Motorcycle Recorder Cover Layout for Secure Media Access

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing saddle-ride type vehicles with integrated recorder main bodies lack sufficient protection for storage media, making them vulnerable to unauthorized access and damage.

Innovation Solution

A saddle-ride type vehicle equipped with a detachable cover member that shields the access portion of the recorder main body, ensuring protection while maintaining accessibility to the storage medium.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the recorder main body is integrated with the instrument panel at the handle portion, then the storage medium can be easily inserted into and removed from the recorder main body, but the storage medium is not sufficiently protected from illegal acts

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccessibility to storage mediumVSAvoidprotection of recorder main body

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The vehicle body is divided into multiple sections with cover members that can be detached. The recorder main body is placed in a section that requires cover removal for access, separating the storage medium accessibility function from the protection function. This allows the storage medium to be easily accessed when needed while remaining protected during normal operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Cover members serve as intermediary components between the user and the recorder main body. These covers can be removed to allow access to the storage medium or to relocate the recorder main body, providing a controllable barrier that balances accessibility and protection requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If the recorder main body is disposed at the handle portion, then accessibility to the storage medium is ensured, but the recorder main body is vulnerable to unauthorized access and damage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccessibility to storage mediumVSAvoidunauthorized access and damage

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The vehicle body structure is segmented into multiple sections with removable cover members. The recorder main body can be placed in a protected section that requires cover removal for access, thereby reducing exposure to harmful factors while maintaining accessibility when needed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system allows dynamic repositioning of the recorder main body by removing cover members and relocating the device to different sections of the vehicle body. This enables the recorder to be moved between more protected and more accessible positions depending on operational requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS12545349B2Saddle-ride type vehicle

Publication Date: 2026.02.10 KAWASAKI MOTORS LTD

AI summary

There is provided a saddle-ride type vehicle including: a vehicle body; a camera attached to the vehicle body; a recorder main body including a storage medium that stores imaging information captured by the camera; and a cover member detachably attached to the vehicle body as an exterior component and covering at least an access portion to the storage medium in the recorder main body when the cover member is attached.