Shoe Lace Adjuster with Integrated Sensor Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Athletes face challenges in visualizing and measuring their athletic performance, and shoelaces often become tripping hazards due to being untied, too tight, or too loose, which can lead to suboptimal performance and injury.
Innovation Solution
A lace adjuster assembly with a feedback system that includes sensors to measure performance characteristics and an image capturing assembly to visualize athletic performance, allowing for real-time data analysis and secure shoelace adjustment to prevent tripping hazards.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If sensors and image capturing assembly are integrated into the lace adjuster, then athletic performance measurement and visualization capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple functions (shoelace adjustment, performance sensing, image capture, and data processing) into a single lace adjuster assembly. The controller unit combines the lace adjustment mechanism with sensor interfaces and image capturing capabilities, allowing athletes to have comprehensive performance monitoring without wearing multiple separate devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The lace adjuster assembly serves multiple purposes: it adjusts shoelace tension, captures performance data through sensors, records visual information via image assembly, and provides feedback to the athlete. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate performance monitoring equipment.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple sensors are added to measure different performance characteristics, then measurement capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sensor assembly is divided into multiple independent sensor units, each capable of measuring specific performance characteristics (acceleration, velocity, distance, etc.). This modular approach allows the system to capture diverse athletic metrics while keeping individual sensor components simple and manageable.
3Productivity
If real-time feedback is provided through the controller, then athletic performance improvement is enabled, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The controller processes sensor data and provides feedback at periodic intervals rather than continuously, reducing energy consumption while still delivering actionable performance information to the athlete in real-time.
Data Source
AI summary
A lace adjuster assembly (12) is adapted to selectively adjust a shoelace (11) of a shoe (10) of a user. The lace adjuster assembly (12) comprises a lace adjuster (14) and a feedback assembly (19). The lace adjuster (14) is adapted to selectively adjust the shoelace (11) of the shoe (10) of the user. The feedback assembly (19) is coupled to the lace adjuster (14). Additionally, the feedback assembly (19) is configured to perform one of (i) selectively measuring statistical data of the user during an athletic performance, and (ii) selectively capturing an image of the user during the athletic performance.