ATV Seat Mounting Structure With Guided Snap-Fit Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing all terrain vehicle seats are prone to misoperation during mounting due to the operator's line of sight being blocked by the seat body, leading to difficulty in precise alignment and assembly.
Innovation Solution
A mounting structure for the seat, featuring insertion rods with snap-fitting engagement, a guide carrier with a socket, and a positioning shaft, which guides and limits the rods' position, allowing for precise alignment and engagement with the vehicle frame despite visual obstruction, enhanced by a locking mechanism for stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the seat is mounted from rear to front using a detachable structure, then the seat can be easily assembled and disassembled, but the operator's line of sight is blocked by the seat body, making it difficult to precisely mount the seat in place
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a guide carrier as an intermediary component between the insertion rod and the vehicle frame. The guide carrier includes a socket that guides the insertion rod during mounting, providing visual reference and physical guidance to the operator. This mediator enables precise alignment and positioning of the seat without blocking the operator's line of sight, as the guide carrier itself becomes the visual reference point during assembly.
2Device complexity
If the socket width is uniform, then the structure is simple, but the insertion rod cannot be effectively positioned and limited in the left-and-right direction
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs asymmetry in the socket design by making the width of the socket gradually increase from front to rear. This asymmetric geometry creates a tapered guidance path that naturally positions the insertion rod in the left-and-right direction during insertion. The varying width provides mechanical constraint and visual reference, enabling precise positioning without requiring additional complex positioning mechanisms.
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AI summary
A mounting structure of a seat for an all terrain vehicle with a vehicle frame and a seat frame, at least one insertion rod is provided at a bottom of the seat frame in a front-and-rear direction, with a rear end of the insertion rod being in snap-fitting engagement with the vehicle frame, the mounting structure comprises a guide carrier fixedly provided on the vehicle frame and having a socket at a rear side of the guide carrier capable of inserting a front end of the insertion rod, with a width of the socket in a left-and-right direction gradually increasing from front to rear, so that the front end of the insertion rod is positioned in an up-and-down direction by snap-fitting engagement into the guide carrier and limited in the left-and-right direction by engagement between inner walls of the guide carrier.