Multipurpose cleaning kit
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cleaning tools, such as vacuum cleaners and adhesive roll cleaners, are ineffective in reaching and cleaning hard-to-reach areas inside automobiles, like cracks between seatbacks and seat cushions, due to their design limitations.
Innovation Solution
A multipurpose cleaning kit featuring a dustpan with a defrosting scraper and a broom with a cylindrical cleaning brush holder that can be assembled and disassembled to access tight spaces, allowing the brush to be inserted into the dustpan for compact storage and easy use in hard-to-reach areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a vacuum cleaner with a thick suction tube is used, then it can effectively remove dirt through suction, but it cannot reach hard-to-reach places such as corners and cracks inside the automobile
Solution Approach 1:
The cleaning system is divided into separate functional components: a broom for sweeping, a dustpan for collection, and a cylindrical brush for hard-to-reach areas. Each component can be used independently or combined, allowing the cylindrical brush to access cracks and corners while the main broom handles open areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces a cylindrical-shaped cleaning brush that can access three-dimensional hard-to-reach spaces like air vents and seat cracks, adding a new dimensional capability to the cleaning system that traditional flat brushes cannot provide.
2Volume of moving object
If a brush is inserted into the dustpan for compact storage, then the kit becomes portable and storable in car seat pockets, but the assembly and disassembly process adds complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The broom is designed to nest within the dustpan body, with the brush holder inserting into the dustpan's interior space. This nesting arrangement minimizes storage volume while maintaining simple assembly and disassembly through straightforward insertion and removal motions.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein is a multipurpose cleaning kit which can easily clean hard-to-reach places inside an automobile or a tent during car camping, which is currently popular among people, or camping. The cleaning kit can easily clean hard-to-reach places inside an automobile, such as cracks of seats, by allowing a dustpan having a defrosting scraper integrally formed therewith to be easily assembled with or disassembled from a broom having a brush securely inserted into a handle thereof and adapted to remove dust from air vents inside the automobile (air vents of an air-conditioner) and cracks of the seats, and can be made compact enough to be stored in a pocket on the back of a front seat of the automobile when the broom and the dustpan are assembled together.