Amusement Ride Seat With Back Arm Restraint for Free-Shoulder Posture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional amusement apparatus seats immobilize users, limiting their ability to move and diminish the ride sensation, as they do not allow for new positions or attitudes, hindering the creation of new sensations for users.
Innovation Solution
A seat design for amusement apparatus that allows users to sit astride, with free shoulders, using a frame resembling a motorcyclist's saddle and immobilizing means comprising a rotating arm with a cam and microswitch system to secure the user, enabling new positions and attitudes without drastic structural modifications to the apparatus.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the user is firmly held in the seat using immobilizing means, then safety is ensured, but the user cannot make movements of any kind, diminishing the ride sensation
Solution Approach 1:
The seat support is made movable relative to the frame, allowing it to move in a direction substantially perpendicular to its support surface. This dynamic capability enables the user to move freely on the seat while the immobilizing means (fork and backrest) remain positioned to ensure safety, thus resolving the contradiction between safety and movement freedom
2Adaptability or versatility
If the seat structure is modified to allow user movement, then new positions and attitudes are enabled, but the apparatus structure must be drastically altered
Solution Approach 1:
The seat is divided into independent functional components: a movable seat support and a separate immobilizing means (fork hinged on the back). This segmentation allows the seat support to move freely enabling new user positions, while the immobilizing means remains independently positioned to ensure safety, avoiding drastic modifications to the overall apparatus structure
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AI summary
A seat for amusement apparatus, unusually suitable for allowing the user to adopt a new position on the apparatus, comprising a support and means for immobilising the user on the support. The immobilising means comprise at least one support in front of the user and opposing means suitable for acting on the user's back. The opposing means comprises an arm which can move between a lowered position in which the user can sit down on the support and a raised position in which one end of the arm abuts against the user's back.