Stroller Canopy Mount Fixture With Pivoting Retention Structure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing child stroller canopy assemblies require complex mechanisms with multiple parts for adjustment, increasing manufacturing costs and assembly complexity.
Innovation Solution
A canopy assembly with a support bow and mount fixtures featuring pivotally connected coupling parts with integral retaining structures, allowing relative rotation and secure affixation to the stroller frame, reducing the number of components needed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a complex adjustment mechanism with multiple parts is used to achieve canopy extension adjustment, then the canopy can be adjusted to different positions, but the device complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into a single integrated mount fixture component. The mount fixture includes a coupling part that simultaneously provides pivotal connection, retention, and attachment functions, eliminating the need for separate shafts, fastening elements, and retaining structures. This merging of functions directly reduces the number of component parts while maintaining the canopy adjustment capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The coupling part of the mount fixture is designed as a multi-functional component that performs multiple operations: it enables pivotal connection between the support bow and support frame, provides retention through the retaining structure, and allows attachment/detachment of the canopy assembly. This multi-functionality reduces the overall device complexity by replacing multiple specialized parts with one universal component.
2Reliability
If multiple separate components are used for canopy assembly, then each component can be optimized for its specific function, but the assembly complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple previously separate components into a single mount fixture assembly. The coupling part combines the pivotal connection mechanism, retention structure, and attachment interface into one integrated component, reducing the total number of parts that need to be manufactured, inventoried, and assembled, thereby lowering manufacturing costs and assembly complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
While integrating functions, the mount fixture is designed as an independently replaceable module that can be easily attached to and removed from the support frame. This modular segmentation allows the mount fixture to be manufactured and tested separately, then installed as a complete unit, simplifying both manufacturing and assembly processes.
3Device complexity
If a fixed canopy structure is used, then the structure is simpler, but the canopy cannot be adjusted to different extension positions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the fixed canopy structure into a dynamic, adjustable system by incorporating a pivotal connection through the coupling part of the mount fixture. This allows the support bow and canopy to rotate relative to the support frame, enabling the canopy to extend to different positions while maintaining structural simplicity through the integrated mount fixture design.
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AI summary
A canopy assembly can include a support bow having a side end portion, and a mount fixture including two coupling parts pivotally connected together, one of the two coupling parts being adapted to securely affix with the side end portion, and the other one of the two coupling parts being configured to affix with a support frame of a child carrier apparatus. Each of the two coupling parts can include a retaining structure integrally formed therewith, the retaining structures being engaged with each other to hold the two coupling parts together while allowing relative rotation between the two coupling parts.