Collapsible toilet enclosure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Collapsible toilet enclosures face issues with structural strength, leading to misalignment and difficulty in maintaining a vertical and square configuration over time, especially under varying environmental conditions, which affects door closure and stacking.
Innovation Solution
A collapsible toilet enclosure with an adjustable coupling structure between the base and upper frame portions, featuring a linker and connecting portions that allow for adjusting the distance between these components to maintain verticality and squareness, using mechanisms like threaded members, cables, and adjustable arms to realign the structure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a pivotable connection is used between the base portion and the upper frame portion to enable collapsibility, then portability and storage ease are improved, but structural strength deteriorates causing the enclosure to lose verticality and squareness over time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the connection between the base portion and upper frame portion adjustable rather than fixed. The distance between these portions can be modified to compensate for structural weakening, allowing the enclosure to maintain verticality and squareness despite the inherent flexibility of the pivotable connection designed for collapsibility.
2Ease of manufacture
If conventional lightweight and moldable materials are used, then ease of manufacture and portability are improved, but structural strength deteriorates under varying environmental conditions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by allowing adjustment of the distance between the base portion and upper frame portion. This parameter adjustment compensates for dimensional changes and structural weakening that occur when conventional lightweight materials are exposed to varying environmental conditions over time, maintaining the enclosure's verticality and squareness.
3Reliability
If the enclosure structure is made adjustable to maintain verticality and squareness, then structural reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the connection system into separate components: a base portion, an upper frame portion, and an adjustable coupling mechanism. This segmentation allows the distance between portions to be modified independently to maintain structural reliability while keeping each component relatively simple in design.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a collapsible toilet enclosure. The collapsible toilet enclosure comprises: a base portion; an upper frame portion movably engaged to the base portion and movable between an extended position and a collapsed position; and at least one coupling structure comprising: a linker, a first connecting portion, and a second connecting portion, where the first connecting portion is engaged with the base portion and the second connecting portion is engaged with the upper frame portion, and the linker is engagable with the first and second connecting portions when the upper frame portion is in the extended position, and where the at least one coupling structure is adjustable to change the distance between the base portion and the upper frame portion when the linker is engaged with the first and second connecting portions.