Composable Toy Figure Column for Rotational Torso Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing composable toy figures face issues with the torso detaching from the head due to vertical movement, which limits play value and requires complex assembly techniques.
Innovation Solution
A column with a passage and overhang design allows the torso to be rotated relative to the base while preventing vertical movement, using a tapered passage and overhangs to secure the torso, ensuring easy assembly and stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the torso is placed on the base via the column to enable rotation, then the play value is increased, but the torso can press against the head vertically causing detachment
Solution Approach 1:
The column acts as an intermediary element between the base and the torso, providing both rotational freedom and vertical support. The column's passage with tapered walls and the overhang structure serve as mediating mechanisms that enable rotation while preventing vertical detachment of the torso from the head.
2Device complexity
If the column is designed as a rod inserted into the lower part, then the number of parts is reduced, but assembly requires considerable skill
Solution Approach 1:
The column is pre-formed with a passage having tapered walls and an overhang structure before assembly. This preliminary preparation of the column's internal geometry enables easy assembly by allowing the torso to be simply placed onto the column, with the overhang automatically guiding and securing the torso in position without requiring complex assembly skills.
3Ease of operation
If the passage width is reduced to enable column compression, then the overhang can be guided through, but the column may break too quickly
Solution Approach 1:
The passage width is optimized to a specific range (1 to 5 times the maximum thickness of the column's outer wall in the passage area) that allows sufficient compression of the column's tapered walls to guide the overhang through, while maintaining adequate wall thickness to prevent the column from breaking too quickly during assembly and use.
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AI summary
Disclosed is a composable toy figure (2), comprising: - a torso (4) which extends in a longitudinal direction (6), in a transverse direction (7) extending transversely to the longitudinal direction (6) and in a vertical direction (8) extending transversely to the longitudinal direction (6) and transversely to the transverse direction (7), and from which an arm (10) protrudes at the beginning and at the end, as seen in the transverse direction (7), and - a lower part (14) adjoining the torso (4) below in the vertical direction (8), with two legs (16) attached to the lower part (14), characterized by - a column (46) attached to the lower part (14), which is guided through a through-opening (44) extending through the torso (4) in the vertical direction (8) and protrudes with a projection (64) on the upper side of the torso (4) as seen in the vertical direction (8), and - a head (18) which has a (8) is placed on the projection (64),- wherein the column (46) comprises, at an exit point from the through-opening (44), a projection (66) which extends transversely to the height direction (8) beyond the through-opening (44).