Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
473452000 | Foot positioner (e.g., stance, stride device, etc.) | 22 |
20090181811 | SPORTS TRAINING AID - A sports training aid for improving the mechanics of a sports player conducting a sports movement is disclosed. The sports training aid may comprise a foot placement surface or area that is simultaneously inclined in two directions. The sports training aid may be inclined from both the front to the back of the sports training aid and from one side of the sports training aid to the other side of the training aid. When positioning a player's foot on the sports training aid, the toes of the player's foot are raised above the heel of the player's foot and the outsole of the player's foot is raised above the insole of the player's foot. A method for training a sports player using the sports training aid is also disclosed. | 07-16-2009 |
20100216578 | Apparatus, system and method for training overhand throwing mechanics - An apparatus is provided for training the overhand throwing motion. The apparatus comprises a first end having a first altitude relative to a throwing surface; an opposing second end having a second altitude relative to the throwing surface; and an unobstructed guiding surface interconnecting the first end to the second end and defining a slope there between. | 08-26-2010 |
20100267498 | SPORTS TRAINING AID - A sports training aid for improving the mechanics of a sports player conducting a sports movement is disclosed. The sports training aid may comprise a foot placement surface or area that is simultaneously inclined in two directions. The sports training aid may be inclined from both the front to the back of the sports training aid and from one side of the sports training aid to the other side of the training aid. When positioning a player's foot on the sports training aid, the toes of the player's foot are raised above the heel of the player's foot and the outsole of the player's foot is raised above the insole of the player's foot. A method for training a sports player using the sports training aid is also disclosed. | 10-21-2010 |
20100317465 | PITCHERS AID for STRIKE ZONE ACCURACY - Disclosed is a pitcher's aid for strike zone accuracy that serves the purpose of guiding a pitcher's body to the left or right side, inside/outside, of home plate in order to provide familiarity with how their body can be used to locate a pitch to the desired target. The new and unique invention utilizes a lightweight, rugged material and a small size to stay portable and provide the pitcher with an invention that can be used anywhere and anytime he wishes to practice. Practicing with this invention gives a pitcher confidence when pitching to either side of home, which in turn provides them with more confidence in their pitches, and provides them with the knowledge that they can get the outs needed when called upon by their coach. | 12-16-2010 |
20100323825 | Baseball batting trainer - The batter training device attaches an ankle strap on the batter's forward ankle to a weighted sack on the side of home plate opposite to the batter. A cable placed over home plate connects the sack to the ankle strap. As a fast ball is pitched through the strike zone the weight attached to the batter's ankle inhibits the batter's involuntary reflex to draw away from the ball and ruin the batter's swing. Repeating this training with the device enables the batter to overcome or cope with this undesirable involuntary reflex. The weight in the sack, however, is not so great that it will prevent the batter from ducking away from a wild pitch outside of the strike zone in order to avoid injury. | 12-23-2010 |
20100323826 | Baseball batting trainer - The batter training device attaches an ankle strap on the batter's forward ankle to a weighted sack on the side of home plate opposite to the batter. A cable placed over home plate connects the sack to the ankle strap. As a fast ball is pitched through the strike zone the weight attached to the batter's ankle inhibits the batter's involuntary reflex to draw away from the ball and ruin the batter's swing. Repeating this training with the device enables the batter to overcome or cope with this undesirable involuntary reflex. The weight in the sack, however, is not so great that it will prevent the batter from ducking away from a wild pitch outside of the strike zone in order to avoid injury. The device also can be used to restrain the batter's rear ankle, or the weighted sack can be attached to restrain both of the batter's ankles. | 12-23-2010 |
20110003652 | Sport Stance Trainer - A foot positioning aid is disclosed for guide proper positioning of a player's feet for a sport stance. The aid has two foot targets each with a top side, an underside, and a perimeter edge. The foot targets are separate from one another for independent positioning and placement on a playing surface. A securement device on the underside of each of the foot targets is configured to removably retain the foot targets in a selected location on the playing surface during use. The player places their feet on the top sides, one on each of the foot targets during use. | 01-06-2011 |
20110021296 | PITCHING TRAINING AID - A pitching training aid includes a mat, a pitching rubber attached to the mat and indicia displayed on the mat to instruction a baseball player on how to pitch a baseball. The indicia includes the steps of “start,” “rocker,” “pivot/balance” and “step/release.” The indicia also includes a series of arrows which instructs the baseball player on the sequence of the steps. A straight line extends from the pitching rubber down a center of the mat to show where the “step/release” position should be. A top surface of the mat has an artificial grass surface and a bottom surface of the mat includes a nonskid material to prevent the mat from sliding during use. The mat may include two pitching rubbers and two sets of indicia on opposites ends thereof with one pitching rubber and indicia being used to instruct right hand pitchers and the other pitching rubber and indicia being used to instruct left handed pitchers. | 01-27-2011 |
20110092318 | Swing Training Device - A device to teach the proper mechanics of a baseball swing is described. The device consists of a platform that the batter stands on. Set in the platform is a wheel that the batter puts his back foot on. The wheel turns 90 degrees when the batter takes his stride showing the batter the proper way to turn his back foot so that his hips and torso rotate. The batters' front foot is guided by marks to indicate the starting and the ending position of his front foot during the swing. Attached to the platform is a guide that guides the swinging bat along the proper path to make optimal contact with the ball. The guide and platform are reversible for left hand batters, adjustable for batters of different heights and adjustable for high or low and inside or outside pitched balls. | 04-21-2011 |
20110098136 | Swing Mat Training Aid - The swing mat sports training aid which will hereafter be referred to as a foot positioning training aid. It is for preparation and instructing individuals in the proper positioning of their feet when engaged in various activities in which the position and movement of the feet are critical to accurate execution of desired functions. The training aid includes a generally rectangular panel which can be sustained on various supporting surfaces and is provided with a non-centered raised feature to position the feet and forms a barrier to movement in the direction required for the execution of desired functions. This raised feature does not fully restrict movement however. | 04-28-2011 |
20110098137 | BASEBALL SWING TRAINING DEVICE - A baseball swing training device includes a rear foot pivot limiting mechanism, wherein the rear foot pivoting mechanism includes a rotating element and a rotation limiting element. The rear foot pivot limiting mechanism may be adapted to limit the rotation of a user's pivot foot to a prescribed degree of rotation and communicate to the user when the prescribed degree of rotation has been completed. The baseball swing device may further include a foldable base including two positions at which the adjustable rear foot pivot limiting mechanism may be implemented, wherein the first position is adapted for use by a right handed hitter and the second position is adapted for use by a left handed hitter. | 04-28-2011 |
20110218059 | Hitting Plank - This batting training device can be used by either a right handed or left handed batter. The player's rear foot will be placed on a pivot member that will permit free rotation of the player's back foot to a predetermined point. The device may be inclined to force the user to maintain his or her weight more on the back foot in order to achieve maximum bat speed that results in maximum power. | 09-08-2011 |
20110224028 | Slakey Swing Pro - A batting technique tool to teach a user to bat properly may include a top platform having a top base portion and a top elongated portion, The base portion may have a rotatable platform to rotate in two directions to accommodate a traveling foot of the user, and the top elongated portion may have a movable foot support member to accommodate the forward foot of the user. The movable foot member may be slidably connected to the top elongated portion, and the rotatable platform may be connected to a limited travel rotating platform to limit the travel of the rotatable platform. The limited travel rotating platform may be connected to a turntable, and the batting technique tool may include an opposing bottom platform. The bottom platform may include a bottom base portion and the bottom platform may include a bottom elongated portion. | 09-15-2011 |
20120108367 | BASEBALL SWING IMPROVEMENT SYSTEM - An electronic mat for monitoring a user's swing comprising: a mat; an plurality of sensors within the mat, where the sensors detect movement over the mat; a processor, where the processor provides a means to program the operation of the plurality of sensors; memory for storage of parameters associated with the operation of the plurality of sensors; and an indication means for providing a instantaneous indication of movement over the mat. In one particular embodiment, the mat indication means includes a red light and a green light, where the red light indicates movement inconsistent with the stored parameters and the green light indicates movement consistent with the parameters. The electronic mat may further include an input device for inputting the parameters. | 05-03-2012 |
20120149502 | Molded foot device promoting a forward push from a pitcher's rubber - When pitcher's push off the rubber, inexperienced pitcher's turn their foot sideways instead of pushing over their toes, losing power and crow hopping which is against the rules of softball. My invention which is called the “PowerPush” is a device that fits over the pitcher's rubber and provides a compartment to place the pitcher's push foot to provide direction in the forward direction. This device gives immediate feedback if the pitcher turns their foot sideways to early. | 06-14-2012 |
20120190484 | Pivoting training device for a baseball batter - The invention is a training device for baseball batters and, more generally, is a training device for any athletic motion that utilizes a foot pivoting movement. The invention has a mat, pivot device and toe hold. The mat is approximately the size of baseball batters box. For baseball training, the mat is placed in the batters box such that the pivot device is facing the rear. The baseball player places his rear foot on the pivot device and his front foot in one of the toe holds. The baseball player trains by maintaining rear foot contact on the pivot, and pivoting his rear foot during the swing. | 07-26-2012 |
20120225741 | ENHANCED WEARABLE SWING TRAINING APPARATUS - A swing training apparatus includes a rotation mechanism and a wearable shoe attachment device. The rotation mechanism includes a first plate connected to a second plate so that the first plate rotates with respect to the second plate about a shared plate axis of rotation. The wearable shoe attachment device is connected to the first plate. The wearable shoe attachment device positions a shoe of an athlete so that as the athlete rotates a foot and the shoe enclosing the foot with respect to a part of the foot and about a foot axis of rotation, the foot axis of rotation and the plate axis of rotation coincide. The wearable shoe attachment device connects to the first plate so that the swing training apparatus moves with the foot while walking or running. The wearable shoe attachment device includes three straps that secure a shoe snuggly to the rotation mechanism. | 09-06-2012 |
20140155199 | REMOVABLE AND REPLACEABLE PIVOTING DEVICE AND TRAINING APPARATUS FOR A BASEBALL BATTER USING THE PIVOTING DEVICE - The invention is a pivot device for use with baseball training devices. The pivot device is removable and replaceable to allow it to be cleaned to maintain proper functioning of the pivot device and/or to be replaced when the pivot device is worn out. | 06-05-2014 |
20150094172 | CORRECT FEET BATTING TRAINER - A batting trainer device that may be placed near a batter's rear foot and discourages the batter from over-rotating the rear foot. The device having a planar base member, a planar backing member, and a heel stop. The planar base member may be rotatably affixed to the planar backing member, and the heel stop may be removably affixed to the backing member. The backing member position relative to the base member may be adjustable with an adjustment means. | 04-02-2015 |
20150290515 | HITTING DECK, HITTING MAT OR TRAINING SYSTEM, DEVICE OR METHOD - A baseball mat that in one embodiment has a plurality of indicia formed in a pattern that enables at least one or both a left-handed and a right-handed batter to know where to place a batting tee. In another embodiment, the batting mat comprises an interval system that enables a player to measure an interval or distance between a player's feet when the player is situated in a batting area associated with the batting mat. The interval system may have foot landing zones to assist the player in placing his or her feet. In another embodiment, a hitting deck graphic is used to define the plurality of indicia either alone or with direction indicia that enable a user to know or understand a direction in which a ball will be hit. | 10-15-2015 |
20160008690 | BATTER HITTING TOOL | 01-14-2016 |
20160067577 | Sports Training System and Method - Provided is a modular sports training system that can be assembled, placed on a supporting surface, and stood upon by a person during sports training activities. The system is adapted to be assembled with one or more modules. One module may be disposed at a non-parallel angle to another module. One module may be aligned with another module. The non-parallel angle allows a person standing on the system to place one foot on one module and another foot on another module at the non-parallel angle, such as in a swing or batter's stance, and allows the person to stand in a stable manner while encouraging certain positioning of the feet during the sports training activities. Modules can be coupled by an interlocking protrusion and receiver arrangement, such as by inserting a protrusion of one module into a receiver of another module when the modules are unaligned relative to each other and then twisting the modules into alignment. | 03-10-2016 |