Adjustable Bat Training Device with Spring-Loaded Transition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing bat exercise devices lack adjustability in bending, which limits their effectiveness in improving swinging and hitting skills, as they focus on narrow aspects of swinging or hitting without providing a comprehensive practice method.
Innovation Solution
A bat exercise device with adjustable components, including a handle, transition piece, and barrel piece connected by biasing elements, allowing for adjustable resistance and weight positioning to simulate different swing weights and frequencies, enabling users to develop mind muscle memory through repetitive exercises.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing bat exercise devices are used, then they provide a fixed structure for practice, but they lack adjustability in bending which limits their effectiveness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the bat device flexible and adjustable through spring elements that allow bending at different locations and to different degrees. The transition piece can bend relative to the handle and/or barrel, creating a dynamic structure that adapts to various swing weights and frequencies, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and structural simplicity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed bat device is used, then the structure is simple, but it focuses on narrow aspects of swinging or hitting without providing comprehensive practice
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by allowing users to adjust the bending characteristics of the bat device through interchangeable spring elements with different stiffness values and configurations. Users can modify the spring constant, pre-compression, and attachment points to simulate various swing weights and frequencies, enabling comprehensive practice across different batting conditions while maintaining ease of operation through simple spring replacement.
3Adaptability or versatility
If adjustable spring elements are added to provide bending adjustability, then adaptability improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the bat device into distinct modular components: handle, transition piece, barrel, and interchangeable spring elements. This segmentation allows the spring components to be independently selected, adjusted, or replaced without affecting the entire device, providing bending adjustability while keeping the overall device complexity manageable through modular design.
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 device enhances muscle strength and balance by allowing users to adjust resistance and weight, creating a unique whip feel that aids in developing proper form, rhythm, and accuracy, leading to improved muscle memory and overall batting technique.
Implementation Method 1
at least one biasing element that generally biases the action receiving element into alignment with the transition piece yet that enables bending during exercise, practice, and training
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AI summary
An exercise, practice, and training device has a transition piece adjustably connected to a distal end of a handle. An action receiving element is bendably connected to a distal portion of the transition piece and extends distally therefrom. The action receiving element is also connected to the transition piece by a biasing element that biases the action receiving element into alignment with the transition piece and enables bending during exercise, practice, and training by the user.