Layered Modesty Bra Structure for Clavicle Port Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cancer patients undergoing treatments requiring access to veins for chemotherapy, blood transfusions, or IV fluids often need to remove their clothing, compromising their dignity and comfort.
Innovation Solution
A bra design featuring an inner and outer layer with a heart-shaped pocket that can be filled with a pillow, allowing the outer layer to be temporarily disconnected from the strap for access to the clavicle port while maintaining coverage of the breast area, including the nipple, using removable connectors and plastic materials to avoid interference with medical equipment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the patient removes clothing to access the clavicle port, then the port is accessible for medical procedures, but the patient's modesty and dignity are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The bra is divided into separate layers: an inner layer that remains in place and an outer layer that can be removed or opened. This segmentation allows the outer layer to be opened for port access while the inner layer continues to provide coverage and support, resolving the contradiction between ease of access and patient modesty.
Solution Approach 2:
The outer layer is designed to be removable or openable, extracting the coverage function from a permanent garment structure. This allows selective removal of only the necessary covering portion during procedures, maintaining modesty where needed while enabling access where required.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the outer layer is fixedly attached to the inner layer, then the bra provides stable support, but access to the clavicle port is hindered
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment between layers is segmented rather than continuous. The outer layer is attached to the inner layer at specific locations (sides and bottom) but not at the top, creating a stable structure that still allows opening for port access.
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment mechanism transitions from static (permanently fixed) to dynamic (removable or openable). The outer layer can be detached or opened during procedures and reattached afterward, providing stability during normal wear and accessibility during procedures.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If the bra provides full coverage of the breast area, then the patient's modesty is maintained, but access to the clavicle port is blocked
Solution Approach 1:
The bra provides different levels of coverage in different regions. The inner layer maintains full coverage for modesty, while the outer layer can be opened locally at the top to expose only the clavicle port area, allowing access without compromising overall coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The coverage function is segmented between layers and regions. The inner layer provides continuous coverage, while the outer layer's top portion can be opened to create a localized access point without affecting the coverage provided by the inner layer or the rest of the outer layer.
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AI summary
A bra with breast region has a strap extending over a shoulder to the breast region. An outer layer of the bra is fixedly attached to the breast region, but removably attached to the strap. A removable pillow is within this outer layer. The fixedly attached portion of the outer layer attached to the breast region extends from the breast region up to a pocket housed within the outer layer, the pocket, in turn, being adapted to house the pillow. Then upward, the outer layer is free from attachment to the inner layer, though it is removably attached to the strap at a top side.