Movable Handle Treadmill for Integrated Strength and Aerobic Training

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional aerobic exercise machines do not effectively integrate strength training capabilities, limiting users' ability to perform both aerobic and anaerobic exercises on a single platform while tracking workout metrics accurately.

Innovation Solution

A treadmill design incorporating movable handles for body weight exercises, a repetition sensor to count exercises, and a display to present calorie burn values, allowing users to perform both aerobic and anaerobic exercises with integrated tracking and feedback.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional aerobic exercise machines are used, then users can perform aerobic exercises, but strength training capabilities are not integrated

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveexercise type integrationVSAvoidmachine structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The treadmill is designed to perform multiple functions: aerobic exercise through the moving belt and strength training through the handlebar dip station. This allows a single device to replace what would traditionally require separate exercise machines, directly resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity by integrating functions rather than adding separate equipment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent combines the aerobic exercise function (treadmill belt) with the strength training function (handlebar dip station) into a single integrated structure. The handlebars are movably attached to the frame, allowing them to be positioned for dip exercises while maintaining the treadmill's aerobic capabilities, thus merging two exercise modalities into one device.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Adaptability or versatility

If movable handles are added for body weight exercises, then strength training is enabled, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestrength training capabilityVSAvoidhandle attachment mechanism

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The handlebars are designed to be movably attached to the frame rather than fixed, allowing them to be positioned and repositioned as needed for different exercises. This dynamic attachment mechanism provides the necessary flexibility for strength training while maintaining a relatively simple structure that doesn't significantly increase overall device complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11534655B2Strength exercise mechanisms

Publication Date: 2022.12.27 IFIT INC

AI summary

A treadmill includes a frame, an exercise deck attached to the frame, and a first handle movably attached to the frame. The first handle has a first orientation where the first handle is positioned within a region above the exercise deck and stabilized to support a user's weight during a body weight exercise, and a second orientation where the first handle is positioned away from the region above the exercise deck.