Amusement Ride Guide Device with Intersecting Tracks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current guide devices in amusement rides do not allow extensive interaction between passengers or varied racing experiences through deceleration or acceleration of vehicles on different tracks, limiting the thrill and excitement for riders.
Innovation Solution
A guide device with a first and second guideway, featuring a common interaction section where the normal vectors of both guideways point towards each other, allowing vehicles to interact and experience complex movements, including spirals, helices, and different accelerations, while ensuring safety through closed paths and symmetrical designs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If guide tracks are designed to allow vehicles to race and interact, then passenger experience and thrill are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements nested guide tracks where one guide track is positioned inside the loop of another guide track, allowing vehicles to interact while maintaining organized spatial arrangement. This nesting configuration enables complex interactions without proportionally increasing overall device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces vertical dimensionality by arranging guide tracks in different vertical levels and using loop configurations, transforming a potentially two-dimensional race track into a three-dimensional structure. This dimensional change enables vehicles to pass each other, interact, and create thrilling maneuvers while maintaining clear separation and control.
2Adaptability or versatility
If guide tracks are arranged parallel to allow racing, then vehicle interaction is enabled, but space utilization is inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent places one guide track inside the loop of another guide track, creating a nested configuration that significantly reduces the overall space required compared to parallel arrangements. This nesting allows vehicles to race and interact while utilizing vertical and radial space more efficiently.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs curved and looped guide track configurations instead of straight parallel tracks. The circular loop structure allows vehicles to approach each other from different directions and interact dynamically, while the curvature enables compact spatial arrangement that improves space utilization.
3Adaptability or versatility
If guide tracks allow close proximity interaction, then passenger excitement increases, but safety risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the guide track into distinct segments including entry sections, interaction sections, and exit sections. This segmentation allows vehicles to be separated into different zones at various times, enabling close interaction during designated interaction sections while maintaining safety through spatial separation in other sections.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes vertical dimensionality by arranging guide tracks at different heights and using loop configurations, allowing vehicles to pass close to each other horizontally while maintaining vertical separation. This dimensional approach enables intense passenger interaction while preserving safety through three-dimensional spatial arrangement.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a guide device (2) comprising a first guide track (10) and at least one second guide track (20), wherein the first guide track (10) and the at least one second guide track (20) each define a direction of travel vector (F1, F2) and a normal vector (N1, N2) which is oriented perpendicular to the direction of travel vector (F1, F2), wherein the first guide track (10) and the at least one second guide track (20) have at least one common interaction section (15), and wherein in the at least one interaction section (15) the normal vectors (N1, N2) of the first guide track (10) and of the at least one second guide track (20) point at least section by substantially opposite directions.