Bracket for attaching a potty-training device to toilet seat
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing potty-training devices face issues with premature detachment from toilet seats due to adhesive failure, causing frustration and requiring frequent reattachment, especially for consumers with limited motor skills, while maintaining flexibility and compatibility with different toilet types.
Innovation Solution
A bracket system that secures potty-training devices to the underside of toilet seats using a rigid or adjustable configuration, eliminating the need for adhesive tape, and ensuring secure attachment and easy removal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If adhesive tape is used to attach the potty-training device to the toilet seat, then the device can be easily installed and removed, but the adhesive fails prematurely causing detachment within a week
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a bracket as an intermediary component between the potty-training device and the toilet seat. The bracket is attached to the toilet seat using adhesive tape, while the potty-training device clips onto the bracket. This intermediary structure distributes the attachment forces and prevents direct stress on the adhesive tape, eliminating premature detachment while maintaining easy installation and removal through the clipping mechanism.
2Ease of operation
If adhesive tape is used to attach the potty-training device, then installation is simple, but reattachment is time-consuming and frustrating for consumers with limited motor skills
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket serves as a reusable intermediary that remains attached to the toilet seat via adhesive tape. The potty-training device simply clips onto and off the bracket, transforming the reattachment process from a time-consuming adhesive application task into a quick mechanical clipping action that is easily performed by consumers with limited motor skills.
3Reliability
If a rigid bracket is used to secure the device, then attachment security is improved, but the device loses flexibility and compatibility with different toilet shapes
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket is designed with flexible or adjustable components that allow it to adapt to different toilet seat shapes and sizes. The flexibility enables the bracket to conform to various curvatures while maintaining secure attachment, and the adjustable clipping mechanism ensures the potty-training device can be firmly secured regardless of the underlying toilet geometry.
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AI summary
A bracket for securing a potty-training device to the underside of a toilet seat, wherein the potty-training device is made of a flexible material, has a flat configuration comprising a plurality of attachment tabs, a urine deflecting surface and a folding seam positioned between and connected to the plurality of attachment tabs on one side and the urine deflecting surface on the other side of the folding seam; or the potty-training device is made of a flexible material, has an L-shaped configuration and comprises a plurality of attachment tabs and a urine deflecting surface, wherein the plurality of attachment tabs are positioned and fixed at a right angle to the urine deflecting surface; where the bracket matches the inner curvature of a toilet seat and eliminates the need for the potty-training device to require an adhesive to attach the potty-training device to the toilet seat.