Reversible Compression Garments with Mirror-Cut Panels

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing garments fail to effectively restrain, smooth, and conceal undesirable body fat bulges in a variety of wear configurations, lacking versatility and style options.

Innovation Solution

Reversible compression garments with mirror-cut panels made of synthetic fibers like nylon and spandex, allowing for sliding attachment and different visual characteristics on the inside and outside, enabling multiple wear styles and configurations such as inside-out and forward/backward reversibility.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a garment is designed as a single-layer structure, then it is simple to manufacture, but it lacks versatility and cannot provide multiple wear configurations

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvewear configurationsVSAvoidgarment structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The garment is divided into multiple independent panels (first panel, second panel, third panel, fourth panel) with mirror-cut shapes that can be attached along peripheral edges. This segmentation allows the panels to be reconfigured in multiple ways while maintaining compression functionality, resolving the contradiction between versatility and structural complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The reversible compression garment is designed to serve multiple functions through different wear configurations. The same garment can be worn with different panels facing outward (first panel, second panel, third panel, or fourth panel), providing variety in visual characteristics while maintaining the core compression function, thus achieving multi-functionality without proportionally increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Force

If a garment uses natural fibers, then it is comfortable and breathable, but it cannot provide sufficient compression to restrain body fat bulges

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompression forceVSAvoidcomfort and breathability

Core Design Contradiction:

ForceVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The garment utilizes synthetic fibers (nylon, spandex) that combine the compression capability needed to restrain body fat bulges with sufficient comfort and breathability. The composite nature of these materials allows simultaneous achievement of high compression force and wearer comfort, resolving the contradiction between these two requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #40Composite materials

3Adaptability or versatility

If a garment has different visual characteristics on inside and outside, then it offers more style options, but it requires more complex assembly processes

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestyle optionsVSAvoidassembly process

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The garment employs asymmetric design where the first panel and second panel have mirror-cut shapes with different visual characteristics. This asymmetric arrangement allows the garment to present different appearances when worn in different configurations, providing style variety. The mirror-cut symmetry simplifies the assembly process by allowing standardized attachment methods along corresponding peripheral edges, thus resolving the contradiction between style options and manufacturing ease.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #4Asymmetry

Data Source

PatentUS10285461B2Reversible compression garments and methods of assembling and using same

Publication Date: 2019.05.14 SPANX LLC

AI summary

Disclosed herein are reversible compression garments. In some embodiments, the garments are two-layer, reversible compression garments. In some embodiments, the garments are inside-out reversible, forward/backward reversible, or a combination thereof. The reversible compression garment can be, for instance, a mid-thigh pant or a tank top. Also disclosed herein are methods of assembling and using the reversible compression garments disclosed herein.