Modular Percussion Stand with Foldable Arms and Counterbalanced Base
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic percussion instrument stands are cumbersome and time-consuming to disassemble, transport, and reassemble, requiring significant effort and recalibration, especially when including a base drum and foot pedals.
Innovation Solution
An electronic percussion instrument stand with a double arm system, counterbalanced axis, and a half-rounded base structure that allows for flexible adjustment and reconfiguration, featuring multiple connection ports and independent pipe units for easy setup and transport, reducing the need for separate handling of components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If a standard L-shaped water pipe stand structure is used, then the stand provides structural support for electronic drums and cymbals, but the stand becomes cumbersome and heavy to transport requiring disassembly and reassembly
Solution Approach 1:
The stand is divided into modular components including a base unit, adjustable arms, and connection joints that can be easily separated and reconnected. This segmentation allows the stand to maintain structural integrity during use while enabling quick disassembly for transport without requiring complete breakdown of the entire structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines the drum support arm and cymbal support arm into a single integrated base structure, allowing both instruments to be mounted on one stand unit. This merging reduces the number of separate stands needed, decreasing overall weight and simplifying transport while maintaining adequate structural support for multiple instruments.
2Ease of manufacture
If the stand is designed with fixed positioning, then assembly is simple, but recalibration is required each time the stand is reassembled consuming significant time
Solution Approach 1:
The stand incorporates adjustable arms with multiple positioning holes and rotating joints that allow dynamic repositioning of instruments. These dynamic features enable the musician to adjust arm angles, heights, and positions after assembly, eliminating the need for time-consuming recalibration while maintaining simple initial assembly through standardized connection interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The stand includes pre-configured adjustment mechanisms with preset positions marked on the adjustable arms. These preliminary markings and pre-engineered adjustment features allow the musician to quickly restore their preferred instrument positions after reassembly without requiring detailed recalibration, saving significant time while keeping the assembly process simple.
3Volume of moving object
If electronic drums and cymbals are removed from the stand for storage, then the stand can be stored separately, but additional effort is required to transport and store components separately
Solution Approach 1:
The stand design allows the adjustable arms to be folded or nested against the base structure, and the connection joints to be collapsed into compact configurations. This nesting capability enables the entire stand to be reduced to a small package size that can be easily stored alongside electronic drum components without requiring separate storage space, while minimizing the effort needed to handle and transport everything together as one unit.
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AI summary
An electronic percussion instrument stand includes a center pipe structure. The center pipe structure has at least one center pipe having a longitudinal axis. A center pipe structure with at least two center pipes provides increased stability. A crescent-shaped base structure supports the center pipe structure in an upright orientation. At least one first arm supports at least one electronic percussion instrument. At least one first joint connects first arm to the center pipe structure. Each joint is adjustable in a direction of the longitudinal axis of the center pipe and in a direction around the longitudinal axis of the center pipe, for adjusting the position of the first arm. Each joint is adjustable between a position for playing electronic percussion instruments supported on the at least one arm, to a retracted position for transportation.