Y-Shaped Portable Exercise Frame with Modular Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Resistance-band training systems are bulky, difficult to transport, and expensive, limiting their accessibility and versatility for both indoor and outdoor use.
Innovation Solution
A portable exercise apparatus with a Y-shaped frame and support members that can be coupled with resistance bands and weight plates, allowing for various exercise configurations and easy transportation, including collapsible and extendible designs for different surfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional resistance-band training systems are used, then exercise support functionality is provided, but the system becomes bulky and difficult to transport
Solution Approach 1:
The training system is divided into separate modular components including a frame structure, resistance bands, weight plates, and support members that can be independently stored and transported. This segmentation allows users to transport only the necessary components rather than moving an entire bulky system.
Solution Approach 2:
The frame structure utilizes a Y-shaped geometric configuration that optimizes spatial efficiency. The multi-dimensional arrangement of legs and support members allows the system to provide stable exercise support while minimizing the footprint and volume required for storage and transport.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional resistance-band training systems are used, then exercise functionality is provided, but the system becomes expensive
Solution Approach 1:
The frame structure serves multiple functions: it provides structural support, defines exercise boundaries, offers attachment points for resistance bands, and can be configured for different exercise types. The support members similarly serve dual purposes of structural reinforcement and resistance band attachment, reducing the need for separate specialized components.
Solution Approach 2:
The system combines the frame structure, support members, resistance bands, and weight plates into an integrated training system. This merging of components creates a versatile exercise platform that replaces multiple separate equipment items, reducing overall system cost while maintaining functionality.
3Ease of operation
If a portable exercise apparatus is designed, then transportation ease is improved, but structural stability may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The frame structure is designed with pre-positioned support members at critical stability points before use. These support members are strategically located to provide immediate structural reinforcement when the frame is assembled, ensuring stability is built-in from the beginning rather than requiring additional stabilization during operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The Y-shaped frame configuration uses asymmetric leg arrangements and support member placements optimized for different exercise directions. This asymmetric design provides enhanced stability in multiple directions simultaneously, allowing the portable structure to maintain rigidity during various exercise movements without requiring excessive material.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus for support of exercise activities includes a frame having a first Y-shaped portion adjoining a second Y-shaped portion. The two Y-shaped portions share a common leg having opposing ends. Each of the Y-shaped portions has two outboard ends. A support member is coupled to each of the opposing ends of the common leg, each of the two outboard ends of the first Y-shaped portion, and each of the two outboard ends of the second Y-shaped portion. Each such support member is adapted to fit through a hole in a weight plate and adapted to have an exercise resistance band coupled thereto.