Rotary Support Base for Universal Infant Carrier Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional strollers often require users to choose between a frame/seat combination or a frame without a seat, leading to increased expenses and cumbersome operation, as they cannot conveniently accommodate different types of infant carriers, such as infant car seats, without disturbing a sleeping infant during transfer.
Innovation Solution
A support structure with a mounting platform and a rotary support base that can be rotated between two positions to engage with different fastener structures of various infant carriers, allowing for detachable mounting of multiple types of infant carriers, including stroller seats and car seats, without disturbing the infant.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a stroller is configured with a fixed seat structure, then the stroller can provide stable support for the infant, but it cannot accommodate different types of infant carriers
Solution Approach 1:
The support base is designed to be rotatable between a first position and a second position, allowing the stroller to dynamically reconfigure its structure. When in the first position, the support base enables attachment of a first infant carrier with a first fastening structure; when rotated to the second position, it enables attachment of a second infant carrier with a second fastening structure, thereby providing versatility without requiring multiple separate strollers
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting platform incorporates multiple coupling structures that can engage with different fastening structures of various infant carriers. The first coupling structure engages with the first fastening structure, while the second coupling structure engages with the second fastening structure, allowing a single stroller to universally accommodate multiple types of infant carriers including car seats and stroller seats
2Ease of operation
If a stroller is designed to accept detachable infant car seats, then the infant can be transported without disturbance, but the user must choose between frame/seat combination or frame without seat
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functions of frame-only strollers and frame/seat combination strollers into a single unified design. The support structure integrates both the frame elements and the mounting platform with rotatable support base, allowing the stroller to function as a frame-only stroller when no carrier is attached, and as a frame/seat combination stroller when an infant carrier is attached, thereby eliminating the need for users to choose between different configurations
3Adaptability or versatility
If a user purchases both frame/seat combination stroller and frame without seat stroller, then all infant carrier types can be accommodated, but the expense and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The stroller is designed as a universal platform that can accommodate multiple types of infant carriers through its rotatable support base and multiple coupling structures. By providing both the first coupling structure and second coupling structure on the same mounting platform, the stroller eliminates the need for users to purchase separate frame-only and frame/seat combination strollers, thereby reducing the quantity of equipment needed while maintaining full adaptability
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AI summary
A system and method are provided for detachably mounting different types of infant carriers on a support structure. The system includes a mounting platform provided on a frame of the support structure. The mounting platform includes a first and second coupling structure. The first coupling structure is adapted to engage with a first fastener structure of a first infant carrier, whereas the second coupling structure is adapted to engage with a second fastener structure of a second infant carrier. The mounting platform also includes a rotary support base that can be rotated relative to the frame between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the support base enables engagement of the first coupling structure with the first fastener structure. In the second position, the support structure enables engagement of the second coupling structure with the second fastener structure.