Potty training assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing potty training devices lack effective means to keep children occupied and engaged during the training process, leading to potential distractions and reduced success rates.
Innovation Solution
A potty training chair with integrated attachment slots for a removable tray containing a personal electronic device, which keeps the child occupied by providing interactive content, thereby increasing the likelihood of successful training.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a potty training chair is used without additional engagement features, then the device structure remains simple, but the child becomes easily distracted and leaves the chair, reducing training success
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the potty training chair with a tray assembly and personal electronic device into a single integrated unit. The tray is attachable to the chair backrest, and the electronic device is embedded within the tray, creating a merged structure that provides both potty training functionality and child engagement capabilities, thereby improving training success rate while maintaining reasonable structural complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The tray assembly serves multiple functions: it provides a surface for placing items, houses the personal electronic device for child engagement, and attaches to the chair backrest. The personal electronic device itself provides multiple entertainment and engagement functions. This multi-functionality addresses the complexity issue by consolidating multiple features into integrated components rather than separate additions
2Duration of action of moving object
If a tray with personal electronic device is added to the potty training chair, then the child remains occupied and engaged longer, but the device structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The tray assembly is designed to be removable and attachable to the chair backrest, providing dynamic flexibility. The personal electronic device is embedded in the tray rather than permanently fixed to the chair, allowing the tray to be detached when not in use. This dynamic design enables the system to adapt between a simple chair configuration and an enhanced engagement configuration, reducing perceived complexity while maintaining extended duration capability
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AI summary
A potty training assembly for potty training a child includes a potty training chair has a waste recess is integrated into the potty training chair to facilitate a child to practice potty training on the potty training chair. A pair of attachment slots is each integrated into the potty training chair and a tray is removably attachable to the potty training chair. The tray has a pair of engagements that each releasably engages a respective one of the attachment slots in the potty training chair for removably attaching the tray to the potty training chair. A personal electronic device is embedded into the tray to keep the child occupied while the child employs the potty training chair thereby inhibiting the child from leaving the potty training chair.