Universal Fitness Device with Modular Wood Joints
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Solution Overview
Problem
The fitness industry faces challenges with specialized, heavy, and expensive fitness devices that are not sustainable, unsuitable for home use, and lack versatility, leading to hygiene issues and boredom in workouts due to limited exercise options.
Innovation Solution
A universal fitness device designed with interconnected limbs, a reinforcement board, and adjustable features such as swivel joints and locking mechanisms, made from sustainable materials like wood, allowing for various exercises and easy cleaning, and featuring a compact folding design for space efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If specialized fitness devices are used, then exercise effectiveness is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by designing a single fitness device structure that can perform multiple different exercises. The device includes a horizontal bar connected to a support structure, where the bar can be positioned at various heights and angles to enable different exercise types such as pull-ups, push-ups, and stretching exercises. This eliminates the need for multiple specialized devices while maintaining exercise effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The device is segmented into modular components including the horizontal bar, support structure, and adjustable positioning mechanisms. This segmentation allows the same basic structure to be configured for different exercises, providing versatility without requiring complex integrated systems.
2Stability of the object's composition
If heavy iron constructions are used, then structural stability is improved, but portability and sustainability worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs composite materials by combining wood for the main structural components (horizontal bar and support structure) with metal only for essential connection and reinforcement elements. This composite approach maintains structural stability through proper material selection and joint design while significantly reducing overall device weight compared to traditional all-iron constructions, improving both portability and sustainability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple specialized devices are provided, then exercise variety is improved, but space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The device provides exercise variety through universal functionality, where a single compact structure supports multiple exercise types including upper body strength training, core exercises, and stretching routines. The horizontal bar can be adjusted to create different exercise configurations, eliminating the need for multiple space-consuming specialized devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The device allows nesting of exercise functions within a single compact structure. Different exercise capabilities are nested within the same physical footprint by utilizing adjustable bar positions and configurations, maximizing space efficiency while maintaining exercise variety.
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AI summary
A fitness device (100) for the practice of fitness exercises, includes at least two front limbs (1a, 1b) and with at least two rear limbs (2a, 2b), which are each connected to one another in an upper end area (oEb) with connecting joints (3a, 3b) and with at least one connecting or horizontal bar (4), and the fitness device (100) including at least two fixing holders (9a, 9b), by means of which in each case one of the front limbs (1a, 1b) is connectable to in each case one of the rear limbs (2a, 2b) in such a way that a fixed operating position (Bp) of the fitness device (100) is produced at least one predetermined spread angle (Sw) between the front limbs (1a, 1b) and the rear limbs (2a, 2b).