Safety Seat Mounting Frame for Rapid Vehicle Installation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing safety seats for vehicles are costly and time-consuming to install and remove when changing the vehicle's use, as individual retaining straps and safety belts need to be installed and removed.
Innovation Solution
A separate mounting frame with grommet eyelets and fastening eyes is used to fix the safety belt and retaining strap, with a one-piece tether system that connects between cross members, allowing the safety seat to be easily installed and removed by handling the mounting frame alone, which is adaptable to vehicle space.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If individual retaining belts and safety harnesses are installed for each safety seat, then the safety seat can be securely fastened to the vehicle, but the installation and removal process becomes time-consuming and complex when changing vehicle use
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual retaining belts and safety harnesses into a single integrated mounting frame structure. The mounting frame integrates the functions of multiple separate fastening components into one unified structure that can be installed and removed as a single unit, thereby reducing installation time while maintaining the security and reliability of the safety seat securement system.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting frame is designed as a universal structure that can be used across different vehicle types and configurations. This multi-functional design allows the same mounting frame to provide securement for safety seats in various applications, eliminating the need for vehicle-specific individual belt installations and facilitating quick reconfiguration when changing vehicle use.
2Strength
If multiple individual retaining straps are installed for each safety seat, then adequate retention and clamping effect are achieved, but the number of components increases making the system more complex and costly to reconfigure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple individual retaining straps into a single integrated mounting frame structure that provides equivalent or superior clamping effect. The mounting frame is designed with integrated reinforcement elements and distributed load paths that maintain the necessary strength and clamping effect while reducing the total number of separate retaining components from multiple individual straps to a single unified structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting frame employs composite structural design combining rigid framework elements with flexible retaining components in a unified structure. This composite approach allows the single mounting frame to achieve the cumulative clamping effect of multiple individual straps while benefiting from the structural integrity and load distribution capabilities of a composite system, thereby reducing component count and reconfiguration complexity.
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
This solution simplifies the installation and removal process, increases the clamping effect, and allows for flexible configuration to accommodate one or multiple safety seats, reducing the complexity and cost of reconfiguring the safety seat system.
Implementation Method 1
a mounting frame (10, 10') for insertion and attachment in a vehicle (8)
Implementation Method 2
suspended from at least one safety belt fastened to a vehicle-fixed anchorage
Implementation Method 3
the holding belt is guided over at least one cross strut formed on the backrest frame alternately on the front side thereof facing the seat part and the rear side thereof facing away from the seat part and said cross strut is thereby clamped between the holding belt sections
Implementation Method 4
exert a corresponding clamping effect
Data Source
AI summary
A safety seat for land vehicles, aircraft and watercraft having a seat part frame and a backrest frame, which is suspended on a restraint strap which is attached firmly to the vehicle, wherein the backrest frame has a lateral strut and an additional holding strap clamps in the lateral strut, is characterized in that a separate mounting frame (10) is provided in order to fix the restraint strap (24) and the holding strap (25) and can be mounted in the vehicle, wherein bushing eyes (17) and attachment eyes (15, 16) for stretching the restraint strap (24) and the holding strap (25) are provided on the mutually opposite lateral supports (11, 12) of the mounting frame (10), and wherein the holding strap (25) is formed integrally, is fixed by its two ends to two attachment eyes (15), and is looped through and passed backward and forward through a plurality of bushing eyes (17).