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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 1985
Filed:
Sep. 27, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Frank J Bruder, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
272132 ; 272134 ;
Abstract
An exercise apparatus equipped with an electrically controlled brake may be used for providing resistance force to movement of a holder bar by a user. A rotational transducer is provided to control the brake so that the magnitude of resistance force is varied with movements made by the user. A direction sensing and control circuit is provided to vary the amount of resistance force according to the direction of movement by the user.