Headgear Visual Aid With Bendable Arms for Real-Time Sports Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing athletic training methods lack real-time visual feedback for improving hitting, throwing, and catching actions due to the limitations of human eye movement and the interference caused by a person providing feedback.
Innovation Solution
A visual aid is attached to the headgear, comprising elongate bodies with a holder and clip, allowing an object to be secured within the user's field of vision, providing bendable and fixable deformation for enhanced visual feedback during athletic motions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a visual aid is attached to the headgear to provide real-time visual feedback, then the user receives improved visual feedback for hitting, throwing, and catching actions, but the device complexity increases due to the need for bendable and fixable elongate bodies with holders and clips
Solution Approach 1:
The visual aid employs elongate bodies that are bendable to a deformed state and fixable in the deformed state, allowing the device to dynamically adapt to the user's head movements and positioning needs while maintaining visual feedback functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The visual aid is divided into multiple elongate bodies with separate holders and clips, allowing each component to be independently positioned and adjusted to optimize visual feedback while reducing overall structural complexity
2Reliability
If the visual aid is made secure to the headgear for stability, then the visual feedback becomes more reliable, but the ease of operation decreases due to difficulty in adjusting and repositioning the aid
Solution Approach 1:
The elongate bodies are designed to be bendable and fixable, enabling the user to easily adjust the position and shape of the visual aid by deforming the elongate bodies to desired configurations and fixing them in place, thereby achieving both secure attachment and operational flexibility
Solution Approach 2:
The visual aid allows changes in the physical state of the elongate bodies from unbent to bent and fixed configurations, enabling easy adjustment of the device's shape and position while maintaining secure attachment to the headgear
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables real-time visual feedback for improving hitting, throwing, and catching skills by securing the aid to the headgear, enhancing user movement and feedback without interference.
Implementation Method 1
Each of the elongate bodies is bendable to a deformed state and is fixable in the deformed state
Data Source
AI summary
A training aid comprises a plurality of elongate bodies. Each of the elongate bodies comprises a first end and a second end. A holder is coupled to the first end, and includes a clip extending along each of the elongate bodies and forming an accommodating space. The accommodating space is oriented to accommodate an object to be inserted along each of the elongate bodies in a direction pointing the first end to the second end. Each of the elongate bodies is bendable to a deformed state and is fixable in the deformed state.