Adhesive Layer Compression Garment for Skin Stimulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current compression garments lack a direct and efficient method to stimulate skin and underlying muscle groups without mechanical reinforcement, limiting their ability to enhance blood and lymphatic flow and muscle metabolism.
Innovation Solution
A garment with a textile backing material and an adhesive layer that stretches by at least 65% of the initial elastic amount, featuring a low resistance to stretching and high friction coefficient, applied in strips, waves, or dots to create targeted stimulation zones that mimic kinesiological taping principles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If an adhesive layer is applied to the textile carrier material to provide direct skin contact and stimulation, then the stimulation effect on skin and muscle groups is improved, but the resistance to stretching increases
Solution Approach 1:
The adhesive layer is applied as a thin film on the textile carrier material, providing direct skin contact and stimulation while maintaining flexibility. The thin film structure ensures minimal impact on the stretching properties of the garment, resolving the contradiction between providing stimulation effect and maintaining low resistance to stretching.
Solution Approach 2:
The adhesive layer is designed with specific physical and chemical parameters that allow it to adhere to the skin while stretching with the garment. By carefully selecting adhesive properties and application methods, the system achieves effective skin contact and stimulation without significantly increasing resistance to stretching.
2Reliability
If the adhesive layer is made highly elastic to match skin elasticity, then direct contact and stimulation are improved, but the ability to provide compression is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The adhesive layer is designed to dynamically adapt to skin movement while maintaining compression. The layer stretches with skin movement to preserve direct contact and stimulation, while the textile carrier material and garment structure provide the necessary compression force. This dynamic design resolves the contradiction between maintaining direct contact and providing compression.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The garment provides effective stimulation of muscle and lymphatic pathways without mechanical reinforcement, enhancing blood and lymphatic flow and muscle metabolism through defined compression and friction differences between the adhesive layer and textile base material.
Implementation Method 1
high friction coefficient
Implementation Method 2
adhesive layer
Implementation Method 3
the textile base material stretches without an adhesive layer when a defined stretching force is applied by a first elastic stretching amount
Implementation Method 4
generating a defined compression which causes the adhesive layer to be pressed against the skin
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AI summary
The invention relates to an article of clothing (1) comprising a textile supporting material (2) that encompasses a section of the body of the wearer of the clothing (1), wherein on the side of the supporting material (2) that faces the section of the body an adhesive layer (3) is arranged on the supporting material (2), which adhesive layer is in contact with a part of the section of the body when the article of clothing (1) is being used as intended, and the textile supporting material (2) without the adhesive layer (3) stretches by a first elastic extension value (Deltas1) under the exertion of a defined extension force (F0). To exert a stimulative effect on the skin of the wearer of said article of clothing, according to the invention the textile supporting material (2) including the adhesive layer (3) stretches by a second elastic extension value (Deltas2) under the exertion of an extension force (F0), which is at least 65%, preferably 75%, of the first elastic extension value (Deltas1).