Training Board With Spherical Balls For Multi-Plane Motion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing training devices for muscle groups are often expensive and cumbersome, requiring users to visit a gym or facility, limiting accessibility for balance, posture, and athletic training.
Innovation Solution
A rectangular training board with spherically shaped balls affixed to it, allowing for multiple planes of motion, facilitating balance, proprioceptive training, postural reactions, muscle strengthening, and quick reflexes, while emulating skateboard or snowboard functionality in a safe, stationary environment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional training devices are used for muscle group training, then training effectiveness is improved, but device complexity and cost increase, requiring gym facilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the essential training function from complex gym equipment by isolating the core instability training mechanism into a simple board with spherical elements. This removes unnecessary complexity while retaining the proprioceptive and balance training benefits, allowing home use without requiring full gym facilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The board replicates the functional principles of complex stability training devices used in gyms by creating a simplified version that mimics the instability and multi-planar motion characteristics. This copying approach captures the essential training effects without duplicating the complex machinery and facility requirements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional training devices are used, then comprehensive muscle training is achieved, but accessibility decreases due to facility requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The board is designed as a universal training device that can be used for multiple muscle groups and training objectives (balance, proprioception, core strength, athletic performance) in a single apparatus. This multi-functionality replaces the need for multiple specialized gym devices, making comprehensive training accessible at home.
Solution Approach 2:
The spherical elements enable training in multiple dimensions and planes of motion simultaneously, allowing the user to engage different muscle groups and movement patterns with a single device. This dimensional versatility provides comprehensive training coverage without requiring multiple separate pieces of equipment or facility space.
3Adaptability or versatility
If spherically shaped balls are affixed to the board, then multiple planes of motion are enabled, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs spherical elements (balls or rounded structures) attached to the board, which naturally enable multi-planar motion and rotation. The spherical geometry provides versatility in movement directions without requiring complex mechanical mechanisms, achieving adaptive training capabilities through simple curved geometry that is relatively easy to manufacture.
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AI summary
A device for training purposes or recreational activities using structures having a range of properties. The training device may include a board made of wood (or other material such as metal, rubber, plastic, or a combination thereof) and one or more suspension assemblies coupled to the bottom surface of the board. The assembly is adapted to be coupled to a longitudinal or a lateral slot on the board. The slots allow a user to longitudinally and laterally move the assembly without uncoupling it from the board, thereby allowing the user to easily position and re-position the assembly on the board to change the performance of the training device. Each of the assemblies may include an inflatable base having a polygon or circular shape. The base is for providing a cushioning effect when the board impacts the ground after a user performs an aerial maneuver.