Cellulite diminishing fabric
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing garments designed to combat cellulite are either ineffective for daily use due to aesthetic concerns, prone to damage from stretching and friction, and have complex, costly production processes, leading to discomfort and reduced efficacy.
Innovation Solution
A fabric with protrusions made from heat-expanding materials that are expanded through heating, providing a massage effect and increased skin temperature, coated with a polymeric layer for comfort and durability, allowing for easy and cost-effective production.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If protrusions are made from heat-expanding materials and expanded through heating, then manufacturing complexity and cost are reduced, but the protrusions may still be damaged from stretching and friction
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by transforming the protrusions through heat treatment, which modifies their physical properties. The heat-expanding material undergoes a permanent shape change that creates a more stable structure resistant to subsequent stretching and friction, while maintaining the simplified production process advantage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses composite materials by combining heat-expanding material with the fabric base. This composite structure provides both the simplified manufacturing benefit of heat expansion and the enhanced durability of a stabilized, heat-treated protrusion structure that resists damage from wear and stretching.
2Reliability
If protrusions are made to provide massage effect against cellulite, then cellulite reduction efficacy is improved, but the garment is uncomfortable for prolonged wear
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by creating protrusions with specific characteristics in certain areas of the fabric. The heat-expanding material allows for localized protrusion formation that provides targeted massage effect on cellulite-prone areas while maintaining different properties in other regions for overall comfort during prolonged wear.
3Shape
If protrusions are damaged from stretching and friction, then the garment maintains aesthetic appearance, but the cellulite-fighting efficacy is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes through heat treatment that permanently modifies the protrusion structure. This thermal processing creates a stabilized configuration that maintains both its shape for aesthetic appearance and its functional properties for cellulite reduction, preventing the deterioration that occurs with normal wear and stretching.
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 fabric offers a comfortable, long-lasting solution for reducing cellulite through mechanical friction and temperature increase, while maintaining aesthetic appeal and resisting damage, suitable for daily wear.
Implementation Method 1
protrusions made from heat-expanding materials that are expanded through heating
Implementation Method 2
coated with a polymeric layer for comfort and durability
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a fabric having a first side and a second side, that is provided at least on part of the first side with a pattern of protrusions, wherein the protrusions comprise an expanded heat-expanding material, namely a heat-expanding material that has been expanded by heating. A polymeric layer is provided to the woven fabric to coat at least part of the protrusions. Also disclosed is a process for the production of the fabric and a garment comprising the fabric.