Swivel Lock Release Mechanism for Tangled Tether Escape
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users participating in watersports face risks due to tangled tethers and equipment failures, with existing swivel lock quick release mechanisms being difficult to operate, especially in wet conditions and dangerous situations, and lacking easy detachment and replacement options.
Innovation Solution
A swivel lock quick release device with a protrusion, locking component, and pull release mechanism that includes a spring for secure detachment without additional pins, allowing for easy disengagement and reengagement, and a grip cover for improved grip and protection, enabling quick and reliable release from equipment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a swivel lock quick release mechanism is used to enable detachment from tether, then user safety in dangerous situations is improved, but the mechanism becomes difficult to operate when wet or in dangerous situations
Solution Approach 1:
A grip cover is introduced as an intermediary component between the user's hand and the quick release handle. This cover provides a textured, non-slip surface that improves grip in wet conditions and dangerous situations, while the spring mechanism ensures reliable detachment when the handle is pulled.
2Ease of operation
If a spring mechanism is used to enable quick release without additional pins, then ease of operation is improved, but accidental release during water activities may occur
Solution Approach 1:
The spring mechanism parameters are carefully selected to achieve the right balance between ease of release and prevention of accidental release. The spring force is calibrated to be strong enough to maintain secure engagement during normal water activities, yet weak enough to allow quick release when deliberately pulled by the user.
3Device complexity
If the quick release mechanism is made compact for portability, then device complexity is reduced, but the handle becomes smaller and harder to locate and grip in dangerous situations
Solution Approach 1:
The grip cover extends the effective dimensions of the handle by adding a textured outer layer that increases the grip surface area and improves tactile feedback. This allows the mechanism to remain compact internally while providing a larger, more easily locatable and grippable external surface for the user.
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 device provides a secure, reliable, and easy-to-use quick release mechanism that prevents entanglement and injury, allowing users to safely detach from equipment in dangerous situations and facilitates easy replacement of tethers and straps without additional components.
Implementation Method 1
a locking component with a spring to allow a user to disengage from the protrusion and reengage without a detachable key, pin, or object
Data Source
AI summary
The swivel lock quick release device is adapted to selectively attach a user to a sports equipment. The sports equipment may be watersports equipment, such as a surfboard, a kite surfing apparatus, a stand-up paddle board, sailing equipment, a wake board, etc., or land sports equipment, such as fishing, camping, climbing, animal collars or leashes, tactical rifle apparatus, and hunting equipment. The swivel lock quick release device can have a pull release and a protrusion, the pull release and the protrusion being adapted to be selectively engaged in a locked position is provided. A slide handle, a portion of the pull release, is adapted to be selectively moved in a coaxial direction by the user to disengage the pull release and the protrusion. The pull release can also be adapted to rotate or swivel around the protrusion.