3D Snow Model-Making Sole with Pigment and Anti-Slip Grip
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing snowshoes and ski shoes do not allow users to directly interact with snow to create personalized 3D models, lacking sufficient wear resistance, slip resistance, deformation recovery ability, and durability, and fail to meet the demand for interactive fun and creativity in outdoor activities.
Innovation Solution
A model-making toy with a toy sole body featuring a tread surface, ground-touching surface with 3D molding grooves, friction beans, and a pigment storage cavity, allowing users to step out 3D models in snow by applying pressure and adding pigment, with a connecting structure for easy attachment to shoes and safety features like pressure sensing and sounding units.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional snowshoe materials are used, then basic warmth and comfort needs are met, but users cannot directly interact with snow to create personalized 3D models
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the snowshoe sole with 3D molding functionality by integrating a 3D molding groove directly into the ground-touching surface of the sole. This combination allows the snowshoe to simultaneously provide basic snowshoe functions (warmth, comfort, snow traversal) and enable users to create 3D models by stepping on snow, thus resolving the contradiction between maintaining basic functionality and adding interactive creativity.
Solution Approach 2:
The snowshoe sole is designed with multi-functionality: it serves as both a protective footwear component and a 3D modeling tool. The ground-touching surface incorporates a 3D molding groove that enables the sole to press and shape snow into three-dimensional models, transforming the snowshoe from a single-function device into a versatile tool that combines transportation with creative expression.
2Ease of operation
If the sole material is made softer for better deformation recovery, then comfort is improved, but wear resistance and structural integrity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs composite material construction for the snowshoe sole, combining materials with different properties to achieve both softness for comfort and durability for wear resistance. The sole body uses a base material providing structural strength, while the ground-touching surface incorporates a softer material layer that enables effective snow deformation and recovery, thus resolving the contradiction between comfort and durability.
3Manufacturing precision
If the 3D molding groove is made deeper for better model definition, then manufacturing precision is improved, but the force required increases causing user fatigue
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by designing the 3D molding groove with varying depth characteristics - deeper regions where precise model definition is needed and shallower regions where less force is required. The groove geometry is optimized to concentrate molding force on critical features while reducing overall force requirements, thus achieving good model definition without excessive user fatigue.
4Reliability
If friction beans are added to the tread surface for better grip, then slip resistance is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the tread surface into multiple functional zones with different friction characteristics. Friction beans are strategically distributed in specific areas where grip is most needed (such as heel and toe regions), rather than uniformly across the entire surface. This segmented approach provides effective slip resistance while minimizing the overall complexity and material usage compared to a fully textured surface.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables users to create vivid 3D models in snow with enhanced interaction and creativity, ensuring safety and ease of use through anti-skid properties and intuitive model formation feedback.
Implementation Method 1
a pressure sensing unit and a sounding unit are arranged inside the toy sole body for sounding to remind that the 3D model has been molded
Implementation Method 2
the tread surface is integrally formed with a plurality of friction beans, and the friction beans are arranged at intervals on the tread surface
Implementation Method 3
the ground-touching surface is provided with a group of friction grooves which are arranged at intervals on the ground-touching surface
Implementation Method 4
molding step: applying a molding pressure to the tread surface and moving the sole body toward a molding material to make the molding material form a model in the 3D molding groove
Implementation Method 5
the interior of the toy sole body is provided with a pigment storage cavity, and the 3D molding groove is provided with a connecting through hole that communicates with the pigment storage cavity
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of toys and claims a model-making toy capable of stepping out 3D models, comprising a toy sole body, wherein an upper surface of the toy sole body is provided with a tread surface. When a user walks or plays in snow, he/she can step out 3D models of various shapes through simple foot movements, thus increasing fun and interaction of snow activities. Through the cooperation of the liquid inlet, the pigment storage cavity and the connecting through hole, it is convenient to add pigments to the model, so that the formed 3D model is more vivid and interesting.