Automatic Pendulum Device for Billiards Practice

The application claims priority to Chinese patent application No. 2024205430556, filed on Mar. 19, 2024, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

The invention patent relates to the field of billiards, especially an automatic billiards practice swing device.

With the height of the billiards atmosphere, players (such as amateur players or professional players) in order to improve the level of billiards, need to spend a lot of time to practice the ball accuracy and skills, but in the process of practice, need to spend a lot of time to pick up the ball, resulting in a lot of time waste, affect the interest and patience of practice. In fact, at the time of hitting the ball, after hand pole and power is particularly important, but if after hitting the ball, get up to pick up the ball and then put position, it is difficult to ponder and restore the last error or correct posture to hit the ball, so practice is difficult to make rapid progress, practice effect is poor.

The embodiment of the present application provides an automatic swing ball device to solve at least one problem existing in the relevant technology. The technical scheme is as follows:

In the first aspect, the embodiment of this application provides an automatic swing device for billiards practice, including:

The control module, electrically connected to the infrared detection module and the pendulum module, is used to drive the pendulum module to place the billiard ball in the storage box.

In one embodiment, the pendulum ball module includes a mechanical claw and a motor unit connected to the mechanical claw, and the motor unit is electrically connected to the control module.

In one embodiment, the swing ball module includes a baffle, a first lock switch, and a pushrod unit. The first lock switch is disposed at an outlet of the storage box and is electrically connected to the control module, the pushrod unit is connected to the baffle, and the pushrod unit is electrically connected to the control module.

In one embodiment, the baffle has a pull rod for pushing open the obstacle ball.

In one embodiment, the pushrod unit includes a pushrod and a motor, the pushrod is connected to the baffle and the motor, electrically connected to the control module.

In one embodiment, the pendulum ball module further includes a Hall detection unit that is electrically connected to the control module for detecting the position of the pusher.

In one embodiment, the baffle has a through hole and a second lock switch disposed in the through hole and electrically connected to the control module.

In one embodiment, the storage box includes a main body and a pad plate having a cavity for accommodating a billiard ball and an outlet communicating with the chamber, the pad disposed below the main body and the pad tilted toward the outlet.

In one embodiment, the control module comprises a control unit and a communication unit electrically connected to and for communication with the control unit, and the control unit is electrically connected to the infrared detection module and the pendulum ball module.

In one embodiment, the control module further includes a start button that is electrically connected to the control unit.

The beneficial effects in the above technical scheme include at least:

The above overview is merely for the purpose of the instruction manual and is not intended to restrict in any way. In addition to the schematic aspects, embodiments and features described above, further aspects, embodiments and features of the present application will be easily understood by referring to the drawings and the following detailed description below.

In order to better understand the people in the art, the technical scheme in this application embodiment will be clearly and completely described in combination with the drawings in the embodiment of the application, obviously, the described embodiments are only a part of the application, rather than all of the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in this application, all other embodiments obtained by ordinary technicians in the field without making creative labor shall fall within the scope of protection in this application.

The specification and claim of the present application and the terms “first”, “second” and “third” in the accompanying drawings are only used to distinguish different objects, not to describe a specific order. Furthermore, the terms “include” and “have” and any deformation of them are intended to cover the non-exclusive inclusion. Referring to the embodiment herein means that specific features, structures, or features described in connection with the embodiment may be included in at least one embodiment of the present application. The occurrence of the phrase in each position in the specification does not necessarily mean the same embodiment, nor is it an independent or alternative embodiment mutually exclusive to other embodiments. It is both explicitly and implicitly understood by those skilled in the art that the embodiments described herein may be combined with other embodiments.

The invention patent is further explained and explained below in combination with the attached drawings of the instruction manual and the specific embodiments.

Referring to, the embodiment of this application provides a billiards practice automatic pendulum device, including a pendulum module, an infrared detection module, a control module, and a storage box.

Referring to, the storage boxis optional for accommodating a plurality of billiards T (billiards), and the storage boxhas an outlet C for exporting the outlet C for the balls to strike the ball. Among them, the ball storage boxcan be placed on the edge of the billiards table, the ball storage boxcan be vertical shape, or the ball storage boxcan be placed on the billiards table, and the ball friend can adjust the position of the ball storage boxaccording to their own practice needs. It should be noted that in the embodiment of the present application, with the storage boxplaced on a billiard table, the storage boxincludes a main bodyand a pad platewith an accommodation chamber accommodating a plurality of billiards balls and an outlet C connected with the accommodation chamber, with the outlet C being the outlet C of the storage box; the pad plateis tilted toward the exit C near the exit C is lower than the side of the exit C from the exit C, such as a inclination of 5°. In some embodiments, the main bodyor the cushion platemay be directly raised at the edge of the billiard table, thereby facilitating the billiards to roll out of the exit C without specific limitation.

Referring to, alternatively, in the present application embodiment, the swing ball moduleincludes a baffle, a first lock switch, a pusher unit, a Hall detection unit, the first lock switchis provided at the outlet C of the storage boxand is electrically connected to the control module, and the control modulecan control the opening of the first lock switchso that the billiards roll out from the outlet C, or control the closing of the first lock switchso that the billiards cannot roll out from the outlet C.

Referring to, the pushrod unitincludes the pushrod, housing boxand motor, the pushrodis connected to the baffle,and motor, motorto the control module, pusherto the motor, the pushrodand baffleincluding, but not limited to by welding, jamming, screws, or pasting, etc., and the pushrodmay move the baffle; the motorof the pushrod unitis electrically connected to the control module. The housing boxis connected to the main bodyof the storage box, and the housing boxis used to accommodate the putter.

Referring to, the Hall detection unitis electrically connected to the control modulefor detecting the position of the push rod, and the Hall detection unitis disposed in the housing box.

Referring to, in the present application embodiment, the bafflehas a main board(on the main board), a second locking switch, a pull rodand a limit boardon each side of the through hole, the main boardconnected to the push rod, and one side of the main boardextending in the length direction of the motherboard, in some embodiments, the limit platemay not be provided. Where the through hole is designed to be sized for billiards passing, the second lock switchis disposed in the through hole and electrically connected to the control moduleto control the billiards being fixed or passed by controlling the opening and closing of the second lock switch. Also, the limit plateis used to guide the pool so that the pool can better roll into the through hole.

Optionally, the first lock switchand the second lock switchmay be opened or closed by the control module, and the first lock switchand the second lock switchcan be composed of a locking motor and a block connected to the locking motor, which drives the block or moves.

Referring to, in the present application embodiment, the infrared detection moduleis provided on the baffle, and the infrared detection moduleis electrically connected to the control modulefor detecting obstacles. For example, the infrared detection modulemay be provided on the main boardor the limit plate.

In the embodiment of this application, the control modulemay be integrated in the form of a control board and connected to the main bodyof the storage box, which is used to drive the pendulum ball moduleto place the billiard ball in the storage box. Optionally, the control moduleincludes, but is not limited to, a control unit, a communication unit, a start button, an analog-to-digital conversion unit, a state indicator unit, a power supply unit, a power supply unit for a control unit, a start button, a digital conversion unit, a status indicator unit, a pendulum ball module, an infrared detection module, which electrically connects the pendulum ball module, a communication unit, a start button, a digital conversion unit, a state indicator unit, an analog-to-digital conversion unit to connect the Hall detection unit, and an infrared detection module.

Optionally, the analog-to-digital conversion circuit may convert the collected analog signal into a digital signal to the control unit to determine the position of the pushrodor to determine whether there is an obstacle present.

Optionally, the communication unit may be a wifi module or a serial port communication circuit without specific limitation. The state indicator light unit is used to indicate the working state, service number count, single working time, etc. The control unit can record the single working time, and be displayed by the state indicator light unit; the state indicator light unit may include at least one display light and a display unit, such as a screen or a digital tube.

Alternatively, the communication unit is electrically connected to the control unit and used for communication with the terminal, and the player may send a start command to the control unit through the start button or the terminal; and the player may view the use of a billiard ball through the terminal.

It should be noted that the control unit may be composed of any one or more processor chips including MCU, FPGA, CPLD, DSP, ARM, etc., such as MCU of GD32F103 model; the analog-to-digital conversion unit, state indicator unit, and Hall detection unitmay be implemented using existing circuits without specific limitation.

Alternatively, in another embodiment, the ball modulemay include a mechanical claw (not shown) and a motor unit (not illustrated), a motor unit connected to the mechanical claw, such as including but not limited to a transmission connection by gears, shafts, etc., and the motor unit electrically connected to the control module. Among them, the motor unit may include multiple motor subunits (each motor subunit is a motor), with a point on the billiard table as the reference, the different motor subunits can move in at least one of the X axis, Y axis, Z axis, under the control of the control module, the ball box, and then put the billiard to the position of the billiard table. It should be noted that the position of the mechanical claw to the billiards table can be set in advance according to the need, or the position of the mechanical claw can be adjusted in advance, so that the mechanical claw can put the billiards to the desired area. Optionally, the mechanical claw may be connected to the storage box, including but not limited to welding, bonding, screw connection, pasting, and so on, without specific limitation.

The specific working process of the present application embodiment is described below:

As shown in, for the initial state, the ball friends by operating terminal or start button, billiards practice automatic pendulum device began to work, control unit receives the detection results of infrared detection module, if the ball friends have a billiards, the infrared detection modulefor no obstacles, namely the ball area without billiards, such as 10 cm ahead (can be based on the actual adjustment) in no ball:

It is understandable that if the billiards is hit again, the detection result of infrared detection moduleis that there is no obstacle, and the above process is repeated again, so as to realize the automatic ball swing for many times, facilitate the ball friends to strike training, which is conducive to improving the practice effect.

It should be noted that due to the limited detection range of the infrared detection module, the baffleand the pull rodcan push away the obstacle ball in the shot area to achieve automatic placement without affecting the shot.

Optionally, in some embodiments, two billiards practice automatic pendulum devices may be provided to form a billiards practice automatic pendulum system, one for automatically placing the billiards (equivalent to the white ball) and the other one for being hit (equivalent to a ball other than the white ball).

Through the billiards practice automatic swing device in the embodiment of this application, the technical level and stability of billiards enthusiasts can be quickly improved, improve the feel of the ball and correct their wrong posture, and quickly improve the level of the ball. At the same time, for amateur or professional players to improve more fun and sense of participation.

The above is the better implementation of the patent of the invention, but the invention patent is not limited to the embodiment, familiar with the technical personnel in the spirit of the patent of the invention can make a variety of equivalent deformation or replacement, these equivalent deformation or replacement are contained within the scope of the claims of this application.