Interchangeable Protective Cover for Multiple Child Carriers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing child carriers, such as infant car seats and strollers, often require separate protective screens that are bulky or integrate additional structural elements, limiting their versatility and convenience when used with different types of carriers.
Innovation Solution
An interchangeable protective cover member that can be removably coupled to multiple child carriers, including infant car seats and strollers, using adjustable coupling elements and a bar member that maintains distance from the child occupant without requiring integrated rigid structures, allowing for universal application across different carriers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate protective screens are used for each child carrier type, then protection effectiveness is maintained, but device complexity and quantity of components increase
Solution Approach 1:
The protective screen is designed with a universal attachment mechanism that can be coupled to multiple types of child carriers (strollers, car seats, etc.) using the same coupling elements. This allows a single screen design to serve multiple functions across different carrier types, reducing the total number of components needed while maintaining protection effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The protective screen is divided into modular components including the screen body and separate coupling elements that can be independently attached to different carrier types. This segmentation allows the same screen to be configured for various carriers without requiring a completely different integrated structure for each type.
2Stability of the object's composition
If integrated rigid structures are used in protective screens, then structural stability is improved, but weight and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The protective screen utilizes a flexible fabric or film material instead of rigid structures to maintain protection while reducing weight. The flexibility of the material allows it to conform to different carrier shapes and provides sufficient stability without requiring heavy rigid framing.
Solution Approach 2:
The coupling function is extracted from the screen body and implemented through separate coupling elements attached to the carrier. This allows the screen itself to remain lightweight while still providing stable attachment through the dedicated coupling mechanism.
3Reliability
If carrier-specific screens are designed for each child carrier type, then attachment reliability is improved, but adaptability and ease of operation decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The coupling elements are designed with universal attachment features that can securely attach to multiple types of child carriers. The same coupling mechanism works with strollers, car seats, and other carriers, maintaining reliable attachment while enabling broad adaptability across different carrier types.
4Object-affected harmful factors
If additional structural elements are integrated into protective screens, then space maintenance between screen and child is improved, but device complexity and weight increase
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible screen material naturally maintains appropriate spacing between the screen and child through its drape and conformability, eliminating the need for additional rigid structural elements to enforce spacing. The flexibility allows the screen to adapt to the space requirements without adding complexity.
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AI summary
A child protection system is provided with a cover member that is interchangeable between different child carriers, such as an infant car seat and a stroller. The interchangeable cover member protects a child occupant from sun, wind, weather, insects, germs and provides privacy. The cover member is removably coupled to an anchor member, such as a canopy, of an infant car seat when in a first position. The cover member is removably coupled to an anchor member, such as a bumper bar, of a stroller when in a second position.