Mattress and bassinet support structures for a child containment device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing child containment devices, such as playards and bassinets, often have issues with incorrect assembly and misalignment of support structures, leading to uneven sleeping surfaces, which can pose safety risks for infants. Additionally, the separate components of these devices can be easily lost or misplaced during storage, complicating proper installation and increasing the risk of accidents.
Innovation Solution
The proposed solution involves a child containment device with irremovably attached mattress and bassinet support structures that ensure the mattress remains flat and level. These structures include elongate stiffeners that are permanently attached to the bassinet accessory or mattress, and are designed to orient correctly even if improperly installed, with features like fabric tunnels and webbing to prevent misassembly. The device can be folded up with the bassinet accessory still connected to the playard, ensuring all components remain integrated during storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate support structure components are used in bassinet accessories, then assembly flexibility is improved, but components can be easily lost or misplaced during storage
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure components are integrated into the bassinet accessory as a single unit. The fabric bassinet structure includes attached support elements that cannot be separated, ensuring components remain together during storage and transport while maintaining assembly flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The support structure components are nested within or attached to the fabric bassinet structure. The rigid support elements are positioned within the flexible fabric framework, allowing the entire assembly to be stored compactly while preventing component loss.
2Ease of operation
If bassinet accessory components are removable for storage, then ease of storage is improved, but proper installation becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The bassinet accessory is designed as an integrated unit where the fabric structure, support elements, and mounting components are permanently attached. This eliminates the need for separate storage of components while simplifying installation to a single attachment process.
3Ease of operation
If support structures are not irremovably attached, then ease of removal is improved, but incorrect assembly risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The support structures are irremovably attached to the bassinet accessory during manufacturing, ensuring correct assembly before the product reaches the consumer. This preliminary attachment prevents incorrect assembly during use while maintaining ease of removal of the entire integrated unit.
4Ease of operation
If bassinet accessory is removed before folding playard, then folding ease is improved, but component management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bassinet accessory with integrated support structures can be folded together with the playard as a single unit. The permanent attachment of all components allows the entire assembly to be collapsed and stored together without separate component management.
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AI summary
A child containment device has a playard and a bassinet accessory supported on the playard. A mattress is positioned within the bassinet accessory. The device can have a mattress support structure attached to the bassinet accessory or the mattress and can have a bassinet support structure attached to the bassinet accessory. The mattress support structure can keep the mattress flat and level and be irremovably attached to the mattress or bassinet accessory. The bassinet support structure can be irremovably attached to the bassinet accessory or can be configured to orient the mattress to contact a playard floor panel or be oriented 30° or more from a level orientation if improperly installed.