US 12,145,020 B2
Exercise machine configurations
Michael Valente, San Francisco, CA (US); Robin Barata, San Francisco, CA (US); David Mallard, Mill Valley, CA (US); and Thomas Kroman Watt, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Tonal Systems, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Tonal Systems, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 14, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/550,981.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/125,924, filed on Dec. 15, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0212055 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. A63B 21/00 (2006.01); A63B 24/00 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 21/151 (2013.01) [A63B 24/0021 (2013.01); A63B 2024/0053 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An exercise machine including:
a vertically oriented console unit comprising:
a first cable;
a screen;
an actuator coupled to the first cable;
a motor coupled to the first cable;
an encoder, wherein the encoder determines a position, wherein the position is at least one of position of the motor and position of the actuator; and
wherein the motor provides a controllable tension force on the first cable based at least in part on the position; and
an auxiliary pulley that is remote from the console unit, wherein the first cable is routable over the auxiliary pulley that is remote from the console unit, and being remote includes being in a physical space other than within the console unit or being directly attached to the console unit.