Flexible Cleaning Head for Windshield Corner Conformity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing windshield cleaning tools are unable to effectively clean surfaces with corner configurations, such as windshields, due to their inflexible designs, which restrict their ability to conform to varying geometries and require multiple passes for thorough cleaning.
Innovation Solution
A combination cleaning tool featuring a resiliently flexible head with an elongate blade and a compressible sponge member, incorporating a squeegee blade and abrasive material, allowing for effective cleaning of surfaces with corner portions by conforming to angles and returning to a linear configuration for easy handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If a rigid head design is used in cleaning tools, then structural stability is improved, but the ability to clean corner portions of surfaces is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The head portion is designed with a resiliently flexible blade that can dynamically change its configuration from linear to bent states, allowing it to adapt to corner portions while maintaining structural integrity through its resilient properties
Solution Approach 2:
The head portion incorporates a resiliently flexible blade that can bend and conform to varying surface geometries, enabling the cleaning tool to reach corner portions while returning to its original linear configuration after use
2Adaptability or versatility
If a flexible head design is used in cleaning tools, then the ability to clean corner portions is improved, but structural stability is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The blade's flexibility parameter is carefully controlled to provide optimal balance - flexible enough to bend to corners but rigid enough to maintain structural stability during normal operation and return to linear configuration
3Reliability
If multiple cleaning passes are used to clean corner portions, then cleaning completeness is improved, but time consumption is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The resiliently flexible blade allows the tool to clean corner portions in a single pass by dynamically bending to conform to the surface geometry, eliminating the need for multiple passes and reducing time consumption while maintaining cleaning completeness
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 tool efficiently cleans glass surfaces, including windshields and other surfaces with corners, using a flexible head that adapts to non-linear edges, reducing the need for multiple passes and improving cleaning efficiency while maintaining ease of use and durability.
Implementation Method 1
an elongate resiliently flexible blade... that can conform to varying surface geometries or configurations while returning to its resting, linear configuration
Implementation Method 2
a resiliently compressible sponge member... that can be compressed to access corner portions of surfaces
Data Source
AI summary
A new combination cleaning tool construction wherein the same can be utilized for cleaning surfaces, in particular, glass surfaces such as windshields. In particular the invention described herein provides a new combination cleaning tool construction wherein the same can be utilized for cleaning surfaces, in particular, glass surfaces such as windshields or the like, with corner portions.