Radial Striking Target Layout for Instructor Visibility

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing striking training apparatuses do not allow participants to maintain visual contact with the instructor and ensure personal space during group training sessions, leading to claustrophobic feelings and reduced effectiveness in training.

Innovation Solution

A physical training apparatus with a frame and support assembly that surrounds a central space for the instructor, featuring suspended striking targets positioned radially outwardly to allow users to interact with the targets while maintaining visual contact with the instructor, with configurations such as an octagonal or square loop of horizontal frame members and offset striking targets for optimal visibility and space.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If multiple participants are positioned close together around a punching bag, then the device complexity is reduced, but the participants cannot maintain visual contact with the instructor and personal space is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisual contact and personal spaceVSAvoidapparatus configuration

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The training system is segmented into multiple independent punching bags positioned around a central instructor area, allowing participants to be distributed spatially while maintaining group cohesion. Each participant has their own punching bag at a designated station, eliminating the need for multiple participants to crowd around a single bag.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The training apparatus transitions from a single-point configuration to a multi-point circular arrangement. By distributing punching bags around a central instructor position, the system adds spatial dimensionality that simultaneously improves visual contact, personal space, and instructional effectiveness without significantly increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Ease of operation

If participants are positioned radially outwardly from the frame, then visual contact with the instructor is maintained, but the area required for the training apparatus increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisual contactVSAvoidfootprint of training apparatus

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The training apparatus uses a circular frame configuration with punching bags positioned radially around the center. This curved, radial arrangement maximizes the use of available space by distributing participants along a circular perimeter, allowing the instructor to be positioned centrally within the circle and visible to all participants without requiring excessive linear space.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

Data Source

PatentUS11511172B2Physical training apparatus and method for using the same

Publication Date: 2022.11.29 9992316 CANADA INC

AI summary

A physical training apparatus for use in striking training, the apparatus comprising: a frame having a perimeter member extending substantially along a perimeter member plane and a support assembly for supporting the perimeter member above a ground surface such that the perimeter member plane is substantially horizontal, the perimeter member surrounding a central space for receiving an instructor; and a plurality of striking targets suspended from the perimeter member, the striking targets being positioned around the central space to allow a user positioned radially outwardly from the frame, adjacent one of the striking targets and facing inwardly towards the central space, to interact with the striking target while maintaining visual contact with the instructor when the instructor is positioned in the central space.