Collar Massage Device Segmented Housing and Corrugated Interlock
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cuff-like massage devices lack an optimal design for achieving a simple yet effective massage experience, with limitations in preventing unwanted movement and ensuring efficient transmission of massage elements to the skin.
Innovation Solution
A cuff-like massage device with a flexible housing featuring elongated, dimensionally stable massage organs and rotatably drivable massage elements, utilizing a corrugated profiled surface element for secure connection and a Velcro device for adaptability, along with a power supply unit for controlled operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a flexible cuff housing with multiple massage elements is used, then massage effectiveness is improved, but unwanted movement and misalignment occur
Solution Approach 1:
The storage space delimiting surface element is designed with a wave-like profile (corrugated structure) that provides geometric interlocking with the inner surface element. This curved/profiled geometry prevents relative movement and misalignment between the storage spaces and massage elements, ensuring position stability while maintaining flexibility for effective massage contact.
2Strength
If a dimensionally stable housing is used for massage elements, then structural integrity is improved, but adaptability to different body parts is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The housing is segmented into two distinct parts: dimensionally stable elongated massage organs that provide structural integrity and support the massage elements, and a flexible cuff housing that can adapt to different body part circumferences. This segmentation allows each component to fulfill its specific function - the rigid segments provide stability while the flexible envelope provides adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The cuff housing is designed as a flexible shell that can expand and contract to accommodate different body part sizes. This flexible outer structure contains the dimensionally stable massage organs, allowing the overall device to adapt to various circumferences while the internal rigid structures maintain their shape and provide structural integrity for effective massage transmission.
3Area of stationary object
If massage elements are spaced apart in the transverse direction, then coverage area is improved, but structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The wave-like profiled storage space delimiting surface element creates an efficient corrugated structure that naturally accommodates multiple spaced-apart massage elements in the transverse direction. This profiled geometry provides both the structural framework for multiple storage spaces and the mechanical interlocking feature, achieving wide coverage area without proportionally increasing overall structural complexity.
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 design ensures optimal massage effectiveness by preventing unwanted movement and allowing for adjustable fit, enhancing the massage experience through controlled rotation and adaptable sizing, thereby improving user comfort and massage efficacy.
Implementation Method 1
each massage organ has an electric motor and at least two, spaced apart from one another in the longitudinal direction of the massage organ, by means of the Electric motor has rotatably drivable massage elements
Implementation Method 2
the storage space delimiting surface element is corrugatedly profiled relative to the inner surface element of the flexible cuff housing in the transverse direction of the cuff-like massage device and is firmly connected to the inner surface element
Implementation Method 3
from which a flexible Velcro device protrudes laterally
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AI summary
The invention relates to a collar-type massage device (10) provided with at least two longitudinal, dimensionally-stable massage organs (12), each massage organ (12) comprising an electric motor (14) and at least two massage elements (36) that are spaced apart from one another in the longitudinal direction of said massage organ (12) and that can be rotatably driven by means of the electric motor (14), a flexible collar housing (22) being provided which comprises at least two storage spaces (24) for the longitudinal massage organs (12), these spaces being separated from one another and oriented in the transverse direction of the collar-type massage device (10), and said spaces (24) being delimited by a body-side inner surface element (26) and a storage space delimiting surface element (28). A flexible hook-and-loop device (60) projects laterally away from the flexible collar housing (22).