Golf Practice Tent with Loosely Hanging Net
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current golf training aids, such as driving ranges and nets surrounded by rigid frames, require extensive space, are expensive, and pose safety risks due to the potential for damage and injury from high-speed golf balls, necessitating the use of soft balls that lack authenticity in practice.
Innovation Solution
A collapsible golf training tent with a rigid frame structure and a loosely hanging planar net that absorbs the impact of golf balls, allowing for the use of real balls while reducing damage and injury risk, and facilitating easy storage and transport.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If a taut mesh or rigid panel is used in the golf practice tent, then the structural strength and ball containment capability are improved, but the safety risk and likelihood of ball penetration increase
Solution Approach 1:
A foam cushioning layer is attached to the interior surface of the tent panel, positioned between the golf ball and the rigid panel. This cushioning layer absorbs impact energy and prevents the ball from penetrating through the panel, thereby maintaining panel strength while reducing injury risk to the golfer.
Solution Approach 2:
The tent panel is constructed as a composite structure combining a rigid outer layer (providing structural strength and ball containment) with a foam cushioning inner layer (providing safety and injury protection). This composite design resolves the contradiction by integrating both strength and safety functions into a single panel system.
2Stability of the object's composition
If a rigid frame structure is used to support the tent, then the structural stability and ball containment are improved, but the portability and ease of storage deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The rigid frame structure is divided into multiple detachable segments or components that can be easily assembled and disassembled. This segmentation allows the frame to provide structural stability when assembled, while enabling simple breakdown and portability when disassembled for storage or transport.
Solution Approach 2:
The frame structure incorporates dynamic characteristics, allowing it to be rigid and stable during use, but easily collapsible or reconfigurable for storage. The frame may use telescoping members, hinged joints, or other dynamic mechanisms that transition between a stable operational state and a compact storage state.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If a soft or plastic ball is used instead of a real golf ball, then the safety risk and damage risk are reduced, but the training authenticity and feel deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The foam cushioning layer is positioned to intercept the golf ball before it can cause damage to the tent panel or injure the golfer. This allows the use of real golf balls during practice, maintaining training authenticity while the cushioning layer prevents harmful effects by absorbing excess impact energy.
Solution Approach 2:
The potential harmful impact of the real golf ball is converted into a beneficial training opportunity. The foam cushioning transforms the dangerous high-velocity impact into a safe rebound that allows continuous practice with authentic golf balls, turning what would be a hazard into an advantage for realistic practice.
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
Enables safe and effective practice with real golf balls, reducing the risk of injury and damage to the training aid, while allowing for easy setup and storage, and facilitating ball retrieval.
Implementation Method 1
a planar net coupled to the ceiling of the tent and separated from a rear panel of the tent, such that the net hangs loosely from the ceiling and extends towards the floor, wherein the net is placed behind the open face such that golf balls that have been launched into the tent contact the net
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AI summary
A golf practice tent comprising a tent having a ceiling, a floor and an open face for accepting golf balls that have been launched into the tent; a rigid frame structure at least partially external to the tent that provides structural support for the tent; and a planar net coupled to the ceiling of the tent and separated from a rear panel of the tent, such that the net hangs loosely from the ceiling and extends towards the floor, wherein the net is placed behind the open face such that golf balls that have been launched into the tent contact the net.