Pet Calming Vest Hood Structure for Noise Isolation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional pet calming vests fail to provide effective calming for a pet's sensitive areas, such as the head, leading to reduced efficacy in reducing anxiety during sudden noise exposure.

Innovation Solution

A noise-reducing pet calming vest with a hood part that wraps the head and noise-reducing sections covering the ears, combined with an elastic fabric body that moderately wraps the torso, providing comprehensive stress simulation akin to a mother's embrace.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a conventional pet calming vest only wraps the torso, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the calming effect is insufficient for pets exposed to sudden noise impacts

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecalming effectVSAvoidvest structure
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The vest is divided into distinct functional segments: a torso portion for general calming and a separate hood portion with ear covers for targeted noise reduction. This segmentation allows each part to specialize in its function while maintaining overall simplicity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The design extends from two-dimensional torso wrapping to three-dimensional head enclosure by adding the hood portion that surrounds the pet's head and ears, creating a multi-dimensional calming structure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Reliability

If the vest uses elastic fabric to wrap the pet body, then the pet receives calming stress simulation, but the pet's mobility may be restricted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecalming effectVSAvoidpet mobility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The elastic fabric's tension parameters are carefully selected to provide sufficient wrapping pressure for calming while maintaining enough elasticity to allow natural movement and breathing, optimizing the balance between calming effect and mobility

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Object-affected harmful factors

If noise-reducing sections are added to cover pet ears, then noise reduction effectiveness is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenoise impactVSAvoidvest structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The noise-reducing ear covers are merged with the hood portion and integrated into the single vest structure, eliminating the need for separate components and simplifying the overall device while maintaining effective noise reduction

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

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 vest effectively reduces anxiety by physically isolating the head and ears from external stimuli, enhancing the calming effect and maintaining pet comfort and mobility.

Implementation Method 1

a pet calming vest applies a sustained, uniform, and slight stress to a pet body

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElasticity: Elasticity

Implementation Method 2

noise-reducing sections configured to wrap pet ears are formed on both sides of the hood part

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectAcoustic absorption: Acoustic Absorption

Data Source

PatentUS12568933B2Noise-reducing pet calming vest
Publication Date: 2026.03.10 ZHU YUDONG
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AI summary

A noise-reducing pet calming vest is provided, which relates to the technical field of pet calming. The noise-reducing pet calming vest includes a vest body made of elastic fabric, where the vest body includes a main body part configured to wrap a pet torso and a hood part configured to wrap a pet head, and a front end of the main body is connected to a rear end of the hood part; and a lower hood section configured to wrap a lower part of a pet face is formed on an inner side of the hood part, a top hood section configured to wrap a pet head top is formed on an outer side of the hood part, and noise-reducing sections configured to wrap pet ears are formed on both sides of the hood part.