Racing and flight simulation seat assembly with detachable seat element
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing simulation seat assemblies fail to provide natural comfort, maneuverability, high realism, precise fidelity, and adjustability, particularly with central foam seat slanted cutouts that can be detached for flight simulation center stick mounts, while also ensuring impact protection and versatility in using controls.
Innovation Solution
A gaming chair assembly with a detachable seat element featuring a deformably resilient material, a cutout channel, and a hook-and-loop fastener for easy attachment and detachment, allowing space for controls without obstruction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a central foam seat with cutout is used for flight simulation controls, then control accessibility is improved, but user comfort and impact protection deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The seat is divided into multiple independent sections: a central foam seat portion with cutout for control accessibility, side support portions extending laterally, and a back support portion. This segmentation allows the central area to provide control access while the side and back portions maintain impact protection and user comfort.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the seat are given different properties: the central foam portion is configured with a cutout to provide control accessibility, while the side support portions are extended laterally to provide impact protection. This local differentiation resolves the contradiction between control access and safety.
2Strength
If a fixed seat structure is used, then structural integrity is improved, but adaptability for different controls deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The seat incorporates a movable seat portion that can be adjusted between different positions and orientations. This dynamic capability allows the seat to adapt to various control configurations (flight yokes, racing wheels, pedals) while maintaining structural integrity through the frame assembly and support portions.
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
Enables full directional motion without interference, provides impact protection, and maintains user comfort and control versatility.
Implementation Method 1
formed with a deformably resilient material
Implementation Method 2
a hook-and-loop fastener for easy attachment and detachment
Data Source
AI summary
A racing and flight simulation seat assembly with detachable seat element that includes a seat cushion a structural frame element operably configured to couple with a gaming cockpit framework frame assembly, formed with a deformably resilient material, a seat thickness separating an upper surface and a bottom surface of the seat cushion, with a rear surface interposed between the upper and bottom surfaces of the seat cushion, and with a front surface interposed between the upper and bottom surfaces of the seat cushion, opposing the rear surface of the seat cushion, and defining a cutout channel spanning the seat thickness and spanning rearwardly toward the rear surface of the seat cushion, a seat element selectively removably coupled to the seat cushion with at least one fastener, formed with a deformably resilient material, and disposed within the cutout channel, and with a back cushion coupled to the seat cushion.