Smart Bag

Abstract

A smart bag offers tactical, visual, and audible interactive features for workouts and has numerous benefits: enhance aerobic fitness, core stability, coordination, power, stamina, and endurance. The smart bag improves upper-body strength and strengthen bones and ligaments and enhances full body boxing, MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), kickboxing techniques. The smart bag provides real-time guidance to indulge the user in a challenging experience. The workout guidance is presented through illuminating and extinguishing a series of light units integrated with sensors. The light units are distributed on the bag, wherein the duration and sequence of illumination of individual light units are controlled by a control system. Through interacting with the control system, the user achieves focused training at the desired intensity level that emphasizes on power, speed, accuracy, and reaction. Further, the control system can record boxing and biometric data using the sensors.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts comprising:
 a body;   an illuminating system;   the illuminating system being exteriorly attached to the body;   the illumination system comprising a plurality of illumination devices and a plurality of sensors;   each of the plurality of illumination devices being exteriorly distributed on the body;   each of the plurality of sensors being positioned within each of the plurality of illumination devices; and   each of the plurality of sensors being electrically connected to each of the plurality of illumination devices.   
     
     
         2 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 1  comprising:
 each of the plurality of sensors comprising a touch sensor; and 
 wherein each of the plurality of illumination devices extinguishes once the corresponding touch sensor is impacted by an external force. 
 
     
     
         3 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of sensors comprising an impact sensor. 
     
     
         4 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 1  comprising:
 a control system; 
 the control system being exteriorly attached to the body; 
 the control system comprising a processor; 
 the processor being positioned within the control system; and 
 the processor being electrically connected to the plurality of illumination devices of the illumination system; 
 the processor being electrically connected to the plurality of sensors; and 
 wherein the processor is configured to energize the plurality of illumination devices at a predetermined duration and sequence. 
 
     
     
         5 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 4  comprising:
 the control system comprising a power supply and a display; 
 the power supply being positioned within the control system; 
 the power supply being electrically connected to the illumination system; 
 the power supply being electrically connected to the processor; 
 the power supply being electrically connected to the display; 
 the processor being electrically connected to the display; and 
 the display being exteriorly positioned on the control system. 
 
     
     
         6 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 5  comprising:
 the display comprising a plurality of challenge levels; 
 each of the plurality of challenge levels comprising a predetermined combination of duration and sequence of energizing the plurality of illumination devices of the illumination system through the processor. 
 
     
     
         7 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 5  comprising:
 the display comprising a plurality of intensity levels; 
 each of the plurality of intensity levels comprising a predetermined combination of duration and sequence of energizing the plurality of illumination devices of the illumination system through the processor. 
 
     
     
         8 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 5 , wherein the display is a touchscreen display. 
     
     
         9 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 5 , wherein the processor presents sensor data on the display. 
     
     
         10 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 9 , wherein the sensor data include exercise biometrics measurements. 
     
     
         11 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 9 , wherein the sensor data include results for a specific challenge level. 
     
     
         12 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 5  comprising:
 an extraneous personal computing (PC) device; 
 the control system comprising a transmitter; 
 the transmitter being exteriorly mounted to the control system adjacent the display; 
 the transmitter being electrically connected to the processor; and 
 the PC device being connected to the processor of the control system through the transmitter and a wireless communication network. 
 
     
     
         13 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 4  comprising:
 the control system comprising a speaker and a sound control; 
 the speaker being attached to the control system adjacent the display; 
 the sound control being mounted on the display; and 
 both the speaker and the sound control being electrically connected to the processor. 
 
     
     
         14 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 4  comprising:
 the display comprising a plurality of control buttons; 
 the plurality of control buttons being positioned on the display; and 
 the plurality of control buttons being electrically connected to the processor. 
 
     
     
         15 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 13 , wherein the plurality of control buttons comprises a switch for system start and stop. 
     
     
         16 . The smart bag system for punching and kicking workouts as claimed in  claim 4  comprising:
 the control system comprising a plurality of control buttons; 
 the plurality of control buttons being exteriorly mounted to the body adjacent the display; and 
 the plurality of control buttons being electrically connected to the processor.