Flip-Up Shirt Panel with Mesh and Elastic Band

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing flip-up shirts expose the wearer's stomach and chest when flipped up, leading to embarrassment, obstruct vision, and are awkward to maintain, limiting their use to children and restricting adult wearability.

Innovation Solution

A wearable garment with a flip-up panel that can move between a lowered and raised position, secured by an elastomeric tension band, allowing the panel to cover the face while exposing a complementary graphic image, and made from mesh material to allow visibility and concealment as needed.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If the front panel is flipped up to expose a graphic image, then the graphic image is visible to the wearer, but the wearer's stomach and chest region becomes exposed causing embarrassment

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegraphic image visibilityVSAvoidtorso exposure embarrassment

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The front panel is divided into two separate panels: an inner front panel and an outer front panel that can be flipped up independently. This segmentation allows the graphic image to be displayed on the outer panel while the inner panel can be positioned to cover the torso, preventing embarrassment without sacrificing image visibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The inner front panel acts as an intermediary element between the outer front panel and the wearer's torso. It serves as a covering that can be positioned to obscure the torso while allowing the outer panel to be flipped up for graphic display, thus mediating between the conflicting requirements of image visibility and torso coverage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of manufacture

If the front panel is flipped up to display an image, then the image is visible, but the wearer's vision is obstructed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimage visibilityVSAvoidwearer's vision obstruction

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

By separating the front panel into inner and outer panels, the outer panel can be flipped up to display the graphic image while the inner panel remains in place to maintain visibility for the wearer. This segmentation prevents vision obstruction while preserving image display capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Ease of manufacture

If the front panel is flipped up to show a graphic, then the graphic is visible, but it becomes awkward to maintain in position

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegraphic visibilityVSAvoidposition maintenance difficulty

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The independent inner and outer panels allow the outer panel to be flipped up for graphic display while the inner panel remains stable and easy to manage. This segmentation simplifies position maintenance by isolating the movable graphic-displaying component from the stable torso-covering component.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

4Area of stationary object

If a solid material is used for the front panel, then it provides good coverage, but it obstructs vision when flipped up

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepanel coverage areaVSAvoidvision obstruction

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of stationary objectVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The inner front panel is made from a see-through mesh material with specific local quality characteristics that allow it to provide torso coverage while maintaining visibility. This local quality change in the panel material resolves the contradiction between coverage area and vision obstruction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

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

Enables adults to wear flip-up shirts comfortably without exposing their torso, maintaining visibility and allowing easy flipping between positions for aesthetic or functional use, such as cheering or providing privacy.

Implementation Method 1

The flip up region is formed from mesh that obscures from view the portion of the front panel covered thereby when in the lowered position and obscures from view the face of the person covered thereby when in the raised position while permitting the person to see through the mesh

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectMesh material transparency:

Implementation Method 2

An elastomeric tension band is secured to opposite side edges of the flip up front panel and configured to extend behind the back panel to secure the flip up front panel in the lowered position and in the raised position

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectElasticity: Elasticity

Data Source

PatentUS10244797B2Shirt with flip-up front panel

Publication Date: 2019.04.02 LOGAN FLIP UP LTD

AI summary

A shirt or garment to be worn by a person and having a flip-up panel that is connected to a front panel of the shirt or garment, wherein the flip-up panel is movable between a lowered position in which it substantially covers the front panel to a raised position in which a portion of the front panel previously covered by the front panel is exposed and the flip-up panel substantially covers a face of the person.