Rotating Amusement Slide with Variable Slope
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional amusement slides require large spaces and heights to achieve a long sliding path with constant or variable slopes, limiting thrill experiences and efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A rotating amusement slide with a three-dimensional curved sliding trail supported by fastenings linked to an axial part on a horizontal rotation axis, allowing the sliding path to maintain a constantly variable slope through motor-driven rotation, enhancing thrill and reducing overall dimensions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Length of moving object
If a conventional slide uses a long static curved tube with constant or variable downward slope, then the sliding path length is sufficient for thrill experience, but the space and height required become significantly large
Solution Approach 1:
The slide tube is transformed from a static structure to a dynamic rotating structure. The tube rotates about a horizontal axis, allowing the sliding path to maintain a constantly variable slope without requiring excessive height or space. This dynamic configuration enables the sliding path to effectively utilize the rotational motion to compensate for the reduced spatial footprint.
Solution Approach 2:
The slide transitions from a two-dimensional planar path to a three-dimensional rotating path. By adding the rotational dimension, the slide creates a constantly variable slope that progresses through different spatial orientations, allowing a long sliding path to be contained within a compact volume by utilizing the third dimension of rotation.
2Length of moving object
If a conventional slide uses a long static curved tube, then the sliding path provides sufficient thrill experience, but the height required becomes significantly large
Solution Approach 1:
The rotation of the slide tube creates a dynamic slope that continuously varies during the sliding motion. This dynamic configuration allows the slide to maintain thrill-inducing variable slopes without requiring a tall vertical structure, as the rotational motion provides the slope variation in time rather than in space.
Solution Approach 2:
The rotating slide tube implements periodic action by continuously cycling through different angular positions. This periodic rotation creates a constantly varying slope that repeats in a cyclic manner, providing sustained thrill experience throughout the sliding path without requiring increasing height.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the slide tube rotates about a horizontal axis, then the sliding path maintains a constantly variable slope enhancing thrill, but the device complexity increases due to rotation mechanism
Solution Approach 1:
The slide employs a dynamic rotating mechanism that, while adding complexity, enables the constantly variable slope capability. The rotation mechanism is integrated into the overall slide structure, and the dynamic configuration allows for adaptable slope profiles that can be adjusted by controlling the rotation speed and timing.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The rotating design provides an almost infinite riding experience by compensating gravity with rotational energy, offering new thrill levels and reduced space requirements while maintaining sliding speed and duration, compared to conventional slides.
Implementation Method 1
The rotating design provides an almost infinite riding experience by compensating gravity with rotational energy
Implementation Method 2
the sliding path being maintained on a slope by a rotation of the sliding trail about the rotation axis
Data Source
AI summary
An amusement and leisure slide comprises at least one sliding trail forming a three-dimensional curve supported with fastenings attached to a portion of the sliding trail to an axial part disposed on a support and configured to rotate about a substantially horizontal rotation axis. The sliding trail comprises an inlet arranged in vicinity of the rotation axis of the trail and an outlet allowing a rider to exit the trail. The curve of the sliding trail is configured to form a sliding path between the inlet and the outlet extending in a volume around the rotation axis of the trail, said sliding path being driven by a motor. The sliding trail may include a dry or wet sliding tube, sliding rail(s) for guiding carts or wagons, or a sliding tube provided with rail(s) arranged inside the tube for guiding carts or wagons.