Spinning Top Accelerator With Gravity-Driven Continuous Acceleration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing spinning top toys require manual operation with both hands and can only be accelerated once, limiting rotational potential energy and reducing fun due to cumbersome and labor-intensive driving methods.
Innovation Solution
A spinning top toy design featuring a housing with a driving device, clamping assembly, and injection pushing assembly, utilizing a gravity block that slides back and forth to drive an acceleration gear set, allowing for continuous acceleration and one-way rotation of the spinning top body through a clutch gear mechanism, enabling multiple accelerations without bidirectional rotation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Duration of action of moving object
If rack acceleration is used to accelerate and rotate the spinning top, then the spinning top can be accelerated, but it can only be accelerated once and cannot obtain more rotational potential energy
Solution Approach 1:
The gravity block continuously slides back and forth on the case, continuously driving the acceleration gear set to rotate,实现连续加速（continuous acceleration）, making the useful action continuous rather than single-event
Solution Approach 2:
The gravity block performs periodic reciprocating motion, and the clutch gear mechanism ensures that the driving gear always rotates in one direction through periodic engagement and disengagement, converting periodic bidirectional motion into unidirectional rotational acceleration
2Ease of operation
If rack acceleration is used to drive the spinning top, then the spinning top can be accelerated, but both hands are required to operate, making it cumbersome and labor-intensive
Solution Approach 1:
The gravity block automatically slides back and forth on the case under gravity action without requiring manual operation,实现自动加速（automatic acceleration）, eliminating the need for manual rack pulling and reducing operation complexity
Solution Approach 2:
Manual mechanical rack pulling is replaced by a gravity-driven automatic acceleration mechanism with gear sets and clutch gears, converting a manual two-handed operation into an automatic single-handed or no-operation system
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
The design allows for easy, continuous acceleration and rotation of the spinning top, enhancing user interaction and fun by eliminating the need for manual operation with both hands and enabling multiple accelerations, thus expanding the toy's functionality and entertainment value.
Implementation Method 1
a gravity block (23) is slidably provided on the case (21), and the gravity block (23) is drivingly connected to the acceleration gear set (22); when the gravity block (23) slides back and forth on the case (21) by swinging
Implementation Method 2
the acceleration gear set includes a first active gear (24), a first clutch gear (25) and a driving gear (26)... when the first clutch gear (25) slides to one end of the first arc-shaped groove (211), the first clutch gear (25) meshes with the driving gear (26), and when the first clutch gear (25) slides to other positions of the first arc-shaped groove (211), the first clutch gear (25) and the driving gear (26) do not contact each other
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AI summary
A spinning top toy includes a spinning top accelerator and a spinning top body movably connected with the spinning top accelerator. The spinning top accelerator includes a housing and a driving device, a clamping assembly and an injection pushing assembly disposed in the housing. The driving device includes a case and an acceleration gear set which is rotatably provided in the case. A gravity block is slidably provided on the case, and the gravity block is drivingly connected to the acceleration gear set. The clamping assembly is drivingly connected to the acceleration gear set, and is used to movable clamp the spinning top body. The injection pushing assembly is used to push the spinning top body. When the gravity block slides back and forth on the case by swinging, the gravity block drives the acceleration gear set to rotate, thereby driving the clamping assembly to rotate.