Collapsible Privacy Canopy for Low-Profile Spectator Sight Lines
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Solution Overview
Problem
In spectator activities, there is a need for a privacy structure that can provide temporary privacy without obstructing the view of observers, as existing structures are often too bulky and obstructive, even when not in use.
Innovation Solution
A collapsible privacy structure that deploys from a low-profile, non-obstructive state to form a canopy providing internal volume for privacy, which can be used for bathrooms, showers, or medical evaluations, and reverts to a low-profile state when not in use, utilizing a base structure, canopy support, flexible canopy, and actuator linkage assembly for deployment and retraction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a privacy structure is deployed to provide internal volume for privacy, then privacy and seclusion are improved, but visual obstruction to spectators increases
Solution Approach 1:
The privacy structure employs a collapsible canopy supported by telescopic poles that can transition between deployed and collapsed states. The canopy is moveably coupled to the base structure, allowing it to extend upward to provide privacy volume when needed and collapse downward to minimize visual obstruction when not in use. This dynamic configuration enables the structure to adapt its profile height based on operational requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The privacy structure is divided into separable components including a base structure, a collapsible canopy, and telescopic support poles. The canopy can be independently deployed or collapsed without affecting the base structure, allowing flexible control over the privacy volume while maintaining a low profile when retracted.
2Length of moving object
If a privacy structure maintains a low profile when not in use, then sight lines of observers are preserved, but the structure provides insufficient privacy volume when deployed
Solution Approach 1:
The telescopic support poles enable the canopy to transition from a collapsed low-profile state to a deployed state with sufficient internal volume. The poles extend upward to support the canopy at an elevated position, creating the necessary privacy enclosure space while maintaining a compact footprint when retracted.
Solution Approach 2:
The structure utilizes vertical dimensionality through the telescopic extension of support poles and the upward deployment of the canopy. This allows the structure to maintain a minimal horizontal footprint and low profile when not in use, while expanding vertically to provide adequate internal volume when deployed for privacy.
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AI summary
Aspects are directed to a collapsible privacy structure that has a low profile when in an un-deployed state to preserve the sight lines of observers. The collapsible privacy structure may then be deployed causing a canopy structure to extend upwardly forming an internal volume that provides privacy and seclusion to the user of the structure. The internal volume may be used for a bathroom, a shower, a medical evaluation/treatment space, and/or a changing space. Upon the departure of the user from the internal volume, the collapsible privacy structure may return to the low profile nature provided by the undeployed state.