Method and accessories to enhance riding experience on vehicles with human propulsion

Abstract

A set of accessory devices and a method that improves riding experience indoors and outdoors on devices using human propulsion and reciprocating motion. A mechanical accessory device that adds the stepping and reciprocating motion to a pedaling system, like those used on bicycles, tricycles, boats, individual power generators used indoors and outdoors with various positions, and movement range adjustments. A set of electronic accessories added gradually, that measures, records, transmits, processes and shares a large range of the parameters, generically called “riding experience” force and displacements, giving effort and work, GPS, accelerations, movie, etc. giving the path and rider vital and functional parameters, giving medical and exploratory results. A system that uses a code to process these information and transmits on the Internet, used on their indoors devices to reproduce the experience in their terms, transforming their devices in simulators, enabled to remotely control outdoors devices.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 62 / 025,068 from Jul. 16, 2014, and NO International application, and has not received any government or state funding.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]The present invention relates to a set of accessory devices meant to improve riding experience on various human power propelled devices (bicycle, tricycle boats and more), to inter-correlate the indoor and outdoors experiences using computer systems and a method for doing so. The mechanical accessory is meant to increase the comfort and safety of riding, in order to minimize its negative impact for the rider, reduce the effort range required for pedaling, and improve the quality of riding in numerous ways.It is also meant to diversify the movements during riding from pedaling to stepping using simple crank adaptors, optionally equipped with sensors of movement.The actual riding requires pe...

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Benefits of technology

[0036]The sharable data containing the movie and the result of the usage of the electronics, sensors (force, speed, torque, temperature, pressure humidity, electro-voltaic (muscles electric signal), position, acceleration, GPS, etc) and actuators, and third party image acquisition may make the riding experience more complex, and that can be transmitted and reproduced on a indoors device—exercise bike system—that becomes a ride simulator, that adapts the data stream to the local use regime, based on a local computing system, running our program, being a useful tool to improve the indoor experience into outdoors, when the weather is bad, or experiencing remotely located riding circuits.

[0037]The system will bring the gym room to outdoors and the outdoors in the gym-room and enhance the sporting experience into medical practice, active monitoring, diagnosis and recovery. Equipping an outdoor device with servo-actuators, a person from indoor placed on an exercise device with direct radio-communication may ride the outdoor device in real-time with or without rider, that will be good for education purposes and for therapy.

Problems solved by technology

Historically, the bike is 200 years old, but new things appear all the time, and in the last period many variants of individual propulsion appeared, but the perfect solution is not yet found, in spite of more sophisticated studies made for competition and health purposes.

The accessory is interesting but its application is limited depending on bike's design and terrain it is used.

The solution is expensive and heavy, delivering about the same return of movement as a levers or pulleys, and has visible disadvantages that drive to a new bicycle design removed by the present solution.

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