Abdominal Slimming Device with U-Shaped Pressure Chambers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing slimming devices primarily focus on improving blood flow and fat breakdown in specific body regions through endurance training, but they do not effectively address the issue of intestinal peristalsis and gas elimination, which can be a problem for individuals with abdominal fat accumulations, limiting their effectiveness in reducing waist circumference.
Innovation Solution
The device incorporates u-shaped pressure chambers on both sides of the abdomen with upward and downward pointing arms to stimulate intestinal peristalsis, combined with independent chamber systems supplied by pumps or valves to manage fluid flow, ensuring alternating pressure and enhanced colon stimulation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional slimming devices use pressure chambers to improve blood flow and fat breakdown, then fat burning is enhanced, but intestinal peristalsis and gas elimination are not addressed
Solution Approach 1:
The pressure chamber device is designed to perform multiple functions: it not only improves blood flow and fat breakdown in the abdominal region but also stimulates intestinal peristalsis and facilitates gas elimination. The same pressure chambers that compress abdominal tissue for fat burning are configured to massage the colon, making the device universally effective for both slimming and digestive health.
2Productivity
If pressure chambers are arranged to stimulate blood flow in abdominal skin, then fat breakdown is improved, but the orientation does not effectively stimulate intestinal peristalsis
Solution Approach 1:
The pressure chambers are arranged asymmetrically around the abdominal region, with specific chambers positioned on the right and left sides of the abdomen. This asymmetric arrangement allows different chambers to target different anatomical structures: some chambers optimize blood flow to abdominal skin while others are positioned to directly massage the colon and stimulate peristalsis.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the abdominal sleeve are equipped with pressure chambers having different orientations and configurations. Chambers on the anterior abdomen are optimized for blood flow enhancement, while chambers on the lateral and posterior regions are configured to follow the colon's path and stimulate intestinal peristalsis through localized massage actions.
3Ease of operation
If abdominal massage is performed to stimulate peristalsis, then gas elimination is improved, but fat burning effectiveness is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The device employs periodic alternating pressure cycles where phases of stronger compression (for fat burning) are alternated with phases of rhythmic massage-like compression (for peristalsis stimulation). The pump system delivers pressure waves that periodically compress and release different abdominal regions, simultaneously achieving fat breakdown and intestinal massage without requiring separate treatment sessions.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This approach not only enhances blood flow and fat burning but also aids in the removal of intestinal gases, resulting in reduced abdominal girth and improved slimming outcomes by actively stimulating intestinal peristalsis during exercise.
Implementation Method 1
promoting blood flow with simultaneous exercise using the fat-burning pulse
Implementation Method 2
stimulation of intestinal peristalsis results... the ascending branch of the colon pass through the colon and finally escape from the latter
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AI summary
A device that permits slimming by improving blood flow in the skin, with movement by endurance training devices in the fat-burning pulse, with a main body with an attachment in the form of a sleeve for placing around the abdomen, wherein the main body has at least two chamber systems that can be acted on independently by a fluid, is improved by the fact that at least one and preferably two to four chambers of the chamber systems which come to lie on the right-hand side of the body are arranged in a U-shape with upwardly directed arms, whereas at least one and preferably two to four chambers of the chamber systems which come to lie on the left-hand side of the body are arranged in a U-shape with downwardly directed arms. This additionally stimulates peristalsis.