STABILITY BALL CASE |
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申请号 | EP16883930.6 | 申请日 | 2016-03-10 | 公开(公告)号 | EP3400989A1 | 公开(公告)日 | 2018-11-14 |
申请人 | Ha, Sungsoo; | 发明人 | Ha, Sungsoo; | ||||
摘要 | The objective of the present invention is to provide a stability ball case configured to store a stability ball therein and, especially, having a weight thereon to prevent the stored stability ball from rolling, thereby avoiding a safety accident that may happen when the stability ball rolls and drops, as well as storing the stability ball at a desired place in a safe and convenient manner. Particularly, another objective of the present invention is to provide a stability ball case configured such that a weight can be attached to and detached from a body constituting the case, whereby the weight can be separated from the body when the case is washed, or when the stability ball is carried, thereby enabling the stability ball case to be safely used and stored, as well as being conveniently used. | ||||||
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说明书全文 | The present disclosure relates to a stability ball case, and more specifically, to a stability ball case including a weight formed thereon to prevent a stability ball from rolling or arbitrarily being moved when the stability ball is put into the case, thereby allowing the stability ball to be easily stored and to be conveniently used. A stability ball (also called "gym ball") is an exercise equipment that allows a user to exercise stretching, yoga, and so on, while trying to keep balance against elasticity of the ball inflated with air. The stability ball helps the user to exercise harder and build muscle strength as the user tries to keep balance and stability. Since such the stability ball is not only simple to exercise but also helps in posture correction of the body, it is effective in promoting muscle strength and flexibility. Patent Documents 1 to 4 below disclose such stability balls and technologies for easily storing and using the stability ball. Since the stability ball is generally spherical, it is not easy for a beginner exerciser to sit or lie down on it, and therefore it is necessary to use the stability ball only with the help of a professional instructor. Especially for those with weak muscles such as women and elderly people, and so on, it is difficult for them to handle the existing stability balls as they like by themselves. That is, since the conventional stability ball is spherical, if the exerciser does not control the stability ball with proper force and posture, the stability ball would slide uncontrollably on the floor, which may cause the exerciser injuries. In order to solve this problem, a hemispherical upper stability ball portion and a hemispherical lower stability ball portion are connected by an O-ring type connecting portion having protrusions, in which a shape of the lower stability ball portion may be changed into a hemispherical shape or a flat shape according to inflow/outflow of air. The document discloses a stability ball configured to prevent a certain group of users such as children and elderly people who have difficulty of keeping balance from slipping or falling down during exercising, while allowing these users to exercise as they like and thus promote their health. The document discloses a rocking chair on which a user can sit and rest comfortably, and more particularly, it discloses a rocking chair having not only a function of a rocking chair, but also a function of a stability ball by performing stability ball movement when necessary. In order to achieve the above object, the rocking chair disclosed in the above document has a technical characteristic of including a support frame curved to support the back, the hips, and the thighs of a sitting person, a base frame curved to swing a portion in contact with a ground back and forth, fasteners mounted on the base frame to allow the support frame to be engaged, and protrusions formed on an upper surface and a lower surface of the support frame, respectively to be inserted into the fasteners, in which the protrusion formed on the lower surface of the support frame is engaged with the fastener so that the support frame is positioned downwardly concave, or the protrusion formed on the upper surface of the support frame is engaged with the fastener so that the support frame is positioned upwardly convex. The document discloses a stability ball hanger provides a stability ball hanger consisting of a combination of a support portion having a lower surface contacting a floor, a frame having a predetermined length and installed vertically on the support portion, and a cradle fixed to a side of the frame to enable the stability ball to be mounted thereon, in order to make it possible to easily and conveniently store a spherical stability ball, to reduce the volume by constructing the stability ball in a prefabricated manner and thus to facilitate a transportation of the stability ball during delivery. However, such stability balls and storing the stability balls have the following problems.
The present disclosure has been made in consideration of the problems mentioned above, and it is an objective of the present disclosure to provide a stability ball case configured to store a stability ball therein and more particularly, to provide a stability ball case having a weight formed thereon to prevent a stored stability ball from rolling, thereby preventing a safety accident that may otherwise occur when the stability ball accidently rolls and drops, while also storing the stability ball at a desired place safely and conveniently. Specifically, it is another objective of the present disclosure to provide a stability ball case in which a weight is configured to be attached to or detached from a body of the case such that the weight can be separated from the body when it is necessary to wash the case or carry the stability ball around, thereby enabling not only convenient use of a stability ball, but also convenient and safe storage of the stability ball. In addition, another objective of the present disclosure is to provide a stability ball case in which a weight is attachable to or detached from a body of the case using a Velcro, a zipper, a snap button, or the like, thereby allowing a user to carry around a stability ball in the stability ball case conveniently without worrying about the weight accidently escaping from its position due to a contact with another object or being misplaced. To achieve the objectives described above, a stability ball case according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a body 100 capable of receiving a stability ball B, in which the body 100 may include a weight 110 for preventing the stability ball B from rolling; an opening means 120 allowing the stability ball B to be put into or taken out of the body 100 therethrough; and a handle 130 configured for picking up or hanging the body (100). Specifically, the weight 110 is integrally formed with the body 100 by being inserted into a pocket that is integrated with the body 100 by sewing. In addition, the weight 110 is configured to be attachable to or detachable from the body 100 with a zipper, a Velcro or a snap button. In addition, the weight 110 is mounted on an inner surface of the body 100. Further, the opening means 120 may be a zipper, a Velcro or a snap button. Lastly, the weight 110 may include at least two fitting rings 113 formed thereon at predetermined intervals to be exposed to the outside of the body 100. The stability ball case according to the present disclosure has the following effects.
Other objects and aspects of the present disclosure will become apparent from the following descriptions of the embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Prior to the description, it should be understood that the terms used in the specification and the appended claims should not be construed as limited to general and dictionary meanings, but interpreted based on the meanings and concepts corresponding to technical aspects of the present disclosure on the basis of the principle that the inventor is allowed to define terms appropriately for the best explanation. Accordingly, while the embodiments described herein and the configurations shown in the drawings are the most preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, these do not represent all of the technical ideas of the present disclosure, and therefore, it should be understood that various equivalents and modifications are possible. A stability ball case according to the present disclosure includes a body 100 capable of receiving a stability ball B, as shown in Specifically, a weight 110 is formed on the body 100 to keep the stability ball B stored therein from rolling, thereby preventing possibility that the stability ball B is rolled and dropped, damaging surrounding objects or injuring people nearby. Further, the weight 110 is configured to be attachable to or detachable from the body 100, and thus the weight 110 or the body 100 is prevented from being damaged when the stability ball case storing the stability ball B therein is carried around or washed. Hereinafter, this configuration will be described in more detail. In the examples described below, the stability ball B may be a stability ball that is manufactured by inflating air with a known technique to be used for stretching, yoga, or the like. The body 100 is manufactured in size that can receive the stability ball B therein, as shown in Further, the body 100 also includes a weight 110 formed thereon as shown in In the preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, it is preferable that the weight 110 is configured within the body 100 and not exposed to the outside and is not interfered with the other elements or objects around the case. In addition, in the preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the weight 110 may be integrally formed with the body 100, by being placed into a pocket-like storage space that is sewn to the body 100 or may be configured to be separated from the body 100. In an example, it would be most preferable that the weight is configured as a removable type such that when the stability ball case according to the present disclosure is washed or carried around with the stability ball B being received therein, the weight 110 is separated to allow convenience use of the stability ball case. In an example, any configuration that allows easy and convenient separation of the weight 110 from the body 100 may be used, such as a zipper 111 as shown in An opening means 120 is formed in the body 100 such that the stability ball B may be put into, or taken out of the body 100 therethrough, as shown in In the preferred embodiment of the present disclosure, the opening means 120 may be formed anywhere as long as the stability ball B can be put into the body 100 therethrough, while it is preferable to form the opening means 120 at a position facing the weight 110 described above. This is to allow the opening means 120 to be opened so that the stability ball B can be easily put into the body 100. A handle 130 is formed on the body 100 to allow the user to grip it and carry the stability ball case, as shown in In the meantime, it is preferable that the stability ball case according to the present disclosure further includes at least two fitting rings 113 on the weight 110, as shown in These fitting rings 113 are designed to allow a user to perform an exercise such as stretching even in a state that the stability ball is received in the stability ball case, by inserting a band or the like in the rings 113 and then using the inserted band. In this case, it is preferable that at least two fitting rings 113 are formed so that the exerciser holds at least one fitting ring 113 in each hand. Of course, a plurality of fitting rings 113 may be formed and used in a variety of manners. For example, an exerciser may insert bands in the fitting rings formed at different positions or shorten the length of a band by inserting one single band in several fitting rings. Further, it is preferable that the fitting rings 113 are formed at predetermined intervals, or most preferably, at equal intervals so that the same load can be applied when using bands and so on. As described above, according to the present disclosure, since the weight is formed on the case capable of storing the stability ball, it is possible to store the stability ball safely and conveniently, and to take out and then conveniently use it at any time, and it is also possible to carry the stability ball easily and conveniently, and wash and use the stability ball case conveniently. |