Vehicular Storage Lid Width Changing Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing vehicular storage units face limitations in design flexibility due to uniform width dimensions, leading to gaps between the lid and the opening when the opening width changes, which affects the external styling appearance and storage capacity, especially in compact vehicles.
Innovation Solution
A vehicular storage unit with a width changing mechanism that includes slide members, supporting members, and coupling members, allowing the lid to adjust its width direction dimension to match the opening width, thereby preventing gaps and enabling flexible setting of the opening width to suit peripheral components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If the lid is made with a uniform width dimension to maintain a rectangular shape, then the manufacturing is simplified, but gaps occur between the lid and the opening when the opening width changes, deteriorating the external styling appearance
Solution Approach 1:
The lid is designed with a width changing mechanism that allows its width dimension to dynamically adjust and follow the opening width changes. The lid transitions from a static uniform width design to a dynamic adaptive width design, eliminating gaps between the lid and opening while maintaining smooth movement through guide grooves and rail sections.
Solution Approach 2:
The width dimension of the lid is changed from a fixed parameter to a variable parameter that can adapt to different opening widths. The width changing mechanism enables the lid width to be adjusted in response to opening width variations, resolving the contradiction between manufacturing simplicity and external styling appearance.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the opening width is increased to enhance storage capacity and adaptability, then the storage capacity and design flexibility are improved, but gaps occur between the lid and the opening, affecting the external styling appearance
Solution Approach 1:
The lid width is made dynamic to follow the opening width changes. When the opening width is increased to enhance storage capacity and design flexibility, the lid width automatically adjusts through the width changing mechanism, preventing gaps and maintaining external styling appearance.
3Shape
If the lid width is increased to match the opening width, then gaps are prevented and external styling is improved, but the lid structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The lid structure is segmented into multiple components: the lid body, width changing mechanism, guide grooves, and rail sections. This segmentation allows the complex function of width adjustment to be distributed across multiple simpler sub-components, making the overall system more manageable and maintainable.
Solution Approach 2:
The width changing mechanism acts as an intermediary between the lid body and the opening. It mediates the width adjustment process, allowing the lid to match the opening width while maintaining a relatively simple lid body structure. The guide grooves and rail sections serve as intermediaries that guide the width adjustment movement.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the opening width is varied to suit peripheral components in compact vehicles, then the adaptability to peripheral components is improved, but gaps occur between the lid and opening, deteriorating the external styling appearance
Solution Approach 1:
The lid width is made dynamic to adapt to varying opening widths required for different peripheral component configurations in compact vehicles. The width changing mechanism enables the lid to follow opening width changes, preventing gaps and maintaining external styling appearance while maximizing adaptability to peripheral components.
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AI summary
A vehicular storage unit that includes: an elongated shaped storage unit main body that is formed with an opening open toward a vehicle cabin inner side; and a lid that is provided at the vehicle cabin inner side of the opening, and that is supported by the storage unit main body so as to be capable of moving along a length direction of the storage unit main body. An opening width of the opening increases from a specific position on progression from one side toward another side of the storage unit main body in a length direction, and a width of the lid is increased so as to follow the opening width of the opening.