Large Animal Costume with Equilibrium Frame Pack
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional full-scale costume suits of large size animals struggle to achieve realistic movements due to their size and shape, making it difficult to maintain balance and preventing safe and stable operation.
Innovation Solution
A costume suit design featuring a skeletal structure combined with an outer skin part, including a frame pack at an equilibrium point to distribute weight evenly, allowing for realistic movements by incorporating a hollow torso and foot sections, manipulable head and mouth sections, and a flexible tail section, all made from lightweight yet strong materials.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Shape
If a full-scale costume suit of a large size animal is made with a long and large shape, then it can represent the animal realistically, but it becomes difficult to maintain balance and may fall if forcedly moved
Solution Approach 1:
The costume suit is divided into multiple separate sections (head and mouth section, neck section, torso section, foot section, tail section) that can be independently positioned and controlled. This segmentation allows each part to be balanced independently while maintaining the overall long and large shape, resolving the contradiction between realistic animal representation and balance stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention uses a balance-like internal structure with a fulcrum point positioned to counterbalance the long and large shape of the costume. This counterweight mechanism compensates for the instability caused by the extended shape, allowing the costume to maintain balance while preserving its realistic animal form.
2Area of stationary object
If a conventional costume suit is made to cover the whole body, then it provides complete coverage, but it is difficult to achieve realistic movements due to weight and structural constraints
Solution Approach 1:
The costume suit incorporates dynamic elements including a movable head and mouth section that can open and close, a flexible tail section, and segments connected at joints allowing independent movement. These dynamic features enable realistic animal movements while maintaining whole body coverage, resolving the contradiction between complete coverage and ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
By dividing the costume into separable sections (head, neck, torso, foot, tail) connected at articulation points, each segment can move independently to create realistic animal movements. This segmentation maintains complete body coverage while significantly improving ease of operation and movement realism.
3Volume of moving object
If the costume suit is made large scale to represent a large size animal, then it achieves realistic appearance, but it becomes heavy and difficult to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The costume suit uses different materials and construction methods for different sections based on local requirements. The outer skin part provides realistic appearance while the internal structure uses lightweight materials and hollow sections where appropriate. This local quality approach maintains large size for realistic appearance while reducing overall weight through strategic material selection and hollow construction in non-structural areas.
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AI summary
A costume suit modeled after a large size animal having a head and mouth section, a neck section, a torso section, a foot section, a tail section, a skeletal part as a whole, and an outer skin part covering the whole is provided. The torso section is communicated with the foot section forming an internal hollow, just enough for an adult to fit at standing position. The hollow includes a frame pack fixed and installed to the skeletal part of the costume suit, in a position of an approximate equilibrium point of the costume suit. In the hollow, a means for manipulating a movement of the head and mouth section and the neck section, and a means for manipulating opening and closing of a mouth of the head and mouth section are equipped. Moreover, the skeletal part of the tail section is composed of a flexible tabular member placed in an internal hollow of the tail section, imitating a skeleton of a tail, and a plurality of foam blocks fixed and placed on the tabular member at certain intervals.