Exercise Equipment Frame Design for Pressure Reduction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional stretching exercise equipment often overwhelms users with numerous bars, leading to a feeling of pressure and reluctance to exercise.

Innovation Solution

The exercise equipment is designed with a frame that surrounds the user and features strategically placed bars, including a first longitudinal horizontal bar, a first transverse horizontal bar, a vertical bar, and a second longitudinal horizontal bar, arranged to create spaces and reduce the number of bars visible, thereby minimizing pressure on the user.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If many bars are arranged in conventional exercise equipment, then structural support and exercise guidance are improved, but the feeling of pressure on exercisers increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural supportVSAvoidfeeling of pressure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent removes unnecessary bars from the exercise equipment structure, extracting only the essential bars needed for support and exercise guidance. This reduction in bar quantity directly decreases the feeling of pressure on exercisers while maintaining structural integrity through strategic placement of remaining bars.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs asymmetric bar arrangement where bars are positioned at different heights and locations rather than symmetrically. This creates open spaces within the frame structure, reducing the visual and physical pressure on exercisers while preserving necessary structural support functions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #4Asymmetry

2Adaptability or versatility

If bars are arranged to provide comprehensive exercise support, then exercise guidance is improved, but the number of bars increases causing pressure feelings

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveexercise guidanceVSAvoidnumber of bars

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Each bar in the patent is designed to serve multiple functions: providing structural support, guiding exercise movements, and offering grip points. This multi-functionality allows comprehensive exercise guidance with fewer bars, reducing device complexity while maintaining adaptability for various exercise types.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes vertical dimension by placing bars at different heights (first transverse bar at lower height, second transverse bar at higher height). This dimensional arrangement provides comprehensive exercise guidance for different body parts and exercise levels without increasing the horizontal number of bars, thus reducing overall device complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS11833381B2Stretching exercise equipment

Publication Date: 2023.12.05 CURVES JAPAN

AI summary

An exercise equipment arranged on a floor so as to surround an exerciser and to have a frame having a shape that lacks one side of a rectangle, includes a first longitudinal horizontal bar connected to the frame, arranged at a predetermined height from the frame, and aligned in a depth direction, a first transverse horizontal bar connected to the frame, having one end thereof connected to the first longitudinal horizontal bar, and aligned in a direction different from the first longitudinal horizontal bar, a vertical bar connected to the frame, and having a height from the frame that is higher than the first transverse horizontal bar, and a second longitudinal horizontal bar connected to the frame, arranged in parallel to the first longitudinal horizontal bar, and spaced from another end of the first transverse horizontal bar.