Scapular Strap Posture Garment for Discreet Wear
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing posture correction devices are cumbersome, uncomfortable, and conspicuous, often causing pressure points and requiring excessive material and manufacturing costs, while failing to achieve true neutral spinal posture.
Innovation Solution
A fully adjustable garment with scapular straps that attach to the inside back and connect to the front outside, allowing for even distribution of tension across the shoulder, eliminating pressure points and protuberances, and enabling independent adjustment for each shoulder, without an elastic waistband or shoulder pads, thus being lightweight, comfortable, and discreet.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If straps surround the front of the shoulders to retract shoulders and adduct scapulae, then posture correction function is improved, but pressure points and friction discomfort occur on the shoulders
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the harmful front shoulder straps entirely and replaces them with scapular straps that attach only at the back of the garment near the scapulae. This extraction of the problematic component eliminates pressure points and friction on the front shoulders while maintaining posture correction through alternative mechanical action at the scapular region.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism where scapular straps attach to the back of the garment and connect to the front via the garment material itself. The garment material acts as a mediator that distributes tension evenly across the front shoulder surface area without requiring direct strap contact, thus eliminating pressure points while maintaining the retraction function.
2Reliability
If straps extend around the front of the shoulder to provide posture support, then shoulder retraction is achieved, but protuberance through shirt and visible appearance occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts all visible strap components from the front of the garment, leaving only the back attachment points visible. The scapular straps are positioned and secured at the back, eliminating the protuberance and visible appearance problem while maintaining shoulder retraction function through the garment's tension distribution system.
3Reliability
If traditional posture braces use front shoulder straps for correction, then posture improvement is achieved, but device complexity and material usage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the complex front strap configuration entirely and replaces it with a simplified back-attachment scapular strap system. This reduction in component complexity and material usage achieves the same posture improvement function with fewer parts and less material, directly addressing the device complexity contradiction.
4Ease of operation
If adjustable tension system is implemented with back attachments, then comfort and freedom of movement are improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs the scapular strap attachment system to serve multiple functions: providing adjustable tension, ensuring proper strap positioning, and accommodating manufacturing variations. The attachment mechanism at the back of the garment is designed to be universally applicable with tolerance for positioning variations, reducing manufacturing precision requirements while maintaining adjustability and comfort.
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AI summary
The present invention relates generally to a garment for improving body posture that is lightweight, comfortable, discrete, adjustable, and easy to use, while requiring very little material with a low manufacturing cost. The present invention has scapular straps that are made of elastic fabric. One end of the scapular straps connect to a hook-and-loop panel near the waistline on the front of the garment, and the other end of the scapular straps connect to the back of the garment near the shoulder region. The invention has neither an elastic waist band, shoulder pads, nor straps that surround the shoulder and the arm. Since there are no straps surrounding the shoulder, the invention not only allows shorter straps to be used, but also prevents any seams from showing on the front of the garment. This allows the wearer to discreetly wear the posture correcting garment.