Convertible Backpack Shelter Walls Transforming into Housing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional shelter structures for hiking and camping, such as tents, occupy valuable space and add weight to backpacks, making it difficult to carry other essential equipment and are often time-consuming to set up, exposing users to harsh weather conditions.
Innovation Solution
A convertible backpack shelter device with sliding and extendable walls that can quickly transform into a housing compartment, featuring a top and bottom wall with intermediate walls, shoulder straps, air vents, power storage units, and pockets, allowing for rapid setup and use as a personal shelter without increasing backpack weight or space usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If conventional shelter structures (tents) are carried in backpacks, then users have protection from elements, but backpack weight and space consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the shelter structure with the backpack itself, making the backpack serve dual functions as both carrying device and shelter. The backpack includes collapsible side walls, a rear wall, and a front wall that can be reconfigured to form a shelter enclosure, eliminating the need to carry separate tent equipment.
Solution Approach 2:
The backpack is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a carrying device during the day and as a shelter structure when needed. The same backpack components (walls, frame, fabric) are used for both transportation and shelter functions, maximizing utility while minimizing weight and space requirements.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If conventional tents are carried in backpacks, then users have shelter protection, but available backpack space for other equipment is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The shelter structure is merged with the backpack body, using the same volume and space. The collapsible walls and frame of the backpack form the shelter enclosure, meaning no additional space is required beyond what is already allocated for the backpack itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The backpack serves dual purposes: carrying equipment during the day and providing shelter when needed. This eliminates the need to allocate separate space in the backpack for tent storage, as the backpack itself becomes the shelter.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If conventional tents with multiple setup instructions are used, then users have shelter protection, but setup time increases exposing users to harsh weather
Solution Approach 1:
The backpack shelter is designed to self-configure into shelter form. The collapsible walls and frame automatically form the shelter structure when activated, requiring minimal user intervention and no complex assembly instructions, thereby reducing setup time and exposure to harsh weather.
Solution Approach 2:
The backpack incorporates dynamic, collapsible walls and a reconfigurable frame that can quickly transition from carrying mode to shelter mode. This dynamic structure allows for rapid deployment without requiring multiple steps or complex instructions, enabling users to seek protection quickly when weather conditions deteriorate.
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AI summary
A convertible backpack shelter device capable of being quickly converted into a housing compartment. The housing compartment is formed by a number of walls. Each wall of the number of walls are slid into a stored configuration and an extended configuration. The number of walls includes a top wall disposed oppositely to a bottom wall, with a plurality of intermediate walls extending between the top wall and the bottom wall. The intermediate walls include a back wall and a front wall. A pair of shoulder straps are placed on the back wall for the convertible backpack shelter device to also serve as a backpack.