Mobile Performance System with Integrated Drive and Steering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile performance systems lack a comprehensive solution for enabling performers to deliver entertainment while traveling along a path, as they typically do not integrate a stable platform and efficient drive and steering mechanisms, limiting their mobility and performance capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A mobile performance system comprising a frame with a front wheel, rear wheels, a drive mechanism, steering assembly, and a platform that supports performers, allowing for travel and performance simultaneously, with options for manual or automatic operation and incorporating braking and support elements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a mobile performance system is designed to support performers while traveling, then mobility and performance delivery are improved, but system complexity increases due to integration of drive mechanism, steering assembly, and platform support structures
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile performance system is divided into distinct functional modules: a drive mechanism (including engine, transmission, drive shafts), a steering assembly (including steering wheel, steering shaft, front wheel assembly), and a platform (including support structure, performer seating area). Each module operates independently but coordinates through defined interfaces, allowing the system to achieve complex performance delivery capabilities while managing overall system complexity through modular design.
2Speed
If a drive mechanism is integrated into the mobile performance system, then travel capability along a path is improved, but the system requires additional components increasing overall complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The drive mechanism integrates multiple power transmission components into a unified system: the engine connects to the transmission, which connects to drive shafts that power the wheels. This merging of components creates an efficient power delivery system that achieves travel capability while reducing the number of separate systems needed, thereby managing complexity through functional integration.
3Ease of operation
If a steering assembly is added to enable directional control, then maneuverability along the travel path is improved, but structural complexity and component count increase
Solution Approach 1:
The steering assembly introduces a steering shaft as an intermediary component that translates rotational input from the steering wheel into directional changes at the front wheel assembly. This intermediary mechanism provides smooth, controlled steering action while isolating the complexity of the steering control system from both the operator and the wheel assembly, thereby improving ease of operation without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
4Adaptability or versatility
If a platform is coupled to the frame to support performers, then performance capability is improved, but weight and structural complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The platform is designed as a multi-functional component that simultaneously serves as a support structure for performers, a mounting surface for performance equipment, and an integral part of the mobile system's frame structure. This universality allows the platform to provide performance support capability while avoiding the need for separate, redundant structural elements, thereby reducing overall system weight and complexity.
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AI summary
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a mobile performance system, and methods of making and using such a mobile performance system, whereby the mobile performance system includes: a frame; a front wheel coupled to the frame proximate a frame front end; a pair of rear wheels coupled to the frame proximate a frame rear end; a drive mechanism coupled to the frame, the drive mechanism operable to drive travel of the mobile performance system along a travel path; a steering assembly coupled to the frame, the steering assembly operable to steer the mobile performance system along the travel path; and a platform coupled to the frame, the platform adapted to support a performer performing a performance while the mobile performance system travels along the travel path.