Circular Vibration Motor Array in Wearable Garment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current massage and therapeutic devices lack garments or sleeves that provide targeted vibration therapy to specific body parts or muscles for recovery after workouts.
Innovation Solution
A vibrating garment assembly with a first sleeve member, a vibration assembly, and a control module, featuring a plurality of vibration devices arranged in a circular pattern and electrical communication strips to ensure power and data communication, allowing for adjustable vibration patterns and frequencies to treat different body parts effectively.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple vibration devices are arranged in a circular pattern to provide targeted therapy, then the adaptability and effectiveness of vibration therapy is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The vibration assembly is segmented into multiple independent vibration devices (at least three) arranged in a circular pattern, allowing each device to be independently controlled to target specific muscle groups or body parts, thereby improving adaptability while maintaining manageable complexity through modular design
Solution Approach 2:
The circular arrangement of vibration devices provides multi-functionality by enabling the same assembly to treat different body parts through selective activation of specific devices, and to provide various vibration patterns (simultaneous, sequential, alternating) for different therapeutic needs
2Ease of operation
If electrical communication strips with elastic bands are used to allow garment movement, then the ease of operation is improved, but the reliability of electrical connection may worsen
Solution Approach 1:
Electrical communication strips are integrated into elastic bands that function as flexible shells, allowing the garment to stretch and move with the body while maintaining electrical connectivity through the flexible conductive material
Solution Approach 2:
The electrical communication system is designed to be dynamic rather than static, with elastic bands that can expand and contract while maintaining electrical contact, allowing the garment to adapt to body movements without compromising connection reliability
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 garment assembly provides flexible and effective vibration therapy, increasing blood flow, reducing muscle soreness, and aiding in recovery by combining compression and vibration, with sensors for personalized treatment and wireless connectivity for smart system integration.
Implementation Method 1
a first vibration assembly associated with the first sleeve member. The first vibration assembly includes a plurality of vibration devices
Data Source
AI summary
A garment assembly includes a sleeve member having outer and inner surfaces, a first vibration assembly associated with the sleeve member, and a control module associated with the sleeve member. The first vibration assembly includes a plurality of vibration motors that are arranged in a circle about a center point. An angular distance between each vibration motor of the plurality of vibration motors is approximately the same. The control module includes a battery, and the first vibration assembly is in electrical communication with the control module.