Garage Parking Visual Guide for Straight Vehicle Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing parking systems fail to consistently align vehicles both side-to-side and front-to-back in garages, leading to potential door obstruction and inefficient use of space.
Innovation Solution
A passive visual aid comprising two parallel panels with contrasting stripes that indicate correct lateral and angular positioning of a vehicle, allowing drivers to adjust their approach for precise parking.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If a vehicle is parked closer to adjacent objects to maximize garage space, then space utilization is improved, but door opening capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The parking guide system provides visual alignment cues before the vehicle is fully positioned, allowing the driver to achieve correct lateral placement on the first attempt. This preliminary guidance ensures optimal spacing between the vehicle and adjacent objects, maximizing garage space while maintaining door opening capability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If parking position is adjusted manually without guidance, then flexibility is improved, but parking precision deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The parking guide system provides real-time visual feedback through aligned stripes that indicate whether the vehicle is correctly positioned laterally. This feedback mechanism enables drivers to make precise adjustments while maintaining flexibility in the parking process, achieving both adaptability and measurement precision.
3Measurement precision
If existing parking aids like suspended balls or stop signs are used, then forward position control is improved, but lateral alignment capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The parking guidance system is segmented into distinct functional components: vertical stripes for lateral alignment and horizontal stripes for forward position control. This segmentation allows each component to specialize in one aspect of parking precision, with the vertical stripes providing lateral alignment guidance that complements the forward position control already achieved with existing aids.
4Measurement precision
If multiple parking aids are combined to achieve both lateral and forward positioning, then parking precision is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges lateral alignment guidance (vertical stripes) and forward position control (horizontal stripes) into a single integrated parking guide装置. This consolidation achieves comprehensive parking precision while reducing the number of separate aids needed, as one device now provides both alignment functions simultaneously.
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AI summary
An apparatus to be viewed by a driver to aid parking a car parallel to the walls of a garage, as well as the correct distance into the garage. The driver is able to park in exactly the same spot each time, at the desired distance from other cars, walls, or other stationary objects via the aid apparatus. This helps minimize banging car doors on objects upon opening, or bumping into anything in front of the vehicle, while maximizing use of space within the garage. The apparatus is installed in a fixed position in front of the driver at eye level as they sit comfortably in a driver's seat of the vehicle. As the driver drives their car into their garage to park, they are guided by visual cues from the apparatus to park the car in the same footprint on the floor each time.