EMS Garment with Vulcanized Silicone Stretch Sections
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing EMS garments made of stretchable textiles wear out quickly and lose elasticity over time, requiring costly elastic threads and adjustment straps for fit and hygiene, which complicates manufacturing and durability.
Innovation Solution
The EMS garment incorporates vulcanized silicone rubber stretch sections connected to textile area sections, providing durable and cost-effective construction without the need for elastic electrodes or adjustment straps, ensuring long-lasting fit and hygiene.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If EMS garments are made of stretchable textiles to ensure good fit and comfort, then wearing comfort and fit are improved, but durability and elasticity retention deteriorate over time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines stretchable textile materials with non-stretchable textile materials in a single garment structure. The stretchable portions provide comfort and fit, while the non-stretchable portions maintain durability and structural integrity over time, resolving the contradiction between comfort and durability through material composition diversity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If elastic threads are used in EMS garments to maintain stretchability, then fit and elasticity are improved, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies stretchable material properties only in specific local areas where elasticity is needed for fit and comfort, while using non-stretchable materials in other areas. This localized application of elasticity reduces the overall amount of expensive elastic threads required, thereby lowering manufacturing costs while maintaining necessary adaptability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If adjustment straps are added to EMS garments for fit customization, then adaptability to different body types is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates dynamic stretchable sections that automatically adapt to different body sizes and shapes through their elastic properties, eliminating the need for static adjustment straps. This dynamic adaptation mechanism provides fit customization without adding mechanical complexity, as the material itself performs the adjustment function.
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 combination of vulcanized silicone rubber and textile area sections offers high elasticity and durability, maintaining ideal contact pressure and preventing material fatigue, while eliminating the need for elastic threads and adjustment straps, enhancing the EMS garment's fit and hygiene.
Implementation Method 1
the textile area sections facing the front side and the rear side are connected by stretch sections which consist of a rubber-elastic, non-textile material
Data Source
AI summary
An EMS garment for enclosing a body part of a trainee during an EMS training session includes textile area sections and EMS electrodes for transmitting EMS stimuli from a connected EMS stimulation generating unit to the body part, which EMS electrodes are each connected to one of the textile area sections and are each formed as a pad or a textile structure section having an electrically conductive layer so as to flexibly snuggle to the body part. The textile area sections facing the front side and the rear side are connected along a height direction by stretch sections facing both flanks of the body part, each of which consists of a rubber-elastic, elastomeric solid material.