Protective Tracking Device Mounts for Impact and Ingress Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing wireless tracking devices require additional hardware for mounting and are susceptible to dirt, debris, and water ingress, lacking ruggedness and impact resistance.

Innovation Solution

Mounts with a housing that securely retains tracking devices, featuring a coupler for attachment to various surfaces and a design that prevents rattling and protects against impacts, while allowing sound transmission and preventing ingress of liquids and debris.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If wireless tracking devices are mounted using additional hardware, then the tracking device can be physically secured to objects, but the device becomes more susceptible to dirt, debris, and water ingress

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetracking device securityVSAvoiddirt, debris, and water ingress

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the mounting hardware and protective housing into a single integrated unit. The housing itself serves as both the mounting structure and the protective barrier, eliminating the need for separate mounting components that would create additional exposure points for dirt, debris, and water ingress.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The housing performs multiple functions simultaneously: it provides structural protection against environmental factors, serves as the mounting interface for attaching to objects, and secures the tracking device internally. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by making the housing both the protective barrier and the mounting mechanism.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Strength

If the housing is made rugged to hold up to impacts, then the tracking device is better protected, but the housing may interfere with sound transmission

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveimpact resistanceVSAvoidsound transmission interference

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The housing is designed with different local properties: the main body is made rugged for impact resistance, while specific localized areas (such as sound transmission zones) are designed with different material properties or structural features that allow sound to pass through. This local differentiation resolves the contradiction between strength and sound transmission.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent incorporates flexible or thin-walled sections in the housing that allow sound vibrations to transmit through while maintaining the overall structural integrity and impact resistance of the housing. These flexible sections act as acoustic windows while the rest of the housing remains rigid for protection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Data Source

PatentUS20260037769A1Mounts for tracking devices

Publication Date: 2026.02.05 ELEVATION LAB INC

AI summary

Mounts (10) for securing a tracking device (12) to an article (14) comprise a housing (16) having an internal volume (18) configured to selectively receive and retain the tracking device (12) in the housing (16).