Electricity: motive power systems – With particular motor-driven load device – Power- or motion-transmitting mechanism
Patent
1990-02-02
1991-05-14
Ro, Bentsu
Electricity: motive power systems
With particular motor-driven load device
Power- or motion-transmitting mechanism
272125, 272129, A63B 215
Patent
active
050159267
ABSTRACT:
A force development system for the application of controlled variable speeds and torque forces in exercise machines utilized to strengthen and develop body muscles of an exercising person. The system includes a constant speed high torque electric drive motor mechanically coupled to a dynamic clutch device in which the controlled coupling of the rotary force input assembly of the clutch to the rotary force output assembly of the clutch is accomplished via electromagnetic coil activation of metallic powder particles forming coupling particle chains between the input and output assemblies of the clutch. Alternatively, the dynamic clutch of the system may be a fluid clutch containing electrorheological fluid.
The force development system of the invention also includes a speed reduction device between the dynamic clutch and the exercise machine to which the system is applied. An electronic sensor, interconnected to a microprocessor, senses the speed, motion and torque force of the system's output shaft. A control unit (interconnected to the drive motor, the electromagnetic coil of the dynamic clutch and the microprocessor) is directed by the microprocessor (in relation to the speed and torque force information sensed by the electronic sensor) and in turn controls the coupling torque of the dynamic clutch whereby controlled variable speeds and resistive forces are applied to the resistive force mechanism of the exercise machine.
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Junkins Philip D.
Ro Bentsu
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