Wearable Fogging T-Shirt with Permeable Graphics Bladder
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wearable devices lack the capability to create a theatrical fogging effect on permeable and non-permeable surfaces, limiting their ability to enhance graphics and designs in a dynamic manner.
Innovation Solution
A wearable fogging apparatus integrated into a graphics T-shirt, featuring a bladder system and channel structure that allows a wearer to emit a fogging agent, creating a theatrical effect by interacting with both permeable and non-permeable graphics on the T-shirt.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a wearable device integrates a fogging system with bladder and channel structure, then theatrical fogging effect is achieved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The fogging system is divided into separate functional components: a bladder for fogging agent storage, channels for agent transport, and a release mechanism. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall system functionality, resolving the complexity issue by making the system modular and manageable.
Solution Approach 2:
The fogging apparatus is integrated within the wearable device structure, with the bladder and channel system nested within the device housing. This nesting approach minimizes external complexity while achieving the theatrical fogging effect, as the components are contained within the existing wearable form factor.
2Illumination intensity
If fogging agent is emitted through permeable and non-permeable graphics, then visual impact is enhanced, but control precision decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The graphics are designed with differentiated permeability properties - certain areas are made permeable to allow fog passage while other areas remain non-permeable to block fog. This local quality variation enables controlled fog emission patterns that enhance visual impact while maintaining a degree of emission control through material selection and design.
Data Source
AI summary
Wearable fogging apparatus and methods of their manufacture and use are disclosed. In one embodiment, the wearable fogging apparatus consists of a graphics T-shirt that includes graphics disposed thereon. The graphics may include both a permeable portion, through which gases are able to pass therethrough, as well as a non-permeable portion, through which gases are not able to pass therethrough (or are otherwise able to minimize the theatrical effect of gases passing therethrough). A wearer of the wearable fogging apparatus may then emit a fogging agent into, for example, a non-permeable bladder and the vapor may then seep through permeable portions of the graphics T-shirt thereby producing a theatrical effect. Other fogging apparatus, including non-wearable fogging apparatus, are also disclosed.