Modular Potty Chair Design to Reduce Packaging Volume
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing potty chairs have a large volume due to their integral design, leading to increased packaging and transportation costs, especially when exported, as they are not optimized for reduced size.
Innovation Solution
A modular potty chair design featuring a detachable upper and lower main body, where the lower main body can be placed upside down to accommodate the upper main body, reducing overall volume, and including a water tank decoration member that can be detached for storage, along with a simulation toy for educational purposes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If the potty chair is designed as an integral structure, then the manufacturing process is simple, but the packaging volume is large
Solution Approach 1:
The potty chair is divided into multiple detachable components: an upper main body, a lower main body, and a water tank decoration member. These segments can be separated for compact packaging, reducing the overall packaging volume while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through modular production.
Solution Approach 2:
The upper main body is designed to be placed inside the lower main body when detached, creating a nested configuration. This nesting arrangement significantly reduces the packaging volume required for transportation and storage, while each component can still be manufactured independently using standard molding processes.
2Ease of operation
If the potty chair is made with a large sitting platform, then it is comfortable for children, but the overall volume increases
Solution Approach 1:
The sitting platform is integrated into the upper main body as a separate component from the lower main body. This segmentation allows the platform to maintain its comfortable size for children while the overall structure can be compacted during packaging by detaching and nesting the upper main body within the lower main body.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the potty chair includes a water tank decoration member, then it enhances functionality, but the packaging volume increases
Solution Approach 1:
The water tank decoration member is designed as a detachable component that can be separated from the main body. This segmentation allows the decorative and functional elements to be included in the product while enabling compact packaging by excluding or nesting the water tank member separately, thus reducing overall packaging volume.
Solution Approach 2:
The water tank decoration member can be extracted or removed from the main assembly for packaging purposes. This extraction allows the core potty chair functionality to be packaged in a compact form while the optional water tank component can be packaged separately or omitted in certain packaging configurations.
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a potty chair. The potty chair includes an upper main body and a lower main body. A sitting platform is arranged at an upper end of the upper main body, an excretion hole and an excrement container mounted in the excretion hole and configured for accommodating excrement are arranged in the sitting platform. The lower main body is detachably connected to a lower end of the upper main body and configured for supporting the upper main body. A first accommodating cavity is formed in the lower main body. When the upper main body is separated from the lower main body, a volume formed by stacking the upper main body and the lower main body is reduced by placing the lower main body upside down and placing the lower end of the upper main body in the first accommodating cavity.