Child Seat Side Impact Protection With Auto Deploy and Fold
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing child safety seats with side impact protection devices have complex structures, high costs, and require cumbersome operation for deployment and folding, failing to provide adequate protection during side collisions and inconvenient to use.
Innovation Solution
A side impact safety protection device with a simple structure, featuring a side impact protection block, driving member, traction member, and resetting member, which automatically deploys and folds when the child safety seat is placed or removed from a base, utilizing a torsion spring and traction member fastener for easy operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If existing side impact protection devices are used, then safety protection is provided, but the structure becomes complex and operation becomes cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The side impact protection device is divided into independent functional modules: a protection block that can be deployed or retracted, a driving member for actuation, and a resetting member for automatic return. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function with simple structure, avoiding the need for complex integrated systems while maintaining effective side impact protection.
2Reliability
If existing side impact protection devices are used, then safety protection is provided, but the operation becomes cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The resetting member is configured to automatically return the protection block to its retracted position after deployment, without requiring manual intervention. This self-service mechanism eliminates cumbersome manual folding operations while ensuring the protection device is ready for next use, significantly improving ease of operation while maintaining safety protection functionality.
3Volume of moving object
If manual folding operation is required, then device can be compacted, but operation time and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The resetting member is pre-configured in a state that allows it to automatically exert force on the driving member to retract the protection block. This preliminary arrangement ensures that as soon as the protection block is deployed, the automatic folding action begins immediately, eliminating the need for users to spend time on manual folding operations while achieving compact storage volume.
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 solution provides convenient and automatic deployment and folding of the side impact protection, enhancing safety by reducing the need for manual operation and ensuring buffer protection during side collisions without increasing complexity or cost.
Implementation Method 1
the torsion spring is disposed between the side impact protection block and the traction member
Implementation Method 2
the resetting member is a spring
Data Source
AI summary
A side impact safety protection device, a child safety seat, and a base, wherein the side impact safety protection device includes: a side impact protection block, including a casing and a pivot disposed in the casing; a driving member, for driving the side impact protection block to an unfolded position or a folded position; and a traction member, one end of the traction member is pivotally connected to the side impact protection block, and the other end of the traction member is connected to the driving member. The side impact safety protection device according to the application is simple in structure and easy to operate, and can realize automatically opening and automatic folding of the side impact safety protection device, which makes the operation more convenient.