Weighted Base Plate Stabilization for Modular Exercise Racks

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing physical training apparatuses require anchoring to walls or floors, which can damage the property and create safety hazards due to instability and protruding structures.

Innovation Solution

A modular structure mounted on a base plate with aligning rods and foot members that shift the tipping point, allowing for weight modules to provide stability without permanent fasteners, using mechanical advantage to resist tipping and falling.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If permanent fasteners or protruding structures are used to anchor the apparatus, then stability is improved, but property damage and safety hazards increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructure stabilityVSAvoidproperty damage and safety hazards

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The anchoring system is divided into separate components: a base plate that contacts the floor and weight modules that can be independently added. This segmentation allows the structure to achieve stability through distributed weight rather than permanent fasteners, avoiding property damage while maintaining stability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Weight modules are added to the base plate to create counterweight that resists tipping forces during exercise. The counterweight mechanism provides stability through gravitational force rather than mechanical anchoring, eliminating the need for protruding structures into walls or floors and avoiding associated safety hazards.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #8Anti-weight (Counterweight)

2Stability of the object's composition

If the structure maintains a wide three to four-point floor contact footprint, then stability is improved, but space functionality and flexibility are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructure stabilityVSAvoidspace functionality

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The base plate configuration allows for adjustable footprint and orientation. The aligning rods and modular design enable the structure to be positioned in various locations and orientations within the workout space, providing dynamic adaptability while maintaining stability through the weighted base plate rather than fixed wide footprint.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Ease of operation

If modular structures are not permanently fastened, then ease of installation and flexibility are improved, but stability and safety are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinstallation flexibilityVSAvoidstructure stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses weight modules placed on the base plate to create sufficient gravitational counterweight that prevents tipping during vigorous exercise. This counterweight mechanism provides reliable stability without requiring permanent fastening, maintaining both ease of installation and structural reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #8Anti-weight (Counterweight)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of relying on horizontal footprint or vertical anchoring, the solution shifts to using mass/weight as the stabilizing dimension. The weighted base plate creates a low center of gravity and sufficient mass to resist tipping forces, providing stability through a different physical dimension rather than through permanent mechanical fastening.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Provides stable and safe exercise equipment placement without damaging installations, enabling flexible placement and increased loading capacity.

Implementation Method 1

a foot member, which extends outwardly from the vertical member of the modular structure, moves the point of rotation from the base of the vertical member to the extending end of the foot

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectMechanical advantage: Mechanical Advantage

Implementation Method 2

weight modules to provide stability without permanent fasteners, using mechanical advantage to resist tipping and falling

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectGravity: Gravitation

Data Source

PatentUS12576302B2Structure stabilization system

Publication Date: 2026.03.17 CORE HEALTH & FITNESS LLC

AI summary

A stabilizing system for a modular structure is disclosed. The modular structure is intended to provide a framework for the storage of physical fitness training equipment and the support of items of exercise apparatus. Since such structures are prone to tipping, the prior art required that they be permanently fastened to either a wall or a floor. The present disclosure provides a system for obviating the need for permanent fastening by providing a foot element extending outward from the vertical support elements of the modular structure which moves the tipping point and by providing a base plate arrangement which can carry weight modules to act as a counterweight in opposition to any tipping forces.