Appeal No. 98-2352
Application 08/245,870
user’s gluteus maximus muscles to a relaxed condition; a seat (41), knee pad (60)
and foot restraint structure (49, 50, 51) forming means mounted to the frame for
maintaining the user’s knees in a flexed or bent condition for directing the user’s
hamstring muscles to a relaxed condition; a trunk pad lever assembly or lever means
(Fig. 3); and a torque transducer (93) which provides resistance means operatively
coupled to the trunk pad lever assembly for resisting user-induced movement of the
lever assembly with a predetermined resistance force.
Appellants’ arguments with regard to Smidt (brief, pages 13-14) are that 1) since
Smidt discloses a user in a seated position with a completely isolated lower body, the
Smidt device
“cannot be said to simultaneously provide means for resisting
forward movement at the user’s hips to direct the user’s gluteus maximus
muscles to a relaxed condition and means for maintaining the user’s
knees in a flexed condition to direct the user’s hamstring mu
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