US 12,070,667 B2
Soccer training equipment and kits
Rob Karas, North Salt Lake, UT (US)
Assigned to SOCCERTECH COACHING, LLC, North Salt Lake, UT (US)
Filed by SoccerTech Coaching, LLC, North Salt Lake, UT (US)
Filed on Jul. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/377,984.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/054,646, filed on Jul. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0023732 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. A63B 69/00 (2006.01); A63B 63/00 (2006.01); A63B 71/02 (2006.01); F21Y 115/10 (2016.01)
CPC A63B 69/002 (2013.01) [A63B 63/004 (2013.01); A63B 69/0097 (2013.01); A63B 71/03 (2020.08); A63B 2209/10 (2013.01); A63B 2210/50 (2013.01); A63B 2214/00 (2020.08); A63B 2220/801 (2013.01); A63B 2220/833 (2013.01); A63B 2225/62 (2013.01); A63B 2225/74 (2020.08); A63B 2243/0025 (2013.01); F21Y 2115/10 (2016.08)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A soccer training device comprising:
an illuminating contact sensor having a sensing module and a light emitter that emits visible light, wherein a force contact above a predetermined threshold is sensed by the sensing module and modulates the visible light emitted from the light emitter; and
a soccer training member having:
a body having a front surface facing a first direction, wherein the front surface of the body is configured as a soccer rebounder that rebounds a soccer ball;
a receptacle in the body or attached to the body that is adapted to removably receive the illuminating contact sensor, wherein the receptacle is formed by the body and at least one receptacle member; and
an optical aperture in the front surface of the body that is substantially aligned with the first direction and optically coupled with the receptacle so that placement of the illuminating contact sensor in the receptacle directs the light emitter through the optical aperture; and wherein:
the illuminating contact sensor is associated with the body so that a light from the light emitter is visible and in substantially the same first direction that the front surface faces and so that a force contact above a predetermined threshold with the body is sensed by a sensing module.