Personal Modular Trunk for Shared Vehicle Privacy
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Solution Overview
Problem
In a shared vehicle context, existing trunks pose privacy issues and loading inconveniences due to mixed items from multiple users, as the paradigm shifts from vehicle ownership to transportation services.
Innovation Solution
A personal modular trunk system that can be coupled to or separated from a vehicle, equipped with communication, driving, engagement, and control units, allowing for secure and convenient loading and unloading of personal items, and optionally featuring positioning and connection units for modular integration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a shared vehicle with a common trunk is used, then transportation service efficiency is improved, but privacy protection deteriorates due to mixed items from multiple users
Solution Approach 1:
The common trunk is divided into multiple independent compartments, each assigned to a specific user. Each compartment has its own storage space separated by partition walls, allowing multiple users to share the vehicle trunk while maintaining individual privacy and preventing mixing of personal items.
2Ease of manufacture
If a fixed trunk structure is used, then manufacturing simplicity is improved, but adaptability deteriorates for different users and scenarios
Solution Approach 1:
The partition walls are designed to be movable rather than fixed, allowing users to adjust the configuration of storage compartments according to their needs. The partition walls can be slid or repositioned along guides, providing dynamic adaptability while maintaining a relatively simple overall trunk structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The trunk system is designed to serve multiple users and various storage scenarios through a standardized modular structure. The same basic trunk framework can accommodate different numbers and configurations of compartments depending on user requirements, making it universally applicable to different situations.
3Device complexity
If manual trunk management is used, then device complexity is reduced, but ease of operation deteriorates due to loading and finding items
Solution Approach 1:
Each compartment is equipped with identification markers or indicators that provide feedback to users about the location and status of their items. The system may include sensors or communication devices that notify users when items are placed in specific compartments, making it easier to locate and retrieve personal belongings without complex manual tracking.
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AI summary
A personal modular trunk and a modular trunk system employing the personal modular trunk for reducing privacy issues and inconveniences that may arise when a vehicle is shared. The personal modular trunk includes: a trunk body; a first communication unit installed in the trunk body and configured to communicate with a vehicle; a first driving unit installed in the trunk body and configured to transport the trunk body; a first engagement unit installed in the trunk body and configured to engage or disengage with a loading space of the vehicle; and a first control unit configured to control the first communication unit to communicate with the vehicle, control the first driving unit to transport the trunk body toward the vehicle, and control the first engagement unit to engage or disengage with the loading space of the vehicle so that the trunk body is coupled to or separated from the vehicle.