Hydrodynamic Exercise Device with Curved Contour
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing hydrodynamic exercise devices transmit deleterious abrupt impacts to users during dynamic exercise routines, which can be harmful and hinder effective muscle engagement.
Innovation Solution
An exercise device with an elongate tubular body of flexible material and a reentrant curved contour configuration at each terminal end, allowing the liquid medium to follow a smooth return path and avoid abrupt impacts, combined with integrated grips and a transparent display for guidance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Force
If a liquid medium is allowed to move freely in a straight tubular chamber during dynamic exercise, then exercise force is generated, but abrupt impacts are transmitted to the user
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies curvature by replacing the straight tubular chamber with a serpentine or S-shaped curved path. This curved configuration causes the liquid medium to follow a smooth, continuous path during exercise manipulation, eliminating abrupt directional changes and impact forces while maintaining effective exercise force generation throughout the movement range.
2Ease of operation
If the tubular body is made flexible for portability and storage, then mobility and storage ease are improved, but structural integrity may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a flexible tubular body constructed from durable flexible material that can be repeatedly bent and folded without damage. This flexible shell design enables the device to be collapsed into a compact form for portability and storage while maintaining sufficient structural integrity to contain the liquid medium and transmit exercise forces effectively during use.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Facilitates safe and effective dynamic exercises by minimizing impact transmission, enhancing muscular strength, endurance, flexibility, and stability while providing a portable and easily storable device with visual guidance.
Implementation Method 1
Exercise devices that employ hydrodynamics to attain effective exercise forces during relatively simple exercise routines
Implementation Method 2
the chamber having a reentrant curved contour configuration at each terminal end such that during manipulation of the tubular body, gripped at the grips while conducting an exercise routine, the liquid medium, upon reaching a terminal end of the chamber, will follow a smooth, uninterrupted return path along the reentrant curved contour configuration, thereby creating an exercise force while avoiding the establishment and transmission of any abrupt impact to a corresponding grip
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AI summary
Exercise devices and methods avoid the establishment and transmission of any abrupt impact to a person during the conduct of an exercise routine with an exercise device having an elongate tubular body of flexible material with an internal chamber extending longitudinally between opposite terminal ends of the chamber, and a liquid medium partially filling the chamber so as to be movable between the terminal ends in response to manipulation of the tubular body. The chamber is provided with a reentrant curved contour configuration at each terminal end such that during manipulation of the tubular body while conducting the exercise routine, the liquid medium, upon reaching a terminal end of the chamber, will follow a smooth, uninterrupted return path along the reentrant curved contour configuration, thereby creating an exercise force while avoiding the establishment and transmission of any abrupt impact at a corresponding terminal end. A transparent portion of the tubular body reveals instructive or entertaining images displayed within the tubular body during the conduct of an exercise routine.