Soft Folding Car Cover Skeleton for Lightweight Waterproofing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current car covers for pick-up trucks are overly complex and material-intensive, leading to increased weight and production costs while providing only a basic waterproof effect.
Innovation Solution
A soft folding car cover design featuring a longitudinal and transverse support structure that forms a skeleton, allowing for direct attachment of waterproof leather, reducing weight and production costs while maintaining a waterproof effect.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a frame structure with cover plate and support beam is used, then waterproof effect is ensured, but device complexity and material consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes the complex frame structure, cover plate, and support beam from the traditional design. Instead, it uses a simplified skeleton structure composed of longitudinal and transverse support members that directly hold the waterproof fabric, eliminating unnecessary structural components while maintaining waterproof functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The support structure is segmented into longitudinal support members and transverse support members that form a skeleton framework. This segmentation allows the structure to be lighter and more flexible while still providing adequate support for the waterproof fabric across the cargo hopper.
2Reliability
If a frame structure with cover plate and support beam is used, then waterproof effect is ensured, but weight increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the heavy frame structure, cover plate, and support beam components from the design. The remaining skeleton structure with longitudinal and transverse support members significantly reduces weight while the waterproof fabric maintains the essential waterproof function.
3Reliability
If more material is used in frame structure, then waterproof effect is ensured, but production cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and eliminates material-intensive components such as the frame structure, cover plate, and support beam. The simplified skeleton structure requires significantly less material while the waterproof fabric alone provides the necessary waterproof protection, thereby reducing production costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The design adopts a more economical approach by using lighter, less expensive materials for the skeleton structure and relying on the waterproof fabric for its primary protective function, rather than using expensive, heavy frame and plate structures.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention discloses a soft folding car cover, which includes a longitudinal support structure and a transverse support structure connected to the longitudinal support structure, the longitudinal support structure and transverse support structure are used to support the leather, by forming a cover skeleton with a longitudinal support structure and a transverse support structure, and then attaching a waterproof leather directly to the cover skeleton, the invention can minimise the weight as well as the cost of the cover, while providing a waterproof effect.