Magnetic Security Tether Assembly for Fast Personal Item Locking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing tethering devices for securing personal belongings are inefficient, unsafe, and cumbersome, often causing damage and being difficult to attach or remove effectively, which reduces their usability and effectiveness in preventing theft.
Innovation Solution
A personal item security tether and fastening assembly featuring magnetically coupled, spring-loaded fasteners with rigid tether members made of stainless steel or steel chain, allowing for quick, secure, and safe attachment and detachment of personal items to various objects, with magnets providing a secure connection and a flexible tether for ease of use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional tethering devices are used to secure personal belongings, then security against theft is provided, but the devices are heavy and cumbersome, reducing ease of operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical fastening systems (buckles, clips, locks) with a magnetic field-based fastening system. The magnetic fastener uses magnetic attraction forces to secure personal belongings, eliminating the need for complex mechanical components. This substitution reduces device weight and complexity while maintaining secure attachment, directly addressing the contradiction between reliability and ease of operation.
2Reliability
If traditional tethering devices are used to secure personal belongings, then security is provided, but the devices cause damage to personal belongings
Solution Approach 1:
By replacing mechanical fastening components with a magnetic field-based system, the patent eliminates physical contact points that could cause damage to personal belongings. The magnetic field secures items without requiring clips, buckles, or other mechanical elements that might scratch, dent, or otherwise damage sensitive surfaces.
3Reliability
If traditional tethering devices are used to secure personal belongings, then security is provided, but the devices are difficult to quickly attach and remove
Solution Approach 1:
The magnetic fastening system allows for rapid attachment and detachment of personal belongings by simply bringing the magnetic fastener near the target object, where magnetic attraction automatically secures it. Removal is equally simple by overcoming the magnetic force. This eliminates the time-consuming process of manipulating mechanical fasteners, directly addressing the time loss contradiction while maintaining security.
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 solution enables effective and safe coupling, removal, transportation, and storage of personal items, providing enhanced security against theft while being lightweight and convenient to use, with the magnetic fasteners ensuring a secure connection and the rigid tether resisting significant pull forces.
Implementation Method 1
having an outer sidewall surface at least partially defined by an outer surface of a magnet of a first polarity and integrally coupled to and within the sidewall of the first fastener and an inner sidewall surface opposing the outer sidewall surface, and a spring-loaded displaceable clip member rotatably coupled to the sidewall of the first fastener
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AI summary
Two rigid fasteners each with integrally coupled magnets of opposing polarity on an outer surface thereon. The rigid fasteners also each have a spring-loaded displaceable clip member rotatably coupled thereto, wherein the clip member is operably configured to open and close to provide access to an aperture defined by the rigid fasteners. The fasteners are coupled together with a tether member also of a rigid material, wherein the fasteners are configured to selectively couple and uncouple together with the magnets thereon.