Free-Standing Training Bag With Reconfigurable Strike Pads

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing impact bags lack diversity and precision, compromising form and power in mastering different strikes due to their fixed configurations.

Innovation Solution

The development of reconfigurable striking-pad units with modular designs and varying foam densities and angles, allowing for customizable height, angle, and padding configurations to replicate diverse training scenarios.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional fixed configuration impact bags are used, then structural stability is maintained, but training diversity and precision are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetraining diversityVSAvoidconfiguration complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The impact bag is divided into multiple reconfigurable striking-pad units that can be independently positioned and oriented. Each unit can be adjusted to different heights, angles, and configurations, allowing diverse training scenarios without requiring multiple separate devices. This segmentation enables training diversity while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular design.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The striking-pad units are designed with dynamic reconfigurability, allowing users to change the configuration, height, and angle of each pad during training sessions. This dynamic adjustment capability provides varying training intensities and targets different muscle groups, enhancing adaptability while the standardized mounting system keeps device complexity controlled.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Manufacturing precision

If reconfigurable striking-pad units with varying foam densities are used, then training precision and injury reduction are improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetraining precisionVSAvoidpadding configuration complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Different regions of the striking-pad units incorporate foam paddings with varying densities tailored to specific training needs. Softer foam regions reduce impact for cardio and fitness training, while denser foam provides resistance for power development. This local quality variation enhances training precision and injury reduction, while the modular pad design keeps overall device complexity manageable.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system allows changing physical parameters of the striking surfaces by selecting different foam density configurations in different zones. Users can adjust the firmness, density, and firmness distribution across various pads to match specific training objectives, achieving precise training parameters without requiring completely different equipment for each training type.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Object-affected harmful factors

If multiple foam paddings with different densities are implemented, then injury risk is reduced, but manufacturing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinjury riskVSAvoidmanufacturing ease

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The impact bag system is segmented into multiple independent striking-pad units, each containing foam paddings of different densities. This segmentation allows manufacturers to produce standardized pad modules that can be assembled in various configurations, reducing injury risk through diverse foam options while simplifying the manufacturing process through modular production and assembly.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The striking-pad units are designed as universal modules that can serve multiple training functions depending on foam configuration. The same basic pad structure accommodates different foam densities and arrangements, allowing a single manufacturing process to produce multi-functional units that reduce injury risk across various training intensities and styles without requiring entirely different manufacturing lines.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

4Adaptability or versatility

If curved or angled sides on striking-pad units are used, then training versatility is enhanced, but manufacturing precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetraining versatilityVSAvoidshape precision

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The striking-pad units incorporate curved and angled surfaces that mimic the geometry of human body parts and combat angles. These curved surfaces provide natural target areas for different strike types while the modular construction allows standard manufacturing processes to produce the shapes with sufficient precision for effective training, balancing versatility with manufacturability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

Data Source

PatentUS20250229153A1Free standing training bag

Publication Date: 2025.07.17 CENTURY

AI summary

Impact bag assemblies and methods related thereto utilizing unique strikable units or striking-pad units. Some embodiments utilize reconfigurable striking-pad units. Some embodiments utilize striking-pad units that have two foam paddings instead of one, wherein the foam padding differs in density and hence in hardness. Some embodiments utilize angled sides on the striking-pad unit. For example, the and the striking-pad unit is configured to have a periphery comprising a series of angled sides such that the outer lateral-cross-sectional shape of the striking-pad assembly is a polygon. These sides can also slant inward or outward or be convex or concave.