Circular Exercise Frame with Segmented Attachment Points
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise apparatuses lack versatility and compatibility with various exercises and movements, requiring improved designs for effective weight distribution and user interaction.
Innovation Solution
The exercise apparatus features an elongated frame with multiple interconnected segments and frame members, allowing for adjustable hand positions and weight distribution, enabling a range of exercises by spanning open interior regions and providing attachment areas for varied hand configurations, potentially made of metal or polymeric materials with a polymeric coating for grip.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional exercise apparatus with fixed weight structures are used, then weight providing function is achieved, but versatility and compatibility with various exercises is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise apparatus employs a universal circular frame design that can accommodate multiple types of exercises and movements. The frame includes multiple attachment points positioned at different locations and orientations, allowing a single apparatus to support various hand configurations and exercise types (e.g., overhead presses, lateral raises, front raises) without requiring separate weight machines for each exercise variation.
Solution Approach 2:
The frame is divided into multiple segments with distinct attachment points located at different positions around the circular structure. This segmentation allows independent positioning of weights and adjustment of hand placement locations, enabling the same frame to support diverse exercise movements while maintaining structural integrity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple attachment points and hand positions are provided for exercise versatility, then adaptability improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The circular frame geometry provides equipotential characteristics where attachment points are distributed uniformly around the circle, allowing hand positions to be adjusted to various locations while maintaining balanced weight distribution. This geometric symmetry simplifies the structural design compared to irregular multi-attachment-point configurations, as the circular form naturally provides equal structural support at all positions.
3Stability of the object's composition
If even weight distribution is achieved across the frame, then exercise control and stability improve, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The circular frame design inherently provides even weight distribution because the geometry ensures that attachment points are equidistant from the center, creating balanced moment arms for all exercises. This geometric property naturally achieves uniform weight distribution without requiring complex variable-thickness sections or asymmetric reinforcement, thereby reducing manufacturing precision requirements compared to non-circular designs.
4Ease of operation
If polymeric coating is applied to frame members, then grip and anti-slip properties improve, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The frame members combine metal or polymeric structural materials with a polymeric coating layer to create a composite structure. The coating provides enhanced grip and anti-slip properties while the underlying structural material maintains mechanical strength. This composite approach is simpler than manufacturing integrated textured surfaces or molded grips, as the coating can be applied through standard coating processes to the finished frame members.
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AI summary
An exercise apparatus includes first, second, third and fourth elongated frame members respectively defining a first, second, third, and fourth frame portion each comprising interior and exterior perimeters. The first frame member can include first, second, third, and fourth segments. The first frame portion can encompass first and second open interior regions. The third frame member can adjoin the first frame member at spaced first and second points on the first frame member and span from the first point to the second point. The fourth frame member can adjoin the first frame member at spaced third and fourth points on the first frame member and span from the third point to the fourth point.