Hand-Worn Visor Cleaner With Capillary-Fed Absorbent Pad
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional fluid delivery devices for motorcycle visors require users to physically pump fluid or perform multiple actions, leading to temporary impaired visibility and increased risk during movement, especially on highways.
Innovation Solution
A fluid delivery device worn on the hand with a fluid reservoir and absorbent cleaning element in permanent fluid communication, utilizing capillary action for fluid transfer, allowing for a single sweeping action to clean the visor efficiently without additional user actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional fluid delivery devices require physical pumping or multiple actions to deliver cleaning fluid, then the device structure can be simpler, but the user experiences impaired visibility and increased risk during operation
Solution Approach 1:
The cleaning element is pre-primed with cleaning fluid through permanent fluid communication with the reservoir before the user needs to clean the visor. This preliminary action ensures that when the user needs to clean the visor, the cleaning element is already ready to use, eliminating the need for manual pumping or multiple actions during the cleaning process, thus maintaining safety and visibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The device uses permanent fluid communication between the reservoir and cleaning element, allowing the cleaning element to automatically receive cleaning fluid without user intervention. The system serves itself by maintaining continuous fluid supply through capillary action or pressure differential, eliminating the need for manual pumping actions.
2Ease of operation
If the user removes hand from handle bar to pump fluid into cleaning element, then the cleaning element can be primed, but visibility is impaired and response time is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The cleaning element is pre-primed with cleaning fluid before the user needs to clean the visor. This preliminary action eliminates the need for the user to remove their hand from the handle bar to pump fluid, as the cleaning element is already ready for immediate use, thus reducing time loss and maintaining continuous control of the motorcycle.
Solution Approach 2:
The permanent fluid communication ensures continuous supply of cleaning fluid to the cleaning element, maintaining readiness for immediate use. This continuous action eliminates interruptions where the user would need to stop, remove their hand, and manually prime the device, allowing continuous control and faster response time.
3Productivity
If multiple actions are required to prime and operate the cleaning device, then fluid delivery can be controlled, but the number of steps increases and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The cleaning element is pre-primed with cleaning fluid before use, eliminating the need for multiple priming steps during operation. This preliminary action reduces the number of operational steps required and increases productivity by allowing the user to proceed directly to visor cleaning without intermediate actions.
Solution Approach 2:
The priming action is extracted from the operational sequence and performed in advance during device assembly or initial setup. By separating the priming step from the cleaning operation, the device requires fewer steps during actual use, increasing productivity while maintaining controlled fluid delivery through the permanent fluid communication system.
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
Significantly reduces the time of impaired visibility and simplifies the cleaning process, enabling quick and safe visor cleaning while riding, as the absorbent cleaning element is always primed and ready for use.
Implementation Method 1
utilizing capillary action for fluid transfer
Data Source
AI summary
A fluid delivery device (3) for a visor cleaner. The fluid delivery device (3) includes a fluid reservoir (7), which contains cleaning fluid when ready for use. The fluid delivery device (3) also includes an absorbent cleaning element (13) that is arranged to take in fluid from the reservoir (7). In use, the fluid in the reservoir (7) and the absorbent cleaning element (13) are arranged to be in permanent fluid communication.