Trifold Organizer with Elastic Straps for Sun Visor
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional sun-visor organizers for automobiles are cumbersome and lack the ability to fold or collapse, compromising their portability and storage within door pocket compartments.
Innovation Solution
A trifold organizer with elastic straps and fasteners that allows it to attach to a sun visor and fold into smaller sizes, featuring multiple pockets and compartments for securing travel-sized items, including elastic bands for sun visor attachment and Velcro for secure folding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the organizer is made large enough to provide sufficient storage capacity on a sun visor, then storage functionality is improved, but portability and storage within door pockets deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The organizer is divided into three foldable sections that can be collapsed into a compact configuration. This segmentation allows the organizer to maintain full storage capacity when deployed while reducing to a small portable size when folded, resolving the contradiction between storage capacity and portability.
Solution Approach 2:
The organizer transitions from a static fixed-size structure to a dynamic reconfigurable structure through foldable joints. This allows the organizer to adapt its size - expanding to provide sufficient storage on the sun visor and contracting to fit in door pockets, thereby improving both storage functionality and portability.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the organizer is made rigid to maintain structural stability, then stability is improved, but foldability and compact storage deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
By dividing the organizer into multiple rigid sections connected by flexible joints, the design maintains structural stability within each section while enabling overall foldability. The segmented structure allows the organizer to be both stable when deployed and foldable for compact storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The use of flexible connecting elements between rigid sections allows the organizer to fold without compromising the structural integrity of its components. This combination of rigid sections and flexible connections resolves the contradiction between structural stability and foldability.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances portability and storage by allowing the organizer to fit within automobile door compartments while maintaining functionality for carrying cleaning and child care supplies, improving mobility and convenience.
Implementation Method 1
elastic bands for mounting on an automobile sun visor
Implementation Method 2
elastic fasteners for securing a folded trifold organizer in its folded position
Implementation Method 3
attaching at Velcro attachment points
Implementation Method 4
plurality of compartments with elastic straps for securing items within the compartments
Data Source
AI summary
A portable trifold organizer adapted for attachment to an automobile sun visor having a plurality of pockets, a plurality of compartments with elastic straps for securing items within the compartments, and two bifolds to facilitate the trifold design. The plurality of pockets and plurality of compartments have various dimensions to accommodate articles selected for storage, and the two bifolds may have spacer regions to enhance storage capacity of the organizer. The plurality of elastic straps within the compartments has various dimensions to secure a variety of items within the organizer. The trifold design allows the organizer to fold into a size that provides for storage in an automobile door pocket storage compartment. An elastic strap with Velcro end secures the organizer in its folded position by wrapping around the body of the folded organizer and attaching to a Velcro attachment patch on the rear side of the organizer.