Convertible Folding Golf Cart Seat for Cargo Storage Flexibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing golf cart type recreational vehicles often have limited versatility due to permanently installed rear seats that cannot be easily reconfigured for seating or storage, restricting their use in various transportation scenarios.
Innovation Solution
A convertible folding seat and storage combination that can be retrofitted or installed as original equipment, featuring a seat that folds up to reveal storage space, a movable footrest for securing items, and a backrest that adjusts to provide seating or storage functionality, along with securing straps for golf bags or other items.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If seats are permanently installed in golf carts, then structural stability is improved, but versatility and adaptability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by designing seats that can move between fixed and movable states. The seats are permanently attached to the cart frame but can be folded or repositioned, allowing the system to adapt between stable configuration for structural integrity and flexible configuration for versatility. This resolves the contradiction by making the seat system dynamic rather than static.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the seat into multiple components (seat cushion, backrest, support arms) that can be independently folded or repositioned. This segmentation allows the seat to maintain structural stability when assembled while enabling versatile reconfiguration by separating and repositioning individual components, thus resolving the contradiction between stability and adaptability.
2Ease of operation
If seats are made permanently installed, then ease of operation is improved, but adaptability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The seat design incorporates hinges and mounting mechanisms that allow easy folding and repositioning while maintaining secure attachment. This dynamic capability enables the seat to be quickly adjusted or folded away, providing ease of operation for different configurations while maintaining adaptability for various uses such as seating, storage, or cargo transport.
3Ease of operation
If storage area is made accessible, then ease of operation is improved, but security of items deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The footrest is designed to be movable between extended and retracted positions. When retracted, it provides easy access to the storage area for loading and unloading items. When extended, it closes off the storage area to secure items during transport. This dynamic positioning resolves the contradiction between ease of access and item security.
Data Source
AI summary
A folding seat combination is configured for use with and installation on a vehicle such as a golf cart type recreational vehicle. The folding seat combination provides selective positioning of seat, footrest, and backrest components, respectively each between upright and downward positions thereof, to alternately accommodate easy transport of either of additional passengers or materials. With the seat and footrest features in their upright positions and the backrest in its upward position, optional golf bag securing straps may be used to secure golf bags in the cart, as so configured for the transportation of materials rather than passengers in such location. With the footrest in an upright position, relatively loose items stored in an otherwise relatively open storage area of the cart may be contained and prevented from bouncing out during operation the cart.