Gripless Exercise Glove With Strap Weight Attachment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional exercise gloves require users to grip free weights, limiting arm and hand movements and causing stress on the wrist and associated muscles, restricting the variety of exercises that can be performed.
Innovation Solution
A gripping exercise glove with internal and external support structures, including adjustable bands, stabilizing straps, and traction strips, allows users to attach and hold free weights without physically gripping them, distributing weight stress across the body and providing joint support.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional exercise gloves are used to hold free weights, then the user can perform basic strength training, but the user's hand grip and wrist muscles are overworked and movement variety is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary gripping mechanism consisting of straps, bands, and fastening systems that mediate between the user's hand and the free weight. This intermediary system allows the user to secure weights to the glove without direct hand gripping, thereby reducing wrist and hand muscle engagement while enabling greater exercise variety including movements that would be difficult or impossible with traditional gripping methods
2Reliability
If the user grips free weights directly with their hands, then the weights can be held securely, but stress is concentrated on the wrist joint and associated muscles
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the gripping function from the hand by dividing the weight-holding mechanism into separate components: the glove body, multiple adjustable straps (including wrist straps and fingerless gloves), and fastening systems. This segmentation allows the gripping function to be distributed across multiple structural elements rather than concentrated in the hand and wrist, maintaining secure weight holding while reducing stress on the wrist joint and associated muscles
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs flexible straps, bands, and film-like fastening materials that wrap around and secure the free weight to the glove structure. These flexible elements distribute the weight-bearing load across broader surface areas of the glove and user's arm, rather than concentrating force on the wrist joint, thereby maintaining reliable weight holding while reducing localized stress and pressure on vulnerable areas
3Object-affected harmful factors
If traditional gloves are used for exercise, then hand protection is provided, but the user must still grip objects which limits therapeutic applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the gripping function from the hand by removing the need for finger and hand muscle engagement in the weight-holding process. The glove design incorporates straps and fastening systems that take out the gripping action from the hand itself, allowing the hand to remain in a relaxed, protected position while still securely holding weights. This extraction enables therapeutic applications for users with hand or wrist injuries who need hand protection but cannot perform gripping motions
Data Source
AI summary
A gripping exercising glove contains an internal support structure, an internal plurality of fastening straps, a traction strip on face. Weight may be attached to glove by the plurality of fastening straps allowing user to perform various exercises without gripping. The internal structure contains an adjustable palm band; an adjustable wrist band; each wraps around and is attached to hand; at the palm and above wrist regions. The two bands are connected by the internal face stabilizing strap and the internal back stabilizing strap. The plurality of fastening straps is laterally and perpendicularly connected to the adjustable palm band, positioned on the inside of the palm. The glove contains a palm side, with plurality of paired slits and wrist opening. These slits traverse the palm side. The support structure is positioned and attached within the with the plurality of fastening straps traversing these paired slits.