Torso-Mounted Putting Alignment Device with Grid and Laser
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current golf training devices primarily focus on aligning the putter or specific body parts, neglecting the overall body alignment necessary for accurate putting, leading to missed putts due to misalignment of the shoulders, hips, knees, and feet relative to the target line.
Innovation Solution
A putting alignment training device with an adjustable shoulder harness, grid board, and laser embodiments that secure to the upper torso, providing a transparent grid or laser lines to align the golfer's body and putter face correctly with the target line, ensuring proper alignment of shoulders, hips, knees, and feet.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If current golf training devices focus on aligning only the putter or specific body parts, then the device complexity is reduced, but the putting accuracy deteriorates due to overall body misalignment
Solution Approach 1:
The alignment device is divided into separate modular components: a shoulder harness with shoulder alignment indicators, a frontal board with foot alignment indicators, and a putter alignment component. Each segment independently addresses a specific body part alignment, allowing the system to achieve comprehensive body alignment without requiring a single complex monolithic device.
Solution Approach 2:
The alignment device serves multiple functions simultaneously: it aligns the putter face perpendicular to the target line, aligns the shoulders parallel to the target line, aligns the feet parallel to the target line, and provides visual feedback for proper stance. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by consolidating multiple alignment tasks into one versatile device system.
2Manufacturing precision
If the alignment device provides comprehensive body alignment guidance, then the putting accuracy is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to multiple alignment requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The alignment device is designed to be self-aligning through visual feedback mechanisms. The shoulder harness and frontal board provide visual indicators that automatically guide the golfer into the correct alignment position without requiring complex adjustment procedures or expert instruction. The system serves itself by providing intuitive visual guidance that simplifies the alignment process.
Solution Approach 2:
The alignment device establishes proper body alignment before the golfer takes the putting stroke. By pre-aligning the shoulders, feet, and putter face using the visual indicators on the shoulder harness and frontal board, the system prepares the golfer in advance for accurate putting, eliminating the need for complex real-time adjustments during the stroke.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the device secures to the upper torso to provide alignment guidance, then the alignment stability is improved, but the ease of operation worsens due to securing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The shoulder harness uses flexible straps and webbing that can be easily adjusted and secured around the golfer's shoulders. The flexible material allows for simple putting on and taking off while maintaining stable alignment guidance once secured. The thin film construction of the harness allows it to conform to the body while providing stable visual alignment indicators.
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AI summary
A putting alignment training device that is securable to an upper torso of a user, having an elongated shoulder board, an adjustable harness that is secured to the shoulder board and configured to secure the training device to a front side of the upper torso, a frontal board, an adjustable connector that secures the frontal board to the shoulder board, a grid board including a grid formed by a plurality of horizontal lines and a plurality of vertical lines wherein one of the plurality of horizontal lines and the plurality of vertical lines are parallel to the shoulder board.