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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 1993
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1992
Applicant:
Inventors:
Masaharu Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Harutoshi Terasawa, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Nihon Kohden Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
482 54 ; 482 51 ;
Abstract
A treadmill has a belt provided with a running surface and rotated in a predetermined direction at a set running speed, wherein a foot landing on the running surface is detected, a landing time distance between landing times is measured, and a stride is calculated from the running speed of the running surface and the landing time distance measured and indicated or recorded on an output device.