Training Goggles with Side Blinders for Focus Precision

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current sports equipment does not utilize increased situational awareness to develop muscle memory effectively.

Innovation Solution

The design of goggles with mechanically coupled side blinders that narrow the field of vision to enhance peripheral vision, forcing athletes to maintain focus and correct head positioning, thereby strengthening hand-eye coordination, reaction time, and situational awareness during training.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the field of vision is narrowed to optimize focus, then situational awareness and hand-eye coordination are enhanced, but peripheral vision is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefocus precisionVSAvoidfield of vision

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The visual field is segmented into a central clear viewing area and peripheral obscured areas using side blinders. This segmentation allows the athlete to maintain a narrow, focused central field of view for precision while the blinders block peripheral distractions, effectively resolving the contradiction between focus precision and field of vision area.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Loss of information

If side blinders are added to narrow the field of vision, then situational awareness is enhanced, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesituational awarenessVSAvoidgoggle structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The side blinders are merged with the goggle frame structure, integrating the field-of-view-limiting function directly into the goggle housing. This integration minimizes additional complexity by combining multiple functions (protection, framing, and visual restriction) into a unified structure rather than adding separate components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Manufacturing precision

If the athlete must keep head square to the object, then fundamental mechanics are improved, but ease of operation is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetechnique precisionVSAvoidhead movement freedom

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The side blinders provide immediate visual feedback when the athlete deviates from proper head positioning. When the head turns away from the square position, the blinders obstruct the view of the target, creating a corrective feedback loop that guides the athlete back to proper form without requiring constant instructor intervention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10117780B2Goggles that eliminate a user's peripheral vision and enhance situational awareness while strengthening muscle memory

Publication Date: 2018.11.06 SWIVEL VISION

AI summary

Goggles eliminate peripheral vision of a user and enhance situational awareness while increasing muscle memory. The goggles comprise a goggle frame mechanically coupled to a left side blinder and a right side blinder. The goggle frame is further mechanically coupled to a wearing component. The left side blinder covers approximately one half of a left eye of the user and the right side blinder covers approximately one half of a right eye of the user giving the user a field of vision of 30 degrees to 70 degrees which can eliminate distractions and disturbances in peripheral vision of the user causing increased situational awareness and increased muscle memory.