This application is a national phase entry under 35 U.S.C. § 371 of International Patent Application PCT/CN2021/075761, filed Feb. 7, 2021, designating the United States of America and published as International Patent Publication WO 2021/160063 A1 on Aug. 19, 2021, which claims the benefit under Article 8 of the Patent Cooperation Treaty to Chinese Patent Application Ser. No. 202010088787.7, filed Feb. 12, 2020.
The present disclosure relates to the field of sports bras, and, in particular, to a method and a system for evaluating shock absorption effect of a sports bra.
With passage of time, more and more people begin to be concerned about their own health and do exercises. Sports equipment is also emerging in endlessly, with both intelligence and protection aspects. Effective protection against breasts is required due to particularity of women's physiological structures and a professional sports bra needs to be selected especially for women with full breasts or high-strength exercise. If an inappropriate sports bra is worn, movement of breasts not only is difficult to be controlled well and it may also cause breast pain. It can be seen that when purchasing a sports bra, most of the sports bras available on the market can be qualitatively and generally divided into three levels: low-strength sports bras, medium-strength sports bras and high-strength sports bras, but there is no method to quantitatively evaluate the shock absorption effect of the interaction between breasts and sports bras.
In view of the above problems, an evaluation method for shock absorption effect of a sports bra is provided, including:
step 1, making a preparation for a subject: allowing the subject to wear a sports bra for a test and adhering 43 infrared reflective mark points on the subject's body and completing the preparation;
step 2, acquiring static data: allowing the subject naturally to stand on a treadmill, and acquiring static coordinate data;
step 3, performing the test: starting the treadmill, acquiring dynamic coordinate data for 5 minutes during a sporting process when a speed of the treadmill reaches 6-12 km/h, and immediately asking subjective perceptions of the subject after doing sports;
step 4, converting coordinates: converting the dynamic coordinate data into coordinate data in which a thoracic vertebra point is defined as an origin, and calculating displacement amplitudes of subject's breast and a square root index S=√{square root over (S2left-right+S2up-down)} of the displacement amplitudes in a left-right direction and an up-down direction; and
step 5: processing data: numerically sorting the displacement amplitudes according to the square root index S to obtain a grading range value, that is a grading definition for the sports bra.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for evaluating shock absorption effect of a sports bra used for the method for evaluating shock absorption effect of a sports bra is provided, including: a data acquirer and a data processor communicated with each other. The data acquirer is configured to acquire static coordinate data and dynamic coordinate data of human's motion and the data processor is configured to perform coordinate conversion on data acquired by the data acquirer and calculate an average value of breast amplitudes during the human's motion.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, data points sampled by the data acquirer include 43 data points, including 29 points for a Helen Hayes model, 4 points for coordinate system conversion, and 10 points for recording breast movement.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the dynamic coordinate data is acquired by the data acquirer in a dynamic state in which a speed of the treadmill is 10 km/h, and the acquisition time is 5 minutes.
According to an embodiment of the present application, the breast amplitudes calculation performed by the data processor takes the time between two consecutive heel strikes of a same foot in a gait cycle to calculate the square root index S of displacement amplitudes in the left-right direction and the up-down direction, respectively.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the system for evaluating shock absorption effect of the sports bra further includes a feedback data storage module, the feedback data storage module is configured to acquire subjective perception data of the subject associated with two aspects of bra comfort and breast shaking amplitude. The feedback data storage module transmits the acquired data to the data processor, and the data processor is configured to sort the calculated amplitude data to obtain the bra grading range value.
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a coordinate conversion method used in the data processor includes:
since {right arrow over (f1)}, {right arrow over (f2)}, {right arrow over (f3)} is converted from {right arrow over (e1)}, {right arrow over (e2)}, {right arrow over (e3)}, namely,
equation (4) is obtained from equations (2) and (3):
based on the conversion relationship between the global coordinate system and the breast coordinate system and substituting calculated result into the equation (4) to obtain the coordinate (x′mt, y′mt,z′mt) of the detection point in the breast coordinate system.
Beneficial Effects
Through the implementation of the evaluation method in the present disclosure, specific numbers are used to quantify and divide the strength of sports bra products, which may be more intuitive for consumers to buy, and the breast coordinate system is used to calculate the breast amplitude value, and calculation results are more in line with the actual state of human exercise and reflect the wearer's true feelings. In addition, the amplitude values are more accurate by using square root values in left-right and up-down directions.
A method for evaluating shock absorption effect of a sports bra is provided, as shown in
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for evaluating shock absorption effect of a sports bra used for the method for evaluating shock absorption effect of a sports bra is provided, as shown in
Data points sampled by the data acquirer 1 include 43 data points, including 29 points for a Helen Hayes model (see Table 1), 4 points for coordinate system conversion (see Table 2), and 10 points for recording breast movement (see Table 3).
The dynamic data are acquired by the data acquirer 1 under a dynamic state in which a speed is 10 km/h and the acquisition time is 5 minutes.
The breast amplitudes calculation performed by the data processor (2) takes the time between two consecutive heel strikes of a same foot in a gait cycle to calculate the square root index S of displacement amplitudes in the left-right direction and the up-down direction, respectively.
The system for evaluating shock absorption effect of the sports bra further includes a feedback data storage module 3, the feedback data storage module 3 is configured to acquire subjective perception data of the subject associated with two aspects of bra comfort and breast shaking amplitude. The feedback data storage module 3 transmits the acquired data to the data processor 2, and the data processor 2 is configured to sort the calculated amplitude data to obtain the bra grading range value. The bra comfort in the subjective perception can be divided into very uncomfortable, comfortable and very comfortable and the corresponding bra is divided into a low-strength bra, medium-strength bra and high-strength bra. The breast shaking amplitude is divided into small shaking, obvious shaking and severe shaking and the corresponding bra is divided into a high-strength bra, medium-strength bra and low-strength bra.
A coordinate conversion method used in the data processor 2 includes:
the coordinate conversion is performed based on the equation (1); and
step 4, calculating a coordinate value of a detection point t under a motion state in the breast coordinate system, assuming that the coordinate of the detection point t at a time M in the global coordinate system is xmt,ymt,zmt, and the coordinate of the detection point t at a time M in the breast coordinate system is x′mt, y′mt, z′mt, and the coordinate of the original of the breast coordinate system in the global coordinate system is xot, yot, zot, the equation (1) may be represented by the unit vector:
since {right arrow over (f1)}, {right arrow over (f2)}, {right arrow over (f3)} is converted from {right arrow over (e1)}, {right arrow over (e2)}, {right arrow over (e3)}, namely,
Equation (4) can be obtained from equations (2) and (3):
obtaining
by converting between the global coordinate system and the breast coordinate system and substituting it into the equation (4) to obtain the coordinate x′mt, y′mt, z′mt of any detection point in the breast coordinate system.
A verification method for the above evaluation method and evaluation system, includes the following steps:
The present disclosure is described below through specific embodiments.
After measuring the sports bra through the above method steps, several somatosensory theoretical data of B and C cup are obtained, and the comfort level is inferred from the corresponding grade, and then compared with the subjective questionnaire, which shows a consistent in the comparison results. The specific test results are as follows:
17 bras with B cup and 15 bras with C cup are tested. Test is performed on 6 to 10 women for each bra. All the data are sorted from small to large, the specific S value is shown in the following table:
According to the above sports bra test situation, the smaller the S value, the smaller the shaking amplitude, the higher the sports bra strength level, and the specific bra grading range value includes:
According to comparison between the subjects' subjective perceptions and grading ranges, it is concluded that taking B cup as an example, when the S value of the B cup is less than 27.6 MM, the subjects reported that the bra is very comfortable under exercise and the breast shaking amplitude is small during exercise, and the bra belongs to a high-strength sports bra; when the S value of the B cup is between 27.6 MM and 35.7 MM, the subjects reported that the bra is comfortable under exercise, and the breasts shake obviously during exercise, and the bra belongs to medium-strength sports bra; and when the S value of B cup is greater than 35.7 MM, the subjects reported that the bra is very uncomfortable under exercise, and the breasts shake severely during exercise, and the bra belongs to low-strength sports bras.
Obviously, the above-mentioned implementation of the present disclosure are merely examples to clearly illustrate the present disclosure, and are not intended to limit the implementations of the present disclosure. For those of ordinary skill in the art, other changes or modifications in different forms can be made on the basis of the above description. It is not possible to give an exhaustive list of all implementations here. Any obvious changes or changes derived from the technical solutions of the present disclosure are still within the scope of protection of the present invention as defined by the claims.
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