Garment Bra Feature with Dynamic Underarm Attachment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Integrated bra features in garments often move with the garment, causing discomfort to the wearer due to lack of stability and flexibility.

Innovation Solution

A garment design featuring a bra feature with a first attachment member coupling the bra body to the underarm portion of the garment, allowing movement while maintaining stability, along with adjustable shoulder straps and retention loops for enhanced comfort and fit.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the bra feature is integrated to the garment, then the convenience of built-in support is improved, but the bra feature moves with the garment causing discomfort

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconvenience of built-in supportVSAvoiddiscomfort from movement

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The attachment member is designed with dynamic characteristics that allow it to flex and move independently from the garment body. This enables the bra feature to maintain its supportive function while accommodating body movements without being rigidly constrained by the garment's motion, thereby reducing discomfort while preserving the integrated convenience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Stability of the object's composition

If the bra feature is fixed rigidly to the garment, then stability is improved, but movement freedom and comfort are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestability of bra featureVSAvoidmovement freedom

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The attachment member incorporates dynamic properties that allow controlled movement between the bra feature and garment. This dynamic connection maintains stability when needed while permitting necessary movement for comfort, resolving the contradiction between rigid fixation and movement freedom.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The attachment member's physical parameters (such as flexibility, length, or material properties) are optimized to provide appropriate stability while allowing movement. By adjusting these parameters, the system achieves both stability and movement freedom without requiring extreme solutions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12279657B2Garments with integrated bra feature

Publication Date: 2025.04.22 PEARL PAJAMAS LLC

AI summary

A garment to be worn by a wearer includes an outer body that defines a garment shoulder and an underarm portion disposed below the garment shoulder of the garment. The garment includes a bra feature coupled to the underarm portion. The bra feature includes a bra body and a first attachment member. The bra body is configured to encircle a chest of the wearer. The first attachment member extends between a first end and a second end. The first attachment member is coupled to the bra body at the first end and to the underarm portion of the garment at the second end, thereby fixing the bra body to the underarm portion of the garment while permitting movement of the bra body relative to the underarm portion of the garment.