Detachable Mine Detector Integrated Into Combat Boot Sole
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional mine detection techniques require soldiers to carry separate equipment, limiting their combat effectiveness as they cannot easily use weapons and require additional protection, necessitating a solution that integrates mine detection capabilities into combat boots.
Innovation Solution
A mine detector is designed to be detachably attached to combat boots, featuring a main body with a power supply, signal transmission, and reception parts, along with a detection part including antennas, coupling members, and data processing for mine detection, allowing soldiers to detect mines while armed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a soldier holds a mine detector using hands and scans the ground, then mine detection capability is provided, but the soldier cannot easily carry or use a gun in addition to the mine detector
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the mine detector with the combat boot by attaching the detector housing to the boot structure. The detection antenna is integrated into the boot sole, allowing the boot to simultaneously serve as both protective footwear and functional mine detection equipment, eliminating the need to carry separate detection devices during combat operations
Solution Approach 2:
The combat boot is designed to perform multiple functions: it provides standard protective footwear functions while simultaneously serving as a mine detection system. The boot housing contains power supply, control circuitry, and the antenna is integrated into the sole, enabling the single object to fulfill both mobility and detection roles
2Reliability
If a soldier uses a conventional mine detector, then mine detection is achieved, but another guard soldier must protect the soldier
Solution Approach 1:
The mine detection system is merged with the soldier's existing combat boot, creating an integrated personal protection system. This eliminates the need for separate detection equipment and the additional guard personnel that would otherwise be required to protect the detector operator
3Productivity
If a mine detector is detachably attached to combat boot, then combat power is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mine detector is designed as a detachable module that can be separately attached to or removed from the combat boot. This segmentation allows the detection system to be independently developed, tested, and maintained while simplifying the overall integration process and reducing the complexity burden on either component
Solution Approach 2:
The combat boot structure is designed to serve dual purposes: as standard protective footwear and as a mounting platform for the mine detection system. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional dedicated structures, thereby managing complexity while enhancing combat capability
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables soldiers to detect mines without needing additional equipment, enhancing combat power by allowing mine detection during armed operations and reducing the burden on soldiers, while also being cost-effective due to the ability to use one detector across multiple boots.
Implementation Method 1
a detection part detachably installed at a lower portion of the combat boot, and provided with a first coupling member having a size and shape corresponding to a sole of the combat boot, a second coupling member fastened to the first coupling member toward a front side of the combat boot, and an antenna connected to the main body
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AI summary
Provided is a mine detector detachably attached to the combat boot, which includes a main body detachably attached to the combat boot, and provided with a power supply, a signal transmitting part and a signal receiving part, and a detection part detachably attached to the combat boot, and provided with an antenna connected to the main body.