Deployable Child Seat and Blanket Integration for Passenger Seats
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional child seats are cumbersome and inconvenient to transport and install, often leading to improper use, and existing passenger seats lack integrated solutions for child safety and comfort, such as blankets, which occupy valuable space.
Innovation Solution
A deployable child seat integrated with an existing passenger seat, featuring a horizontal seat panel and vertical backrest panel that deploy via actuators and inflatable bladders, along with a stored blanket that can be easily accessed and used, providing both safety and comfort.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a conventional child seat is used, then child safety is improved, but device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate due to cumbersome installation and tethering requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the child seat with the passenger seat into a single integrated unit. The child seat is positioned within the passenger seat and shares structural components, eliminating the need for separate installation and tethering operations. This merging resolves the contradiction by maintaining safety functionality while dramatically improving ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The passenger seat is designed to serve dual functions: as a regular passenger seat and as an integrated child seat. The system can adapt between these modes through the deployable child seat structure and controllable blanket, providing multi-functionality that improves operational convenience without compromising child safety.
2Reliability
If a conventional child seat is used, then child safety is improved, but device complexity worsens due to separate harness and tethering systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the child seat structure with the passenger seat framework, sharing common components such as the base structure, anchoring points, and control systems. This integration reduces device complexity by eliminating redundant structural elements while maintaining the safety functions through the unified design.
3Ease of operation
If a blanket is transported separately, then passenger comfort is improved, but ease of operation worsens due to additional transportation burden
Solution Approach 1:
The blanket is integrated into the child seat system, positioned within the child seat structure. This merging allows the blanket to be automatically deployed with the child seat and eliminates the need for separate transportation, resolving the contradiction between transportation convenience and comfort functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated blanket serves multiple functions: providing comfort for the child, acting as part of the restraint system through its positioning, and being automatically deployed with the child seat. This multi-functionality maintains comfort capabilities while improving transportation convenience.
4Reliability
If storage space is allocated for separate blanket and child seat, then comfort and safety functions are improved, but volume of stationary object worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The child seat is nested within the passenger seat structure, utilizing the existing space of the passenger seat. The blanket is positioned within the child seat structure. This nesting arrangement allows the safety and comfort functions to be integrated into the existing vehicle space without requiring additional storage volume.
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
The integrated child seat and blanket solution enhances safety and convenience by seamlessly deploying a child seat and blanket within the passenger seat, reducing the burden of transportation and installation while ensuring proper restraint and comfort.
Implementation Method 1
peripheral bladders inflate to form a restraining barrier around a seated child
Data Source
AI summary
A child seat includes a horizontal seat panel and a vertical backrest panel that are each respectively received within a designated compartment in the seat and backrest of an existing passenger seat. Upon command, actuators displace both panels from their designated compartments to form a child seat when needed. A blanket is stored within a pocket mounted on the rear surface of the existing backrest to comfort a passenger. The blanket includes sleeves that allow the passenger to use the arms while covered, an opening for receiving a passenger seat headrest and an inflatable neck pillow encircling a head aperture.