Cold-weather glove with segmented hem and wide access opening
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cold-weather gloves with integrated covering bodies for enhanced protection often face difficulties in easy removal and insertion due to limited access openings, which can lead to cumbersome operations and increased risk of the covering body being lost.
Innovation Solution
A cold-weather glove design featuring a back-of-the-hand accommodation part with a wide-access opening and a laterally extending band that can be opened via a fastener or holding mechanism, allowing for wider communication between the inner and outer parts, facilitating easy removal and insertion of the covering body without requiring hand insertion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the access opening is made small to maintain a compact glove structure, then the glove structure remains compact and neat, but the covering body becomes difficult to remove and insert
Solution Approach 1:
The hem part is segmented into a first hem part and a second hem part that can be separated from each other. The access opening is formed between these two segmented parts, allowing the opening to be wide enough for easy insertion and removal of the covering body while maintaining a compact structure when the hem parts are joined together.
Solution Approach 2:
The hem part is designed to be dynamically configurable - it can be in a closed state where the first and second hem parts are joined to maintain a compact structure, or in an open state where they are separated to provide wide access for inserting or removing the covering body. This dynamic transformation resolves the contradiction between compact structure and ease of operation.
2Ease of operation
If the access opening is made wide to facilitate easy insertion and removal of the covering body, then the ease of operation improves, but the glove structure becomes more complex and bulky
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the hem part into two separable portions, the design achieves a wide access opening for easy insertion and removal of the covering body, while maintaining a compact overall shape when the hem parts are joined together. The segmentation allows the opening to be wide without making the entire glove bulky.
Solution Approach 2:
The access opening is created in a different dimensional approach - rather than making the entire hem part wide, the opening is formed by separating the hem part in a specific direction, allowing wide access in the opening area while maintaining compactness in other dimensions of the glove structure.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the covering body is made removable for flexibility, then the adaptability improves, but the risk of loss increases
Solution Approach 1:
The covering body is designed to be nested within the glove body, specifically stored in the accommodation space formed by the separated hem parts. When not in use, the covering body can be placed inside the glove, and the hem parts are joined to secure it. This nesting approach provides flexibility for removal and reattachment while preventing loss by providing a secure storage location within the glove itself.
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AI summary
To make it easier to remove and insert a covering part via an accommodation part in a cold-weather glove in which the accommodation part is provided to a glove body and in which the covering body, which imparts cold weather protection, is connected to the accommodation part. A side part of the hem part (10) of the glove body (1) is divided, the divided end part of the hem part (10) on the side of the back-of-the-hand part extends towards a side of the glove body (1), and the laterally extending part (11) can be superposed in alignment along the palm part-side of the hem part (10). Releasable holding means (5) is provided for holding the laterally extending part (11) in a superposed state along the palm part-side of the hem part (10). The access opening 4 extends to the laterally extending part (11), and the opening width of the communicating opening part (4A) is increased when the access opening (4) is opened. The access opening (4) is configured so as to be capable of being opened and closed via a fastener (40).