Foot Plate Touch Control Portions for Self-Balancing Scooter
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing self-balancing scooter systems face difficulties in installation due to complex and fragile touch control structures, which are prone to wear and loss, and require additional components, making the overall system cumbersome and difficult to maintain.
Innovation Solution
A simplified foot plate design with integrated touch control portions on the lower surface, which can directly trigger sensors without additional components, featuring a flat sheet structure for photoelectric switches and elastic elements for stability and easy installation, ensuring compact and logical structure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional touch control portions are installed on the frame through mounting brackets, then the scooter can achieve turning control functionality, but the structure becomes complicated and prone to wear and loss
Solution Approach 1:
The touch control portions are integrated directly onto the foot plate body, eliminating separate mounting brackets and reducing structural complexity. This merging of components reduces the number of parts that can wear or get lost while maintaining the turning control function.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch control portions are extracted from the frame mounting system and relocated to be directly integrated with the foot plate, simplifying the installation structure and reducing the complexity of mounting brackets and associated hardware.
2Ease of operation
If additional components are used for touch control installation, then the scooter can achieve sensor triggering functionality, but the overall structure becomes cumbersome and difficult to maintain
Solution Approach 1:
The touch control portions are combined with the foot plate as an integrated unit, eliminating the need for separate mounting brackets and additional components. This reduces the total number of parts and simplifies installation while maintaining sensor triggering functionality.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple touch parts are installed on left and right scooter portions, then the scooter can achieve twisting control functionality, but installation becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The foot plate is segmented into left and right portions, each with integrated touch control portions. This segmentation allows each side to be independently manufactured and installed, simplifying the overall installation process while maintaining twisting control functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch control portions are merged with each foot plate portion during manufacturing, so that when the foot plate is installed, the control functionality is automatically provided without requiring separate installation of additional touch parts.
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 solution simplifies the installation process, enhances structural stability, reduces costs, and improves control performance while extending the service life of self-balancing scooters by eliminating the need for extra components and simplifying the overall structure.
Implementation Method 1
If the sensor is a photoelectric switch, the flat touch control portions can effectively shield a light beam in the moving process to trigger the sensor intelligently.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are a foot plate for a self-balancing scooter, and a self-balancing scooter. The foot plate (1) for a self-balancing scooter comprises a main body (10) and touch control portions (11). A front side and a rear side of a lower surface of the main body are both connected to the touch control portions, which protrude downwards and are used to trigger a sensor on a self-balancing scooter. The touch control portions at the front side and the rear side of the lower surface of the foot plate for a self-balancing scooter are capable of directly triggering corresponding sensors. The foot plate is applicable to twisting scooters having a left scooter portion and a right scooter portion which are capable of twisting relatively. No additional components are required, and users just need to install the foot plate on a self-balancing scooter. The foot plate has a simple and logic structure, and a self-balancing scooter adopting the foot plate is compact in overall structure, easy to install, convenient to operate, better in control performance, and longer in service life.