Folding Boat Deck With Integrated Hydromassage System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current movable and folding boat decks lack additional functionalities to enhance recreational and relaxing experiences for users, failing to provide innovative and exclusive leisure moments while maintaining safety and traditional functionality.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating spraying and/or agitation means coupled with the support platform, operatively connected to actuating means that induce a turbulent flow or air bubbles when the deck is in use position, transforming it into a hydromassage station without compromising its primary functions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If spraying and/or agitation means are coupled with the support platform to create hydromassage effect, then user comfort and relaxation are enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The support platform is designed to serve multiple functions: it acts as both a traditional deck structure and a hydromassage station by integrating spraying and/or agitation means. This allows the same structure to provide both structural support and recreational hydrotherapy functions, thereby increasing adaptability without requiring entirely separate systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The spraying and/or agitation means are positioned predominantly underneath the upper flooring surface of the support platform, with nozzles or jets arranged to face upward toward the water surface. This nested arrangement allows the hydromassage system to be contained within the deck structure itself, minimizing additional space requirements and reducing the visual and structural impact of the added complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the support platform is positioned below the free surface of water for hydromassage, then user comfort is improved, but safety requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The support platform is positioned at a specific depth below the free surface of the water - not completely submerged but at an optimal depth that allows users to lean over the edge and receive hydromassage on their back while maintaining visibility and accessibility. This localized positioning optimization balances comfort with safety considerations.
Solution Approach 2:
The support platform itself acts as an intermediary structure between the user and the water, providing a stable, elevated surface that allows users to access the hydromassage effect without directly entering the water. This mediator structure ensures safety while enabling the recreational function.
3Strength
If spraying means are positioned underneath the flooring surface, then structural integrity is maintained, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The spraying means are nested within the support platform structure, with nozzles positioned underneath the upper flooring surface. This integration allows the spray system to be built as part of the deck structure itself, maintaining structural integrity while the manufacturing complexity is managed through integrated design rather than separate assembly components.
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 deck offers a unique and enjoyable open-sky hydromassage experience, enhancing user comfort and relaxation while maintaining safety and traditional functionality, without increasing costs or altering the deck's design significantly.
Implementation Method 1
induce a turbulent flow or an air bubbles set to the water surface (or column) above the flooring surface of the support platform
Implementation Method 2
induce a turbulent flow or an air bubbles set to the water surface (or column) above the flooring surface of the support platform
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AI summary
A movable and folding deck (1) for boats, preferably hydraulic and mounted at the stern, comprising a support platform (2) provided with an upper flooring surface (3) accessible to one or more persons, and moving means (4), suitable to be fixed to a prefixed part (P) of a boat, operatively connected with the support platform (2) in such a way as to alternately support platform (2) between a rest position, in which the flooring surface (3) of the support platform (2) is substantially placed in a vertical plane and facing and adjacent to the prefixed part (P) of the boat, and an use position, in which the support platform (2) actually protrudes from the prefixed part (P) of the boat and the flooring surface (3) of the support platform (2) is substantially placed along a horizontal plane and at least partly below the free surface (L) of the water surface which the boat is located. In particular, the movable and folding deck (1) comprises spraying and/or agitation means (5) coupled with the support platform (2) in such a way as to be predominantly underlying the flooring surface (3) and operatively connected with actuating means (6) suitable to be fed when the support platform (2) takes the use position in order to induce a turbulent flow or an air bubbles set to the water surface above the flooring surface (3) of the support platform (2), determining an hydromassage effect available to the persons.