Concealed Free-Weight Storage With Lift Platform and Rotating Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Home users face challenges in incorporating exercise equipment like free weights into their living spaces due to space constraints and aesthetics, as traditional exercise equipment is unsightly and cluttered, and there is a lack of suitable viewing devices for video-based coaching during workouts.
Innovation Solution
A free-weight exercise system that includes a storage compartment with a lift assembly to raise and lower a platform, a display mast for mounting a display, and a reconfigurable exercise bench, allowing for concealed storage of weights and a rotatable display for easy viewing of exercise content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If exercise equipment is placed in living space, then exercise functionality is provided, but aesthetics and space utilization deteriorate due to clutter
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise equipment including weights and bench is nested within the storage compartment. The platform supports the equipment when raised, and the compartment encloses it when lowered, allowing the same space to serve both aesthetic and functional purposes at different times.
Solution Approach 2:
The storage compartment is made dynamic through the lift assembly that raises and lowers the platform. This allows the compartment to transition between an enclosed aesthetic state and an open functional state, adapting to different user needs.
2Shape
If storage compartment encloses equipment, then aesthetics improve, but access to equipment becomes less convenient
Solution Approach 1:
The platform is designed to be dynamically positionable between raised and lowered states via the lift assembly. When lowered, equipment is concealed for aesthetics; when raised, equipment is easily accessible. This dynamic transition resolves the contradiction between enclosure and access.
3Adaptability or versatility
If display is mounted above storage compartment, then viewing of exercise content is enabled, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display mast serves multiple functions: it provides structural support for mounting the display, extends from the storage compartment to position the display at an appropriate viewing height, and integrates with the existing system architecture. This multi-functionality enables viewing capability without proportionally increasing complexity.
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AI summary
Embodiments of a free-weight exercise system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the free-weight exercise system includes a base that supports the free-weight exercise system a support surface. A platform is disposed above the base. The platform is sufficiently strong to support one or more exercise weights. The platform is disposed above the base a sufficient height to position the one or more exercise weights at an ergonomic height for grasping by a user. In some embodiments, the platform is be positionable between a retracted configuration and a deployed configuration. The free-weight exercise system includes a mast coupled to and extending above the base. The mast supports a display subsystem. The display subsystem includes a display. The display is disposed at a height above the support surface above the height of the platform. In some embodiments, the display may be rotatable between a landscape orientation and a portrait orientation.