Resilient Inversion Exerciser Table with Orifices

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional tilting inversion exercisers have uncomfortable and unsanitary user supporting tables that fail to provide adequate support and flexibility, limiting user comfort and hygiene, especially after workouts.

Innovation Solution

A tilting inversion exerciser with a resilient, flexible, and integral-piece supporting table made of plastic or rubber materials, featuring orifices for air circulation and no peripheral frames, allowing users to rotate 15 to 20 degrees for improved stretching and easy sterilization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If a massage device is engaged within a soft cushion for massaging the back portions of users, then the massaging function is improved, but the user cannot be comfortably or relaxedly supported on the supporting table

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemassaging functionVSAvoiduser comfort

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent removes the massage device and soft cushion from the supporting table, extracting the uncomfortable element while preserving the essential support function. The supporting table becomes a simple, comfortable surface without embedded massage mechanisms that prevented relaxation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Device complexity

If the supporting table includes a planar structure, then the structure is simple, but it cannot comfortably or relaxedly support the back portions of the users

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetable structureVSAvoiduser comfort

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies curvature to the supporting table surface, transforming it from a flat planar structure to a contoured surface that conforms to the natural curvature of the human back. This curved design provides comfortable support while maintaining structural simplicity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

3Adaptability or versatility

If the supporting table is made of canvas, then it is flexible, but it is too soft and cannot suitably support the user such that the outer portions or the side portions of the users will be curved or forced upwardly and inwardly

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveflexibilityVSAvoiduser support

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the material parameter of the supporting table from soft canvas to a firmer material that provides adequate support. This parameter change maintains necessary flexibility while preventing excessive softness that would cause user body distortion.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

4Adaptability or versatility

If the canvas is used for the supporting table, then it is flexible, but it is not good for sterilizing purposes particularly following use by someone just finishing a workout and very sweaty

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveflexibilityVSAvoidsterilization

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of repair

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a composite material structure for the supporting table that combines flexibility with sterilizability. The material is designed to be both adaptable to user contours and suitable for thorough sterilization processes, particularly important for post-workout hygiene.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #40Composite materials

5Strength

If the outer peripheral frame is provided on the supporting table, then it provides structural support, but it limits the stretching of the users

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural supportVSAvoidstretching freedom

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent removes the outer peripheral frame from the supporting table, extracting the element that limited user stretching. The frameless design allows users to stretch freely in all directions while the table's inherent structure provides sufficient structural support.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

6Adaptability or versatility

If the canvas is used for the supporting table, then it is soft, but the outer portions or the side portions of the users will be curved or forced upwardly and inwardly such that the user may not feel comfortable

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovesoftnessVSAvoiduser comfort

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the material parameter from soft canvas to a firmer material that maintains necessary adaptability while providing adequate support. This parameter adjustment prevents excessive softness that would cause user body curvature and discomfort.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS7625326B2Table for tilting inversion exerciser

Publication Date: 2009.12.01 TEETER ROGER C

AI summary

A tilting inversion exerciser includes a lower supporting stand having an axle, and a table rotatably supported on the stand with the axle, the table is made of plastic material and having a resilient one-integral-piece structure for smoothly engaging with the back portion of the user and for comfortably supporting the user, and for easily sterilizing purposes particularly following use by someone just finishing a workout and very sweaty. The table is pivotally supported on a base with a frame and one or more arms in which the arms are pivotally supported on the base and limited to pivot or to rotate relative to the base.