Basketball Net Testing Device With Automated Shooting And Returning Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Manual testing of basketball net durability is inaccurate due to uncontrollable angles, momentum, and velocities of the basketball, and requires significant manpower, resulting in high costs.
Innovation Solution
A basketball net testing device with a mounting frame, delivering mechanism, shooting mechanism, returning mechanism, and controller, featuring multiple ball seats, a guiding disc, speeding rollers, and adjustable inclined angles to consistently shoot basketballs through the hoop, ensuring controlled momentum and repeated testing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual shooting is used to test basketball net durability, then testing can be performed with simple equipment, but the testing accuracy is poor due to uncontrollable angles, momentum, and velocities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical shooting with an automated shooting mechanism that uses a launching device to project basketballs through the hoop. This substitution eliminates human variability in shooting angles, momentum, and velocity, thereby significantly improving testing accuracy while the automated system controls all testing parameters consistently
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces controllable parameters including launch angle, momentum, and velocity that can be adjusted and standardized. By changing these parameters from uncontrolled manual variations to controlled adjustable values, the system achieves repeatable and accurate durability testing of the basketball net
2Productivity
If manual shooting is used to test basketball net durability, then device complexity is low, but manpower requirements are high resulting in high costs
Solution Approach 1:
The automated shooting mechanism enables the system to shoot basketballs through the hoop automatically without requiring manual operation. The launching device, guiding mechanism, and returning mechanism work together to autonomously complete the testing cycle, dramatically improving productivity while reducing manpower requirements and associated costs
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a continuous testing cycle where basketballs are automatically returned to the launching position after passing through the hoop. This continuous operation eliminates interruptions between shots, maintains consistent testing rhythm, and significantly improves productivity compared to manual testing which requires human intervention between each shot
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The device provides accurate and efficient durability testing of basketball nets by controlling the momentum and angle of basketballs shot through the hoop, reducing manual labor and testing costs while ensuring consistent results.
Implementation Method 1
The speeding rollers are driven to rotate by a second motor assembly and increase momentum of the basketball
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AI summary
A basketball net testing device has a mounting frame, a delivering mechanism, a shooting mechanism, a basketball hoop, a returning mechanism, and a controller. The delivering mechanism has multiple ball seats used for delivering basketballs. The shooting mechanism has a guiding disc and two speeding rollers. The ball seats deliver the basketballs to the guiding disc. The guiding disc guides each of the basketballs to drop between the speeding rollers. The speeding rollers are driven to rotate by a second motor assembly and increase momentum of the basketball. Thus, the basketball is shot into the basketball hoop to rub against a basketball net. Then the basketball drops into the returning mechanism and rolls back into one ball seat of the delivering mechanism in order to be used for testing durability of the basketball net again.