Modular Crutch Handle Assembly With Vibration and Heating
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional crutch handles lack additional functional features like vibration or heating, and are cumbersome to disassemble and replace, reducing user convenience and willingness to purchase.
Innovation Solution
A crutch handle design with integrated vibration and heating capabilities, featuring a T-shaped handle body, a top case, and an upper cover, allowing easy assembly and disassembly with screw locks, and incorporating a circuit board, eccentric motor, and heating plate for user-controlled functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If functional structures (vibration motor, heating element) are added to the crutch handle, then the comfort and functionality for users with poor blood circulation is improved, but the structural complexity increases and user disassembly becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The crutch handle is divided into modular components: a handle body, a top case containing the battery and motor, and an upper cover with functional elements. These segments can be assembled and disassembled independently through screw connections, maintaining functionality while reducing overall structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The top case serves multiple functions: it houses the battery for power supply, contains the vibration motor for massage function, and provides structural support. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components, managing complexity while enhancing versatility.
2Ease of operation
If functional structures are added to provide vibration and heating, then user comfort is improved, but the ease of disassembly and replacement by users deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The handle is segmented into easily separable parts connected by screw joints. Users can remove the top case and upper cover independently to access or replace functional components like the battery or motor, maintaining ease of repair while enabling added functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular design with standardized screw connections enables users to perform their own maintenance, battery replacement, or component repairs without specialized tools or expertise, promoting self-service capability.
3Ease of repair
If a modular assembly structure with multiple components is used, then ease of disassembly is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The handle is divided into three main segments (handle body, top case, upper cover) connected by simple screw joints. This segmentation enables easy disassembly for user maintenance while keeping each segment's internal structure relatively simple, balancing disassembly ease with overall complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple functional components (battery, motor, functional elements) are merged into the top case and upper cover assemblies. This consolidation reduces the total number of separate parts users must handle, simplifying the modular structure while maintaining disassembly ease.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances user convenience by providing vibration and heating functions while allowing easy assembly and disassembly for maintenance or replacement, improving user experience and practicality.
Implementation Method 1
an eccentric motor is installed in the motor room, and the eccentric motor is electrically connected to the circuit board and powered by the battery
Implementation Method 2
the upper cover is made of metal having flexible characteristics... the upper cover further includes a heating plate, the heating plate is electrically connected to the circuit board
Data Source
AI summary
An assembly structure of a crutch handle includes a handle body, a top case, and an upper cover. The handle body is T-shaped and has a grip part and an assembly part. The grip part is provided with a hollow accommodation space. A battery room is communicated between the accommodation space and the assembly part to provide storage space for a battery, the accommodating space is defined as a circuit board room and a motor room to install an eccentric motor and a circuit board. The crutch handle of the present invention has the additional function of vibration or heating, which helps to improve the practicality of the structure. Moreover, the structure is simple and easy for the user to disassemble and assemble.