Floor mat hanger
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing hangers for automotive floor mats lack an efficient and effective design for display and storage, particularly in retail settings, where they need to be easily displayed, transported, and stored.
Innovation Solution
A hanger design featuring a frame with a front and back member, pins, crosspieces, a middle member, and a hook/handle member, which allows for secure display and easy rotation of the hanger, enabling efficient storage and display of floor mats.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a simple hanger design is used, then manufacturing cost is reduced, but display and storage efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The hanger is divided into multiple functional segments: a frame structure for support, a middle member with vertical hole for rotation, and a hook/handle member for hanging. This segmentation allows each part to perform its specific function efficiently while keeping the overall design relatively simple and cost-effective.
Solution Approach 2:
The middle member is designed to rotate around the vertical hole, enabling dynamic adjustment of the hanger's orientation. This rotational capability allows the hanger to transition between different display positions and storage configurations, improving both display efficiency and storage compactness without adding complex mechanisms.
2Productivity
If a hanger with rotation capability is added, then storage efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The rotation capability is achieved through a simple vertical hole in the middle member that allows rotational movement. This dynamic feature enables the hanger to be oriented vertically for compact storage or horizontally for display, improving storage efficiency without requiring complex locking mechanisms or additional components.
Solution Approach 2:
The hanger's orientation parameter can be changed by rotating the middle member around the vertical hole. This simple parameter change allows the same hanger structure to serve multiple functions (display and storage) without increasing device complexity, as the rotation is achieved through the basic geometric feature of the vertical hole.
3Stability of the object's composition
If a stable frame structure is used, then display stability is improved, but ease of installation and removal deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The frame structure is segmented into a front member, back member, and crosspieces, allowing the hanger to be assembled in a straightforward sequence. This segmentation maintains structural stability when assembled while enabling easy installation by simply connecting the segments together without requiring complex fastening mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The frame structure is designed to be self-assembling through its segmented construction. The crosspieces connect the front and back members in a straightforward manner, allowing the hanger to be quickly installed and removed without requiring tools or complex procedures, thus maintaining both stability and ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
A floor mat hanger includes a frame, a pair of pins passing through a corresponding pair of holes in the frame and supporting a middle member. The middle member, disposed between a front member and a back member of the frame, may rotate about one of the pins and releasably fasten to the other pin. A protrusion on the middle member limits the amount of rotation by being stopped by a crosspiece of the frame. The middle member and a hook/handle member includes a hook and a handle are rotatably connected.