Posture Correction Device with Adjustable Visual and Tactile Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals often adopt bad postures while working or studying, leading to spinal pain and physical issues like lumbar or cervical herniated disks due to unconscious comfort-oriented postures, which existing solutions fail to effectively address.
Innovation Solution
A posture correction device that utilizes the space between a user and their desk, providing visual and tactile signals to correct bad postures by adjusting in height and angle, featuring a recognizing part with sliders and elastic members to contact the abdomen and neck, and a controller for alarming bad posture.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a posture correction device is designed to provide visual and tactile signals, then posture correction effectiveness is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The posture correction device is divided into multiple independent functional modules: a base part for mounting, a recognizing part with frame for visual/tactile feedback, a contact part with sliders for abdominal contact, and elastic members for tactile signaling. Each module operates independently but contributes to the overall posture correction function, allowing the complex system to be managed through modular components.
Solution Approach 2:
The device incorporates adjustable height and angle mechanisms in the recognizing part frame, allowing dynamic adaptation to different user positions and preferences. The contact part features slidable components that can move along guide slots to maintain optimal contact with the user's abdomen during posture changes, providing dynamic feedback rather than static resistance.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the recognizing part is made adjustable in height and angle, then adaptability to different users is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The device includes pre-configured adjustment ranges and stop mechanisms that prevent over-adjustment or improper positioning. The frame structure incorporates built-in guides and限位 features that ensure adjustments remain within safe and effective boundaries, cushioning against potential errors in user adjustment or manufacturing variations.
Solution Approach 2:
The recognizing part frame allows adjustment of multiple parameters including height, angle, and horizontal position. These parameter changes enable the same device to adapt to different user body types, desk heights, and working positions without requiring custom manufacturing for each user, reducing precision requirements while maintaining versatility.
3Reliability
If the contact part protrudes toward the user's abdomen, then tactile feedback is improved, but user comfort may worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The contact part is designed to contact only specific local areas of the user's abdomen rather than applying pressure across the entire abdominal region. The sliders and contact surfaces are positioned to provide tactile feedback at key anatomical points, delivering effective posture signaling while minimizing overall discomfort and pressure on the user's body.
Solution Approach 2:
The tactile feedback from the contact part is activated periodically or event-driven based on posture deviations rather than continuous pressure. The elastic members and sliders engage only when the user's posture moves outside the correct range, providing intermittent tactile signals that guide correction without causing continuous discomfort from constant contact pressure.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables users to recognize and correct bad postures immediately, promoting good posture habits without relying on external physical force, thus preventing long-term physical issues.
Implementation Method 1
The base part has a suction pad located on the underside thereof
Implementation Method 2
The recognizing part further comprises at least one or more elastic members located on the plurality of support tubes to allow the recognizing part to tilt in one direction by means of an external force and to be returned to an original position thereof if the external force is released
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AI summary
Disclosed is a posture correction device. According to the present invention, the posture correction device includes: a base part; and a recognizing part having a frame whose one side is coupled to the base part in such a manner as to allow one or more of a height and an angle to be adjusted, wherein the recognizing part is recognized visually and tactilely according to a user's posture.