Game player table system and method of use
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional table systems are often large and inflexible, limiting their use as additional working surfaces, especially in dynamic settings like game or diversionary activities, where individuals need supplementary space for items without occupying the floor or lap.
Innovation Solution
A game player table system with a deck body pivotally attached to a back support via a hinge, allowing it to fold and be transported in a compact shape, featuring additional flat surfaces and cup holders for beverages, enabling easy deployment and efficient use as a supplementary working surface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional tables are made large and fixed to provide stable working surfaces, then stability and durability are improved, but portability and adaptability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The table is divided into multiple segments including a deck body, back support body, side support bodies, and foot support body that can be folded relative to each other. This segmentation allows the table to maintain stability when assembled while enabling compact folding for portability and easy storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The table incorporates hinges and pivot points that allow it to transition between a stable deployed state for use and a compact folded state for storage or transport. This dynamic capability resolves the contradiction by making the table adaptable to different situations while maintaining reliability when needed.
2Area of moving object
If conventional tables are made fixed and large to provide sufficient working surface area, then working surface area is improved, but ease of operation and storage deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The working surface is segmented into a deck body that can be folded against the back support body, allowing the table to provide adequate working surface area when deployed while folding into a compact configuration for easy storage in small spaces or transport.
Solution Approach 2:
The folded table components nest together in a compact arrangement where the deck body folds against the back support body, and side and foot support bodies fold into corresponding positions, creating a space-efficient stored configuration that maintains adequate working surface area when deployed.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional tables are made portable and foldable to improve ease of transport, then portability is improved, but structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The table is segmented into modular components connected by hinges, allowing each part to be simple in design while the assembled structure provides portable functionality. The segmentation enables straightforward manufacturing of individual parts and simple hinge connections without requiring complex integrated mechanisms.
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AI summary
A game player table system is a portable and collapsible surface that is used by a single person or shared by a second person. A small flat surface that could hold cards, pieces, keys, phones, or the like so that they are not placed on the playing table and thereby cause distractions or penalties. Cup holders could also be used to hold beverages and prevent spills and damage from the spills to the game pieces.