Integrated Vehicle Safety Seat with Dynamic Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle safety seats lack integration with the vehicle structure, failing to provide seamless and secure accommodation for occupants from infancy to adulthood, and often require additional accessories for stability and safety features.
Innovation Solution
A permanently integrated safety seat that adapts to various positions and angles, incorporating security features directly into the vehicle's upholstery and dashboard, eliminating the need for external accessories and accommodating occupants from infancy to adulthood with independent head and footrest support and electronic security controls.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a detached safety seat is used with additional poles and platforms for stability, then the seat can provide basic safety support, but the device complexity increases and requires external accessories
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the safety seat directly into the vehicle's existing seat structure, merging the safety seat functionality with the vehicle seat itself. This eliminates the need for separate detached seats, additional poles, and external platforms, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining safety reliability through the unified integrated structure.
2Ease of operation
If safety control features are made visible and accessible, then monitoring and security functions can be operated, but the aesthetic appearance of the vehicle interior is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements safety control features that are seamlessly integrated into the dashboard with visual characteristics matching the surrounding dashboard elements. The controls possess the same visual quality and aesthetic properties as the dashboard itself, allowing them to be operationally accessible while maintaining the overall aesthetic appearance of the vehicle interior.
3Reliability
If the safety seat is permanently integrated into the vehicle structure, then stability and safety are enhanced, but the adaptability to different occupant ages and positions is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates dynamic adjustment mechanisms within the integrated safety seat structure, enabling the seat to adapt to different occupant ages, sizes, and positions. These mechanisms allow for movement and reconfiguration of seat components while maintaining the permanent integration with the vehicle structure, thus preserving both stability and adaptability.
4Strength
If the safety seat mechanisms are made visible, then the structural support functions can be provided, but the mechanisms become visible in the interior compromising the seamless integration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs upholstery and covering materials that conform to and conceal the underlying safety seat mechanisms and structural components. These flexible coverings provide the necessary aesthetic finish while allowing the structural support functions to remain intact beneath, achieving seamless integration by hiding mechanisms while maintaining strength.
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AI summary
An integrated safety seat permanently built into a vehicle. The safety seat may be united with other seats or separated from other seats, or other integrated safety seats. The integrated safety seat is configured to accommodate an occupant from newborn to adulthood in a seat bottom, as well as in a back, whereby the seat bottom, back and a cradle in between may incline upward and downward by an internal mechanism, to a plurality of angles, ranging from rear facing to forward facing. The integrated safety seat includes a headrest and footrests support in the forward facing position, which serve as a footrest and headrest support, respectively in the rear facing position. The integrated safety seat includes harnesses and lap-belts with hasps, armrests, and headrests, footrests, inserts, within that elevate. The safety seat further includes integrated safety controls that operate regardless of whether the vehicle is in operation.