Rotating Exercise Machine Screen Interface for Dual User Positions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise machine interfaces are not ergonomically suited to various configurations, occupying visual space and lacking necessary support points, making them impractical and uncomfortable for different exercises.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable interface with a rotatable support and screen that can switch between two configurations, allowing the screen to adjust its display orientation based on the user's position, equipped with sensors to detect configuration changes and adjust the display accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the screen is fixed in a particular position, then the manufacturing is simple and inexpensive, but the interface is not ergonomically suited to various exercise configurations
Solution Approach 1:
The interface support is made rotatable about a horizontal axis, allowing it to dynamically change orientation between multiple exercise positions. This dynamic adjustment enables the screen to adapt to different ergonomic requirements while maintaining a relatively simple mechanical structure based on rotational movement.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface is designed to serve multiple exercise configurations through rotational positioning. A single interface structure can be oriented to support various exercise positions, making it universally applicable across different workout types without requiring multiple separate interfaces.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the screen is overturned to face a different exercise position, then the interface can serve multiple configurations, but the display becomes uncomfortable to read
Solution Approach 1:
The screen dynamically adjusts its orientation to maintain optimal readability regardless of the exercise configuration. The rotational mechanism allows the screen to be positioned at different angles, ensuring that users can comfortably read the display in various exercise positions rather than forcing an overturned view.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface orientation is locally optimized for each exercise configuration. Rather than using a single fixed orientation or simply overturning the screen, the interface can be rotated to achieve the optimal viewing angle and readability comfort specific to each exercise position.
3Ease of operation
If the interface occupies the user's visual space, then it is positioned for visibility, but it lacks supporting points necessary to correctly perform certain workouts
Solution Approach 1:
The interface support structure is rotatable, allowing it to dynamically reposition between occupying the visual space for visibility and moving away to provide exercise support points. This rotational capability enables the interface to serve dual functions: acting as a visible display when needed and providing structural support for exercise positions when required.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The interface provides ergonomic flexibility, allowing comfortable exercise performance with optimized screen visibility and user interaction, while maintaining robustness and simplicity in manufacturing.
Implementation Method 1
said support is rotatably mounted, along a substantially horizontal rotational axis, with respect to said fixed portion, so as to be able to rotate between a first configuration, in which the support is raised and the screen is turned towards a first exercise position of the user, and a second configuration, in which the support is lowered and the screen is turned towards a second exercise position of the user, overturned with respect to the first configuration
Implementation Method 2
said machine further comprises at least one sensor to detect the screen configuration and thereby adjust the display
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AI summary
An interface for an exercise machine, including at least one fixed portion that is integral with the exercise machine, a support and, on a face of the support, a screen for visually communicating information to the user and/or for inputting commands by the latter; the support is rotatably mounted, along a substantially horizontal rotational axis with respect to the fixed portion that is integral with the exercise machine, so as to be able to rotate between a first configuration, in which the support is raised and the screen is turned towards a first exercise position of the user, and a second configuration, in which the support is lowered and the screen is turned towards a second exercise position of the user, overturned with respect to the first configuration.