Variable-Density Mesh Body Shaper for Breathable Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing body shapers fail to provide comfortable, visually enhancing, and seamless support for breasts and buttocks while allowing for expansion and breathability, particularly during exercise.
Innovation Solution
A body shaper undergarment with flexible, expandable mesh regions for breasts and/or buttocks, supported by thicker fabric on the flanks, featuring variable density mesh and optional multi-layer abdominal support for enhanced comfort and breathability, manufactured using seamless knitting techniques.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If uniform thin mesh is used for breast and buttocks coverage, then breathability and expansion comfort are improved, but structural support and shape maintenance deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by varying the mesh density and thickness in different regions of the undergarment. Specifically, the mesh has different denier values in different areas, with thicker regions providing structural support and thinner regions providing breathability and expansion comfort. This resolves the contradiction by making each local region have the appropriate properties for its function.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses composite materials by combining mesh regions of different thicknesses and densities within a single garment structure. The variable density mesh integrates regions of higher denier (thicker) and lower denier (thinner) materials to simultaneously achieve both structural support and breathability/expansion comfort in different areas.
2Strength
If thicker fabric material is used for support, then structural strength and shape maintenance are improved, but breathability and expansion comfort deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by strategically placing thicker mesh regions only where structural support is needed (such as flanks and non-expandable areas), while using thinner mesh regions in areas requiring breathability and expansion (such as breast and buttocks coverage areas). This resolves the contradiction by optimizing material thickness locally rather than uniformly.
3Ease of manufacture
If seamless knitting technique is used, then manufacturing complexity is reduced and comfort is improved, but manufacturing precision control becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by varying the denier (thickness) parameter of the mesh material during seamless knitting. The knitting machine is programmed to change yarn thickness parameters at different locations to create the variable density mesh pattern, allowing precise control of material properties while maintaining seamless construction.
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AI summary
A woman's multi-tummy layer body shaper with variable density mesh undergarment which includes breast pockets and buttocks pockets made of flexible lace patterned mesh, includes a top region and a multi-layer compression abdominal region below the breasts. For women, the garment has a crotch area made of two overlapping pieces of fabric, leaving a gap to use in the restroom. The garment also includes a pair of arm coverings which cover at least a shoulder clavicle area of the wearer, with optional short sleeves, half sleeves or full sleeves, and optional leg coverings of variable lengths. The body shaper undergarment also includes an abdominal compression area, which includes an inner skin contact compressive breathable, sweat-porous layer therethrough, a middle textured, breathable, sweat-porous compressive layer and an outer breathable, sweat-porous, compressive layer. An optional front openable corset may be provided to the body shaper undergarment.