Floor mat structure and floor mat assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional floor mats primarily provide cushioning but lack multi-functional capabilities, making them economically ineffective in meeting user demands for diverse functionalities.
Innovation Solution
A floor mat structure incorporating an upper cover with light bars and a lower cover featuring sensing elements and bumps, where pressure sensing triggers light illumination, offering protection and interaction while preventing wire contact through indicator blocks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If sensing elements and light bars are integrated into the floor mat structure, then multi-functional capabilities (protection and pressure sensing) are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into a single integrated floor mat structure. The upper cover integrates both cushioning function (as floor mat) and light display function (through embedded light bars). The lower cover integrates both support function (through bumps) and sensing function (through sensing elements). This merging of functions into unified structures resolves the contradiction by achieving multi-functionality without proportionally increasing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The floor mat structure is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: the upper cover provides both cushioning and visual indication, the lower cover provides both mechanical support and pressure sensing. The indicator blocks serve dual purposes as both structural elements and alignment guides. This universal design approach allows a single device to fulfill multiple roles, improving versatility while maintaining reasonable complexity.
2Productivity
If indicator blocks are positioned to prevent wire contact with bumps, then wire management efficiency is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The indicator blocks are pre-positioned on the upper cover during manufacturing to indicate the locations of bumps on the lower cover before wire management activities occur. This preliminary positioning of indicator blocks provides advance guidance for wire routing, allowing workers to plan wire paths that avoid bumps without requiring high-precision positioning during the wire management process itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The indicator blocks act as intermediary elements between the upper cover and lower cover, providing visual guidance information without being the bumps themselves. These indicator blocks mediate the wire management process by showing wire workers where bumps are located beneath, allowing them to route wires accordingly without requiring direct observation or high-precision measurement of the bumps themselves.
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 floor mat structure provides enhanced protection, pressure sensing, and interaction through light illumination, reducing damage risk and facilitating efficient wire management, thus offering multi-functional benefits.
Implementation Method 1
The sensing element is disposed on the lower cover and is located at the bump, wherein when the sensing element senses pressure from the upper cover, the light bars illuminate
Data Source
AI summary
A floor mat structure includes an upper cover, a plurality of light bars, a lower cover and at least one sensing element. The upper cover includes a main body and a plurality of indicator blocks. The main body has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to each other. The indicator blocks are separated from one another and are disposed on the lower surface. The light bars are disposed on the upper cover and are embedded in the upper surface. The lower cover assembled to the upper cover includes a base and a plurality of bumps. The base has a configuration surface facing the lower surface. The bumps are separated from one another and are disposed on the configuration surface, wherein orthographic projections of the indicator blocks on the configuration surface does not overlap the bumps. The sensing element is disposed on the lower cover and are located at at least one bump. When the sensing element senses pressure from the upper cover, the light bars illuminate. Also, a floor mat assembly is provided.