Snowboard Edge Stop with Ground Protrusions for Slipping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current snowboards are ineffective in stopping or stabilizing a snowboarder on slippery snowy or icy surfaces, particularly when inserting or removing boots from bindings or on sloped areas, due to their design for sliding rather than stopping.
Innovation Solution
A snowboard stop device with a bottom portion having protrusions for ground contact and a top portion for snowboard contact, clipped onto the edge of the snowboard, creates friction to anchor and stabilize the snowboard, allowing the snowboarder to stop or slow down.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If a snowboard is designed for sliding along snowy surfaces, then the snowboard can move smoothly across the snow, but the snowboard cannot effectively stop or stabilize the snowboarder
Solution Approach 1:
The snowboard stop device is a separate, detachable component that can be clipped onto the snowboard edge when stopping is needed and removed when sliding is needed. This segmentation allows the snowboard to have both sliding capability and stopping capability without compromising either function, as the stopping mechanism is added only when required.
2Force
If the snowboard stop device uses protrusions for ground contact, then friction is increased to enable stopping, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The protrusions are located only on the ground-contactable side of the bottom portion of the stop device, which is the specific area that needs to interact with the ground for friction-based stopping. The rest of the device maintains a simpler structure that can be easily clipped onto the snowboard edge, thus increasing friction force only where necessary without proportionally increasing overall device complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The device effectively prevents sliding and stabilizes the snowboarder by generating friction between the protrusions and the ground, enabling secure stopping and stabilization, even on slopes, and can be easily removed for resumed sliding.
Implementation Method 1
friction is caused between the ground and the one or more protrusions on the ground-contactable side of the bottom portion such that the snowboard at least partially stops relative to the ground
Implementation Method 2
The top and bottom portions of the first snowboard stop device press against the top and bottom sides of the snowboard to cause the first snowboard stop device to be substantially anchored adjacent the longitudinal edge of the snowboard at which the first snowboard stop device is clipped
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment, a snowboard stop device includes a bottom portion having a snowboard-contactable side and a ground-contactable side. The ground-contactable side of the bottom portion has one or more protrusions. The snowboard stop device includes a top portion having a snowboard-contactable side, and a curved edge portion joining the bottom portion of the snowboard stop device to the top portion of the snowboard stop device. The snowboard stop device is clippable on an edge of a snowboard such that the snowboard-contactable side of the bottom portion at least partially contacts a bottom side of the snowboard and the snowboard-contactable side of the top portion at least partially contacts a top side of the snowboard. Friction is caused between the ground and the one or more protrusions on the ground-contactable side of the bottom portion such that the snowboard at least partially stops relative to the ground.