Segmented Educational Ball with Rotating Mounts and Sliding Sheets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional educational products lack multiple spatial arrangements, reducing user interest and challenge, and thus the training effect for mental and spatial concepts and logical thinking.
Innovation Solution
An educational ball with a square body and multiple operating sets, featuring rotating mounts, covering plates, sliding grooves, and sliding sheets that allow for various spatial arrangements and modes of operation, enhancing operational variability, fun, and challenge.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional educational products use a single specific mode of arrangement or single spatial arrangement, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but user interest and challenge are reduced, and training effect is diminished
Solution Approach 1:
The educational ball is divided into multiple independent operating sets (first operating set, second operating set, etc.), each with its own rotating mount and sliding sheets. This segmentation allows each module to function independently while contributing to the overall versatility, enabling multiple spatial arrangements without requiring a completely complex monolithic structure.
Solution Approach 2:
Each operating set is designed with universal functionality - the rotating mounts can rotate about insertion holes to form different spatial arrangements, and sliding sheets can move along track grooves. This multi-functionality allows the same basic structure to serve multiple purposes and create various configurations, increasing adaptability without proportionally increasing complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional educational products have only a single specific mode of arrangement, then the device complexity is low, but the challenge and fun for users are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The operating sets incorporate dynamic elements - rotating mounts that can rotate about insertion holes, and sliding sheets that can move along track grooves. These dynamic components enable the structure to change from one spatial arrangement to another, providing operational variability and challenge while maintaining a relatively simple base structure that doesn't require complete redesign for each configuration.
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AI summary
An educational ball has a body and multiple operating sets. The body is a square block and has six outer surfaces, six mounting recesses respectively formed in the outer surfaces, and six engaging holes respectively formed through the mounting recesses. The operating sets are connected to the body, are respectively and rotatably mounted in the mounting recesses, and each one of the operating sets has a rotating mount, two covering plates, a sliding groove, and multiple sliding sheets. The rotating mount is rotatably mounted in a corresponding mounting recess, and has an engaging jacket and two inserting holes. The covering plates are connected to the rotating mount, and each covering plate has a connecting pipe, multiple track grooves, and a guiding channel. The sliding sheets are movably mounted in the track grooves of the covering plates and the sliding groove of the operating set to cover the rotating mount.