Telescopic Vehicle Garment Rack with Pivotal Joint
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional vehicle clothing racks often obstruct the rear view of drivers and occupy too much space in vehicles, limiting passenger capacity and ease of use.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle garment rack with a telescopic horizontal rod and adjustable vertical leg, utilizing hook and loop fasteners and a pivotal joint, which extends between the front and rear seats, allowing for automatic adjustment with seat movement and easy storage, ensuring unobstructed rear visibility and passenger space.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a conventional vehicle clothing rack is installed between front and rear seats, then it can support clothing items, but it obstructs the driver's rear view and occupies excessive passenger space
Solution Approach 1:
The rack employs a telescopic horizontal rod that can dynamically extend and retract between front and rear seats, and a vertical leg with pivotal joint that can pivot between extended and retracted positions. This dynamic configuration allows the rack to provide full clothing support capability when needed, while completely retracting to eliminate obstruction of the driver's rear view and freeing up passenger space when not in use.
Solution Approach 2:
The rack is divided into separable components including a horizontal rod, vertical leg, and pivotal joint mechanism. The horizontal rod can be independently telescoped, and the vertical leg can be independently pivoted, allowing each segment to be adjusted or removed as needed to minimize space occupation and view obstruction while maintaining clothing support functionality.
2Quantity of substance
If the rack is extended to provide full clothing support, then it can accommodate multiple clothing items, but it reduces available passenger space
Solution Approach 1:
The telescopic horizontal rod and pivotal vertical leg create a dynamic support structure that can extend to accommodate multiple clothing items when needed, while retracting to minimize volume occupation and maximize passenger space when fewer or no items need to be supported.
Solution Approach 2:
The telescopic horizontal rod employs a nested structure where one rod section is inserted within another, allowing the rod to compact to a minimal volume when retracted, thereby reducing space occupation in the passenger area while maintaining full extension capability for supporting multiple clothing items when required.
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 rack provides a space-efficient solution for carrying clothing without obstructing the driver's view or reducing passenger space, allowing for easy installation, adjustment, and storage, while supporting multiple clothing items.
Implementation Method 1
The rack includes a horizontal rod, a vertical leg, a pivotal joint between the horizontal rod and vertical leg, a foot at a bottom end of the vertical leg, and a connector at a top end of the vertical leg
Implementation Method 2
a pivotal joint between the horizontal rod and vertical leg
Data Source
AI summary
A garment rack for a vehicle. The rack includes a horizontal rod for clothes hangers. The front end of the horizontal rod is pivotally supported on the upper end of a vertical rod positioned behind the front seat of the vehicle. The upper end of the vertical rod is secured behind the headrest of the front seat, and the rear end of the horizontal rod is removably attached to the top of the headrest of the rear seat. The horizontal rod is adjustable telescopically so that, as the front or rear seat is moved forward or backward, the rod extends and retracts automatically. The height of the vertical rod also is adjustable.