3D Body Scanner With Expandable Brackets for Accurate Full-Body Scanning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current human body scanning devices are complex, costly, and inconvenient to use, requiring professional assembly and operation, and often result in inaccurate measurements due to their rotating mechanisms and multiple components, leading to inefficient tailoring and poor fit in clothing.

Innovation Solution

A three-dimensional human body scanning device comprising a carrier module, a bracket module with stretchable brackets, and a fixed module that allows 360° scanning without rotation, enabling non-professional use and accurate measurements by moving around the user and adjusting height and angle for comprehensive body scanning.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional human body scanning devices use rotating mechanisms and ring assemblies, then scanning coverage is improved, but device complexity and size increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescanning coverageVSAvoidstructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of rotating the scanning device around the user, the patent inverts the approach by having the carrier module rotate around the user while keeping the scanning device fixed on the bracket module. This inversion simplifies the scanning mechanism while maintaining 360° coverage capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Solution Approach 2:

The device is divided into independent functional modules: carrier module for rotation, bracket module for positioning, and fixed module for scanning. This segmentation allows each module to perform its specific function without requiring complex integration, reducing overall device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Adaptability or versatility

If traditional scanning devices use multiple components like rotating mechanisms and brackets, then scanning capability is improved, but manufacturing cost and assembly difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescanning capabilityVSAvoidassembly difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the rotation function into the carrier module and keeps the scanning function fixed on the bracket module. This combination eliminates the need for complex rotating scanning mechanisms, reducing component count and simplifying assembly while maintaining full scanning capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Manufacturing precision

If traditional scanning devices are designed with fixed structures, then manufacturing precision is improved, but portability and ease of operation decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemeasurement accuracyVSAvoidportability
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces dynamic elements such as the rotatable carrier module and adjustable bracket module while maintaining a fixed scanning device. This dynamic design allows the device to be portable and easy to operate while the fixed scanning component ensures measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

4Measurement precision

If professional assembly and operation are required for scanning devices, then measurement precision is improved, but productivity and ease of use decrease

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemeasurement accuracyVSAvoidtailoring efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The device is designed to be self-operating with automatic rotation and scanning functions. The carrier module automatically rotates around the user and the scanning device captures measurements without requiring professional operation, making the system accessible to ordinary users while maintaining precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11422438B2Three-dimensional human body scanning device
Publication Date: 2022.08.23 SUMMER SMILE INT CO
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AI summary

A three-dimensional human body scanning device includes: a carrier module, moving around a to-be-measured person; a bracket module, installed above the carrier module, where the bracket module includes a plurality of stretchable brackets connected in an enveloping and storage manner, and other brackets are accommodated and assembled inside a sleeve; and a fixed module, installed on the sleeve, where the fixed module is used to hold the scanning device, and drives the scanning device through up-and-down stretch of the bracket module and movement of a slider element to scan a human body.