Integrated Child Seat Hook Bracket for Vehicle Coatrack

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing vehicle child seat hook mounting brackets have complex manufacturing processes, high costs, and poor structural stability due to separate components that require screwing or welding, leading to reduced efficiency and accuracy.

Innovation Solution

A vehicle child seat hook mounting bracket with an integrated bracket body featuring a mounting portion and a hanging portion, reinforced by ribs, which is fixed to the vehicle coatrack through welding, ensuring increased strength and simplified manufacturing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If the U-shaped hanging slot and fixing base are manufactured separately and connected by screwing or welding, then the structure can be assembled, but the manufacturing process becomes tedious, manufacturing cost increases, and manufacturing efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing process simplicityVSAvoidmanufacturing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the U-shaped hanging slot and fixing base into a single integrated bracket body. The bracket body is formed as one piece with the mounting portion and hanging portion connected integrally, eliminating the need for separate manufacturing and assembly operations. This integration directly resolves the contradiction by simplifying the manufacturing process and improving manufacturing efficiency simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Stability of the object's composition

If the U-shaped hanging slot and fixing base are connected by screwing or welding, then the components can be assembled, but the structural stability deteriorates and assembly accuracy is not guaranteed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidassembly accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the mounting portion and hanging portion into a single integrated bracket body, eliminating the joint connections that cause stability and accuracy issues. The integral structure ensures consistent geometry and eliminates assembly variability, directly improving both structural stability and manufacturing precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

While the bracket body is integrated, the patent segments the functional areas into a mounting portion and a hanging portion with clear geometric differentiation. This functional segmentation within an integrated structure allows each area to optimize its performance while maintaining overall structural integrity and stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Productivity

If the bracket body is formed integrally with mounting portion and hanging portion, then manufacturing efficiency increases and cost decreases, but structural strength may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing efficiencyVSAvoidbracket body strength
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by adding reinforcing ribs specifically at the connecting transition portion between the mounting portion and hanging portion. This localized reinforcement strengthens the critical area where stress concentration occurs in integral structures, while maintaining the overall manufacturing efficiency and cost advantages of the integrated design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

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

The integrated design enhances structural stability, reduces manufacturing costs, and increases efficiency by allowing the bracket to meet various child seat strength requirements while maintaining a simple structure and low production costs.

Implementation Method 1

the bracket body further comprises at least one reinforcing rib, the reinforcing rib is arranged on a connecting transition portion between the mounting portion and the hanging portion

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectStructural reinforcement:

Implementation Method 2

connection between the mounting portion and the vehicle coatrack is formed by welding

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectWelding: Welding

Data Source

PatentEP3604032B1Automobile child seat hook mounting support and automobile
Publication Date: 2021.07.21 PSA AUTOMOBILES SA
  • EP3604032B1 patent drawingFigure 1~2
  • EP3604032B1 patent drawingFigure 3

AI summary

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of automobile components and structures, and particularly to a vehicle child seat hook mounting bracket and vehicle. The vehicle child seat hook mounting bracket provided by the present disclosure, is arranged on a vehicle coatrack, and comprises a bracket body, the bracket body comprises a mounting portion and a hanging portion extending from the mounting portion; a mounting through hole for fixing the vehicle child seat is provided on the hanging portion, the bracket body is fixed on the vehicle coatrack through the mounting portion. By applying the vehicle child seat hook mounting bracket provided by the present disclosure, wherein the mounting portion and the hanging portion represent an integral design, on the one hand the strength of the bracket body is effectively increased meanwhile the capability of the hanging portion to bear the load from forward and lateral directions is increased, which can be applied to different child seats with different strength requirements; on the other hand, the mounting portion and the hanging portion are formed integrally, which has a simple structure, high manufacturing efficiency and low manufacturing cost, the bracket body is fixed on the vehicle coatrack through the mounting portion, which will not involve the vehicle body and the interior trims, so as to save the cost.