Shower Tent Assembly with Adjustable Height Connecting Bands
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current shower tents for vehicles lack adjustable height, failing to meet the needs of most users, particularly during camping trips where shower facilities are not readily available in cross-country vehicles.
Innovation Solution
A shower tent assembly with rotatably connected supporting arms and length adjusting units, including stair buttons, snap fasteners, or magic tapes, allowing for adjustable height adjustments by connecting upper and lower bands to length adjusting units, enabling users to customize the tent's height.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed-height tent structure is used, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the height cannot be adjusted to meet different user needs
Solution Approach 1:
The connecting bands are divided into multiple segments with adjustable connections. The first connecting band connects the supporting arm to the tent fabric, while the second connecting band connects to the fixed plate, with length adjusting units positioned between them. This segmentation allows independent adjustment of each segment's length to achieve height customization without complicating the overall structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic adjustment capability through length adjusting units that allow the connecting bands to change length during use. The supporting arms can be rotated to different angles, and the connecting bands can be adjusted to different lengths, transforming a static fixed-height structure into a dynamic adjustable-height system.
2Ease of operation
If length adjusting units are added to enable height adjustment, then user convenience is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the length parameter of the connecting bands through length adjusting units. By providing multiple adjustable length positions on the connecting bands, users can select different heights according to their needs. This parameter change approach allows height adjustment without requiring completely different structural configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The length adjusting units serve multiple functions: they adjust the length of connecting bands, enable height adjustment of the tent, and provide adaptable connection points. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate adjustment mechanisms, thereby limiting the increase in device complexity while improving ease of operation.
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AI summary
A shower tent assembly is provided. The shower tent assembly includes a fixed plate fixed to an automobile and a tent fabric, wherein supporting arms are rotatably connected to two sides of the fixed plate separately and a middle connector is connected between outer end portions of the supporting arms; the supporting arms, the fixed plate and the middle connector each are connected to upper connecting bands, an upper end of the tent fabric is connected to lower connecting bands corresponding to the upper connecting bands, length adjusting units are arranged between the upper connecting bands and the lower connecting bands, and the upper connecting bands and the lower connecting bands are connected to the length adjusting units. By arranging the length adjusting units, a height of the tent fabric is adjusted, so that the height of the tent fabric is convenient to use the shower tent assembly.