Tent Skeleton Support Structure With Integrated Magnetic Lighting

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing tent skeletons lack sufficient stability and lighting convenience, with main brackets lacking limiting structures, leading to potential collapse under heavy loads and requiring separate lighting equipment.

Innovation Solution

A tent skeleton with a supporting and limiting structure featuring a main hinge seat, auxiliary hinge seat, magnetically connected light stick, and diamond-shaped telescopic frames, along with a detachable light stick for integrated lighting and stability enhancement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If a main bracket is used to support the entire tent as a whole, then the tent structure can be simplified and assembled quickly, but the main bracket lacks limiting structure causing severe downward press and shrinkage of side supporting rods under heavy gravity loads

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveassembly simplicityVSAvoidsupporting stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The tent skeleton is divided into multiple independent components: main hinge seat, auxiliary hinge seat, top rods, connecting rods, supporting rods, and limiting supporting rods. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function while maintaining overall structural stability, resolving the contradiction between assembly simplicity and supporting stability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Limiting supporting rods are pre-installed between the auxiliary hinge seat and top rods to provide preliminary counter-action against downward gravitational forces. This preliminary anti-action prevents severe shrinkage of side supporting rods before heavy loads are applied, maintaining structural integrity while preserving assembly simplicity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #9Preliminary anti-action

2Device complexity

If the tent uses a basic skeleton structure without integrated lighting, then the structure remains simple, but nighttime lighting becomes inconvenient requiring separate lighting equipment

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructure simplicityVSAvoidlighting convenience

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The lighting function is merged with the tent skeleton structure by integrating a light stick between the main hinge seat and auxiliary hinge seat using magnetic connection. This combination provides convenient nighttime lighting while maintaining relative structural simplicity, as the lighting component can be easily attached or removed without complex installation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The light stick serves multiple functions: it provides nighttime illumination, acts as an additional structural connector between hinge seats, and can be easily removed or repositioned. This multi-functionality addresses lighting convenience needs while preserving structure simplicity through a single integrated component.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Strength

If limiting supporting rods are added to the auxiliary hinge seat, then the stability and load-bearing capacity of the tent skeleton is improved, but the number of parts and assembly complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveload-bearing capacityVSAvoidnumber of parts

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The connection between limiting supporting rods and the hinge seats utilizes magnetic connection instead of traditional mechanical fastening methods. This substitution maintains strong load-bearing capacity and structural stability while simplifying the assembly process, as magnetic connections require no additional fasteners or complex joining mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

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 structure provides enhanced stability through telescopic frames and integrated lighting, allowing for easy assembly and disassembly, and the light stick serves multiple functions, enhancing usability.

Implementation Method 1

a light stick is magnetically connected between the main hinge seat and the auxiliary hinge seat

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectMagnetism: Magnetism

Data Source

PatentUS20260022582A1Tent Skeleton With Supporting and Limiting Structure

Publication Date: 2026.01.22 NINGBO KINGWELL LEISURE PRODUCTS CO LTD

AI summary

The present invention discloses a tent skeleton with a supporting and limiting structure, including a main hinge seat and an auxiliary hinge seat. A light stick is magnetically connected between the main hinge seat and the auxiliary hinge seat, four top rods are hinged to a middle part of an outer side of the main hinge seat; one end, away from the main hinge seat, of each of the four top rods is hinged to a connecting rod; one end, away from the top rod, of each of the four top rods is hinged to an upper connecting seat; bottoms of the four upper connecting seats are fixedly connected to supporting rods; each of the four supporting rods is slidably connected to a lower connecting seat; and each of the four lower connecting seats is hinged to a top cross rod.