Spinning Top Toy Hook Mechanism for Modular Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional spinning top toys have integrated components that cannot be readily disassembled, limiting customization and performance variations.
Innovation Solution
A spinning top toy design featuring a body and shaft portion that are separate pieces, with a hook mechanism allowing for easy assembly and disassembly based on relative rotational positions, and an adjuster ring that can be attached or detached to vary performance, including a flywheel for enhanced spinning stability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If the body and shaft portion are integrated as a single component, then the structural strength and stability are improved, but the ease of assembly and disassembly deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The spinning top is divided into separate body and shaft portion components that can be easily assembled and disassembled through a hook mechanism, while maintaining structural integrity during operation
2Adaptability or versatility
If the components are designed to be easily disassembled, then the ease of customization is improved, but the reliability of the connection deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The hook mechanism provides dynamic connection that is easily engageable and disengageable, yet maintains reliable connection during spinning operation through proper mechanical design
Solution Approach 2:
The connection parameters are designed to allow easy assembly/disassembly under normal conditions while maintaining stable connection during operation through the spring mechanism and hook geometry
3Duration of action of moving object
If a heavy flywheel is added to prolong spinning time, then the duration of action is improved, but the weight of the spinning top increases
Solution Approach 1:
The flywheel is designed as a separate adjustable component that can be independently added or removed, allowing weight optimization while maintaining spinning duration benefits
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 easy customization and prolonged spinning performance, promoting competitiveness and strategic gameplay by allowing the heavy flywheel to continue spinning while the body is affected by external forces, preventing immediate separation upon impact.
Implementation Method 1
an upper face of the first hook and a bottom face of the second hook come into contact by an urging force of a spring in the couplable state
Implementation Method 2
an adjuster ring that varies the performance of the spinning top toy, the adjuster ring being disposed between the body and the shaft portion in a coupled state of the body and the shaft portion. The adjuster ring can include a fly wheel
Data Source
AI summary
A spinning top toy including a body and a separate shaft portion. The body has a first hook and the shaft portion has a second hook. The body and the shaft portion are switchable between couplable and decouplable states depending on a relative rotational position. The first hook and the second hook are vertically aligned in the couplable state, and are vertically misaligned in the decouplable state. An urging unit brings an upper face of the first hook and a bottom face of the second hook into contact by an urging force of a spring in the couplable state. The body and the shaft portion enter the couplable state by turning and pushing. The body and the shaft portion engage each other by bringing the upper face of the first hook into contact with the bottom face of the second hook by the urging force of the spring.