Seamless Attached Tent Using Adhesive Bonding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing tents face issues with waterproofing due to needle holes from stitching, increased production costs from complex stitching processes, and potential user injuries from broken needles, while also requiring high craftsmanship for double-needle combinations.
Innovation Solution
A seamless attached tent design using adhesive layers to bond cloth pieces without stitching, featuring an inner tent with a base cloth and outer tent with reinforcing blocks and continuous pipe sleeves for tent rods, ensuring a waterproof and injury-free structure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If stitching is used to connect cloth pieces, then the tent structure can be assembled, but needle holes are created that destroy waterproof coating and cause water leakage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical stitching system with a chemical bonding system using adhesive layers. The adhesive layers bond the cloth pieces together without creating needle holes, thereby maintaining the waterproof coating integrity while still achieving tent assembly. This substitution of mechanical connection with chemical connection resolves the contradiction between ease of manufacture and waterproofing reliability.
2Reliability
If double-needle combination process is used to ensure stitching stability, then waterproofing is improved, but production cost and craftsmanship requirements increase greatly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the complex double-needle mechanical stitching process with a simpler adhesive bonding process. The adhesive layers provide stable bonding without requiring high craftsmanship or expensive double-needle equipment, thereby reducing production costs while maintaining or improving bonding reliability between cloth pieces.
3Ease of manufacture
If stitching is used to connect cloth pieces, then the tent can be assembled, but broken needles may remain in the tent cloth causing injury to users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical stitching with adhesive bonding, eliminating the use of needles entirely. This substitution removes the source of the harmful factor (broken needles) while still achieving the necessary cloth piece connection for tent assembly, thereby eliminating user injury risk from needle fragments.
4Area of stationary object
If multiple cloth pieces are spliced together, then the tent can be constructed, but the complexity of the structure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes the complex stitching elements (needles, threads, stitching machinery requirements) from the tent construction process, retaining only the essential function of connecting cloth pieces. By using adhesive layers, the structure achieves the necessary complexity for multiple cloth piece assembly without the additional complexity of mechanical stitching systems.
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 seamless bonding eliminates needle holes and production costs, providing a fully waterproof and safe tent structure that maintains stability against wind and rain without the need for complex stitching.
Implementation Method 1
adjacent cloth pieces of the plurality of cloth pieces are attached together through an adhesive layer of the plurality of first adhesive layers
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AI summary
A seamless attached tent includes an inner tent and an outer tent. The inner tent includes a tent cloth, one or more tent rods, and a base cloth. The tent cloth includes a plurality of cloth pieces and a plurality of adhesive layers, and adjacent cloth pieces of the plurality of cloth pieces are attached together through the plurality of adhesive layers. The one or more tent rods are connected to a periphery of the tent cloth. The base cloth is disposed on a lower side of the tent cloth. All sides of the base cloth extend upward to form a surrounding barrier. Corners of the surrounding barrier are attached with reinforcing blocks through the plurality of adhesive layers. The outer tent covers a top of the inner tent.