Double Folding Basketball Hoop with Rotating Backboards
Solution Overview
Problem
Current children's basketball hoops are inconvenient to set up and store due to their vertical configuration, limiting simultaneous play for multiple children and requiring additional scorekeeping.
Innovation Solution
A children's double folding basketball shooting frame with rotatingly connected backboards and a folding structure for the basketball hoop, allowing for compact storage and easy setup, along with integrated sensors and displays for scorekeeping and a hanging mechanism for door installation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the basketball hoop and backboard are set vertically for use, then the shooting function is improved, but the storage volume increases and becomes inconvenient to store
Solution Approach 1:
The basketball hoop is designed with a folding structure that allows it to dynamically change its position relative to the backboard. During use, the hoop extends vertically for shooting; during storage, it folds parallel to the backboard, reducing the overall volume. This dynamic transformation resolves the contradiction between operational functionality and storage compactness.
Solution Approach 2:
The folding structure enables the basketball hoop to nest against the backboard when not in use, similar to how nested dolls store within each other. The hoop can be folded parallel to the backboard surface, creating a compact nested configuration that minimizes storage space while maintaining full functionality during play.
2Device complexity
If a single basketball hoop is used, then the device complexity is reduced, but multiple children cannot play simultaneously and time is lost due to sequential shooting
Solution Approach 1:
The device is segmented into two independent backboard-hoop units connected by a rotating connection. Each unit can function independently for shooting, allowing multiple children to play simultaneously. The segmentation enables parallel usage while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure through the modular design.
Solution Approach 2:
Two separate basketball shooting units are merged into a single integrated device through a rotating connection between the backboards. This combining allows multiple children to play simultaneously while keeping the device complexity manageable through shared structural elements and a unified design approach.
3Ease of operation
If the basketball hoop and backboard are set vertically for use, then the shooting function is improved, but the device occupies more space and is inconvenient to transport
Solution Approach 1:
The folding structure enables dynamic transformation between a vertical extended configuration for shooting and a compact folded configuration for transport. The basketball hoop can be folded parallel to the backboard, dramatically reducing the transport volume while maintaining full shooting functionality when deployed.
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
Enables convenient storage and setup, allows two children to play simultaneously, and facilitates efficient scorekeeping through the use of sensors and displays, enhancing user experience.
Implementation Method 1
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Data Source
AI summary
The present application publishes a children's double folding basketball hoop, including two backboards, whose walls ware rotating connected, each backboard bottom has a basketball hoop. The basketball hoop is connected with the bottom of the backboards through the folding structure, and the basketball hoop is parallel to the backboards when the folding structure is folded, and the basketball hoop is perpendicular to the backboards while unfolded. Its advantage is that the side walls of the two backboards are connected by rotation, and the two backboards can be folded together, and the same for basketball hoop and backboards, with small size, easy to pack and transport; when needed, basketball hoop and backboards are unfolded, it is convenient for double play. When not in use, the two backboards can be folded together, and the same for basketball hoop and backboards, with small size, convenient for storage.