Self-Tilt Training Apparatus with Sensor Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current self-tilt training methods lack accuracy in maintaining the correct tilt angle and are prone to user variability, with no reliable mechanism for detecting fainting and ensuring compliance, especially in home settings where equipment is not available and safety is a concern.
Innovation Solution
A self-tilt training apparatus equipped with sensors to measure and adjust the tilt angle, monitor vital signs, and predict fainting risks, while providing feedback and automatic reporting to healthcare managers, ensuring accurate posture maintenance and safety during training sessions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If self-tilt training is performed without monitoring equipment, then training can be done at home with reduced cost, but the tilt angle accuracy and safety cannot be ensured
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex mechanical tilt tables with a portable apparatus using sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope) to measure tilt angle digitally. This substitution enables accurate angle measurement without expensive mechanical equipment, allowing home-based training while maintaining measurement precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The apparatus enables patients to perform self-tilt training independently at home using a portable device with integrated sensors and feedback mechanisms. The system automatically monitors tilt angle, provides real-time feedback, and alerts when fainting occurs, making the patient self-sufficient without requiring hospital equipment or constant medical supervision.
2Device complexity
If self-tilt training is performed without monitoring, then equipment cost is reduced, but safety during training cannot be ensured
Solution Approach 1:
The apparatus incorporates real-time feedback mechanisms including tilt angle monitoring, motion detection, and vital sign monitoring. The system provides immediate feedback to the patient through the mobile device and automatically detects fainting episodes, ensuring safety while maintaining relatively simple equipment consisting of sensors and a communication device.
Solution Approach 2:
The portable apparatus acts as an intermediary between the patient and healthcare providers. It continuously monitors training conditions and patient status, then transmits this information to medical professionals, enabling remote supervision and ensuring safety without requiring complex hospital-based equipment.
3Measurement precision
If tilt training requires hospital equipment, then measurement accuracy is ensured, but patient convenience and accessibility are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces hospital-based mechanical tilt tables with a portable apparatus using digital sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope) integrated into a mobile device. This substitution maintains measurement precision through software-based angle calculation while dramatically improving patient convenience by enabling home-based training.
Solution Approach 2:
The apparatus uses a mobile device that serves multiple functions: tilt angle measurement, motion monitoring, vital sign monitoring, feedback provision, and communication with healthcare providers. This multi-functionality consolidates what would require separate hospital equipment into a single portable device, improving accessibility while maintaining monitoring accuracy.
4Device complexity
If self-training compliance depends on patient reporting, then monitoring cost is reduced, but training compliance accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The apparatus automatically collects and transmits training compliance data including tilt angle maintenance, training duration, and motion patterns directly to healthcare providers. This automated feedback eliminates reliance on patient self-reporting, ensuring accurate compliance information while keeping the monitoring system relatively simple using existing mobile device sensors.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The apparatus enables safe and compliant self-tilt training with accurate posture maintenance and automatic reporting, enhancing patient safety and reducing costs by allowing training in a home setting with reliable monitoring and feedback mechanisms.
Implementation Method 1
a sensor unit which includes a plurality of sensors in close contact with the patient and measures the tilt angle of the patient
Data Source
AI summary
A self-tilt training apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a storage unit which stores a daily training setting value including a training tilt angle and a training time of a patient, a first sensor unit which includes a plurality of sensors in close contact with the patient and measures the tilt angle of the patient and a motion of the patient, a control unit which determines whether the patient stands up according to the set training tilt angle at the time of starting the training and whether the patient maintains the tilt angle during the training time on the basis of the daily training setting value and the measurement values of the first sensor unit, and an output unit which outputs a message, through any one or more manners of sight, touch, and hearing, according to a direction of the control unit.