment

a technology auxiliary muscles, applied in the field of auxiliary exercise equipment, can solve the problems of rarely applying load to the heel, unable to stimulate broader muscles, and parts of muscles that cannot be strengthened, so as to strengthen a particular muscle and prevent body weigh

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-11-04
PANASONIC CORP
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[0008]It is an object of the present invention to provide an auxiliary exercise equipment which is capable of strengthen a particular muscle, by concentrating a user's body weight in a part of a user's sole and preventing the body weight from being applied to a remaining part of the sole.

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Thus, this equipment has a problem that only particular parts of the muscles can be strengthened and it is impossible to stimulate broader parts of the muscles.
However, in the above mentioned prior art, the mounting surface of the foot support platform only slants downward along the direction from the heel toward the toe.
As a result, the prior art has a problem that a load is rarely applied to a heel side of the user according to how the user rides on the seat or an individual difference of a physique, when the seat is moved and the weight acting on the user's leg increases.
When the load is applied to the heel side larger than the toe side, there is a possibility that too much load may be applied to the knee joint of the user.

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[0042]An embodiment of an auxiliary exercise equipment of the present invention is explained based on FIGS. 1 to 9. As shown in FIG. 3, the equipment comprises a base 10 located on a fixed position, such as a floor. A handle post (HP) is arranged on the base 10, and comprises a handle (HD), which a user (M) in standing position grips with a hand if needed, at the top. In addition, the base 10 is provided with a foot support platform 2 (a left foot support platform 2a and a right foot support platform 2b), a guide section 4 for restricting a travel path of each of the left and right support platforms 2a and 2b, and a drive unit 3 for driving the foot support platform 2. A top surface of the foot support platform 2 is called a rest-surface, and left and right feet of the user (M) are rested on the rest-surface, respectively. The handle (HD) and the handle post (HP) are not indispensable.

[0043]As shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, the base 10 comprises a housing 1 which is composed of a supportin...

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Abstract

An auxiliary exercise equipment comprises a footrest for supporting a foot of a user. The footrest is configured so that a part of the footrest relatively retreats from a remaining part of the footrest and thereby is made apart from the foot while the remaining part of the footrest supports the foot.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates generally to auxiliary exercise equipment which assists a user to stretch user's leg muscles with an aid of external forces.BACKGROUND ART[0002]In the past, there have been proposed various types of auxiliary exercise equipments which assist a user to stretch user's muscles without effort but with an aid of external forces being applied to the user in order to give an exercise effect. These equipments are known to be configured to apply a force of bending a joint of the user for stretching the muscles associated with the joint (for example, see Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2007-37850). This auxiliary exercise equipment assists a user to contract the muscles of the user's femoral area almost without bending the user's knee. It is possible to strengthen the muscles of the femoral area even if the user has knee pain. In addition, because a volume of the femoral area's muscles is large, sugar metabolism associated with musc...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): A63B23/04
CPCA61H1/0266A61H2201/1664A61H2230/00A61H2230/60A61H2230/65A63B21/00178A63B21/023A63B21/05A63B21/068A63B23/10A63B2208/0204A63B2208/0233A61H2201/14A61H2201/1215A61H2201/1635A61H2201/164A61H2001/027
Inventor OZAWA, TAKAHISASHINOMIYA, YOUICHIOCHI, KAZUHIROGOTOU, TAKAO
Owner PANASONIC CORP
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