Foot measuring device

By combining a rotating bracket and a rotating drive mechanism with a linear laser sensor, the foot measurement device solves the problems of large size and high cost of existing devices, and realizes compact and low-cost 3D foot scanning, which is suitable for the design of personalized custom shoes.

CN223554404UActive Publication Date: 2025-11-18CEC FREUNDSCHAFT TECH CO LTD
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Application Number
CN202422516869.3
Authority / Receiving Office
CN · China
Patent Type
Utility models(China)
Current Assignee / Owner
Filing Date
2024-10-17
Publication Date
2025-11-18
Estimated Expiration
2034-10-17

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Technical Problem

Existing 3D foot acquisition devices are generally heavy, bulky, and expensive, which limits the promotion of personalized custom shoes.

Method used

A foot measurement device was designed, comprising a base, a foot 3D scanning mechanism, and a foot pressure testing plate. It employs a rotating bracket and a rotating drive mechanism, combined with a linear laser sensor or a 3D laser profilometer for 3D scanning, thereby reducing the overall size and cost of the device.

Benefits of technology

It achieves a compact and low-cost foot measurement system that can acquire high-precision three-dimensional foot contour data, and is suitable for the design and fabrication of shoes, socks, insoles, and foot sports rehabilitation protective gear.

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Abstract

The utility model belongs to the field of foot measurement, and particularly relates to a foot measuring device which comprises a base, a foot three-dimensional scanning mechanism and a plantar pressure testing plate. The plantar pressure testing plate is arranged at the top of the base; the foot three-dimensional scanning mechanism comprises a rotating support, contour scanning equipment and a rotating driving mechanism, the rotating support is rotationally arranged on the base, and the contour scanning equipment is arranged on the rotating support; the contour scanning device is located above the plantar pressure testing plate and arranged towards the rotating axis of the rotating support, and the rotating driving mechanism is used for driving the rotating support to rotate. The foot contour scanning device is compact in structure, only one contour scanning device is needed for obtaining the foot contour, three-dimensional complete scanning is achieved in cooperation with the rotary support and the rotary driving mechanism, and cost can be guaranteed.
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Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

[0001] The utility model belongs to foot measurement field, specifically related to a foot measurement device. BACKGROUND

[0002] With the development of society, especially the rapid three-dimensional scanning and three-dimensional printing technology, make shoemaking industry from traditional industry to modernization, automation change, from which produce the business of individual customization shoes, the use of foot scanner to obtain customer's foot three-dimensional information is essential and the most basic link in this business. The common foot three-dimensional acquisition device is generally heavy, bulky and high cost, for example, China patent: CN108113120A - three-dimensional foot type and foot pressure integrated measuring instrument, it needs four 3D real feeling camera groups to realize the acquisition of foot three-dimensional information, which leads to high cost, limits the popularization of individual customization shoes, and restricts the development of the industry. CONTENT OF THE UTILITY MODEL

[0003] The utility model solves the technical problem to provide a foot measurement device that is compact in structure, low in cost and high in scanning precision.

[0004] The utility model provides a foot measurement device, including base, foot three-dimensional scanning mechanism and foot pressure test board,

[0005] The foot pressure test board is arranged on the top of the base,

[0006] The foot three-dimensional scanning mechanism includes rotating support, contour scanning equipment and rotating drive mechanism, the rotating support is rotationally arranged on the base, the contour scanning equipment is arranged on the rotating support, the contour scanning equipment is above the foot pressure test board and the contour scanning equipment is arranged towards the rotation axis of the rotating support, and the rotating drive mechanism is used to drive the rotating support to rotate.

[0007] Further, the rotating support includes a horizontal rod and a vertical rod connected to each other, the other end of the horizontal rod is rotationally arranged on the base, and the contour scanning equipment is arranged on the vertical rod.

[0008] Further, the base includes a bottom plate, a rotating support seat and a foot pressure test board mounting plate arranged in sequence,

[0009] The rotating support seat outer wall is rotationally installed with a rotating ring through a bearing, and the other end of the horizontal rod is rotationally arranged on the rotating ring.

[0010] Further, the upper part of the rotating support seat is provided with external teeth, the rotating drive mechanism includes a motor arranged on the rotating ring and a drive gear arranged on the output end of the motor, and the drive gear is engaged with the external teeth.

[0011] Further, the bottom plate is provided with a containing groove.

[0012] The vertical rod is hinged with the horizontal rod, the other end of the horizontal rod is hinged with the rotating ring, and the vertical rod and the horizontal rod can be contained in the containing groove after being rotated and fitted.

[0013] Further, the plantar pressure test plate comprises a plate body and a dot-matrix pressure sensor arranged on the plate body.

[0014] Further, the dot-matrix pressure sensor comprises a plurality of square thin film pressure sensitive resistors connected in series by dot-matrix.

[0015] Further, the transverse dimension of the plantar pressure test plate is 200-220mm, and the longitudinal dimension is 400-440mm.

[0016] Further, the base is provided with a single-leg supporting table on one side.

[0017] Further, the contour scanning device is a linear array laser sensor, a 3D laser contour instrument or a camera.

[0018] The foot measuring device provided by the utility model has the advantages of compact structure, small size, close size to the size of a human body electronic scale, solution to the problems of heavy and large size of current plantar collection devices, and acquisition of foot contour by only one contour scanning device, cooperation of the rotating support and the rotating driving mechanism to realize three-dimensional complete scanning, great reduction of cost, and facilitation of further promotion of the foot measuring device. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0019] FIG. 1 is a first angle structural schematic view of the utility model; Figure 1 FIG. 2 is a second angle structural schematic view of the utility model;

[0020] FIG. 3 is a third angle structural schematic view of the utility model; Figure 2 FIG. 4 is a front sectional view of the utility model.

[0021] FIG. 5 is a front sectional view of the utility model. Figure 3 FIG. 6 is a front sectional view of the utility model.

[0022] FIG. 7 is a front sectional view of the utility model. Figure 4 FIG. 8 is a front sectional view of the utility model.

[0023] In the figure, 1-base; 11-bottom plate; 111-receiving groove; 12-rotary support seat; 121-outer teeth; 13-foot pressure test plate mounting plate; 2-foot three-dimensional scanning mechanism; 21-rotary bracket; 211-horizontal rod; 212-vertical rod; 22-contour scanning device; 23-rotary drive mechanism; 231-motor; 232-driving gear; 24-rotary ring; 3-foot pressure test plate. DETAILED DESCRIPTION

[0024] The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are only part of the embodiments of the present application, rather than all the embodiments. Based on the embodiments in the present application, all other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art without creative labor fall within the scope of protection of the present application.

[0025] It should be noted that all directional indications (such as up, down, left, right, front, back, etc.) in the embodiments of the present application are only used to explain the relative positional relationship, movement condition, etc. between components in a certain posture (as shown in the drawings), and if the certain posture changes, the directional indications also change accordingly.

[0026] In addition, the description of "first", "second", etc. in the present application is only for the purpose of description, and cannot be understood as indicating or implying the relative importance of the indicated technical features or implicitly indicating the number of the indicated technical features. Therefore, the features limited by "first", "second" can explicitly or implicitly include at least one of the features. In the description of the present application, the meaning of "multiple" is at least two, such as two, three, etc., unless otherwise specifically limited.

[0027] In the present application, unless otherwise specifically defined and limited, the terms "connection", "fixing", etc. should be understood broadly, for example, "fixing" can be fixed connection, or detachable connection, or integral; can be mechanical connection, or electrical connection, or physical connection or wireless communication connection; can be directly connected, or indirectly connected through an intermediate medium, or the internal communication of two elements or the interaction relationship between two elements, unless otherwise specifically limited. For those skilled in the art, the specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood according to the specific circumstances.

[0028] In addition, the technical solutions of each embodiment of the present application can be combined with each other, but it must be based on the fact that a person skilled in the art can realize it, when the combination of technical solutions appears contradictory or unachievable, it should be considered that the combination of technical solutions does not exist, nor is it within the scope of protection required by the present application.

[0029] As shown in the accompanying Figure 1 -attached Figure 4 The utility model provides a foot measuring device can be used for the design preparation of shoes, socks, insoles or foot sports / health protection equipment provides foot information, including base 1, foot three dimensional scanning mechanism 2 and foot pressure test board 3, wherein foot three dimensional scanning mechanism 2 is used to scan and obtain foot three dimensional profile and size data, and foot pressure test board 3 is used to obtain foot pressure distribution condition;

[0030] The foot pressure test board 3 is arranged on the top of the base 1, which is used for bearing the foot of the testee and measuring the pressure distribution of the foot of the testee;

[0031] The foot three dimensional scanning mechanism 2 comprises a rotating support 21, a profile scanning device 22 and a rotating drive mechanism 23, the rotating support 21 is rotationally arranged on the base 1, the profile scanning device 22 is arranged on the rotating support 21, the profile scanning device 22 is located above the foot pressure test board 3 and is arranged towards the rotation axis of the rotating support 21, and the rotating drive mechanism 23 is used for driving the rotating support 21 to rotate, so that the profile scanning device 22 rotates around the foot and three dimensional profile data of the foot is obtained.

[0032] It should be noted that the specific use method of the foot pressure test board 3 and the profile scanning device 22 and the comprehensive analysis of the design preparation of shoes, socks, insoles or foot sports / health protection equipment after the combination of the data are prior art, for example, Chinese patent "CN108113120A - three dimensional foot type and foot pressure integrated measuring instrument", which will not be repeated here, and the focus of the utility model is the improvement of the structure.

[0033] The foot measuring device has compact and small structure, and the size can be close to the size of a human body electronic scale, so that the problems of the current foot collecting device, such as being generally heavy and large in size, are solved, and only one profile scanning device 22 is needed to obtain the foot profile, and the three dimensional complete scanning is realized by cooperating with the rotating support 21 and the rotating drive mechanism 23, so that the cost can be greatly reduced, and the further popularization of the foot measuring device is beneficial.

[0034] In one of the embodiments, the rotating support 21 comprises horizontal rods 211 and vertical rods 212 connected with each other, the horizontal rods 211 are horizontally arranged and the vertical rods 212 are vertically arranged in use, the other end of the horizontal rods 211 is rotatably arranged on the base 1 so that the vertical rods 212 can rotate around the rotating axis thereof, the profile scanning device 22 is arranged on the vertical rods 212 and is arranged towards the rotating axis of the rotating support 21, which can be used to acquire the three-dimensional profile data of the foot.

[0035] In one of the embodiments, reference is made to the accompanying drawings Figure 4 , the base 1 comprises a bottom plate 11, a rotating support seat 12 and a plantar pressure test plate mounting plate 13 arranged in sequence, wherein the bottom plate 11 is used to place the utility model on the ground, the rotating support seat 12 is used to realize the rotation of the rotating support 21, and the plantar pressure test plate mounting plate 13 is used to mount the plantar pressure test plate 3, wherein the rotating support seat 12 can also be used to connect the bottom plate 11 and the plantar pressure test plate mounting plate 13, so that the weight of the user is transmitted to the connecting bottom plate 11 through the rotating support seat 12; preferably, the bottom plate 11 and the plantar pressure test plate mounting plate 13 adopt rectangular plates, the rotating support seat 12 adopts a circular plate, and the rotating support seat 12 is located on the inner side of the bottom plate 11, and the vertical rods 212 are arranged on the upper part of the plantar pressure test plate mounting plate 13.

[0036] The outer wall of the rotating support seat 12 is rotatably provided with a rotating ring 24, preferably, the rotating ring 24 is rotatably connected with the outer wall of the rotating support seat 12 and the upper end surface of the bottom plate 11, thereby ensuring the supporting capacity and the stability of rotation, and the other end of the horizontal rods 211 is rotatably arranged on the rotating ring 24, so that the rotation of the rotating ring 24 drives the rotating support 21 to rotate.

[0037] In one of the embodiments, the upper part of the rotating support seat 12 is provided with external teeth 121, at this time, the upper end of the rotating ring 24 is spaced from the lower end of the plantar pressure test plate mounting plate 13, and the external teeth 121 are arranged in the space, the rotating drive mechanism 23 comprises a motor 231 arranged on the rotating ring 24 and a drive gear 232 arranged on the output end of the motor 231, the drive gear 232 is engaged with the external teeth 121, at this time, when the motor 231 drives the drive gear 232 to rotate, the drive gear 232 rotates around the external teeth 121, thereby realizing that the motor 231 drives the rotating ring 24 to rotate, in this embodiment, a storage battery for supplying power to the motor 231 can also be arranged on the rotating ring 24.

[0038] In one of the embodiments, reference is made to the accompanying drawings Figure 2 and the accompanying drawings Figure 4 , the bottom plate 11 is provided with a receiving groove 111;

[0039] The vertical rod 212 is hinged with the horizontal rod 211, that is, the vertical rod 212 can be rotated to be attached with the horizontal rod 211, the other end of the horizontal rod 211 is hinged with the rotating ring 24, that is, the horizontal rod 211 can be rotated on one side of the rotating ring 24, and after the vertical rod 212 and the horizontal rod 211 are attached and rotated, they can be accommodated in the accommodating groove 111, at this time, the foot three-dimensional scanning mechanism 2 of the foot measuring device is completely accommodated in the base 1, on the one hand, the foot three-dimensional scanning mechanism 2 can be hidden when it is not needed, so that the base 1 can physically protect the foot three-dimensional scanning mechanism 2, on the other hand, the structural compactness of the foot measuring device can be further improved, and when only insole and sole need to be designed, the foot three-dimensional scanning mechanism 2 can be hidden, and only the foot pressure test plate 3 is reserved for use, which is used to guide the design and production of individualized insole and sole. In addition, the hinge structure and the accommodating groove 111 are both provided with locking and unlocking devices, so that the rotating support 21 can be kept in the unfolded or folded state.

[0040] In one of the embodiments, the foot pressure test plate 3 comprises a plate body and a dot matrix pressure sensor arranged on the plate body, specifically, the foot pressure test plate 3 collects the foot pressure distribution through the dot matrix pressure sensor, and performs gait analysis through a software algorithm, which is used for individualized insole and sole design.

[0041] In one of the embodiments, the dot matrix pressure sensor comprises a plurality of square thin film pressure sensitive resistors connected in a dot matrix manner, preferably, the square thin film pressure sensitive resistor adopts a square thin film pressure sensitive resistor with a size of 6mm*6mm, so as to ensure the foot pressure test accuracy.

[0042] In one of the embodiments, the transverse dimension of the foot pressure test plate 3 is 200-220mm, preferably 210mm, and the longitudinal dimension is 400-440mm, preferably 420mm. In this embodiment, the foot pressure test plate 3 is used for single foot test, at this time, the foot three-dimensional scanning mechanism 2 is also used for single foot scanning, which can improve the comprehensiveness and accuracy of scanning. Preferably, one side of the base 1 is provided with a single foot support table, which is used to support the other foot which is not tested. In this embodiment, after one foot test is completed, the user can switch the test foot by turning around, which can further reduce the cost while improving the test accuracy.

[0043] In one of the embodiments, the contour scanning device 22 is a line array laser sensor, a 3D laser contour instrument or a camera, when the line array laser sensor is adopted, the line array laser sensor is arranged vertically on the vertical rod 212.

[0044] In one embodiment, the rotation axis of the rotating support 21 is located in the middle of the plantar pressure test plate 3, which can facilitate the rotation of the single foot or the double feet to be tested by the contour scanning device 22 in the middle when the user stands, thereby improving the test accuracy.

[0045] The above is only the embodiment, and does not limit the utility model. Any person skilled in the art can make many possible changes, modifications or modifications to the utility model technical scheme by using the disclosed technical content without departing from the scope of the utility model technical scheme, and equivalent embodiments of equivalent changes. Therefore, any simple modification, equivalent change and modification of the above embodiments according to the technical essence of the utility model technical scheme should fall within the scope of the utility model technical scheme.

Claims

1. A foot measuring device, characterized in that, Includes a base (1), a three-dimensional foot scanning mechanism (2), and a plantar pressure testing plate (3); The plantar pressure test plate (3) is set on top of the base (1); The foot three-dimensional scanning mechanism (2) includes a rotating bracket (21), a contour scanning device (22), and a rotation drive mechanism (23). The rotating bracket (21) is rotatably mounted on the base (1). The contour scanning device (22) is mounted on the rotating bracket (21). The contour scanning device (22) is located above the plantar pressure test plate (3) and is positioned towards the rotation axis of the rotating bracket (21). The rotation drive mechanism (23) is used to drive the rotating bracket (21) to rotate. The rotating support (21) includes a horizontal rod (211) and a vertical rod (212) connected to each other. The other end of the horizontal rod (211) is rotatably mounted on the base (1), and the contour scanning device (22) is arranged on the vertical rod (212). The base (1) includes a base plate (11), a rotating support seat (12), and a foot pressure test plate mounting plate (13) arranged in sequence. The outer wall of the rotating support base (12) is rotatably mounted with a rotating ring (24) via a bearing, and the other end of the horizontal rod (211) is rotatably mounted on the rotating ring (24); The upper part of the rotating support base (12) is provided with an external tooth (121), and the rotating drive mechanism (23) includes a motor (231) provided on the rotating ring (24) and a drive gear (232) provided on the output end of the motor (231). The drive gear (232) meshes with the external tooth (121). The base plate (11) is provided with a receiving groove (111); The vertical rod (212) is hinged to the horizontal rod (211), and the other end of the horizontal rod (211) is hinged to the rotating ring (24). After the vertical rod (212) and the horizontal rod (211) are rotated and fitted together, they can be accommodated in the receiving groove (111).

2. The foot measuring device as described in claim 1, characterized in that, The plantar pressure test plate (3) includes a plate body and a dot matrix pressure sensor disposed on the plate body.

3. The foot measuring device as described in claim 2, characterized in that, The dot matrix pressure sensor includes several square thin-film piezoresistors connected in series in a dot matrix manner.

4. The foot measuring device as described in claim 1, characterized in that, The foot pressure test plate (3) has a horizontal dimension of 200-220mm and a vertical dimension of 400-440mm.

5. The foot measuring device as described in claim 4, characterized in that, A single-leg support platform is provided on one side of the base (1).

6. The foot measuring device as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that, The contour scanning device (22) is a linear laser sensor, a 3D laser contour analyzer, or a camera.

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  • Three-dimensional foot type and sole pressure integrated measuring instrument

    CN108113120A