Flying Disc Rim Segmentation for Secure Grip and Faster Flight
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing flying discs often compromise between grip security and flight performance, as wider rims enhance distance but are difficult to maintain, while narrower rims provide better grip but reduce distance.
Innovation Solution
Designing flying discs with varying rim widths and shapes, where grip sectors have consistent dimensions for secure handling and non-grip sectors vary for different flight characteristics, using materials and structural designs to balance weight and aerodynamics.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If the rim width is increased to enhance flight distance and speed, then the disc flies farther and faster, but the thrower encounters difficulty maintaining a secure grip on the rim
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by creating different rim width zones: wider rim portions for optimal flight distance and speed, and narrower rim portions for secure grip. This allows each region of the rim to have different dimensional characteristics tailored to its specific function, resolving the contradiction between flight performance and grip security.
Solution Approach 2:
The rim is segmented into multiple sections with varying widths around the circumference. This segmentation allows the disc to have both wide and narrow rim portions, enabling the thrower to grip the narrower sections securely while the wider sections provide enhanced flight distance and speed characteristics.
2Ease of operation
If the rim width is decreased to improve grip security, then the thrower can maintain a secure grip, but the disc speed and distance are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by creating different rim width zones: wider rim portions for optimal flight distance and speed, and narrower rim portions for secure grip. This allows each region of the rim to have different dimensional characteristics tailored to its specific function, resolving the contradiction between flight performance and grip security.
Solution Approach 2:
The rim is segmented into multiple sections with varying widths around the circumference. This segmentation allows the disc to have both wide and narrow rim portions, enabling the thrower to grip the narrower sections securely while the wider sections provide enhanced flight distance and speed characteristics.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the rim shape is made more aerodynamic for improved flight characteristics, then the disc achieves better flight performance, but the grip comfort is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by creating different rim width zones: wider rim portions for optimal flight distance and speed, and narrower rim portions for secure grip. This allows each region of the rim to have different dimensional characteristics tailored to its specific function, resolving the contradiction between flight performance and grip security.
Solution Approach 2:
The rim is segmented into multiple sections with varying widths around the circumference. This segmentation allows the disc to have both wide and narrow rim portions, enabling the thrower to grip the narrower sections securely while the wider sections provide enhanced flight distance and speed characteristics.
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AI summary
Flying discs with different rim shapes in grip sectors and non-grip sectors. This may provide a comfortable throwing grip on a given disc while allowing desired flight characteristics (that may not match the grip shape) due to differing rim wing shapes in non-grip sectors. A set of discs may have the same grip width and shape but different widths and shapes in non-grip sectors. For example, a set of discs with one or more mid-ranges, one or more fairway drivers, and one or more distance drivers all share the same grip feel, in some embodiments.