Rail-Mounted Exercise Machine Storage Carriages for Safe Item Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Exercise machines often lack convenient and safe storage solutions for personal items, which can be lost, damaged, or cause distractions during use, especially when exercisers need easy access to their belongings.
Innovation Solution
An exercise machine storage system featuring movable carriages with integrated storage receptacles at each end, allowing secure storage of items close to the exerciser, with biasing members providing resistance and rails for smooth movement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If storage receptacles are placed far from the exerciser, then safety is improved (items less likely to be stepped on or damaged), but accessibility deteriorates (items harder to access during exercise)
Solution Approach 1:
The storage receptacles are mounted on movable carriages that travel along rails, allowing them to dynamically adjust their position. The carriages can move between retracted positions (for safety) and extended positions (for accessibility), resolving the contradiction between safety and accessibility.
2Ease of operation
If storage receptacles are placed close to the exerciser, then accessibility is improved (items easier to access), but safety deteriorates (items more likely to be stepped on or damaged)
Solution Approach 1:
The movable carriage system allows the storage receptacles to extend close to the exerciser when needed for accessibility, then retract to safer positions when not in use, dynamically balancing accessibility and safety requirements.
3Reliability
If traditional lockers are used, then safety is improved (items secure and away from danger), but convenience deteriorates (items too far from exerciser, causing distraction)
Solution Approach 1:
The storage system transitions from static (fixed lockers) to dynamic (movable carriages on rails), allowing storage receptacles to move between safe distances and convenient proximity to the exerciser, resolving both safety and convenience requirements.
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
Ensures safe and accessible storage for personal items, preventing damage and distraction while allowing exercisers to hear, see, or feel notifications from their belongings during exercise, enhancing user experience and safety.
Implementation Method 1
at least one biasing member connected to the carriage, and the at least one biasing member provides a resistance force to the carriage
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AI summary
An exercise machine storage system for safely storing various objects of an exerciser while the exerciser is performing exercise moves on an exercise machine. The exercise machine storage system generally includes an exercise machine including at least one rail, a carriage, and a pair of end platforms positioned at or near the respective ends of the exercise machine. The carriage is movable along a portion of the at least one rail. A pair of storage receptacles is connected to the exercise machine at or near its respective ends, such as underneath the end platforms. An exerciser may safely secure various objects within one or both of the storage receptacles while performing various exercise moves, with the objects being close enough to the exerciser such that the exerciser may hear any sounds, see any illumination, and/or feel any vibrations emitted by such objects while exercising.