Child transport device
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional child seats are heavy, difficult to handle, and occupy significant space, while existing baby carriers lack the safety features of child seats, especially in vehicle configurations.
Innovation Solution
A transformable child transport device that can switch between a vehicle configuration for rearward-facing child seat and a carrying configuration, utilizing a safety harness and adjustable attachment members to ensure ease of handling and safety, with a main body made of soft material that can be tensioned between support elements in the vehicle.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a conventional child seat with a rigid shell is used, then safety protection is improved, but weight increases making it difficult to handle
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the conventional rigid plastic shell with a flexible main body made of textile material that can be tensioned between support elements. This flexible construction dramatically reduces weight while maintaining safety through the tensioning mechanism that creates a rigid structure during use, resolving the contradiction between safety protection and ease of handling.
Solution Approach 2:
The child transport device transitions from a static rigid shell to a dynamic flexible structure that can be tensioned and adjusted. The main body material changes from rigid plastic to flexible textile that gains structural integrity when tensioned between support elements, allowing the device to be lightweight during handling but rigid during use.
2Reliability
If a conventional child seat with a rigid shell is used, then safety protection is improved, but device complexity and space occupation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible textile main body replaces the complex rigid shell structure, simplifying the overall device construction. The tensioning mechanism using textile belts and support elements creates the necessary structural integrity without requiring a heavy plastic shell, reducing both device complexity and space occupation.
3Ease of operation
If a baby carrier is used instead of a child seat, then ease of handling is improved, but safety protection is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The device is designed to perform multiple functions: it can be used as a baby carrier for easy handling during transport, and as a child seat with safety harness and support elements for protected travel in vehicles. The same flexible main body and tensioning mechanism provide both carrying convenience and collision safety, eliminating the need to choose between the two functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The device dynamically adapts its structural properties based on usage mode. During carrying, the flexible textile construction provides ease of handling. During vehicle travel, the tensioning mechanism activates to create a rigid safety structure with proper support elements, ensuring collision protection while maintaining ease of handling when not in use.
4Ease of operation
If the main body is made of soft material for comfort, then ease of operation is improved, but strength is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The main body material dynamically transitions from a soft, flexible state during handling to a rigid, strong state during use through tensioning between support elements. The textile material allows easy manipulation when loose but develops sufficient strength when tensioned, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and structural strength.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible textile main body replaces rigid materials, allowing easy handling and comfort. When tensioned between support elements during vehicle use, the textile structure develops sufficient strength to provide safety protection, combining the benefits of soft material flexibility with necessary structural strength.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a child transport device for a child. The child transport device is transformable between a vehicle configuration adapted for attachment in a vehicle, and a carrying configuration adapted for carrying the child against a body of a person. The child transport device comprises a main body, which comprises a safety harness adapted to attach the child to the main body. In the vehicle configuration, a front portion of the main body is adapted to be supported by a first support element, and a rear portion of the main body is adapted to be supported by a second support element, the main body being adapted to be tensioned, such that it when tensioned bridges a distance between the first and second support elements. The disclosure further relates to a method of attaching the child transport device to a vehicle.