Arch Support Socks With Honeycomb Anti-Slip Venting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Sports socks experience slippage between the foot and the shoe during dynamic movements, leading to reduced exercise effectiveness and safety issues, while existing cushioning solutions compromise breathability and sweat absorption.
Innovation Solution
Arch support socks with an anti-slip part on the arch area, featuring a honeycomb structure with ventilation holes, are manufactured using a resin solution of PVC and DOTP, ensuring close contact with the shoe, absorbing and drying sweat efficiently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a cushioning part is added to bring the sole into close contact with the shoe, then slippage is blocked, but breathability deteriorates and sweating occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The anti-slip part incorporates a porous structure with through-holes that allow sweat to pass through while maintaining the friction surface. This porous design enables the cushioning part to provide slippage prevention through friction while simultaneously allowing breathability and sweat discharge, resolving the contradiction between reliability and harmful factors.
Solution Approach 2:
The anti-slip part is formed by composite materials including a porous elastic body and a friction member. This composite structure combines the breathability and shock absorption properties of the porous elastic body with the high-friction surface of the friction member, achieving both slippage prevention and sweat management simultaneously.
2Reliability
If a cushioning member is added to preserve the depressed area of the sole, then slippage is compensated, but structural problems occur due to slow sweat discharge
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the sweat discharge function from the traditional cushioning member design by incorporating through-holes and a porous structure. This allows the anti-slip part to maintain its cushioning and slippage compensation function while independently managing sweat discharge, eliminating the structural problems caused by sweat accumulation.
Solution Approach 2:
The porous elastic body with through-holes provides both cushioning support for the depressed area of the sole and efficient sweat discharge pathways. This porous structure resolves the device complexity issue by integrating two functions (cushioning and sweat management) into a single component without additional complexity.
3Reliability
If the sole is brought into close contact with the shoe using cushioning part, then slippage is completely blocked, but sweat absorption and drying speed decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The porous elastic body with through-holes enables rapid sweat absorption from the foot while maintaining the friction contact necessary for slippage blocking. The porous structure provides large surface area for evaporation and direct pathways for sweat discharge, significantly improving absorption and drying speed compared to solid cushioning materials.
Solution Approach 2:
The composite structure of porous elastic body and friction member allows the friction member to provide slippage blocking while the porous elastic body handles sweat absorption and drying. This functional separation within the composite material resolves the contradiction between slippage blocking and sweat management speed.
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 anti-slip part effectively prevents slippage, maintains balance, reduces fatigue, and enhances breathability by quickly absorbing and drying sweat, promoting stable exercise and reducing foot discomfort.
Implementation Method 1
an operation (f) of heating the molding mold
Implementation Method 2
quickly absorbing and quickly drying generated sweat by the anti-slip part
Data Source
AI summary
A method of manufacturing arch support socks according to one embodiment of the present invention may include an operation (a) of preparing a resin solution by mixing polyvinyl chloride (PVC) powder and dioctyl terephthalate (DOTP) liquid resin, an operation (b) of adding a heat stabilizer to the resin solution and stirring the resin solution, an operation (c) of removing impurities of the resin solution through sieving, a de-foaming operation (d) of removing bubbles in the resin solution in a vacuum state, an operation (e) of filling the de-foamed resin solution in a molding mold, an operation (f) of heating the molding mold, and an operation (g) of adhering an anti-slip part separated from the molding mold to an arch area of a sock bottom.