Deformable Barrier Mat for Parallel Mowing Path Assistance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mowers face inefficiencies and safety risks when navigating around obstacles like posts and trees, requiring deviations from parallel mowing paths, leading to increased labor, risk of accidents, and environmental concerns from herbicide use.
Innovation Solution
A mower path assistance system featuring a deformable barrier mat with a barrier mat aperture and installation slit, allowing obstacles to pass through and securing around them, reducing vegetation growth and maintaining a parallel mowing path.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the mower makes a full 360 degree circle around an obstacle, then the mower can safely navigate the obstacle, but the mowing efficiency is significantly reduced and time is increased
Solution Approach 1:
The barrier mat is divided into multiple segments that can be independently positioned and secured around the obstacle. This segmentation allows the barrier to be installed in a way that maintains parallel mowing paths while safely enclosing the obstacle, eliminating the need for full 360-degree circular maneuvers around the obstacle.
Solution Approach 2:
The barrier mat acts as an intermediary element between the mower and the obstacle. By placing the barrier mat around the obstacle, it creates a protected zone that allows the mower to maintain a consistent parallel path without directly contacting or circling the obstacle, thus improving both safety and mowing efficiency.
2Reliability
If the mower slows down to make a full 360 degree circle around an obstacle, then the mower can safely navigate the obstacle, but the time required for mowing is significantly increased
Solution Approach 1:
The barrier mat is installed around the obstacle before mowing begins. This preliminary action creates a pre-established safe zone that guides the mower along a predetermined parallel path, eliminating the need for slow, circular maneuvers during the mowing process and thus reducing time loss while maintaining safety.
3Object-generated harmful factors
If herbicides are used to control vegetation around obstacles, then vegetation growth is controlled, but environmental damage occurs and structures may be damaged
Solution Approach 1:
The barrier mat physically extracts and isolates the vegetation growth problem from the mowing area. By creating a physical barrier that prevents vegetation from encroaching on the mowing path, the system eliminates the need for herbicides, thereby removing the harmful environmental and structural effects associated with chemical vegetation control.
Solution Approach 2:
The barrier mat serves as an intermediary that replaces the need for herbicides. Instead of using chemicals to control vegetation, the barrier mat creates a physical boundary that prevents vegetation growth in the first place, thus eliminating the harmful effects of herbicide application on the environment and structures.
4Productivity
If the mower operates at high speed near obstacles, then mowing efficiency is maintained, but the risk of accidents and equipment damage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The barrier mat acts as an intermediary safety mechanism that allows the mower to operate at high speed while maintaining safety. By establishing a physical barrier zone around obstacles, the system enables the mower to maintain consistent parallel paths at higher speeds without the risk of contacting obstacles, thus improving both productivity and reliability.
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 mowing efficiency, reduces safety risks, and minimizes environmental impact by controlling vegetation growth without the need for herbicides, thereby saving labor and preventing damage to equipment and structures.
Implementation Method 1
the barrier mat is deformable around the barrier mat installation slit to create a pathway having a pathway width through which the obstacle may pass from the perimeter to the barrier mat aperture
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AI summary
A mower path assistance system to encircle an obstacle projecting from a ground surface, including a barrier mat formed with a barrier mat aperture enclosed by the barrier mat and having a barrier mat aperture diameter, a perimeter edge, and a barrier mat installation slit extending from the perimeter edge to the barrier mat aperture, wherein the barrier mat is deformable around the barrier mat installation slit to create a pathway having a pathway width through which the obstacle may pass from the perimeter to the barrier mat aperture. The barrier mat has a plurality of edges with axes that intersect at obtuse angles.