EP4003903A1 - Tampon de plaquette - Google Patents

Tampon de plaquette

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EP4003903A1
EP4003903A1 EP21786902.3A EP21786902A EP4003903A1 EP 4003903 A1 EP4003903 A1 EP 4003903A1 EP 21786902 A EP21786902 A EP 21786902A EP 4003903 A1 EP4003903 A1 EP 4003903A1
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noseband
base body
data
pad according
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Marc KOENE
Klaus Roeser
Mike KOENE
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B68—SADDLERY; UPHOLSTERY
    • B68B—HARNESS; DEVICES USED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; WHIPS OR THE LIKE
    • B68B1/00—Devices in connection with harness, for hitching, reining, training, breaking or quietening horses or other traction animals
    • B68B1/02—Halters
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B68—SADDLERY; UPHOLSTERY
    • B68B—HARNESS; DEVICES USED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; WHIPS OR THE LIKE
    • B68B1/00—Devices in connection with harness, for hitching, reining, training, breaking or quietening horses or other traction animals
    • B68B1/04—Bridles; Reins
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B68—SADDLERY; UPHOLSTERY
    • B68B—HARNESS; DEVICES USED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; WHIPS OR THE LIKE
    • B68B5/00—Details or accessories; Fastening devices for bridles, reins, harnesses, or the like
    • B68B5/06—Devices for fastening special articles on harnesses, bridles, or the like
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B68—SADDLERY; UPHOLSTERY
    • B68B—HARNESS; DEVICES USED IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; WHIPS OR THE LIKE
    • B68B7/00—Horse protectors, e.g. resilient attachments

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  • the invention relates to a noseband pad according to claim 1 and a system for its production according to claim 12.
  • Nosebands are known to be part of snaffles and/or double bridles.
  • a bridle is used for riding and draft animals and has a noseband that leads over the animal's row of teeth in the area of the nasal bone.
  • the noseband can have relief elements, such as padding (cf. DE 102016212 102 A1), which ensure that the noseband exerts less pressure on the nasal bone.
  • Bridles and/or double bridles are available in a very large number of different designs, in different materials, which are suitable for different purposes and races or skull shapes.
  • All snaffles and/or double bridles and bridles have in common that they are tied or strapped around the animal's head and lie directly on the animal's skin in order to exert more or less strong pressure in order to guide or steer and brake the animals be able.
  • This method is subjective and imprecisely vulnerable and possibly dangerous for the steward, since on the one hand every person has different sized fingers and an animal that is tense after the competition could react unexpectedly and thus injure the steward.
  • the object of the invention is to create a possibility with which the noseband pressure can be set or determined in a reproducible manner but tailored to the animal, which in turn allows better adjustment thereof. Further tasks are pressure reduction and measurability.
  • a noseband pad is designed for attachment to the noseband on the side facing the animal, in particular a horse, comprising an elongate, flexible base body with a first end area, a second end area and a middle area lying in between, the middle area on the nasal bone is arranged on top, whereby it has a sandwich construction of the middle part with an inner lattice structure of interlaced lattice bars between the upper and lower side to generate elastic flexibility, it is possible to adjust the pressure of the noseband on the nasal bone via the design of the lattice structure, to distribute it evenly and dampen at the same time.
  • the cushion is adapted to the shape of the skull and, in order to distribute the pressure, has a load-optimized design of lattice structures on the inside according to the bionic principle of the flow of forces.
  • the design of the lattice structure is suitable for additive manufacturing.
  • a pressure sensor system is arranged in the central area, in particular a sensor that changes its electrical resistance under the action of force or pressure or deformation, and the pressure sensor system is electrically connected to a controller for control and data transmission and power supply , so that it is possible to continuously determine the pressure of the noseband on the nasal bone and thus to determine or correct an improper adjustment of the noseband.
  • the pressure sensor system is equipped with a central circular sensor.
  • a circular load cell equipped with at least one DMS (strain gauge) sensor is particularly preferably used.
  • the pressure sensor system could have a strip shape with several measuring points, so that it is possible to determine the pressure distribution over the length and/or width of the noseband.
  • Round and/or strip-shaped sensors can be used as sensors. These can also be FSR (Force Sensing Resistor) sensors.
  • the sensor (or the sensors) of the pressure sensor system is arranged on the underside of the base body towards the nasal bone or embedded in it.
  • the senor is preferably a circular DMS sensor (strain gauge) or alternatively a flat, strip-shaped, or point-shaped FSR (Force Sensing Resistor) sensor.
  • the sensor can be arranged in the form of a load cell on the underside of the cushion and connected to the electronics.
  • the controller can have at least one further sensor system for determining a parameter selected from temperature, movement, acceleration, location (GPS).
  • a parameter selected from temperature, movement, acceleration, location (GPS).
  • the controller preferably includes a radio module for external data exchange, in particular a Bluetooth or WLAN module.
  • a (possibly removable) data memory e.g. SD card, on-chip memory
  • the controller has an integrated, readable memory.
  • the base body prefferably has a receptacle in the second end area for the power supply.
  • This is preferably a battery or a rechargeable accumulator.
  • the electrical connection to the controller is made by means of a cable harness either through the edge of the base body or preferably through an external bracket or bridge, which therefore does not affect the damping capacity and therefore the pressure measurement.
  • holder For temporary attachment to the noseband, several holders can be arranged distributed over the length on the upper side (of the base body), each consisting of opposing projections, the legs of which stand up laterally and face each other or protrude inwards.
  • the base body is produced in one piece by means of additive manufacturing, preferably made of thermoplastic polyurethane, tailored to the dimensions of the respective skull shape.
  • additive manufacturing preferably made of thermoplastic polyurethane, tailored to the dimensions of the respective skull shape.
  • TPC thermoplastic copolyester elastomers
  • it is a custom made pad, preferably 3D printed in TPU (Thermoplastic Polyutheran) that is used as a Clip-on is fastened under the horse's noseband in order to distribute the pressure that is currently acting on the horse's nasal bone more evenly over the shape of the product and thus over the horse's nose and to continuously determine it using sensors.
  • TPU Thermoplastic Polyutheran
  • the electronics include a computer chip and a Bluetooth radio.
  • the data from the sensor indicate the forces or pressure that affects the nasal bone and is continuously measured and read out with a smartphone app via the Bluetooth interface.
  • the raw data from the sensor which is in volts, is converted into grams.
  • the computer chip contains a temperature sensor, a movement sensor and a gyroscope as an acceleration sensor, the data from which can also be continuously measured and read out with the app via the Bluetooth interface and displayed in a simplified way.
  • the invention also includes a system for manufacturing the described custom noseband pads, comprising an input unit for feeding the system with data from the animal's skull; with an automated determination unit for determining the optimized geometric dimensions of the base body of the noseband pad using the data fed in and checking the base body using the adapted base body; with a calculation unit for calculating manufacturing data from the optimized geometric dimensions of the base body; with a manufacturing unit for manufacturing the base body using the manufacturing data by additive manufacturing.
  • Photos of the skull from different perspectives or 3D scans from a 3D scanner are suitable as data from the head or skull of the animal.
  • the noseband pad thus comprises at least the input unit, the determination unit, the calculation unit and the production unit as system components.
  • the input unit serves to feed the system with imaging data of the animal's skull.
  • the imaging data or digital data can be generated as photos via smartphone or camera or 3D scan data in order to create a 3-dimensional data model.
  • This imaging data can B. be read into the system via a website form.
  • the determination unit can now calculate optimized geometric dimensions of the base body based on the skull data that has been fed in.
  • the determination unit can generate an optimized geometry of the noseband fully automated, partially automated or completely manually with the help of the customer, which flows into the calculation unit.
  • the dimensioning can be controlled digitally or, alternatively, determined or changed by the user and the production data for the 3D printing can thus be defined indirectly.
  • the system can therefore have a visualization and control unit for the simultaneous visualization of the imaging data (e.g. augmented reality) and a base body image based on the optimized geometric dimensions of the base body for visual control.
  • a visualization and control unit for the simultaneous visualization of the imaging data (e.g. augmented reality) and a base body image based on the optimized geometric dimensions of the base body for visual control.
  • the calculation unit can manufacture data from the optimized calculate the geometric dimensions of the base body and the system passes them on to the manufacturing unit. In this way, the calculation unit can generate so-called STL files for additive manufacturing from the optimized 3D model of the base body.
  • the production unit is then used to produce the base body using the production data by additive manufacturing.
  • Manufacturing data for the individual base body are calculated from the individually generated data and processed accordingly to form a 3-dimensional image, and this is then manufactured using the additive process.
  • the system may include a suitably configured computer or a smartphone app, and one or more servers programmed to provide the input unit, the determination unit and the calculation unit and via a suitable interface with the manufacturing unit to transmit the manufacturing data connect to.
  • the input unit could also be used as a user interface in the form of an input mask, such as B. a website form, be designed in which the data is selected and released for uploading.
  • the digital data is continuously evaluated and identified using a medical image classifier based on a deep convolutional neural network (cnn) in order to identify stressed anatomical regions (pressure points or points) of the nasal bone or skull.
  • cnn deep convolutional neural network
  • This model consists of a classification branch and an attention branch.
  • the classification branch acts as a unified feature extraction classification network, and the classification branch exploits the correlation between class labels and the areas of pathological irregularities and allows the model to focus on the pathologically abnormal regions.
  • the system according to the invention allows a completely digital method (process chain) for producing the individualized base body for the perform noseband pads.
  • the determination unit e.g. neural network
  • the system can optionally check the specified dimensioning for plausibility using suitable algorithms.
  • At least one check is carried out via a scaled visual representation of the optimized base body with its measurements and dimensions on a screen.
  • this can also be done via augmented reality.
  • the manufacturing data is calculated on the basis of the data released in this way, and the manufacturing process is thus started after it has been transmitted to the manufacturing unit.
  • the production on a 3D printer can be decentralized or locally closer to the order.
  • FIG. 1 shows different views of a noseband pad according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 further views of the noseband pad from FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3A, B views of two variants of the noseband pad from FIG. 1 without electronics
  • Fig. 4 is a schematic view of a system for manufacturing the noseband pad of Figure 1;
  • FIG. 5 is a schematic view of the electronic components of the noseband pad of FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • Figure 6 shows an illustration of the use of the noseband pad of Figure 1 on the horse.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 a noseband pad designated as a whole by 1 is shown in different views.
  • the noseband padding 1 for attachment to the noseband on the side facing a horse consists essentially of a base body 2 and includes electronic components 100 accommodated therein (cf. FIG. a pressure sensor 101, a controller 102 and a power supply 103 include.
  • the base body 2 is an elongated, flexible, one-piece body made of 3D-printed TPU, which describes an arcuate shape when viewed from the side, so that it can be placed on the animal's skull from above, encompassing it.
  • the base body 2 is provided with a first end area 3, a second end area 4 and a middle area 5 lying in between, the middle area 5 being arranged lying on the nose bone in the use position (on the adjacent noseband).
  • the pressure sensor system 101 is arranged in the central area 5 .
  • a circular strain gauge is used as the sensor, which is arranged on the underside towards the nasal bone, for which purpose a receiving pocket 7 is provided.
  • the senor In the position of use, the sensor thus rests directly on the nasal bone.
  • a cover could also be provided.
  • Another receptacle 8 behind a flap 9 is provided in the first end area 3 for the controller 102 .
  • a third receptacle 10 behind a corresponding flap 11 is provided in the second end area 4 for the power supply 103 .
  • Flaps 9 and 11 are designed in one piece with the base body 2 .
  • the two receptacles 8 and 10 are connected via an external bridge 12 in which a cable connection (not shown) runs between the controller 102 and the power supply 103 .
  • the middle part 5 has a sandwich construction 13 with an inner lattice structure 14 made up of crossed lattice bars between the upper side 17 and the lower side 16 in order to produce elastic flexibility between the nose bone and the strap.
  • the lattice structure 14 has a load-optimized design according to the bionic principle of the design appropriate to the flow of forces and is also optimized for 3D printing. It enables elastic flexibility in the heavily stressed middle part, which leads to an even distribution of pressure and damping on the nasal bone.
  • the base body 2 can be hung on the noseband via the brackets 18.
  • the electronic components 100 include, as mentioned, the pressure sensor system 101, a controller 102 and a power supply 103.
  • the power supply 103 is connected to the controller 102 via a cable connection 104 and the controller 102 in turn is connected to the pressure sensor system 101 via a cable connection 105 .
  • the controller 102 includes a further sensor system 106 for determining the Temperature, a sensor 107 for determining the movement and a sensor 108 for determining the acceleration.
  • the controller 102 has a radio module for external data exchange, which is embodied as a Bluetooth module 109 .
  • a USB interface 110 is also provided for reading out the internal data memory, which is in the form of an SD card 111 .
  • the base body 2* or 2** is in principle the same as that described above, but without electronics, so that the receptacles 7, 8 or 10 are unnecessary and therefore consist of an elastic grid . It is therefore the simplest form of the noseband pad according to the invention without "electronics”.
  • FIG. 4 shows a schematic view of the system, denoted as a whole by 200, for the production of tailor-made basic bodies.
  • the system 200 includes an input unit 202 for feeding the system with imaging data of the horse's skull.
  • these are photos or a 3D scan 203, with which several photos are generated from the horse in the area of the skull, which can be sent via a suitable interface 204, e.g. B. website on the Internet, are uploaded to an appropriately programmed server 205.
  • An automated determination unit for determining the optimized geometric dimensions of the base body based on the photos or 3D scans fed in and for checking the base body based on the adapted base body is set up on the server 205 .
  • All areas of the base body are optimized.
  • the imported photos or 3D scans are first measured 206 in the determination unit and the geometric dimensions of the base body are optimized 207.
  • the customer can use a scaled visualization 208 z. B. on the corresponding website on his end device, check the optimized geometric dimensions of the base body based on the photos and 3D scans, adjust them if necessary and release them 209. This also applies to the sub-areas.
  • Consultation unit 210 are calculated from the optimized geometric dimensions of the base body manufacturing data.
  • This production data is then sent to a 3D printer 211 as a production unit and is used to control it in order to ultimately produce the one-piece base body from TPU with the optimized geometric dimensions by additive manufacturing.
  • the 3D printer can work according to the SLS process.
  • a digital process chain for producing a base body 2 looks as follows:
  • the imaging data of the horse's head are generated by the customer 203 .
  • the photos or 3D scans are then digitally uploaded to the system 200 via the website on the server 205 (step II).
  • the system uses suitable algorithms to check the specified dimensioning for plausibility.
  • step V the scaled visual representation of the optimized base body with its measurements and dimensions is checked on a screen (step V) and then the customer must release the data (step VI).
  • step VI The production data is calculated in step VII on the basis of the data released in this way and finally the production process is started after it has been transmitted to the 3D printer 211 (step VIII).
  • the base body 2 as indicated schematically in Figure 6, is attached to the noseband of the horse P, so that the holders 18 grip the strap and the base body 2 of the noseband padding 1 rests against the horse's skull when the strap was buckled.
  • the controller 102 records the data via the sensors 101 - 108 and transmits this via Bluetooth to a suitable mobile device, such as a smartphone S, on which an evaluation and display app is running.
  • a suitable mobile device such as a smartphone S, on which an evaluation and display app is running.

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Abstract

Le coussinet de coiffe peut être fixé à la coiffe sur un côté faisant face à l'animal, en particulier un cheval, ladite plaquette de plaquette comprenant une partie principale flexible allongée dotée d'une première partie d'extrémité, une seconde partie d'extrémité et une partie centrale entre les deux, la partie centrale étant agencée de telle sorte qu'elle repose contre l'os nasal, et la partie centrale étant du type sandwich avec une structure maillée interne d'éléments à mailles entrelacées entre la face supérieure et la face inférieure, ce qui permet d'obtenir une flexibilité élastique.
EP21786902.3A 2020-10-14 2021-10-04 Coussinet de muserolle Active EP4003903B1 (fr)

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