Interconnected Training Gloves for Catching Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Young athletes face challenges in developing the necessary eye-hand coordination to catch balls effectively, as they struggle to position their hands or gloves correctly during catching maneuvers.
Innovation Solution
A system of interconnected gloves, where the outer portion of a trainee's glove is attached to the inner portion of a trainer's glove, allowing the trainer to guide the trainee's glove into proper catching positions using adhesion connection members like hook or loop connectors, enabling the trainer to assist the trainee in performing catching motions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If a trainee practices catching independently, then the trainee develops autonomy and personal skill, but the trainee struggles to position hands or glove correctly and takes excessive time to learn proper catching technique
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a trainer's glove as an intermediary device between the instructor and the trainee's glove. This mediator glove, connected through adhesive connections, allows the trainer to remotely guide and position the trainee's glove correctly, thereby improving positioning accuracy while reducing the time required for the trainee to learn proper catching technique independently
2Reliability
If a trainer provides direct physical guidance to the trainee's hand, then the trainee receives immediate corrective feedback, but the training process requires constant trainer involvement and cannot be practiced independently
Solution Approach 1:
The connected gloves system serves as a mediator that enables the trainer to provide guidance remotely without direct physical contact. The adhesive connections allow the trainer's glove to influence the trainee's glove position, ensuring correct catching motion while allowing the trainee to practice independently with varying degrees of trainer involvement
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows for dynamic adjustment of the connection strength between gloves. The adhesive connections can be made stronger or weaker to provide varying degrees of assistance, enabling the trainee to progress from highly guided practice to more independent practice while maintaining correctness of motion
3Manufacturing precision
If the trainer's glove is firmly attached to the trainee's glove, then the trainer has precise control over glove positioning, but the trainee loses the ability to make independent adjustments and the connection becomes difficult to remove
Solution Approach 1:
The adhesive connection system provides dynamic controllability, allowing the trainer to adjust the strength of the connection between gloves. This enables precise control over glove positioning when needed, while also allowing the trainee to make independent adjustments or easily remove the connection when independence is desired
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This setup allows the trainee to practice catching motions with guidance, enhancing their eye-hand coordination skills by mimicking the trainer's movements, facilitating the learning process with varying degrees of assistance.
Implementation Method 1
The first connection member and the second connection member can be adhesion connection members, such as for example a hook or loop connector or another pliable fastening method for connecting the first connection area to the second connection area
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AI summary
A method and system of a training aid to assist a user to learn to catch including a pair of gloves in which at least a portion of an outer surface of a trainee's glove is attached to at least a portion of an inner surface of a trainer's glove to allow the trainer to guide the trainee's glove into proper positions used during catching. Alternatively, a belt portion is attached around the thumb and pinky of the trainee's glove and trainer's glove to attach the gloves to one another.