Multi-Exercise Machine with Segmented Base and Elastic Tension
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current individual exercise machines lack versatility, mobility, and safety, offering a limited range of exercises and being difficult to transport and store, with designs that are often fragile, inefficient, and costly.
Innovation Solution
A portable exercise machine with a two-part base, intermediary elastics, and a top two-part bar, featuring a durable and ergonomic design that allows for a wide range of exercises, easy handling, and safe storage and transport, incorporating a unique combination of mechanical components for enhanced versatility and safety.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If current individual exercise machines are used, then they are simple in structure, but they offer a limited range of exercises and low versatility
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise machine is designed with multiple functional components including a base unit, overhead bar, and various attachments that enable a wide range of exercises (push-ups, pull-ups, dips, leg raises, etc.) on a single platform, transforming a simple structure into a multi-functional exercise system
2Adaptability or versatility
If current exercise machines are used, then they are easy to manufacture, but they have low capacity for mobility and storage
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise machine is divided into separable components including a base unit, overhead bar, and attachments that can be easily assembled and disassembled, enabling mobility and compact storage while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through standardized connection interfaces
3Reliability
If current exercise machines are used, then they have a reasonable price, but they lack safety and durability
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise machine incorporates safety features such as padded surfaces, secure attachment mechanisms, and stable base design that prevent injuries and equipment failure before they can occur, ensuring safety and durability while maintaining versatility through proper engineering of these protective elements
4Ease of operation
If current exercise machines are used, then they are simple in design, but they are difficult to transport and store
Solution Approach 1:
The exercise machine consists of modular components that can be easily separated, assembled, and stored in compact configurations, improving transport and storage ease while the standardized design maintains manufacturing and operational simplicity
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
The machine provides a safe, efficient, and versatile platform for various exercises, ensuring durability, low maintenance, and ergonomic comfort, while being affordable and adaptable to diverse users and locations, overcoming the limitations of existing machines.
Implementation Method 1
intermediary elastics as a support element for the hands and the two-part bar during the exercises
Data Source
AI summary
An exercise machine has a two-part hexagonal base. A plurality of supports is attached to the two-part hexagonal base, and a pair of intermediary elastics, each arranged by crossing one side extremity of the two-part hexagonal base from a top extremity of the exercise machine to the bottom face of the opposite extremity of the two-part hexagonal base. A top two-part bar is arranged horizontally between tops of the pair of intermediary elastics. A top cylindrical wheel arranged and centered on the top two-part bar, wherein the two-part hexagonal base having a set of cylindrical openings spaced along an entire length of the two-part hexagonal base, two side openings, two rollers, arranged transversally centered in a one of the two side openings, a bottom hollow arranged along the an entire length of the bottom of the two-part hexagonal base, two pairs of straight bottom bars arranged centered and spaced on and along the entire length of the bottom face of the two-part hexagonal base.