Independent Operating Frames for Safe Animal Capture Net
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing animal capturing nets are complex and difficult to operate, requiring cumbersome structures for stretching and returning, and often result in operator injury due to wild animals, especially cats with sharp teeth and nails, making safe capture and examination challenging.
Innovation Solution
A simple animal capturing net with a frame and net configuration featuring independently operating frames with gripping and coupling portions, including hook-shaped tips and a string body, allowing easy deployment and closure to restrain animals safely.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a capturing machine is used to capture cats, then capture capability is improved, but cats become guarded and refuse to enter, making capture difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The capturing net is divided into multiple independent sections with separate coupling portions that can be operated independently. This segmentation allows the net to be deployed in a less intimidating manner, making animals more willing to enter while maintaining effective capture capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The net is prepared in advance with coupling portions attached to the opening edge, allowing for quick deployment without complex assembly during the capture process. The preliminary preparation of the net structure enables rapid response while maintaining simplicity.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If leather gloves are worn to protect hands, then operator safety is improved, but restraining becomes difficult due to glove thickness
Solution Approach 1:
The net frame acts as an intermediary tool between the operator and the animal. By using the frame with coupling portions to control the net, operators can maintain safe distance while effectively restraining animals, eliminating the need for direct hand contact regardless of glove thickness.
3Ease of operation
If two restraining persons are used to control limbs, then restraining capability is improved, but coordination difficulties cause dislocation accidents
Solution Approach 1:
The function of multiple operators restraining different limbs is merged into a single net structure controlled by one or two operators using the frame. The net envelops all limbs simultaneously, eliminating coordination problems between multiple people while maintaining comprehensive restraining capability.
4Ease of operation
If a complex stretching and returning mechanism is used, then net deployment capability is improved, but device complexity increases and operation becomes cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The complex stretching and returning mechanisms are extracted and replaced with simple coupling portions that attach directly to the net opening edge. This extraction simplifies the overall device structure while maintaining effective net deployment and retrieval capability through basic frame operations.
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AI summary
An animal capturing net having a simple mechanism is provided to capture cats or dogs safely and easily. The animal capturing net comprises a net having an upper opening portion, a lower bottom portion, and a prescribed depth D that separates the opening portion and the bottom portion, and a frame that is coupled with the net along an opening edge portion of the net. The frame is constituted to comprise a set of two operating frames facing each other so that they can be operated independently.