Multi-Segment Paddleboard with Removable Internal Supports

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional paddleboards are large, heavy, and difficult to transport and store due to their size, posing challenges for users in terms of mobility and storage space, and existing solutions lack strength and security for weight-bearing and wave pressure.

Innovation Solution

A paddleboard design featuring multiple sections with removable internal supports and releasable connectors that securely join the sections together, allowing for easy disassembly and reassembly, providing strength and stability while facilitating transportation and storage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If the paddleboard is made as a single large board, then it provides sufficient strength and stability for use, but it becomes difficult to transport and store

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestrength and stabilityVSAvoidtransportation and storage

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The paddleboard is divided into multiple sections that can be separated from each other. Each section contains structural elements and can be independently handled, allowing the board to be disassembled into smaller, more manageable pieces for transportation and storage while maintaining strength when assembled

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If the paddleboard is divided into multiple sections, then it becomes easier to transport and store, but it lacks strength and security for weight bearing and wave pressure

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetransportation and storageVSAvoidstrength and security

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple board sections are combined through connecting mechanisms that include structural elements extending between sections. These connections are designed to securely join the sections together, distributing loads and providing the necessary strength and stability when the board is assembled for use

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

Structural elements are pre-positioned within the board sections during manufacturing. These elements are designed to align and connect when sections are joined, ensuring that strength-critical components are already in place before the board is assembled, which maintains structural integrity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of manufacture

If conventional joining methods are used for segmented boards, then assembly is simple, but the boards lack strength and security

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveassembly simplicityVSAvoidstrength and security

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

Structural elements are nested within cavities or channels in the board sections. These elements can slide into place and lock securely, providing a strong connection between sections while allowing for relatively simple assembly. The nested configuration ensures proper alignment and maximizes connection strength

Inventive Principle:

Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Data Source

PatentUS20230365233A1Multi-segment recreational boards

Publication Date: 2023.11.16 DOCK MASTER LLC

AI summary

Recreational board such as paddleboards and surfboards, and methods of assembling and disassembling the recreational boards, the boards including a front portion, a back portion, and a plurality of elongated supports extending between the front portion and the back portion and located within, and removable from, recesses in the front portion and/or the back portion. The recreational board may further include a releasable fastening element securing connecting the front portion to the back portion.