US Patent Issued to ATSUMITEC on July 21 for "Training device and training system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,901, issued on July 21, was assigned to ATSUMITEC Co. LTD. (Shizuoka, Japan).

"Training device and training system" was invented by Junichi Ishimoto (Hamamatsu, Japan), Sungmin Lee (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Kaito Kasahara (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A training device includes, a cable that is paid out in response to movement of a user, a reel on which the cable is wound, a rotary encoder to detect a rotation state of the reel, a magneto-rheological fluid brake to apply a braking force to the reel, and a controller configured or programmed to calculate a stroke amount of the cable based on an output value of the rota...