Muscle Biasing Device With Telescopic Arc Frame
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional muscle contraction devices for home use are often bulky and pose a risk of unintentional disassembly during use, lacking stability and secure installation.
Innovation Solution
A muscle contraction device featuring a frame with a telescopic structure bar wedged between the floor and upper room structures, incorporating a feedback element and loading mechanism that utilizes an electric motor to generate a feedback force, ensuring secure installation and adjustable height for various environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If conventional weight training machines are used for home exercise, then muscle contraction function is achieved, but device size becomes too large for domestic use
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into separate functional components: a compact frame structure, a telescopic structure bar, a feedback element, and a loading element. This segmentation allows the device to maintain full muscle contraction functionality while reducing overall device volume for home use.
Solution Approach 2:
The structure bar is designed to be telescopic rather than fixed length, allowing dynamic adjustment of the device size. The bar can extend to provide adequate leverage for exercise and retract to minimize device footprint when not in use or when space is limited.
2Ease of operation
If simple installation is implemented for home use, then ease of installation is improved, but risk of unintentional de-installation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The frame structure utilizes the doorframe itself as the anchoring mechanism. The upper element rests against the upper crossmember while the lower element contacts the floor, using the existing architectural features for support rather than requiring separate anchoring hardware. This self-service approach simplifies installation while maintaining reliability through proper force distribution.
Solution Approach 2:
The circular arc geometry of the structure bar is designed to redirect user pulling forces into compressive forces that press the frame more firmly against the doorframe. This beforehand designed force redistribution prevents unintentional de-installation by converting potentially destabilizing lateral forces into stabilizing compressive forces.
3Adaptability or versatility
If fixed length structure bar is used, then structural simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to different room heights is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The structure bar transitions from a fixed-length component to a telescopic mechanism with movable sections. This dynamic design allows the bar length to be adjusted according to the specific doorframe height and user requirements, while locking mechanisms maintain structural integrity during exercise.
Solution Approach 2:
The telescopic structure bar employs a nested configuration where one section is inserted within another. This nesting arrangement allows the bar to compact to a smaller size for storage or transport while extending to the required length for different doorframe heights, effectively resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity.
4Reliability
If frame is firmly fixed during use, then stability is improved, but space efficiency when not in use is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The telescopic structure bar enables the device to dynamically change its volume. When in use, the bar is extended and locked to provide structural stability. When not in use, the bar is retracted to minimize the device's footprint, allowing compact storage in home environments.
Solution Approach 2:
The frame components are designed to be separable and reconfigurable. The structure bar can be detached or retracted, and the frame elements can be disassembled for storage in minimal space, while maintaining full stability when assembled for exercise.
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 device provides a safe, stable, and space-efficient muscle contraction solution with adjustable height and direction, enhancing user safety and exercise variety through secure anchoring and customizable resistance.
Implementation Method 1
the circular arc bars of which are loaded in bending, thus tending to transform the force of the user into a resultant force compressing the frame against the door casing
Implementation Method 2
the locking member exerts on the second part of the structure bar a locking force of which a first component is in a direction tangential to a direction of sliding of the second part of the structure bar in the first part of the structure bar
Data Source
AI summary
Muscle contraction device including:a frame intended to be wedged between a floor surface (30) and an upper structure (29) of a room, the frame including a structure bar forming a circular arc, an upper element attached to a first end of the structure bar and a lower element attached to a second end of the structure bar both intended to cooperate with the upper structure of the room and the floor surface, respectively,a feedback element attached to the frame,a loading element coupled to the feedback element adapted to be pulled by a user (27) toward the inside of the circular arc of the structure bar and to exert on the loading element a feedback force opposing the pulling force of the user.