Innovations in the design of two simple products

Abstract

Through the office of innovation and technology transfer of the UPC, an order for a job came from a young company. It consisted in a design of therapeutic balls for women. These balls can be used to do voluntary exercises of the pelvic muscles, i.e. Kegel exercises, or to exercise these muscles involuntarily by means of automatic contraction, when receiving the impact of a weight inside the ball on its walls, while walking. The company wanted an innovative Therapeutic Ball design. A design process similar to that of the Ball was made to design a Menstrual Cup with a special drainage tube. An innovative cup design was created. ... The ball can be disassembled into two identical parts. A single external ball and four interchangeable internal balls. Drainage tube of Cup, with differentiated flexible parts that acts as a valve and always folds in the same area.