Dynamic Console Height Adjustment for Exercise Deck Incline
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise devices, such as treadmills, lack an efficient method to dynamically adjust the console height based on the angle of the exercise deck and user preferences, leading to suboptimal user experience and comfort during incline changes.
Innovation Solution
A method that determines the angle between the exercise deck and the base of the device, using sensors like distance sensors and load cell sensors, to adjust the console height proportionally, taking into account user preferences and the location of the load applied, ensuring the console remains at a correlated height aligned with the deck's orientation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the console height is fixed, then the device structure is simple, but the user comfort deteriorates during incline changes
Solution Approach 1:
The console height is changed from a fixed state to a dynamically adjustable state that automatically adapts to the deck incline angle. The console positioning mechanism uses sensors to detect the deck angle and motorized actuators to adjust the console height in real-time, ensuring the console remains at an optimal viewing position for the user regardless of the deck inclination.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates sensors that continuously monitor the deck incline angle and provide feedback to the control system. Based on this feedback, the control system automatically adjusts the console height to maintain the optimal position. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures user comfort without requiring manual intervention.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the console height is manually adjusted, then the device complexity is low, but the adaptability to different incline angles deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The console positioning system operates autonomously without requiring manual adjustment by the user. The system uses sensors to detect the deck incline angle and automatically positions the console at the optimal height through motorized actuators. This self-service capability enhances adaptability to different incline angles while minimizing the need for user intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system proactively adjusts the console height in anticipation of or concurrent with incline changes, rather than waiting for manual adjustment. The sensors detect the deck angle and trigger automatic console repositioning, ensuring the console is always in the optimal position before the user needs to view it during exercise.
3Manufacturing precision
If sensors and automatic adjustment mechanisms are added, then the console positioning accuracy improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces manual mechanical adjustment with an automated electromechanical system. Sensors (optical or load cell) detect the deck incline angle, and motorized actuators precisely position the console. This substitution of manual mechanics with sensor-actuator systems achieves high positioning accuracy while automating the process.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the physical state or parameters of the console positioning from static to dynamic. By using sensors to detect incline angle parameters and automatically adjusting the console height parameter, the system achieves precise positioning that adapts to changing conditions, improving accuracy through parameter-based control.
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AI summary
A method for positioning a console of an exercise device includes determining an angle formed between an exercise deck of the exercise device and a base of the exercise device and adjusting a physical height of a console of the exercise device to a correlated height based at least in part on the angle of the exercise deck when the physical height is determined to be out of alignment with the correlated height.