Vehicle Screen Carrier Arrangement for Reconfigurable Privacy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle privacy dividers are typically permanent or difficult to reconfigure, leading to a reduced user experience as they cannot easily adapt to changing privacy needs, and reconfiguration is often time-consuming and costly.
Innovation Solution
A screen carrier arrangement with vertically extending carrier bodies that include a stowable and extendable screen element, allowing for easy detachment and attachment between carriers to form a privacy wall or divider, providing a lightweight, cost-effective, and easily assembled solution for varying privacy and safety configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If permanent privacy dividers are used, then privacy is provided, but reconfiguration capability is lost and device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The privacy divider system is segmented into multiple independent screen carriers, each capable of operating autonomously. Each carrier body can be independently positioned and configured, allowing flexible reconfiguration of privacy zones without moving the entire divider system. This segmentation enables adaptability while keeping individual components simple.
Solution Approach 2:
The screen elements are designed to be movable between extended and stowed positions, transforming the static permanent divider into a dynamic reconfigurable system. The screen carriers can be moved along tracks and screen elements can be deployed or retracted, providing adaptability while maintaining relatively simple carrier structures.
2Adaptability or versatility
If reconfigurable privacy dividers are implemented, then adaptability improves, but mounting space requirements increase and device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The screen element is nested within the carrier body when in the stowed position, with the screen rolling up or folding into the carrier structure. This nesting approach allows the reconfigurable screen to occupy minimal mounting space when not in use, while still providing full privacy coverage when extended.
Solution Approach 2:
The screen carriers move along vertical tracks rather than requiring horizontal mounting space. By utilizing the vertical dimension for movement and storage, the system achieves reconfigurability without significantly increasing the horizontal footprint of the seating area.
3Ease of operation
If permanent privacy dividers are installed, then structure stability is maintained, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The screen carriers are equipped with self-contained drive mechanisms that automatically position and secure the screen elements. The systems self-adjust and self-lock into position, providing ease of operation through automated control while maintaining structural stability through precise positioning and secure engagement mechanisms.
Data Source
AI summary
A seat carrier arrangement includes a first screen carrier having a carrier body extending vertically from a vehicle floor and a second screen carrier having a carrier body arranged at a distance and substantially parallel to the first screen carrier. At least one of the first and second screen carriers includes a screen element configured to move between a stowed position within the carrier body and an extended position extending from the carrier body. The screen element is concealed within the carrier body in the stowed position and extending from one of the first or second screen carriers to and detachably attached to the carrier body of the other one of the first or second screen carriers in an extended position.