Angled Shaft Attachment for Swing Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current swing teaching and correction techniques for sporting bats lack effective methods to provide real-time feedback on swing mechanics without relying on computer-implemented systems, sensors, or video components, making it difficult for users to optimize their hitting technique.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus comprising a lightweight shaft and attachment member, configured to be removably attached to a sporting bat, which extends at an angle and provides visual and physical feedback to the user, allowing them to adjust their swing trajectory without obstructing their view of the ball.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a shaft is attached to the handle at an angle between 0 and 25 degrees, then real-time feedback on swing mechanics is provided, but the attachment complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into separate components: a shaft and an attachment member. The attachment member can be removably coupled to the handle, allowing the shaft to be attached at the optimal angle without permanently modifying the handle. This segmentation enables precise angular positioning while maintaining simple attachment through separate components.
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment member is designed to be removably coupled to the handle, providing dynamic adjustability. Users can attach and detach the shaft at different angles as needed for training exercises, enabling real-time feedback while maintaining operational simplicity through reusable attachment mechanisms.
2Measurement precision
If the shaft length is increased to provide better feedback visibility, then the feedback effectiveness improves, but the weight of the apparatus increases
Solution Approach 1:
The shaft is specified with a length of not less than 10 centimeters, optimizing the balance between visibility and weight. This parameter selection ensures the shaft is long enough to extend into the user's field of view for effective feedback while remaining short enough to minimize additional weight and maintain natural swing mechanics.
3Ease of operation
If the attachment member is made of a polymeric material with low Young's modulus, then ease of attachment and removal is improved, but the structural strength decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment member is made of a polymeric material with a Young's modulus of not greater than 1, which provides sufficient flexibility for easy attachment and removal while maintaining adequate strength for the application. This material parameter selection optimizes the balance between operational ease and structural integrity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables users to receive real-time feedback on their swing mechanics, allowing for adjustments to be made during the swing, thereby improving the accuracy and effectiveness of their hitting technique without the need for additional equipment like sensors or video components.
Implementation Method 1
the attachment member is made of an attachment member material having a Young's modulus of not greater than 1 and configured to allow the attachment member to be removably attached to and/or removed from the handle by stretching the attachment member material
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AI summary
An apparatus includes a shaft having a length, from a first end of the shaft to a second end of the shaft opposite to the first end, of not less than 10 centimeters. The apparatus also includes an attachment member attached to the shaft and configured to be removably attached to a handle of a sporting bat such that a longitudinal axis of the shaft extends at an angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the handle that is between, and inclusive of, 0 and 25 degrees.