Body Pad With High-Friction Textured Surfaces for Harness Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Externally worn sports and safety equipment, such as harnesses and personal flotation devices, tend to shift and become uncomfortable due to poor fit, leading to gaps and pressure points between the user's body and the equipment, which existing solutions fail to adequately address.
Innovation Solution
A body pad apparatus with textured high-friction material on both sides and low-profile attachments to secure the pad around the user, providing material stretch and padding to conform to body contours and limit equipment movement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a body pad with textured high-friction material on both sides is used, then the slip and movement of external equipment is limited, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The body pad combines multiple materials with different properties: textured high-friction material on the outer surface for grip, softer padding material for comfort and gap filling, and elastic material for stretch. This composite structure resolves the contradiction by integrating multiple functions into a single device that limits slip while maintaining simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges multiple functions into one body pad device: providing friction for slip prevention, padding for pressure point relief, and gap filling for improved fit. By combining these functions in a single integrated component rather than separate devices, the solution limits equipment movement without proportionally increasing complexity.
2Ease of operation
If material stretch and padding are used to conform to body contours, then the fit and comfort are enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The body pad utilizes materials with specific physical parameters: elastic modulus for stretch capability, thickness for padding, and surface texture for friction. By selecting materials with appropriate parameters rather than complex mechanical structures, the invention achieves comfort and fit enhancement while maintaining device simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The body pad employs flexible, stretchable material that can conform to body contours through elastic deformation. This flexible membrane approach provides custom fit and comfort without requiring complex adjustable mechanisms or multiple components, thus enhancing ease of operation without proportionally increasing device complexity.
3Reliability
If textured material on both sides is used to limit slip, then the reliability of equipment positioning is improved, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The surface texture is defined by physical parameters (roughness, pattern geometry) that can be controlled during material manufacturing rather than requiring post-manufacturing assembly. By embedding the friction-providing texture directly into the material structure, the invention achieves reliable equipment positioning while using standard manufacturing processes, thus improving reliability without excessively increasing manufacturing precision requirements.
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 solution effectively limits slip and movement of external equipment, enhances fit and comfort by filling gaps and padding pressure points, thereby improving the usability of body harnesses and personal flotation devices.
Implementation Method 1
The present invention uses material surface friction to limit slip of the harness or personal flotation device
Implementation Method 2
The present invention uses material stretch and padding to conform to pressure points and gaps between the user's body and the harness or personal flotation device
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AI summary
A body pad apparatus with high surface friction on the inward-facing and outward-facing surfaces, to prevent slipping or repositioning of a body harnesses or personal flotation device, made of a material of a desired thickness that that conforms to stretch and pressure, and that has low profile attachments to secure the pad apparatus on, around, or to the user's body or to the harness or personal flotation device.