Adjustable Buoyancy Swim Garment for Posture Balance and Head Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional swimming assist garments lack the ability to adjust buoyancy positions, leading to poor balance and experience for beginners, and have a low safety coefficient, especially in emergency situations.
Innovation Solution
A swimming assist garment with a buoyancy mechanism and gas regulating system, featuring adjustable airbags and bidirectional air pumps, allowing for customizable buoyancy distribution and emergency buoyancy support, integrated with a control panel and sensors for enhanced safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional swimsuit with fixed buoyancy is used, then the structure is simple, but the adaptability to different swimming postures and body tilt states is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The buoyancy mechanism is divided into multiple independent airbags (first airbags, second airbags, third airbags, fourth airbags) distributed at different locations on the swimsuit. Each airbag can be independently inflated or deflated to adjust buoyancy distribution, allowing adaptation to various swimming postures and body tilt states without requiring a completely complex reconfigurable structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The buoyancy system transitions from a fixed structure to a dynamic adjustable system. The gas regulating mechanism with bidirectional air pumps enables real-time adjustment of airbag inflation states, allowing the buoyancy distribution to adapt dynamically to different swimming conditions, postures, and emergency situations while maintaining manageable structural complexity.
2Reliability
If traditional swimsuit without adjustable buoyancy is used, then the device complexity is low, but the safety coefficient in emergency situations is low
Solution Approach 1:
The swimsuit is pre-equipped with multiple airbags and a gas regulating mechanism that can be activated in emergency situations. The bidirectional air pumps are prepared in advance to rapidly inflate the third and fourth airbags positioned at the back and front of the swimsuit, providing immediate buoyancy support to tilt the swimmer's body and keep the airway above water without requiring complex emergency response equipment.
Solution Approach 2:
The gas regulating mechanism with bidirectional air pumps enables the swimsuit to self-adjust buoyancy distribution in emergency situations. When activated, the system automatically directs gas to the appropriate airbags to create the necessary body tilt and maintain airway exposure, providing self-rescue capability without requiring external intervention or overly complex control systems.
3Ease of operation
If fixed buoyancy position is used, then the manufacturing precision requirements are low, but the ease of operation for adjusting to different body states is poor
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of requiring precise positioning of single large buoyancy elements, the system segments buoyancy into multiple smaller airbags distributed at different locations. This segmentation allows for coarser manufacturing tolerances while still achieving effective buoyancy adjustment, as the collective effect of multiple airbags can be tuned through individual inflation/deflation control rather than requiring precise initial positioning.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the operational parameters of the buoyancy system from fixed physical positioning to adjustable inflation states. The bidirectional air pumps enable precise control of airbag volume and pressure, allowing operators to adjust buoyancy characteristics without requiring high manufacturing precision in airbag placement. The effective buoyancy position is determined by the inflation state rather than fixed manufacturing coordinates.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The garment improves swimming posture adaptation and provides enhanced safety by adjusting buoyancy positions and ratios, ensuring better balance and emergency life-saving capabilities.
Implementation Method 1
the gas regulating mechanism comprises a connector, an inflatable end, first bidirectional air pumps and a second bidirectional air pump
Implementation Method 2
buoyancy mechanism and gas regulating system, featuring adjustable airbags and bidirectional air pumps, allowing for customizable buoyancy distribution
Implementation Method 3
each third airbag is provided with magnetic blocks at both ends of each third airbag, the bottom wall of the first opening slot is provided with a magnetic suction block that is mutually adsorbed with the magnetic blocks
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments provide a swimming assist garment capable of adjusting buoyancy positions. In the embodiments, the swimming assist garment includes a swimsuit, a buoyancy mechanism, and a gas regulating mechanism. The inflatable end of the gas regulating mechanism is connected to first airbags of a first buoyancy assembly and a second airbag of a second buoyancy assembly. The first bidirectional air pumps are connected to each first airbag and each third airbag of the first buoyancy assembly; and a second bidirectional air pump is connected to the second airbag and the fourth airbag of the second buoyancy assembly, to change the buoyancy positions of the swimsuit to adapt to swimming postures or to support the head on the water.