Integrated Winter Tights with Terry Knitting Zones
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing winter sport garments, such as leggings and knee-socks, lack sufficient resistance against wear and tear from continuous contact with other garments and equipment, leading to practical limitations during activities like skiing and snowboarding.
Innovation Solution
Technical tights are designed by integrating leggings with knee-socks, featuring terry or half-terry knitting in high-stress areas for enhanced durability and comfort, allowing for localized reinforcement in specific zones.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If leggings and knee-socks are used separately, then comfort and coverage are provided, but resistance against wear and tear is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines leggings and knee-socks into a single integrated garment. The knee-socks are constructed as an integral part of the leggings, with both components made from the same terry knitting material. This merging eliminates the need to wear separate garments while providing enhanced wear resistance in high-stress areas like knees, heels, and toes through the durable terry knitting construction.
2Reliability
If terry knitting is applied to high-stress areas, then wear resistance is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies terry knitting selectively to specific high-stress areas of the garment including knees, heels, toes, and seat regions. By concentrating the durable terry knitting material only where needed rather than throughout the entire garment, the design provides enhanced wear resistance in critical zones while maintaining manufacturing feasibility through targeted application of the specialized knitting technique.
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AI summary
Technical tights (1) for winter use, characterized in that they are provided with an upper leggings part (2) having only, or mainly, generic knitting, and a lower knee-socks part (3) realized, at least partially, with terry knitting, in which said upper leggings part (2) and said lower knee-socks part (3) form a single garment.