Garment with Longitudinal Panels for Privacy and Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing garments for self-donning or donning by others often compromise privacy to facilitate easy access for medical treatment, particularly challenging for individuals with physical challenges who require assistance.
Innovation Solution
A garment design featuring two longitudinal panels with cooperating and fastening materials along the hip and leg portions, allowing easy conversion between open and closed positions using strips, dots, or other forms of closures like Velcro, magnets, and snap mechanisms, enabling easy access without needing to move or twist the body.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If garments feature open designs allowing staff to quickly access bodily areas, then ease of operation is improved, but privacy of patients deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The garment is divided into multiple panels (front panel, back panel, and side panels) that can be independently positioned. The side panels can be opened to provide access to bodily areas while the front and back panels remain closed to maintain privacy coverage of essential body parts.
Solution Approach 2:
Different portions of the garment have different degrees of openness. The side panels are designed to be openable for local access to specific bodily areas, while other portions maintain closed structure to preserve overall privacy and modesty.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If garments require efforts by medical staff or wearer for donning, then privacy is maintained, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The cooperating and fastening materials enable the wearer to don and doff the garment independently without requiring assistance from medical staff. The simple fastening mechanism can be easily operated by the wearer themselves.
Solution Approach 2:
The garment panels are designed to be moveable between open and closed positions, allowing flexible adjustment during donning and wearing. This dynamic structure simplifies the donning process while maintaining privacy when closed.
3Productivity
If garments allow easy access to body parts for treatment, then productivity is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The garment is segmented into multiple panels with fastening materials positioned at strategic locations. This segmentation allows rapid opening of specific panels for treatment access without requiring complete disassembly of the garment.
Solution Approach 2:
The cooperating and fastening materials are pre-positioned along the panels to enable quick fastening and unfastening. This preliminary arrangement of fastening elements allows for rapid access during treatment without complex manipulation.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The garment allows individuals with physical challenges to don and undon with minimal effort, maintaining privacy and facilitating easy access to body parts for medical or personal needs without assistance, even in confined spaces like wheelchairs or hospital beds.
Implementation Method 1
The cooperating and fastening material may include strips, spots, of cooperating materials that may include mating components
Implementation Method 2
enabling easy access without needing to move or twist the body
Data Source
AI summary
Certain embodiments of the invention may include a garment adaptable for self-donning and for donning by another onto a wearer. The garment may include two longitudinal panels. Each longitudinal panel may be operatively attached to each other. Each panel may have a waistband portion, a hip portion and a leg portion. Each longitudinal panel may terminate with a first and second cooperating and fastening material that may be disposed substantially along the longitudinal hip and leg portions. Each panel may be moveable between a substantially flat open position and a second closed wearable position where each first and second cooperating and fastening materials of each panel may join the second closed wearable position. The cooperating and fastening material may include continuous strips of cooperating materials that may include mating components.