Circular Flying Theater with Retractable Platform

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing flying theater systems are limited to linear seating arrangements, offering a single viewpoint and excluding smaller guests due to containment and fall hazards, with complex and expensive mechanics.

Innovation Solution

A circular flying theater system with programmable motion base, 360-degree display screen, and selectively retractable platforms, allowing multiple viewpoints and accommodating smaller guests by mitigating fall hazards.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If guests are seated in straight rows with a common point of view to the media screen, then the viewing experience is limited to a single viewpoint, but the system mechanics remain relatively simple

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveviewing experience varietyVSAvoidsystem mechanics

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies circular arrangement of seats instead of linear rows, creating a curved seating configuration that allows multiple viewpoints while maintaining manageable mechanical complexity through rotational symmetry

Inventive Principle:

Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

2Adaptability or versatility

If traditional containment structures are used to prevent falls, then smaller guests are excluded from riding, but the structure remains simple and safe

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveguest size accommodationVSAvoidfall hazards

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent inverts the traditional containment approach by using outward-opening safety bars instead of enclosing walls, allowing smaller guests to ride safely while maintaining structural simplicity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentUS20250032940A1Circular flying theater

Publication Date: 2025.01.30 FALCONS BEYOND GLOBAL LLC

AI summary

A theater experience for a flying theater system comprises a programmable, configurable motion base, set inside a display screen area, that may be controlled to synchronize with media content and provide multiple viewpoints that allow multiple guest experiences simultaneously where its display screen provides complete guest immersion from all sides. A selectively retractable passenger load/unload platform may be present and retract to allow full view of the display screen, creating multiple views of a surrounding media scene and allowing guests to experience presented media content from different seat positions while having a unique experience each time. Seats typically comprise exterior facing seats which remove or otherwise ameliorate a potential of a fall hazard since the floor remains below the guests' feet.