Customizable Footwear Stud with Interchangeable Rings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current stud designs for footwear lack the ability to customize ground interaction characteristics, limiting their adaptability to different playing surfaces and conditions.
Innovation Solution
A customizable stud system featuring a fastening member with a cap and shaft, a plurality of rings of varying shape, number, thickness, length, and material, and a washer that can alter the stud's contour, height, and material makeup by changing the configuration of the rings, allowing for customized ground interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple stud designs are created for different playing surfaces, then adaptability to various surfaces is improved, but device complexity and inventory requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The stud is divided into a modular system consisting of a fastening member and multiple interchangeable rings. Each ring can be independently attached or removed from the fastening member, allowing the user to segment and reconfigure the stud components based on playing surface requirements. This segmentation enables adaptability without requiring multiple complete stud designs.
Solution Approach 2:
The stud configuration is made dynamic and adjustable rather than fixed. Users can change the ring configuration on demand to adapt to different playing conditions. This dynamic reconfigurability provides versatility while maintaining a single base fastening member design, reducing the overall number of stud designs needed.
2Device complexity
If a single stud design is used for all surfaces, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to different playing surfaces deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The fastening member is designed as a universal base that can accommodate multiple types of rings for different playing surfaces. This multi-functional design allows a single fastening member to serve various purposes by simply changing the ring configuration, providing adaptability while maintaining simplicity in the core design.
Solution Approach 2:
The rings are designed to nest onto the fastening member shaft, with each ring fitting over the previous one. This nesting arrangement allows multiple ring configurations to be stored and quickly exchanged on a single fastening member, enabling adaptability without requiring multiple separate stud designs.
3Adaptability or versatility
If rings are added to customize stud characteristics, then adaptability and ground interaction are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The customization capability is achieved through segmentation of the stud into a fastening member and multiple independent rings. Each ring can be selected and attached based on specific ground interaction requirements, allowing customization without creating a completely new stud design for each scenario.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple rings nest onto the fastening member shaft in a compact arrangement. This nesting design allows several customizable components to be integrated into a single stud assembly without proportionally increasing the overall complexity or size of the device.
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AI summary
A method for forming customized studs for articles of footwear having specific ground interaction characteristics is disclosed. The customized stud includes a fastening member molded to a fastening member cap. A plurality of rings is associated along the stud fastening member, the plurality of rings including at least one ring having a ground interaction characteristics different from the remainder of the plurality of rings. The plurality of rings are disposed along the stud fastening member in a first order to provide a first ground interaction characteristic to the stud; and the plurality of rings are permanently attached via bonding to the stud fastening member in the first order to custom form a stud having the first ground interaction characteristic. The method further comprises portions of the stud which are molded around the stud fastening member.