3D-Printed Supplement Servings for Personalized Deficiency Dosing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for nutritional data analysis face complexity and variability due to numerous factors, making it challenging to consistently apply nutritional data to analytical techniques.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for additive manufacturing of nutritional supplement servings, which involves a computing device that receives a user's nutritional needs, determines nutritional input, detects deficiencies, calculates supplement doses, selects ingredient combinations, and initiates manufacturing of customized nutritional supplement servings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional nutritional data analysis systems are used, then they can process nutritional information, but they suffer from extreme complexity and variability that frustrate consistent application
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the complex nutritional analysis into distinct functional modules: data reception module, determination module, detection module, calculation module, and manufacturing initiation module. Each module handles a specific aspect of the nutritional supplement process, making the overall complex system manageable and consistent in its operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts supplement doses and ingredient combinations based on detected nutritional deficiencies and user-specific parameters. This parameter-based approach allows consistent application of nutritional data by transforming complex qualitative nutritional information into quantifiable dosage parameters.
2Manufacturing precision
If personalized nutritional supplements are manufactured, then nutritional intake accuracy is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The additive manufacturing device is designed as a multi-functional system that can store multiple supplement ingredients and substrate ingredients, select appropriate combinations based on nutritional needs, and manufacture customized supplement servings. This universal device handles various supplement types through a single integrated platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-storing multiple supplement ingredients and substrate ingredients at the additive manufacturing device, and by pre-calculating supplement doses and ingredient combinations before manufacturing. This preparation reduces on-demand complexity while maintaining precision.
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AI summary
A system for additive manufacturing of nutritional supplement servings includes a computing device configured to receive nutritional needs of a user, determine a nutritional input to the user, detect at least a nutrition deficiency as a function of the plurality of nutritional needs and the nutritional input, calculate at least a supplement dose from the plurality of nutritional needs and at the least a nutrition deficiency, select an ingredient combination as a function of the at least a supplement dose, wherein selecting further includes receiving a plurality of ingredients stored at an additive manufacturing device, wherein the plurality ingredients includes a plurality of supplement ingredients and at least a substrate ingredient and selecting an ingredient combination including at least a substrate ingredient and at least a supplement ingredient as a function of the nutritional deficiency, and initiating manufacture of a nutritional supplement serving at the additive manufacturing device.