Motorcycle Phone Mount With Elastic Hooks for Clear Screen Viewing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing support apparatuses for portable communication devices on motorcycles fail to accommodate devices of varying shapes and dimensions effectively, and often compromise screen visibility due to design features like transparent walls that cause light reflections and condensation.
Innovation Solution
A support apparatus with an upper fixing block and a lower fixing block connected by a ball joint, featuring elastic hooking means with 'L' shape and elastic connecting elements, allowing for adjustable retention of devices of different sizes and orientations to maximize screen visibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If transparent walls are used to protect the device in the bag, then device protection is improved, but screen visibility deteriorates due to light reflections and condensation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the transparent wall component from the support apparatus entirely. Instead of using a transparent protective barrier that causes reflections and condensation issues, the invention uses an open framework structure with elastic hooking means that secures the device without any transparent covering, thereby eliminating the visibility problem while maintaining device protection through proper positioning and retention.
2Adaptability or versatility
If bags of various dimensions are provided to accommodate different smartphone and satellite navigator sizes, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity and variety of components increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a universal support apparatus design where the upper fixing block with elastic hooking means can accommodate multiple types of portable communication devices (smartphones, satellite navigators, tablets) of varying sizes. The elastic hooks can be positioned at different locations and the fixing block can be oriented in different directions, providing a single multi-functional solution rather than requiring separate support components for each device type and size.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses elastic hooking means that can dynamically adjust their position and configuration. The elastic nature of the hooks allows them to flex and adapt to different device dimensions and shapes, enabling a single static support structure to dynamically accommodate various device types without requiring multiple specialized components.
3Ease of operation
If multiple elastic hooking means are provided at different locations of the resting base, then ease of operation for securing devices is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple hooking functions into an integrated upper fixing block assembly. Rather than having separate hooking mechanisms distributed throughout the structure, the elastic hooking means are consolidated within the upper fixing block, which itself is a unified component that can be positioned and oriented as a single unit. This merging reduces the number of discrete components while maintaining ease of operation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables secure, intuitive mounting of variously sized portable communication devices while ensuring unobstructed visibility of the screen, adaptable to different device dimensions and riding positions through adjustable components and materials.
Implementation Method 1
elastic connecting elements, which are arranged to move from a first idle configuration to a second intermediate configuration, by a predefined and variable portion of length
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AI summary
A support apparatus for portable communication devices is described, comprising an upper fixing block, arranged to receive and retain a portable communication device, and a lower fixing block, arranged to be removably fixed on a motorcycle. The upper fixing block comprises a resting base for the portable communication device and a plurality of hooking means, provided with respective elastic connecting elements to the resting base. The hooking means are arranged to move between a first idle configuration, in which the hooking means are substantially in contact with the resting base and in which the respective elastic connecting elements are substantially not biased, a second intermediate configuration, in which the elastic connecting elements of each hooking means are biased to move the hooking means away from the resting base to rest the portable communication device on such resting base, and a third closure configuration, in which the reaction of the elastic connecting elements pushes all hooking means so as to abut against respective edges and/or corners of the portable communication device, which is then retained and blocked on the apparatus.