Tapered Ergonomic Massaging Device With Segmented Dilation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Women often experience pain during sex due to an overactive pelvic floor, which is often untreated or overlooked due to lack of effective at-home treatment options, social stigmas, and normalization of pain.
Innovation Solution
A multipurpose ergonomic massaging device with a tapered non-phallic design for shallow vaginal insertion, allowing gradual dilation without multiple dilators, and featuring simultaneous massage of the clitoris and perineum or vagina, along with various massage modes including vibration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If standard rigid dilators are used for treatment, then dilation effect is achieved, but user comfort and ease of operation deteriorate due to discomfort of inserting and removing multiple dilators
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into a handle portion and a tapered member portion with segmented diameters along its length. The tapered member has multiple sections with progressively increasing diameters, allowing gradual dilation through a single insertion rather than requiring multiple separate dilators to be inserted and removed sequentially.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention combines multiple dilator functions into a single device. The tapered member integrates progressive dilation sections, vibration mechanisms, and massage capabilities into one unified tool, eliminating the need to switch between multiple dilators of different sizes.
2Manufacturing precision
If multiple dilators are used for gradual dilation, then dilation precision is improved, but device complexity and treatment time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The tapered member is designed with segmented diameter sections along its length, where each section has a progressively larger diameter. This segmentation provides graduated dilation precision within a single device, eliminating the need for multiple separate dilators while maintaining controlled progression.
Solution Approach 2:
The single device performs multiple functions that previously required separate tools: gradual dilation through tapered sections, vibration therapy, and massage. The tapered member serves as both the dilation instrument and the vibration/massage applicator, reducing overall device complexity.
3Productivity
If vibration and arousal features are added to therapeutic exercises, then user motivation and adherence improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The vibration mechanisms and massage functions are integrated into the tapered member itself rather than being separate components. The handle portion contains vibration motors that transmit vibration through the tapered member, combining therapeutic vibration with dilation in a single unified system.
Solution Approach 2:
The device combines therapeutic dilation, vibration therapy, and massage functions into one multi-functional tool. The same tapered member used for dilation also serves as the vibration and massage applicator, adding motivational features without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The device helps relax pelvic floor muscles, decreases pain, and encourages continued therapeutic use by incorporating arousal features, thereby addressing entry pain and improving sexual experience.
Implementation Method 1
a vaginal vibrating mechanism, a clitoral vibrating mechanism... The device is configured to enable the user to simultaneously stimulate the clitoris and to insert the narrow member in the vagina
Data Source
AI summary
A massaging device has a vibration mechanism, housing, controller, and narrow, broad and clitoral members. The broad member can be used as a handgrip in various orientations to control the stimulated location and level of stimulation. The narrow member has a conical or pyramid shape with cross sections increasing from the tip to the base, permitting gradual insertion. The device includes a controller enabling a user to turn on and off the vibration mechanism, and to change the vibration pattern and intensity. The relative position of the broad, clitoral and narrow members enables a user to exercise precise and accurate control of the stimulated location and level of stimulation by displacing the device in different planes. In another embodiment, the device has a clitoral vibration motor with variable intensity patterns and a controller that allows a user to manipulate both the vaginal and clitoral vibration mechanisms without moving the device.