Weighted Garment Chamber Layout for Stable Pellet Distribution

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional weighted clothing often leads to shifting weight, incorrect weight distribution, and discomfort during exercise, increasing the risk of injury due to bulky and unattractive designs.

Innovation Solution

The development of weighted clothing items, such as vests, with strategically distributed chambers containing weighted pellets, ensuring precise weight distribution and preventing movement during use, while maintaining a fashionable and comfortable appearance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If weights are attached to the garment or inserted into pockets, then the weight of the clothing item can be adjusted, but the weight shifts during use and creates incorrect weight distribution

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveweight adjustabilityVSAvoidweight distribution stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The garment is divided into multiple panels, each containing separate chambers that hold weighted elements. This segmentation prevents the weights from shifting within the garment while allowing for adjustable weight distribution across different body regions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different panels of the garment can have different weight distributions tailored to specific body areas. Each chamber can be filled with varying amounts of weighted elements to create localized weight adjustments for targeted muscle groups or body regions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Power

If weights are attached to the garment, then the intensity of workout can be increased, but the clothing becomes bulky and uncomfortable

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveworkout intensityVSAvoidcomfort

Core Design Contradiction:

PowerVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The weighted elements are nested within chambers that are integrated into the garment panels. This nested structure allows the weights to be contained within the fabric layers, preventing bulkiness while maintaining the weight for workout intensity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Solution Approach 2:

The chambers containing the weighted elements are formed from flexible fabric panels that conform to the body's shape. This flexible construction prevents the garment from becoming rigid or bulky while still providing the necessary weight for exercise intensity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

3Power

If conventional weighted clothing is designed for exercise use, then workout intensity increases, but the likelihood of injury increases due to shifting weight and incorrect distribution

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveworkout intensityVSAvoidinjury risk

Core Design Contradiction:

PowerVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The garment is segmented into multiple panels with separate chambers that securely hold weighted elements in place. This prevents weight shifting during movement, ensuring consistent and safe workout intensity while reducing injury risk from unpredictable weight distribution.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of allowing weights to move freely within the garment, the design inverts the approach by using fixed chambers that prevent movement. This inversion of the conventional approach ensures weights remain in predetermined safe positions, reducing injury risk while maintaining workout effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentUS20250360352A1Weighted clothing items

Publication Date: 2025.11.27 LEVINSOHN TEXTILE

AI summary

A weighted article of wear for daily wear including a first panel having a plurality of first panel chambers and second panel having a plurality of second panel chambers, each of the first and second panel chambers further including a plurality of weighted pellets positioned therein; wherein each of the first and second panel chambers are defined by a seam line that separates each of the first and second panel chambers from a respective adjacent first panel chamber and second panel chamber for preventing the plurality of weighted pellets from moving between adjacent first panel chambers and adjacent second panel chambers; and wherein the plurality of weighted pellets are distributed within each of the first panel chambers and each of the second panel chambers so that the first panel weighs more than the second panel and the plurality of weighted pellets are not redistributable by a wearer.