Patent Application
20240359026
The present invention relates generally to a wearable device for measuring, detecting, and assisting bioelectric signals in the body. More specifically, the present invention is a bodysuit covering at least a portion of the body of a wearer, providing biometric data collection, measurement, analysis, and diagnostics of the wearer.
Advancements in wearable technology have led to significant improvements in monitoring and enhancing human performance. Biometric sensors embedded in wearable devices have enabled real-time tracking of vital signs, body movements, and physical activities. Similarly, muscle and nerve stimulation techniques have been employed to aid in muscle recovery, rehabilitation, and the overall enhancement of human performance as it pertains to physiological processes. However, it has been found in the prior art that the integration of these technologies into a single comprehensive solution remains absent. The biometric electromagnetic bodysuit described herein seeks to combine biometric sensing and diagnostics capabilities with muscle enhancement, nerve stimulation, and pneumatic functionalities within a modular garment, capable of providing real-time information pertaining to a wearer's biometrics via an interactive user interface that controls the multiple functionalities of the bodysuit.
Biometric sensors play a crucial role in capturing physiological and biomechanical data from the human body. Existing wearable devices incorporate sensors such as heart rate monitors, accelerometers, gyroscopes, and temperature sensors to provide insights into the wearer's health and physical activity. These sensors can monitor heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, and motion patterns, allowing for the analysis of fitness levels, stress levels, and sleep quality. The placement of these sensors on traditional wearable devices does not produce an encompassing reading of a wearer's biometrics, nor do these current devices provide a means to address the problem using the same device. The electromagnetic bodysuit provides a solution to this problem by integrating biometric sensors directly into a multi-layered material capable of transmitting electrical signals throughout the suit, relaying data in real time to a control unit, ensuring accurate real-time data collection and the ability to address biometric and physiological issues as they arise.
Electromagnetic muscle and nerve stimulation techniques have been widely used in various fields, including physical therapy, sports training, and pain management. Electromagnetic stimulation (EMS) of muscles can help strengthen weakened muscles, enhance blood circulation, and promote muscle recovery. Similarly, nerve stimulation can alleviate pain, improve muscle control, and facilitate rehabilitation after injuries. Existing EMS devices often require cumbersome setups with electrodes attached to the skin at specific locations, limiting the application and effectiveness of the therapy, while additionally restricting the mobility of the wearer, as it is now made difficult to move normally without the risk of an electrode coming detached. The electromagnetic bodysuit overcomes this limitation by integrating electromagnetic stimulation components directly into the conductive material which are controlled by a series of wirelessly communicative control modules, providing targeted stimulation and physiological process enhancement to specific muscle groups and nerves via a centralized unit.
The electromagnetic bodysuit described in this patent is a next-generation wearable garment that combines biometric sensing capabilities and EMS technology. The suit is composed of a multi-layered conductive Kevlar and graphene material with carbon nanotubes, a control module, biometric sensors, and electromagnetic stimulation components. The biometric sensors accurately monitor vital signs, body movements, and physical activities in real-time, providing valuable data for health tracking, analysis, and diagnostics. The electromagnetic stimulation components emit controlled electrical impulses to target specific muscle groups and nerves, facilitating muscle recovery, repair, and rehabilitation. The biometric sensors integrated into the electromagnetic bodysuit are strategically positioned to ensure accurate and consistent data collection from key areas of the body of the wearer. The sensors continuously monitor vital signs, including heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, and motion patterns. This data is processed and analyzed to provide real-time feedback on the wearer's health status and performance levels. The electromagnetic stimulation components embedded within the material of the bodysuit enable targeted muscle and nerve stimulation. These components generate controlled electrical impulses that stimulate specific muscle groups and nerves, promoting muscle activation, improving muscle coordination, and facilitating rehabilitation processes. By combining real-time monitoring of vital signs and physical activity with targeted stimulation, the electromagnetic bodysuit provides a holistic approach to optimize human performance and rehabilitation. Athletes can leverage the bodysuit's capabilities for sports training, injury prevention, and recovery, while individuals undergoing physical therapy can benefit from personalized stimulation protocols tailored to their specific needs. Moreover, the adaptability, modularity, and flexibility of the electromagnetic bodysuit allow for seamless integration into various daily activities, making it a versatile and wearer-friendly solution.
In addition to its biometric sensing and muscle/nerve stimulation capabilities, the electromagnetic bodysuit described in this patent incorporates an interactive user interface that allows wearers to control and customize the suit's functions. The user interface provides a seamless and intuitive way to interact with the suit, empowering individuals to optimize their training, rehabilitation, and experience using the suit. The interactive user interface can be accessed through devices such as smartphones and dedicated wearable devices. By connecting to the suit via wireless communication, healthcare professionals and wearers gain access to the biometric data and control over the suit's functions, thus enhancing its usability and adaptability.
The present invention incorporates a modular design that enables the seamless integration of at least one segment, including arm sleeves, a torso vest, leg sleeves, a helmet, gloves, and boots. Each modular section is designed to cater to specific body parts and functionalities, providing targeted muscle and nerve stimulation, as well as biometric sensing. These modular sections are interconnected wirelessly via a series of control modules, forming a cohesive system that communicates data and diagnostic processes throughout the segments.
The arm sleeves of the electromagnetic bodysuit are designed to wrap around a portion of an arm of the wearer, from the shoulders to the wrists. These sleeves contain a control module and biometric sensors that monitor vital signs and capture movement patterns of the arm extremity of the wearer. They also incorporate electromagnetic stimulation components that deliver targeted electrical impulses to the arm muscles via the conductive material, aiding in muscle activation, coordination, and rehabilitation. Similarly, the vest module encompasses the torso and contains biometric sensors strategically placed to monitor heart rate, respiratory rate, and body temperature. It also integrates stimulation components to stimulate muscles in the core, chest, and back of the wearers, assisting in facilitating biometric and physiological functions of the wearer. The leg sleeves provide stimulation and monitoring capabilities for the lower body. Biometric sensors embedded in the leg sleeves capture data related to movement patterns, muscle activation and integrity, and nerve imbalances. The stimulation components target specific leg muscles, facilitating muscle rehabilitation, enhancing performance, and aiding in correction. The helmet module integrates biometric sensors to monitor and provide therapy to the head of the wearer, including psychological therapy, and potentially treating eye diseases. Additionally, the helmet module incorporates stimulation components that provide targeted stimulation to specific nerves or muscles in the head and neck region. The gloves and boots modules of the electromagnetic bodysuit are designed to enhance hand and foot functionalities, respectively. Biometric sensors integrated into the gloves capture data related to hand movements, grip strength, and dexterity. The gloves also incorporate stimulation components that can aid in hand muscle and nerve rehabilitation. The boots, on the other hand, contain sensors that monitor biometric data within the foot of a wearer.
The wireless communication enables seamless synchronization between the segments of the suit and the interactive user interface, ensuring coordinated stimulation and data sharing. The wireless communication between the modular sections of the electromagnetic bodysuit enables seamless synchronization, data sharing, and coordination. It ensures that the various components work together as a unified system, providing targeted stimulation and collecting comprehensive biometric data. The wireless connectivity allows for real-time adjustments, personalized control, and adaptive stimulation patterns based on the wearer's needs and goals.
All illustrations of the drawings are for the purpose of describing selected versions of the present invention and are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention.
As a preliminary matter, it will readily be understood by one having ordinary skill in the relevant art that the present disclosure has broad utility and application. As should be understood, any embodiment may incorporate only one or a plurality of the above-disclosed aspects of the disclosure and may further incorporate only one or a plurality of the above-disclosed features. Furthermore, any embodiment discussed and identified as being “preferred” is considered to be part of a best mode contemplated for carrying out the embodiments of the present disclosure. Other embodiments also may be discussed for additional illustrative purposes in providing a full and enabling disclosure. Moreover, many embodiments, such as adaptations, variations, modifications, and equivalent arrangements, will be implicitly disclosed by the embodiments described herein and fall within the scope of the present disclosure.
Accordingly, while embodiments are described herein in detail in relation to one or more embodiments, it is to be understood that this disclosure is illustrative and exemplary of the present disclosure, and are made merely for the purposes of providing a full and enabling disclosure. The detailed disclosure herein of one or more embodiments is not intended, nor is to be construed, to limit the scope of patent protection afforded in any claim of a patent issuing here from, which scope is to be defined by the claims and the equivalents thereof. It is not intended that the scope of patent protection be defined by reading into any claim a limitation found herein that does not explicitly appear in the claim itself.
Additionally, it is important to note that each term used herein refers to that which an ordinary artisan would understand such term to mean based on the contextual use of such term herein. To the extent that the meaning of a term used herein—as understood by the ordinary artisan based on the contextual use of such term—differs in any way from any particular dictionary definition of such term, it is intended that the meaning of the term as understood by the ordinary artisan should prevail.
Furthermore, it is important to note that, as used herein, “a” and “an” each generally denotes “at least one,” but does not exclude a plurality unless the contextual use dictates otherwise. When used herein to join a list of items, “or” denotes “at least one of the items,” but does not exclude a plurality of items of the list. Finally, when used herein to join a list of items, “and” denotes “all of the items of the list.”
The following detailed description refers to the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers are used in the drawings and the following description to refer to the same or similar elements. While many embodiments of the disclosure may be described, modifications, adaptations, and other implementations are possible. For example, substitutions, additions, or modifications may be made to the elements illustrated in the drawings, and the methods described herein may be modified by substituting, reordering, or adding stages to the disclosed methods. Accordingly, the following detailed description does not limit the disclosure. Instead, the proper scope of the disclosure is defined by the appended claims. The present disclosure contains headers. It should be understood that these headers are used as references and are not to be construed as limiting upon the subjected matter disclosed under the header.
Other technical advantages may become readily apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art after review of the following figures and description. It should be understood at the outset that, although exemplary embodiments are illustrated in the figures and described below, the principles of the present disclosure may be implemented using any number of techniques, whether currently known or not. The present disclosure should in no way be limited to the exemplary implementations and techniques illustrated in the drawings and described below.
Unless otherwise indicated, the drawings are intended to be read together with the specification, and are to be considered a portion of the entire written description of this invention. As used in the following description, the terms “horizontal”, “vertical”, “left”, “right”, “up”, “down” and the like, as well as adjectival and adverbial derivatives thereof (e.g., “horizontally”, “rightwardly”, “upwardly”, “radially”, etc.), simply refer to the orientation of the illustrated structure as the particular drawing figure faces the reader. Similarly, the terms “inwardly,” “outwardly” and “radially” generally refer to the orientation of a surface relative to its axis of elongation, or axis of rotation, as appropriate.
The present disclosure includes many aspects and features. Moreover, while many aspects and features relate to, and are described in the context of an electromagnetic biometric bodysuit 1, embodiments of the present disclosure are not limited to use only in this context.
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In some embodiments of the present invention, the bodysuit 1 further comprises a helmet 24 wherein said helmet 24 comprises a primary central control module 4, as shown in
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Furthermore, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention the bodysuit 1 comprises at least one electronic hardware device wherein said hardware is connected, either through a wireless communication or via a wired connection, to the main central control module 3. In the aforementioned embodiment, the hardware referred to therein is an input/output device 36 (I/O device) comprising at least one of the following including a biometric sensor 360, an accelerometer 361, a gyroscope 362, a wireless transmitter 363, and a combination thereof. The biometric sensor 360 is a device that has the capability to perform measurements on physiological and biological functions or a wearer including but not limited to a body temperature, a heart rate, an electrical signal, a respiration rate, a blood pressure, an oxygen saturation, and a combination thereof. The wireless transmitter 363, in the case of the present invention, is intended to include a wireless transmitter and a wireless receiver.
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the segments 2 of the bodysuit 1 further comprise an at least one primary central control module 4, as shown in
The segments 2 of the bodysuit 1 are composed of the multilayered material 6 wherein the multilayered material 6 is composed of a plurality of layers 61 comprising a first layer 611, a second layer 613, a third layer 615, and a fourth layer 617, as shown in
In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the bodysuit 1 further comprises an at least one primary reserve control module 5. The primary reserve control module 5 is a secondary control module that acts as a backup to the primary central control module 4. As shown in
Using the user interface 8, the wearer may then enable a plurality of functions 7, as shown in
In one embodiment of the present invention, the bodysuit 1 further comprises a second function 71. The second function 71 is a process wherein the biometric sensors 360 of the bodysuit 1 facilitate the uptake of nanoparticularized amino acids, referred herein as cellular uptake of enzymatically encapsulated liquid amino acids, as shown in
In an additional embodiment of the present invention, the present invention further comprises a third function 72, wherein said function is a process referred to as heat therapy. In the heat therapy process, the wearer increases a temperature of the bodysuit 1. Furthermore, in an additional embodiment of the present invention, the bodysuit 1 further comprises a fourth function 73, wherein said process is a process referred herein as cold therapy. In the cold therapy process, the bodysuit 1 restricts circulation to an area of the body of the wearer to simulate the sensation of a temperature decrease within the bodysuit 1. In some embodiments of the present invention, the bodysuit 1 further comprises a fifth function 74 wherein said fifth function 74 is a compression process. The compression process is a process wherein via an actuator, the third layer 615 of the multilayered material 6 expands, similarly to an sphygmomanometer, applying an inward force to the bodysuit 1 and thus compressing a portion of the body of a wearer. In some embodiments of the present invention, the bodysuit 1 further comprises a sixth function 75 wherein said function 75 is a decompression process. In said decompression process, the third layer 615 of the multilayered material 6 contracts via a release of pressure, reducing the applied inward pressure to the portion of the body of the wearer. In some embodiments of the present invention, the bodysuit 1 further comprises a seventh function 76. The seventh function 76 of the present invention is a nerve diagnostics function wherein the biometric sensors 360 detect, measure, and address electrical impulses from nerves within the body of the wearer. The biometric sensors 360 within the segments 2 of the bodysuit 1 collect electrical signals from various areas of the body of the wearer to determine imbalances within nerve diagnostics. By measuring the resistance of firing nerves, the bodysuit 1 compares the differences, compiles the data, and presents the findings in a user readable format via the user interface 8.
In some embodiments of the present invention, the bodysuit 1 comprises an eighth function 77. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the eighth function 77 is a process whereby the bodysuit 1 facilitates the repair of muscular integrity, as shown in
Although the plurality of functions 7 have been assigned numbers, the specification is not to limit the processes to the respective number. The functions 7 have been numbered as a means of concisely detailing each function.
Although the invention has been explained in relation to its preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that many other possible modifications and variations can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
| Number | Date | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parent | 29875005 | Apr 2023 | US |
| Child | 18322164 | US |
