Handmade Flower Maker with Eject-Post Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional handmade flowers face issues of components being either too loose, leading to easy disassembly, or too tight, requiring excessive force for assembly, making them difficult and strenuous to create.
Innovation Solution
A handmade flower design featuring a socket, assembly hole, eject post, and connecting post, along with a flower maker that includes a pedestal, hinge, sleeve, and press mechanism, allowing for easy assembly and secure attachment of petals to a flower stalk.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If components are assembled too tightly to prevent falling apart, then reliability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to excessive force required for assembly
Solution Approach 1:
The connection structure is divided into multiple segments: the rod with connecting post, the bracket with assembly hole, and the eject post. This segmentation allows each component to have a specific function - the connecting post provides the connection interface, the assembly hole receives it, and the eject post provides ejection force, collectively solving both reliability and ease of operation requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The eject post is pre-installed in the bracket before the rod is assembled. This preliminary action ensures that when the rod is inserted, the eject post is already in position to immediately provide ejection force to the connecting post, securing the connection without requiring excessive assembly force from the user
2Ease of operation
If components are made too loose for easy assembly, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates as flowers fall apart easily
Solution Approach 1:
The eject post is pre-installed in the bracket before assembly. When the rod is inserted, the eject post automatically engages with the connecting post and provides ejection force, ensuring secure attachment without requiring the components to be loose for ease of assembly
Solution Approach 2:
The eject post automatically provides ejection force to the connecting post when the rod is assembled, without requiring external tools or excessive force from the user. The spring mechanism self-activates to secure the connection, achieving both ease of operation and reliability
3Ease of manufacture
If a simple assembly structure is used for handmade flowers, then ease of manufacture is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to components falling apart
Solution Approach 1:
The connection structure is divided into multiple functional segments (rod with connecting post, bracket with assembly hole, eject post with spring), where each segment performs a specific function. This segmentation maintains manufacturing simplicity while achieving reliable attachment through coordinated action of the segments
Solution Approach 2:
The eject post acts as an intermediary element between the rod and bracket. It mediates the connection by providing ejection force to the connecting post, ensuring secure attachment while keeping the overall assembly process simple and easy to manufacture
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The design enables simple and efficient assembly of handmade flowers, ensuring they remain securely attached without requiring excessive force, suitable for children to create.
Implementation Method 1
a spring is arranged between the press pole and the sleeve
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are a handmade flower and a flower maker. The handmade flower comprises a rod, a bracket, a lump, and pieces, wherein a socket allowing one end of the rod to be inserted therein is formed in one end of the bracket, an assembly hole is formed in the other end of the bracket, and an eject post and a connecting post are arranged at two ends of the lump respectively. The handmade flower can be assembled by insertion more directly and easily; by means of the flower maker, the handmade flower can be assembled more tightly and can be made more efficiently and easily, and the flower is likely to fall apart and can be easily made by kids.