Dual-Layer Mesh Panels for Tummy Compression Without Visible Lines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional tummy-covering garments, such as pants, do not provide effective tummy-flattening benefits without compromising comfort, style, or aesthetics, due to the visible outlines of mesh fabric panels and inadequate compression.
Innovation Solution
The use of mesh fabric panels with altered shapes and increased lengths, including dual layer designs with specific edge configurations, to be affixed to garments, providing enhanced compressive force and tummy-shaping without altering comfort or appearance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Force
If mesh fabric panels are used to provide compression and tummy-flattening benefits, then compression effectiveness is improved, but visibility of panel outlines and discomfort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mesh fabric panel extends below the pocket bags and fly facings in the vertical dimension, moving the compression zone to a lower position on the body. This dimensional extension allows the panel to provide effective compression while remaining less visible from the front view, as it extends below the visible area of the garment's front closure and pocket structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The panel is strategically positioned and dimensioned to extend below the pocket bags and fly facings, creating a localized compression zone in the lower abdominal and hip area. This local positioning provides targeted compression where needed while avoiding visibility in the upper visible regions of the garment.
2Force
If mesh fabric panels are made longer to extend below pocket bags, then compression effectiveness is improved, but panel length and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mesh fabric panel is divided into multiple functional zones: an upper portion that may be positioned within or adjacent to the fly facing, and a lower extending portion that goes below the pocket bags. This segmentation allows different portions of the panel to serve different functions - upper portion for structural support and lower portion for extended compression - while managing overall panel length through functional division.
3Force
If dual layer mesh fabric panels are used to increase compression, then compression effectiveness is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs dual layer mesh fabric panels where two layers of mesh material are combined to create a single integrated panel structure. This merging of layers provides enhanced compression effectiveness through increased material density and structural support, while the layers are configured together as one unit that can be manufactured and installed as a single component, managing complexity through integration rather than separate elements.
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AI summary
Mesh fabric panels that provide a compressive force to a wearer's mid-section and tummy-covering garments equipped with the mesh fabric panels are disclosed. The mesh fabric panels can be formed of a material having a suitable rigidity for providing the compressive force. The mesh fabric panels include left and right panels adapted to be stitched or otherwise affixed to left and right front sections, respectively, of a garment such as a pant, a dress, a skirt, shorts, swimwear, or the like. Each of the left and right mesh fabric panels includes a seam side edge adapted to be affixed to a corresponding seam side of a tummy-covering garment, a fly side edge adapted to be affixed to a fly facing of the garment, a waist edge, and a bottom edge. The left and/or right mesh fabric panel may be a dual layer panel.