Magnetic Track Toy Component with Recessed Fixing Buckles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing track toy components have safety hazards due to protruding buckles, increased production costs, and limited track patterns, with single track designs lacking practicality and aesthetics.
Innovation Solution
A track toy component with magnetic members and fixing buckles, featuring interchangeable track grooves and a detachable structure, allowing for varied track patterns and safe, easy assembly without protruding buckles.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If buckle abutting or magnetic attraction is used to fix connected track sections, then track sections can be spliced and fixed, but protruding blocks exist on the surface of the abutting end, creating safety hazards and increasing manufacturing difficulty
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the buckle structure from the track section body, placing it on a separate fixing member instead. This removes the harmful protruding blocks from the track surface while maintaining the connection function through the separate buckle component that engages with recesses in the track sections.
2Ease of operation
If buckle is arranged at the abutting end of each track piece for splicing, then track sections can be connected, but manufacturing difficulty and production costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The invention segments the connection system into distinct components: track sections with simple recesses at their ends, and separate fixing members with buckles. This segmentation simplifies the manufacturing of track sections while maintaining easy splicing operation through the modular fixing members.
3Reliability
If traditional track splicing structure is used, then track sections can be connected, but track pattern is single and practicality is low
Solution Approach 1:
The fixing members with buckles serve as universal connection components that can join various track section configurations. The recesses in track sections can be arranged in different patterns, and the same fixing member type can accommodate multiple track layouts, enabling diverse track patterns while maintaining stable connections.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances safety, reduces production costs, and increases gaming interest through diverse track patterns and easy assembly, while maintaining aesthetic appeal.
Implementation Method 1
An abutting end of each of the track pieces is provided with a magnetic member magnetically attracted to another one of the track pieces
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure provides a track toy component, which includes a plurality of track pieces. An abutting end of each track piece is provided with a magnetic member magnetically attracted to another track piece. A first track and an opposite second track are arranged on each track piece. The first track and the second track each includes at least one track groove. The track groove communicates two adjacent or spaced sides. The plurality of track grooves in a same plane are arranged in a communicated or spaced manner. The track grooves of the first track and the second track may be the same or different in shape, number, and position. The track toy component further includes fixing buckles. A buckling groove is formed in a penetrating manner between two ends of the fixing buckle, and the buckling groove is configured to insert and fix two track pieces.