Movable Stadium Floor for Varied Top Toy Trajectories
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing top toys on turntables exhibit monotonous movement patterns due to similar trajectories, lacking variety in direction changes.
Innovation Solution
A stadium toy design featuring a movable floor that moves up and down, creating recesses and acceleration rails to alter the top toy's movement path and acceleration, combined with a motor-driven mechanism to control the floor's movement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a turntable is used to rotate the top toy, then the top toy can move in different directions, but the movement trajectory remains similar and monotonous
Solution Approach 1:
The floor is designed as a movable part that can change its position dynamically. When the floor moves downward, it creates a step part that alters the top toy's movement path. This dynamic adjustment of the floor position transforms the originally monotone circular trajectory into varied movement patterns, resolving the contradiction between movement variety and structural simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The movable floor acts as an intermediary element between the turntable and the top toy. By introducing this intermediate component that can change position, the system achieves more diverse movement patterns without fundamentally changing the turntable structure, thus maintaining relative simplicity while improving adaptability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the floor is made movable to create step parts, then the top toy's movement becomes more varied, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The floor transitions from a static to a dynamic component, capable of moving between different positions. This single dynamic element creates multiple movement scenarios for the top toy by forming step parts when lowered, achieving movement pattern variety without requiring multiple complex mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The movable floor serves multiple functions: it acts as the playing surface, creates step parts to alter trajectories, and works with the acceleration rails to enhance movement variety. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components, thereby limiting the increase in device complexity while achieving diverse movement patterns.
3Speed
If acceleration rails are added to the step part, then the top toy accelerates and moves more dynamically, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The acceleration rails are merged with the step part structure rather than being separate components. When the floor moves downward to form the step part, the acceleration rails are positioned to work in conjunction with it. This integration achieves top toy acceleration without adding independent complex mechanisms, as the acceleration function is combined with the existing movable floor structure.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances the entertainment value by providing varied and dynamic movement patterns, allowing top toys to accelerate and change directions unpredictably, offering a more engaging play experience.
Implementation Method 1
a motor-driven mechanism to control the floor's movement
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AI summary
A stadium toy includes a field, a step part, a movable part, and an output and retraction mechanism. The field includes a floor on which a top toy runs around. The movable part is configured to move in order to output and retract the step part configured to limit a range in which the top toy runs around. The output and retraction mechanism is configured to move the movable part to output and retract the step part.