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The present invention relates to a marketing apparatus that is a combination of a mannequin and an interactive system. The mannequin holds in its “hands” an interactive panel which is hard-wired to a computer control station. By using the interactive panel, prospective customers can obtain information about selected wares and services. The mannequin may be attired to promote specific wares and services. The mannequin may be designed to “speak” to prospective customers through the inclusion of appropriate computer controls and a voice synthesizer, and it may be configured to prevent theft or unauthorized removal of the display panel from the hands of the mannequin.

A collapsible, freestanding body armor support stand includes a main member having a plurality of telescoping sections that are shiftably interconnected and positionable between retracted and extended configurations. The support stand also includes a plurality of support bars that are pivotally mounted to the main member. The plurality of base members are shiftable between a stowed configuration, wherein the plurality of support members are substantially parallel to the main support member, and a deployed configuration, wherein the plurality of base members support the main support member upon a generally horizontal surface selectively shiftable between a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration. The hanging bars are designed to support, in the deployed configuration, body armor weighing up to 50 lbs or more.

The present invention relates to a swivel air-passing joint mechanism for connecting the limbs to the torso of an inflatable mannequin. The swivel air-passing joint comprises a ball and socket joint arrangement with a flexible tubular passageway element traversing through the ball and socket joint that provides a constant passageway for fluid communication between the limbs and the torso irrespective of the particular limb orientation to the torso.

Forms for display of clothing and the like with magnetically attachable parts are provided. The magnetic joints comprise a magnetic assembly with a depth-of-pull sufficient to cause the attachable part to begin to pull toward the form at a distance preferably greater than one-half inch, preferably about one inch. Preferably the magnetic assembly has a depth-of-pull of at least about 120 gauss at a distance of one inch. A metallic plate is arranged in mating configuration with the magnetic assembly. Mating pins may be provided, as well as indexing pins. If the manikin is knocked over, or if the attached part is pulled or bumped, it will come loose rather than breaking off; and the mating parts are self-seeking in use, so that they will come together in proper orientation even when being mated beneath clothes. A bump to the manikin sufficient to overcome the on-contact strength of the magnetic attachment may not result in detachment of the limb because of the depth-of-pull strength of the magnetic assembly. The indexing pins allow the limbs to be placed in a variety of positions.

A mannequin, method and system for facilitating making, altering and / or purchasing clothing by a user. The mannequin includes: a body that substantially resembles that of a prospective user of clothing and / or adornments, the body including an outer contour; a plurality of sensors attached to the body, for providing one or more quantitative indications of performance of the clothing and / or adornments fitted to the mannequin; and a data transmission interface connected to the sensors operable to transmit the one or more quantitative indications of performance of the clothing and / or adornments.

The invention relates to an intelligent adjustable human body model, which comprises a physical characteristic input module and a model main structure, wherein on the model main structure, an adjusting plate is arranged according to the physical characteristics of a human body; a dimension adjusting mechanism is arranged between the adjusting plate and the main structure; the main structure is further provided with a detector; the detector is used for sensing physical characteristic parameters input by the physical characteristic input module; the dimension adjusting mechanism is used for controlling relative movement of the adjusting plate and the main structure to realize accurate adjustment of physical dimension parameters; the main structure is further provided with a length adjusting mechanism for controlling each part of the main structure to move upwards and downwards in order to realize accurate adjustment of length parameters. According to the human body model, an internal detector and a gear structure are used for driving the adjusting plate to move so as to realize a required body size and structure; the human body model has the advantages of convenience in operation, economical efficiency, practicability and good adjusting effect, and adjustment of a plurality of physical characteristic parameters such as neck circumference, chest circumference, waist circumference and hip circumference can be realized.

A mannequin (10b) including a body which substantially resembles that of a human with an outer contour defined over at least part of the body by a plurality of devices (32) that extend and / or retract relative to the body and a data interface operably connected to the plurality of devices (32) such that they extend and / or retract to define a contour according to data received from the interface wherein the received data represents the outer physical dimensions of a customer.

The invention discloses a sixteen-freedom-degree clothes model robot. The sixteen-freedom-degree clothes model robot is mainly applied to the clothing industry, and is designed based on a multi-freedom-degree serial mechanism in combination with the theories of robotology, kinesiology, ergonomics and the like, and the joint robot for a clothes model has the joint movement directions of sixteen freedom degrees, and is applied to a clothes model. Specific postures can be formed and maintained, the sixteen-freedom-degree clothes model robot can move with a certain track, and all the postures can be freely switched.

The invention discloses an intelligent balloon man system and a control method thereof. The intelligent balloon man system comprises electric extensible rods and a pump and further comprises a skeleton frame, elastic skin, a muscle filling capsule and a control system. The skeleton frame is of a frame structure simulating a human skeleton, rotating joints are arranged at joints of the skeleton frame, and the electric extensible rods are serially connected on arm bones and leg bones of the skeleton frame and used for adjusting length of the arm bones and the bones to simulate changing of different people or growing periods; the muscle filling capsule simulates shape of human muscles, is adhered on the skeleton frame and positioned on the outermost layer of a model and wraps the elastic skin; the pump inflates and deflates the muscle filling capsule, and the control system controls on-off and inflation quantity of the pump. By controlling filling and exhausting of gas or liquid of the muscle filling capsule and controlling skeleton length to preset body size and shape, the problem that conventional human body models are unitary in body shape and time-consuming and labor-consuming in clothes or style changing is solved.

A display for an article of clothing, such as sports memorabilia jerseys, has a frame and a three-dimensional body including a torso over which the clothing is placed. The top portion of the torso has right and left shoulders and a plunging V-shape in the middle. The torso preferably includes structure to accommodate excess fabric and is supported from a lower portion by a support member or hanger arm that passes through an opening in a rear panel of the frame and is secured to the frame to support the clothing in a non-visible manner. The frame can include a glass front and a matte to display and protect the clothing.

An auto-locking ball joint includes a first elongate member, a ball, and a second elongate member. The first elongate member includes a receiver disposed at one end. The receiver has an inner surface that defines a well. The ball is rotatable disposed within the well. The ball is formed from a plurality of segments that are moveable relative to one another towards and away from a ball axis. The second elongate member is translatable along the ball axis. In a locked configuration, the outer surface of the ball frictionally engages the inner surface to prevent the ball from rotating within the well. In an unlocked configuration of the ball joint, the ball is rotatable within the well. The second elongate member is depressed along the ball axis to transition the ball joint from locked configuration to the unlocked configuration.

A semiconductor wafer that has a plane orientation of (100) and is made of monocrystalline silicon is warped along an axis, i.e., a diameter along a <100> direction of the semiconductor wafer when irradiated with a flash of light. The semiconductor wafer is placed on a susceptor while the direction of the semiconductor wafer is adjusted so that the diameter along the <100> direction coincides with an optical axis of an upper radiation thermometer. This adjustment makes a diameter along a direction in which a warp of the semiconductor wafer is smallest during irradiation with a flash of light coincide with the optical axis of the upper radiation thermometer. As a result, the semiconductor wafer is hardly warped along the optical axis direction of the upper radiation thermometer even during irradiation with a flash of light, thus hardly changing the emissivity of the semiconductor wafer, so that it is possible to accurately measure the temperature of an upper surface of the semiconductor wafer.

This invention relates to an articulated mannequin, comprising various assembly mechanisms that keep the limbs thereof assembled, in which said limbs may be rigid or flexible as well as hollow or solid. Said assembly mechanisms include, at least: magnetic connection mechanisms, magnetic locking and connection mechanisms, adjustable locking and connection mechanisms, adjustable twisting and connection mechanisms, free movement and connection mechanisms, automated movement and connection mechanisms, compound disc mechanisms, double ball-and-socket joint mechanisms and compression ball-and-socket joint mechanisms. Said mechanisms are characterized in that they are inserted in the material of the limbs of the articulated mannequin, and in that they give the articulated mannequin a complete range of movement and versatility, enabling it to take up any human posture and be installed in almost any location. By virtue of said assembly mechanisms, the limbs of the articulated mannequin can: remain static in a given position; return automatically to a given position, after having been moved; be assembled around a dividing sheet; perform automated movements; and perform movements without resistance, when interacting with moving objects; thereby being able to be put to more uses, in the location where the articulated mannequin is positioned.

A merchandise display includes a stand and a hanger. The stand includes a base, a shaft extending upwardly from the base to a top end of the shaft, and an arm extending forwardly from the top end of the shaft. The arm defines a top, a bottom, a cavity open to the top and the bottom, and two notches extending downwardly from the top and being positioned on opposing sides of the cavity. The hanger includes an elongated column, an arm-coupling feature at a first end of the elongated column, and a device-coupling feature at a second end of the elongated column. The device-coupling feature is configured to be coupled with a merchandise support device, and the arm-coupling feature is partially received within and extends between the two notches of the arm such that the elongated column hangs through and below the cavity of the arm to the device-coupling feature.

The invention discloses a multi-joint robot, and belongs to the field of robots. The multi-joint robot comprises an upper body shell and two arm shells. Each arm shell comprises a big arm shell body and a small arm shell body, wherein the first end of the big arm shell body is connected with the upper body shell, and the second end of the big arm shell body is connected with the small arm shell body through a first rotating and swinging mechanism; a first motor of the first rotating and swinging mechanism drives the small arm shell body to rotate around an output shaft of the first motor for simulating the rotating motion of the elbow joint of a human body and has one degree of freedom; and a second motor of the first rotating and swinging mechanism drives the small arm shell body to rotate around an output shaft of a reverser for simulating the swing motion of the elbow joint of the human body and has one degree of freedom. In this way, each arm joint of the multi-joint robot has two degrees of freedom; and direct-current brushless planetary gear motors are used as the first motors and the second motors, so that the cost of the multi-joint robot is not as high as the cost of an existing multi-joint robot provided with a steering engine, and the multi-joint robot has the functions of the existing multi-joint robot.

The invention relates to displaying equipment, in particular to equipment for simultaneously displaying multiple sets of clothing, and aims at achieving the technical purpose of providing the equipment for simultaneously displaying the multiple sets of clothing which can dynamically display the multiple sets of clothing simultaneously. To achieve the technical purpose, the invention provides the equipment for simultaneously displaying the multiple sets of clothing. The equipment comprises a mobile bracket and the like; the top of the mobile bracket is connected to a connecting rod, the top of the connecting rod is connected to a rotary mechanism, the front, rear, left and right sides of the top of the rotary mechanism are each connected to a connecting mechanism, the tops of the connecting mechanisms are each connected to a first rotary rod, and the tops of the first rotary rods are connected to a human body model. In the equipment for simultaneously displaying the multiple sets of clothing, firstly the rotary mechanism is arranged, the connecting mechanisms are driven to rotate through the rotary mechanism, the connecting mechanisms drive the first rotary rods to rotate, and the first rotary rods drive the human body model to rotate to display the clothing.

This invention relates to an articulated mannequin, comprising various assembly mechanisms that keep the limbs thereof assembled, in which said limbs may be rigid or flexible as well as hollow or solid. Said assembly mechanisms include, at least: magnetic connection mechanisms, magnetic locking and connection mechanisms, adjustable locking and connection mechanisms, adjustable twisting and connection mechanisms, free movement and connection mechanisms, automated movement and connection mechanisms, compound disc mechanisms, double ball-and-socket joint mechanisms and compression ball-and-socket joint mechanisms. Said mechanisms are characterized in that they are inserted in the material of the limbs of the articulated mannequin, and in that they give the articulated mannequin a complete range of movement and versatility, enabling it to take up any human posture and be installed in almost any location. By virtue of said assembly mechanisms, the limbs of the articulated mannequin can: remain static in a given position; return automatically to a given position, after having been moved; be assembled around a dividing sheet; perform automated movements; and perform movements without resistance, when interacting with moving objects; thereby being able to be put to more uses, in the location where the articulated mannequin is positioned.

The invention discloses a sample display device for clothing design, and relates to the field of clothing display devices. The sample display device comprises a display show window, wherein the display show window comprises a top plate and a bottom table, a plurality of transparent plates which are sequentially connected are arranged between the top plate and the bottom table, and a display area is enclosed among the transparent plates; a mannequin with adjustable body proportion is arranged on the bottom table, and the mannequin is arranged in the display area; the sample display device further comprises a seat table, the bottom table is rotatably arranged on a top surface of the seat table, a rotary motor is fixedly arranged in the seat table, and an output shaft of the rotary motor is fixedly connected with the bottom table after penetrating through the top surface of the seat table. The sample display device disclosed by the invention can correspondingly adjust the stature, leg length,, shoulder width, and arm length parameters of the mannequin and the chest circumference, the waistline, and the hip circumference of the mannequin according to the actual condition of the sample,thereby better displaying the clothing samples of various statures.

The present invention relates to a swivel air-passing joint mechanism for connecting the limbs to the torso of an inflatable mannequin. The swivel air-passing joint comprises a ball and socket joint arrangement with a flexible tubular passageway element traversing through the ball and socket joint that provides a constant passageway for fluid communication between the limbs and the torso irrespective of the particular limb orientation to the torso.

The invention relates to a cast polyurethane elastomer composition for a fashion model. The composition has a two-component system, wherein a component A consists of trifunctional and tetrafunctional polypropylene oxide ether polyol with the molecular weight of 300 to 6,000, 3,3'-dichloro-4,4'-diaminodiphenylmethane (MOCA), a catalyst and other aids; a component B consists of isocyanate which is polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate (PAPI), diphenylmethane diisocyanate-50 (MDI-50), carbodiimide modified MDI or a mixture thereof; and the component B and the component A are mixed at room temperature in a weight ratio of 100:(60-70) and the mixture is subjected to centrifugal casting molding to form a cast polyurethane elastomer with the shore D hardness of 70 to 80D and high mechanical property. The cast polyurethane elastomer composition is mainly used for producing the fashion model and other polyurethane sundries which have requirements on high strength and hardness.

A device for and a method of measuring a blood flow of a living body having blood vessels that emit bio-photons and through which blood flows, the device including a detector positioned adjacent to a predetermined portion of the living body for measuring a bio-photon emission from the living body and a processor for analyzing and displaying the blood flow of the living body based on a value of the bio-photon emission.

A flexible pivotal device for a mannequin joint is arranged in a lower limb of a mannequin and comprises a female connection member and a male connection member. The female connection member includes a first fixing plate, a first fixing disc and a first engagement member. The first fixing plate has two installation holes. The male connection member is coupled to the female connection member and includes a second fixing disc; a connection element having two sleeves respectively inserted through two installation holes and moveable thereinside, and a second engagement member engaged with the first engagement member; and a second fixing plate arranged between the second fixing disc and the connection element, locked to the second fixing disc, and having two hooks respectively coupled to two elastic elements arranged inside the sleeves. The sleeves can be pulled away from the second fixing plate to a certain degree.

A body form includes various reconfigurable portions that are adjusted to establish a preferred shape and / or size in order to achieve body feature(s) having a desired form. The preferred body form is constructed with adjustable bust and buttock portions. Each adjustable breast portion includes internally adjustable breast portions. Likewise, the buttock portion includes internally adjustable cheek portions. In this manner, a more universal and versatile body form is provided that can be readily altered depending on a desire / need of the fashion designer, clothing display personnel or the like.

A mannequin, particularly a child sized mannequin, that includes articulating joints which permit a considerable range of movement. In accordance with a preferred variant of the present invention, special accommodations are made for wrist joints on a mannequin. The present invention broadly encompasses not only full or partial body mannequins, but any portions thereof that include an articulated connection between one part of the mannequin and another.

A manikin (mannequin) with limbs that magnetically attach to the torso by an assembly of an attach base mounted on the torso and a lead-in base on the limb. Magnets of one Pole are accommodated within the attach base, and of the opposite Pole within the lead-in base. The magnets attract corresponding magnets of the opposite Pole, thus facilitating self-aligning action of the magnets, whose depth-of-pull force is not more then 80 Gauss. The attach and lead-in bases have regulating force means, being a layer of flux shield placed over the magnets, that can adjust the attachment force of the magnets for different situations. The flux shield controls magnetic flux density and attachment force of the magnets. Attach and lead-in bases are provided with a complimentary guiding means to give an assembler a sense of touch through fabric to understand where a terminus of the limbs is with respect to the torso when forming a joint. The guiding means also forms a part of holding force of the limbs on the torso and adds a level of stability. The guiding means are a lead-in pin and a locating block protruding from the lead-in base, and corresponding openings formed in the attach base. The lead-in pin has the configuration of a hook to hook the limb into the torso, allowing limbs to pivot or sway and return to their original position if bumped.

A movable human body model features that the pair of spherical (or elliptical) crown and bowl with antiskid piece is respectively installed to neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, waist, thigh-roots, knees and foot writs, and the movable connecting mechanism composed of magnet and iron sheet is installed to all joints.

The invention discloses a manufacturing method of a simulated model, which comprises the following concrete steps of: (100) scanning: scanning the three-dimensional data of a simulated object, storing and forming original three-dimensional data; (200) trimming: trimming the original three-dimensional data and forming final three-dimensional data; (300) modeling: modeling according to the final three-dimensional data and forming a mold for manufacturing a simulated model; (400) forming: manufacturing a model blank by utilizing the mold; (500) polishing: polishing the model blank and forming a semi-finished product; and (600) forming a finished product: dressing the semi-finished product and coloring. The manufacturing method of the simulated model, which is disclosed by the invention, is simple and feasible and has low cost; and moreover, the manufacturing method of the simulated model has strong versatility and high automatization degree and is suitable for bulk manufacturing. Compared with the simulated object, the model formed by manufacturing has high simulation degree.

The invention discloses a garment sample display rack for garment design. The garment sample display rack comprises a hollow base, wherein the top of the base is provided with a transparent display cabinet, the display cabinet is internally provided with a display rack located on the base and driven by a driving mechanism, the display rack comprises a plurality of symmetrically arranged rotating bottom plates connected to the driving mechanism, the rotating bottom plates are fixedly provided with human body models used for displaying suits, the center of the base is provided with a rotating column connected to the driving mechanism, and the top of the rotating column is provided with an upper / lower clothes hanging rack. When the garment sample display rack is used, the human body models wear the suits, upper / lower clothes are suspended by hangers to be suspended on the upper / lower clothes hanging rack, the driving mechanism drives the rotating bottom plates and the rotating column to rotate, thereby achieving the rotation of the human body models and upper / lower clothes hanging rack to achieve a dynamic display effect, and since the rotating bottom plates and human body model can display multiple sets of clothes at the same time, the upper / lower clothes hanging rack can be used for displaying multiple different upper / lower clothes.