Suction Pool Game Device with Spring-Actuated Release
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for innovative swimming pool game systems that allow swimmers to engage in underwater play, competition, and exercise while providing entertainment and improving swimming skills, as existing devices lack variety and effectiveness in these areas.
Innovation Solution
A device comprising a housing with a grab member, an actuator, a spring, and a flexible disk that can be secured to a swimming pool surface via suction, allowing for underwater games and exercises, with optional features like light-emitting members and communication capabilities for enhanced play.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing pool exercise devices are used, then swimmers can exercise in the pool, but the devices lack variety and effectiveness in providing underwater play and competition
Solution Approach 1:
The device combines multiple functions into a single unit: it serves as both an exercise resistance device and a game element. The suction cup attachment mechanism allows it to be used for swimming against resistance, while the same device can be played with underwater as a game object, providing both exercise and entertainment value
2Reliability
If suction cup devices are attached to pool surfaces, then the device can be secured in place, but water pressure may cause detachment
Solution Approach 1:
The suction cup is designed with a curved, dome-shaped surface that conforms to the pool surface curvature. This curved geometry helps distribute water pressure evenly across the suction cup surface, preventing detachment while maintaining secure attachment
3Adaptability or versatility
If the device is made water-proof to operate underwater, then it can function in the pool environment, but water ingress may still occur
Solution Approach 1:
The device incorporates a flexible waterproof membrane or coating that seals internal components from water ingress. This flexible barrier allows the device to operate reliably underwater while protecting internal mechanisms from water damage
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The device enables engaging underwater games and exercises, improving swimming skills and entertainment, while ensuring safety and breath training through secure attachment and easy removal from pool surfaces, even under water pressure.
Implementation Method 1
the device adapted to cause the flexible disk member (E) to engage a flat surface of swimming pool by suction when the lock member (F) is released and the actuator member (B) is urged in an upward direction by spring member (C)
Data Source
AI summary
A kit comprising at least 2 devices adapted to be easily attached by way of suction to one or more sides or a bottom of a swimming pool, each of the devices having a grab member adapted to be grabbed by a hand of a child player or an adult player, the devices adapted to be easily attached to a side or bottom of the pool. A game can be played with the devices after they are attached at separate points such that a player may grab a first device with one hand and then a second device with another hand, moving along said side or said bottom while remaining under water. The device comprises a housing having an upper grab member having a height, diameter, cross-section, shape, and surface configured to be grabbed by a hand of a child or an adult, an actuator member configured to move up and down within the upper grab member, a spring member within the upper grab member arranged and adapted to urge the actuator member in an upward direction, and a flexible disk shaped member adapted to engage a swimming pool side or bottom by suction. The device is waterproof and is designed to be engaged by suction by pressing a release button while the flexible disk shaped member is pressed against an underwater pool surface.