Adjustable Vehicle Pillow With Slideway And Snap Buckle
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicle-mounted pillows are ineffective in providing comfort during long-term driving due to their inability to adjust to the user's needs, leading to neck soreness and discomfort.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable vehicle-mounted pillow device featuring a pillow main body with a slideway cavity, corrugated slideway, and a mechanism allowing for height and angle adjustments using sliders, springs, and a snap buckle system, enabling customizable support for improved comfort.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a simple pillow structure is used, then the device complexity is reduced, but the adaptability and comfort support are insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The pillow incorporates adjustable components including a height adjustment mechanism with sliders that move along corrugated slideways, and an angle adjustment mechanism with toothed slots and positioning pins. These dynamic elements allow the pillow to change its shape, height, and inclination angle to adapt to different user needs, transforming a static simple structure into a dynamic adjustable system that maintains reasonable complexity while significantly improving adaptability
Solution Approach 2:
The pillow is divided into multiple functional modules: a pillow main body, a height adjustment mechanism with separate sliders and slideways, an angle adjustment mechanism with independent toothed slots and positioning components, and a fastening mechanism with buckles and straps. This segmentation allows each module to perform its specific function independently while contributing to the overall adjustability, enabling complex functionality through coordinated simple components
2Ease of operation
If no neck support is provided, then the device simplicity is maintained, but neck soreness and discomfort occur during long-term driving
Solution Approach 1:
The pillow applies local quality enhancement by concentrating support features where needed: a raised central area provides targeted neck support, while adjustable side regions accommodate different head positions. The corrugated slideways provide localized friction control for smooth adjustment, and the toothed slots offer localized positioning at specific angles. This localized enhancement of support quality improves comfort without requiring complete structural redesign
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
The device allows for adjustable height and angle settings, enhancing user comfort by accommodating different preferences and providing better support for the neck, thus reducing discomfort during long drives.
Implementation Method 1
The sliders and the corrugated slideways in the slideway cavity mesh with each other
Implementation Method 2
a first spring one, a button body, and a tooth pattern. The slideway cavity is disposed on one side of the pillow body
Implementation Method 3
The upper surface of the connection head is provided with a snap buckle
Data Source
AI summary
An adjustable vehicle-mounted pillow device includes a pillow body, a slideway cavity on one side of the pillow body, a cover plate on an outer side of the slideway cavity, a fixing seat movably connected in the slideway cavity, a connection head clamped in the fixing seat, and a shaft body on one side of the connection head. Push the two sliders inward to squeeze a second spring and slide the fixing seat up and down and then release the sliders which would mesh with the respective corrugated slideways to thus adjusting the height. Press the button body inward to compress a first spring and the tooth pattern on the button body separates from the fixing tooth slot in the left half shaft thus adjusting the angle of the pillow body. The compressed spring will push the button body to make the tooth pattern snap into the fixing tooth slot.