Development and Application of Curling Brush for Evaluating Sweeping Performance

• Project/Area Number: 23500713
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sports science
• Research Institution: Kitami Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: YANAGI Hitoshi 北見工業大学, 工学部, 准教授 (60344553)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2013
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
• Keywords: スポーツバイオメカニクス / カーリング / スウィーピング / ブラシ / 力測定

Research Abstract

Sweeping is the action of moving a brush in front of a sliding stone to clean or polish the ice surface in curling. Curlers are often asked to strongly sweep the ice in order to correct the speed or the trajectory of the stone in the games. Therefore we attempted to develop the curling brush for measuring forces exerted during the sweeping. We found that the forces that the curlers could exert during the sweeping were related to their physiques, competitive experiences and physical fitness levels (especially the arm strength).

Research Products

• [Presentation] Force measurement of sweeping on ice in curling (2013)
  • Author(s): Hitoshi Yanagi, Katsumi Miyakoshi, Noriyuki Yamamoto
  • Organizer: 2013 ASICS Conference of Science & Medicine in Sport, Supplement to Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
  • Place of Presentation: Phuket(p.79)
• [Presentation] Force measurement of sweeping on ice in curling (2013)
  • Author(s): Hitoshi Yanagi, Katsumi Miyakoshi, Noriyuki Yamamoto
  • Organizer: 2013 ASICS Conference of Science & Medicine in Sport, Supplement to Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
  • Place of Presentation: Phuket
• [Presentation] カーリング選手のコントロールテストとスウィーピング力測定 (2012)
  • Author(s): 柳 等, 宮越勝美, 山本憲志
  • Organizer: 第22回日本バイオメカニクス学会
  • Place of Presentation: 札幌市
• [Presentation] Development of curling brush for measuring force exerted during sweeping (2012)
  • Author(s): Hitoshi Yanagi, Katsumi Miyakoshi, Masatoshi Fukuoka, Noriyuki Yamamoto
  • Organizer: The e-Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of Biomechanics in Sports
  • Place of Presentation: Melbourne(pp.354-356)
• [Presentation] DEVELOPMENT OF CURLING BRUSH FOR MEASURING FORCE EXERTED DURING SWEEPING (2012)
  • Author(s): Hitoshi Yanagi, Katsumi Miyakoshi, Noriyuki Yamamoto
  • Organizer: 30th Annual Conference of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports
  • Place of Presentation: Melbourne, Australia
• [Presentation] カーリング選手のコントロールテストとスウィーピング力測定 (2012)
  • Author(s): 柳 等，宮越勝美，山本憲志
  • Organizer: 第22回日本バイオメカニクス学会大会
  • Place of Presentation: 札幌市
• [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] カーリングブラシ用検出装置, カーリングブラシ及びカーリング用計測ブラシ (2013)
  • Inventor(s): 宮越勝美, 柳等
  • Industrial Property Rights Holder: 北見工業大学
  • Industrial Property Rights Type: 特許
  • Filing Date: 2013-06-10
• [Patent(Industrial Property Rights)] カーリングブラシ用検出装置，カーリングブラシ及びカーリング用計測システム (2013)
  • Inventor(s): 宮越勝美，柳 等
  • Industrial Property Rights Holder: 北見工業大学
  • Industrial Property Rights Type: 特許
  • Filing Date: 2013