Pet Toy Housing with Hidden Moving Rope Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing pet toys fail to effectively engage a pet's natural curiosity and maintain play interest due to their visibility, lacking the effect of occasional hiding and appearing.
Innovation Solution
A pet toy design featuring a self-moving device housed within a structure with observation holes, allowing the device to move between visible and hidden areas, accompanied by a flexible rope that extends and retracts through these holes, creating an engaging appearance and disappearance effect.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If the pet toy is made fully visible, then the pet can easily see it, but the pet's curiosity and play interest are not effectively engaged
Solution Approach 1:
The housing is divided into multiple surfaces (top surface, bottom surface, and two side surfaces) with observation holes distributed across them. This segmentation creates multiple visible and hidden areas, allowing the self-moving device to be partially visible and partially hidden at different times, thereby engaging the pet's curiosity while maintaining visibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The self-moving device moves periodically within the internal space, alternating between visible and hidden areas through the observation holes. This periodic appearance and disappearance creates dynamic visual stimulation that engages the pet's curiosity and maintains play interest.
2Ease of operation
If the self-moving device is always visible, then the pet can track it easily, but the play interest diminishes quickly
Solution Approach 1:
The housing allows the self-moving device to dynamically transition between visible and hidden states as it moves within the internal space. This dynamic visibility pattern makes tracking more challenging and engaging, thereby extending the duration of play interest while maintaining sufficient trackability.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the housing is made from heavy material, then it is stable, but it does not shake when impacted, reducing play engagement
Solution Approach 1:
The housing material is selected to have specific physical parameters (lightweight with appropriate mass distribution) that allow it to shake when impacted by the self-moving device or the flexible rope. This shaking response provides tactile feedback and visual movement that enhances play engagement while maintaining sufficient structural stability.
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AI summary
A pet toy include a housing, a self-moving device, and a flexible rope. The housing defines an internal space. Observation holes communicated with the internal space are defined in the housing. The internal space is observed through the observation holes, so the internal space defines a visible areas and a hidden area. The self-moving device is placed inside the internal space. When the self-moving device moves within the internal space, the self-moving device moves back and forth between the visible area and the hidden area. A first end of the flexible rope is connected to the self-moving device. When the self-moving device moves within the internal space, the self-moving device drives the flexible rope to move, so that a second end of the flexible rope is allowed to extend out from and retract into any one of the observation holes.