Cleaning Surface Transition Feedback With Deflection Member
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cleaning devices lack tactile and/or audible feedback when transitioning between different cleaning states, limiting user awareness and efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A cleaning device with a deflection member connecting first and second cleaning surfaces, providing tactile and/or audible feedback through transitions between different cleaning states, including configurations with soft and hard brush bristles and varying contact with the surface based on applied force.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a cleaning device uses multiple cleaning surfaces with different cleaning states (e.g., soft and hard brush bristles), then the device can clean different surfaces effectively, but the user lacks tactile and audible feedback when transitioning between cleaning states
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism through the deflection member that provides tactile and audible signals to the user when transitioning between different cleaning states. The deflection member's movement creates audible clicks or tactile sensations that inform the user of the current cleaning surface engagement, resolving the information loss problem while maintaining multi-state adaptability
2Ease of operation
If a cleaning device uses a hinged area to transition between cleaning states, then the device can change cleaning states, but the transition lacks tactile and audible feedback to the user
Solution Approach 1:
The deflection member is designed to provide tactile and audible feedback during state transitions. As the deflection member moves between positions, it creates audible clicks or tactile sensations that inform the user of the transition, enhancing ease of operation by providing clear operational feedback without complicating the transition mechanism
3Adaptability or versatility
If a cleaning device has multiple cleaning surfaces that are coplanar, then both surfaces can contact the cleaning surface simultaneously, but the device lacks feedback to indicate which cleaning state is active
Solution Approach 1:
The deflection member provides tactile and audible feedback that indicates which cleaning surface is actively contacting the cleaning surface. When one surface is engaged, the deflection member's position creates distinct tactile or audible signals, allowing the user to identify the active cleaning state even when multiple surfaces are coplanar and potentially contact simultaneously
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances user awareness and efficiency by ensuring seamless transitions between cleaning states with tactile and/or audible feedback, allowing for optimized cleaning operations.
Implementation Method 1
a deflection member securing the first and second members to one another. The deflection member deflects between a first cleaning state and a third cleaning state... The deflection member provides feedback to a user when transitioning
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AI summary
Cleaning devices are provided that have a surface with areas that provide different cleaning states. The areas of different cleaning states are connected to one another by a deflection member that provides tactile and/or audible feedback to the user when transitioning between the different cleaning states.