Pneumatic Fast-Push Game Console With Smooth Button Reset
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing whack-a-mole toys experience jammed reset operations due to friction between the reset base and the housing, affecting the game experience.
Innovation Solution
A pneumatic fast-push game console design featuring an upper and lower housing connected by a rubber ring belt, with a sealing piece at each joint, enclosing a cavity containing an elastic reset assembly and ventilation hole, and a one-way air-inflow member to ensure smooth reset operations and rapid button retraction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the reset assembly is slidably provided on the housing with the reset base exposed to the exterior through a hole, then the reset operation can be performed, but the reset base touches the inner wall of the hole causing friction that leads to unsmooth operation or jam
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the harmful friction interaction between the reset base and housing inner wall by removing the sliding mechanism through the hole. Instead, the reset assembly is positioned inside the housing cavity, eliminating contact with the housing wall during reset operation, thus removing the source of friction and jamming.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces guiding posts and guiding sleeves as intermediary components that facilitate the reset operation. The guiding post moves within the guiding sleeve during reset, providing a controlled movement path that eliminates direct contact between the reset base and housing wall, thereby preventing friction-induced jamming.
2Productivity
If the reset base moves in the hole during reset operation, then the reset function is achieved, but the friction causes unsmoothness or jam in the reset operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the harmful friction interaction by extracting the reset base from the hole-based sliding mechanism. The reset assembly now operates within the housing cavity using guiding posts and sleeves, eliminating the friction source while maintaining reset functionality and improving operation smoothness.
Solution Approach 2:
The guiding sleeve acts as an intermediary that enables smooth movement of the guiding post during reset operation. This intermediary component provides a controlled pathway that reduces friction and ensures smooth reset operation, directly addressing the productivity and ease of operation requirements.
3Reliability
If friction occurs during reset base movement, then the reset operation becomes unsmooth or jammed, but this affects the game experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the harmful friction interaction by removing the reset base from direct contact with the housing wall. The new design positions the reset assembly inside the cavity with guiding mechanisms that eliminate friction, thereby improving both reliability and game experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The guiding post and guiding sleeve serve as intermediary components that facilitate frictionless movement during reset operation. This intermediary mechanism ensures reliable reset operation while providing smooth gameplay experience by eliminating jamming caused by friction.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The design provides rapid reset button operation without friction-induced jams, maintaining a good game experience by using elastic potential energy and one-way air-inflow to supplement cavity pressure, ensuring smooth and efficient gameplay.
Implementation Method 1
The upper housing and the lower housing are connected at two ends of the rubber ring belt, respectively... When the upper housing and the lower housing are moved relative to each other, the elastic reset assembly is configured to store an elastic potential energy. The elastic reset assembly is configured to reset the upper housing and the lower housing to an initial state.
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AI summary
Provided is a pneumatic fast-push game console, which includes an upper housing, a rubber ring belt, and a lower housing. When the game console is in use, a user presses a pressing plate with a finger to block a ventilation hole; in addition, the upper housing and the lower housing are pressed, the air pressure in a closed cavity is increased, so that reset buttons recessed into the cavity are reset, which enables each reset button to be rapidly reset. In the reset operation or when being pressed, the game console has no unsmoothness or jam in the reset operation that would be caused due to friction, and a good game experience is offered.