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US3349620A
US3349620A US459160A US45916065A US3349620A US 3349620 A US3349620 A US 3349620A US 459160 A US459160 A US 459160A US 45916065 A US45916065 A US 45916065A US 3349620 A US3349620 A US 3349620A
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B24/00—Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of preceding groups; Controlling or monitoring of exercises, sportive games, training or athletic performances
    • A63B24/0021—Tracking a path or terminating locations
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B63/00—Targets or goals for ball games
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B24/00—Electric or electronic controls for exercising apparatus of preceding groups; Controlling or monitoring of exercises, sportive games, training or athletic performances
    • A63B24/0021—Tracking a path or terminating locations
    • A63B2024/0037—Tracking a path or terminating locations on a target surface or at impact on the ground
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A63—SPORTS; GAMES; AMUSEMENTS
    • A63B—APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT
    • A63B71/00—Games or sports accessories not covered in groups A63B1/00 - A63B69/00
    • A63B71/02—Games or sports accessories not covered in groups A63B1/00 - A63B69/00 for large-room or outdoor sporting games
    • A63B71/022—Backstops, cages, enclosures or the like, e.g. for spectator protection, for arresting balls

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  • Another object of the invention lies in the provision of an improved signal-generating means which may replace all of the photoelectric cells employed in prior art constructions.
  • Yet another object of the invention lies in the provision of improved signal-generating means of the type described which may be relatively insensitive to shock.
  • a further object of the invention lies in the provision of a signal-generating means which may be mounted directing upon the movable portion of the ball-arresting net, so that the impact of the net at any portion thereof is transmitted directly to said signal-generating means.
  • FIGURE 1 is a view in perspective of an embodiment of the invention.
  • FIGURE 2 is a fragmentary enlarged vertical sectional View of the circuit-actuating means which comprises a part of the embodiment.
  • FIGURE 3 is a schematic diagram showing the interconnection of the structure of FIGURE 2 with the computer of a computer-type golf game.
  • FIGURE 4 is a generated wave diagram.
  • the device is illustrated in FIG- URE 1 of the drawing in installed condition upon a ballarresting net or screen 11 which forms a part of a computer-type golf game, reference again being made to my prior Patent No. 3,091,466 which discloses other details ICC of the same.
  • the screen 11 is placed directly in front of a display screen 12 which carries a representation of a golf green or fairway.
  • the screen 11 is generally angularly disposed with respect to the vertical for the purpose of deecting balls downwardly, and is bounded by an upper edge 13, a lower edge 14, and side edges 15 and 16 which are secured to rods 17 and 18, respectively.
  • the rods 17 and 18 are in turn supported from supporting members 19 and 20, each having a base 21 and a rod-like portion 22 which mounts interconnecting springs 23, as is known in the art.
  • the device 10 is mounted within a housing 25 (see FIGURE 2), the housing 25 in turn being interconnected to the rod 18 by clamp means (not shown) of well-known type.
  • the housing 25 includes an upper wall 27, a lower wall 23, and a cylindrical wall 29 which supports a mounting plate 30.
  • the plate 30 supports an inductive coil 31, which may be part of a simple relay 32, for purposes of convenience.
  • the coil 3l includes an iron core 33 about which the windings of the coil 31 are wound.
  • Adjacent the coil 31 and mounted on the plate 30 is a tlat spring steel member 34 supporting a permanent magnet 35 at the end thereof.
  • the coil 31 is connected through an amplifier 37 to the computer 38.
  • a wave form 39 (see FIGURE 4) is generated in the coil. From the point of impact 40 to the point of maximum amplitude 41, there elapses less than one millisecond, this portion of the wave form being used to operate the computer 33 through the ampliiier 37.
  • the damped oscillation portion 42 may be disregarded.
  • a computer type golf game including a net for arresting the ight of a ball and computer means for determining elapsed time of iiight of said ball, improved means for indicating the instant at which said ball contacts said net comprising: said net being of a flexible material and having oppositely disposed side edges, a pair of elongated relatively rigid rods interconnected to said net along said side edges, a pair of fixed elongated supporting members having principal axes paralleling that of said rods, and a plurality of springs interconnecting said rods and said supporting members along the lengths thereof, a lhousing secured to one of said rods, an inductive coil disposed within said housing and connected to said computer means, and a magnet resiliently supported within said housing in the area of said coil.

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US459160A US3349620A (en) 1965-05-27 1965-05-27 Circuit actuating means for computer type golf games
GB10008/66A GB1071202A (en) 1965-05-27 1966-03-08 Circuit actuating means for computer type golf games
FR56263A FR1474520A (fr) 1965-05-27 1966-04-04 Jeu de golf du type à compteur
BE680140D BE680140A (xx) 1965-05-27 1966-04-27
DE19661578644 DE1578644A1 (de) 1965-05-27 1966-05-21 Schaltungsbetaetigung fuer Rechner von Golfspielen
SE7109/66A SE311309B (xx) 1965-05-27 1966-05-24
CH764966A CH443996A (fr) 1965-05-27 1966-05-26 Appareil de commande du calculateur d'un jeu de golf d'entraînement

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US4070018A (en) * 1976-10-12 1978-01-24 Hodges Kenneth M Ball impact target with ball impact sensor
US4995607A (en) * 1988-08-31 1991-02-26 Whitfield Terry B Interactive sports training device
US5191783A (en) * 1991-04-25 1993-03-09 Abbott W Bruce Portable basketball rim testing device
US5214954A (en) * 1992-01-21 1993-06-01 Abbott W Bruce Portable basketball rim testing device
US5419565A (en) * 1993-08-20 1995-05-30 Gordon; Theodore J. Electrical device for detecting the location and speed or force of impact with a target
US9427648B2 (en) 2014-06-13 2016-08-30 James Cingone Dynamic training apparatus
US11000745B1 (en) * 2019-12-27 2021-05-11 Brad Hanes Sports projectile training device

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US2557550A (en) * 1948-05-14 1951-06-19 Eric W Leaver Electronic golf game
US2702883A (en) * 1951-05-12 1955-02-22 Stewart Warner Corp Vibration pickup
US2764019A (en) * 1953-03-19 1956-09-25 Lindholm Nils Gosta Hjalmar Vibration measuring device
US3091466A (en) * 1960-06-08 1963-05-28 Speiser Maximilian Richard Computer-type golf game
US3160011A (en) * 1962-07-31 1964-12-08 Myer Schine J Practice means

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US2557550A (en) * 1948-05-14 1951-06-19 Eric W Leaver Electronic golf game
US2702883A (en) * 1951-05-12 1955-02-22 Stewart Warner Corp Vibration pickup
US2764019A (en) * 1953-03-19 1956-09-25 Lindholm Nils Gosta Hjalmar Vibration measuring device
US3091466A (en) * 1960-06-08 1963-05-28 Speiser Maximilian Richard Computer-type golf game
US3160011A (en) * 1962-07-31 1964-12-08 Myer Schine J Practice means

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4070018A (en) * 1976-10-12 1978-01-24 Hodges Kenneth M Ball impact target with ball impact sensor
US4995607A (en) * 1988-08-31 1991-02-26 Whitfield Terry B Interactive sports training device
US5191783A (en) * 1991-04-25 1993-03-09 Abbott W Bruce Portable basketball rim testing device
US5214954A (en) * 1992-01-21 1993-06-01 Abbott W Bruce Portable basketball rim testing device
US5419565A (en) * 1993-08-20 1995-05-30 Gordon; Theodore J. Electrical device for detecting the location and speed or force of impact with a target
US9427648B2 (en) 2014-06-13 2016-08-30 James Cingone Dynamic training apparatus
US11000745B1 (en) * 2019-12-27 2021-05-11 Brad Hanes Sports projectile training device

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