发明名称 |
Gravity-loading body suit |
摘要 |
An elastic skin suit simulates gravitational loading. By selecting material(s) of appropriate dimensions and appropriate module of elasticity, and optionally integrating inelastic portions to maintain a desired surface distribution, the suit can be adapted to impose a loading regime that simulates the loading of terrestrial gravity in a more continuous, shoulder-to-ankle manner than current loading suits. |
申请公布号 |
US8769712(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2014.07.08 |
申请号 |
US201113072053 |
申请日期 |
2011.03.25 |
申请人 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
发明人 |
Waldie James Murray Andrew;Newman Dava J. |
分类号 |
B64G6/00;B64D10/00 |
主分类号 |
B64G6/00 |
代理机构 |
Strategic Patents, P.C. |
代理人 |
Strategic Patents, P.C. |
主权项 |
1. A garment comprising:
a yoke shaped to rest securely about a pair of shoulders of a user; a pair of stirrups shaped to receive a pair of feet of the user; and a suit having a top coupled to the yoke and a bottom coupled to the pair of stirrups, the suit shaped and sized to conform to a body of the user with sufficient skin pressure to prevent slippage from a desired distribution on the user, and the suit including one or more panels of an elastic fabric having a substantially different modulus of elasticity for each of a warp and a weft, the elastic fabric oriented within the suit to provide a progressively increasing vertical loading from the top of the suit to the bottom of the suit when worn by the user whereby the vertical loading provides a loading regime that simulates terrestrial gravity when worn by the user in a reduced gravity environment, wherein the warp has a higher modulus of elasticity than the weft, and wherein the weft is oriented substantially circumferentially around a wearer. |
地址 |
Cambridge MA US |