Tripartite Support Mechanism for Vehicle Frame Components
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Solution Overview
Problem
Three-wheeled roadsters face challenges in achieving better handling and speed while maintaining a sleek design, with existing designs often compromising on weight and center of gravity.
Innovation Solution
A tripartite vehicle component support mechanism that includes a monolithic or integrated structure providing support for a windshield, side view mirror, and body panel, reducing weight and lowering the center of gravity, thereby enhancing speed and agility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Weight of moving object
If traditional separate mounting structures are used for windshield, side view mirror, and body panel, then each component can be independently supported, but the overall vehicle weight increases and center of gravity rises
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines three separate mounting functions (windshield support, side view mirror support, and body panel support) into a single integrated tripartite mounting structure. This consolidation eliminates the need for multiple separate mounting components, thereby reducing overall weight while maintaining all necessary support functions. The unified structure lowers the center of gravity compared to distributed separate mountings.
Solution Approach 2:
The tripartite mounting structure is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: supporting the windshield, mounting the side view mirror, and securing the body panel. This multi-functional design reduces the total number of components needed, simplifying the mounting system while achieving weight reduction goals.
2Reliability
If multiple separate support components are used for frame-mounted vehicle components, then each component can be independently secured, but the device complexity and weight increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates three separate support functions into one unified tripartite mounting structure, maintaining reliable support for the windshield, side view mirror, and body panel through a single consolidated component rather than multiple separate parts.
3Strength
If heavier mounting structures are used to ensure structural support, then component security is improved, but vehicle speed and agility decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The consolidated tripartite mounting structure provides sufficient structural strength to support all three components (windshield, side view mirror, body panel) while being lighter than traditional separate mounting systems, thereby improving vehicle speed and agility without compromising support capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting structure utilizes composite or optimized materials that provide high strength-to-weight ratio, ensuring adequate structural support for the mounted components while minimizing weight to enhance vehicle performance characteristics.
Data Source
AI summary
A vehicle is described herein that includes a unibody vehicle frame, a vehicle body panel, and one or more monolithic tripartite support mechanisms, which mechanisms provide structural support for at least three frame-mounted vehicle components. Each support mechanism includes a windshield support arm, a side view mirror support arm, and a body panel fixing plate. The side view mirror support arm extends from the windshield support, and the body panel fixing plate extends from the windshield support arm, the side-view mirror support arm, or both. Additionally, the windshield support arm holds a windshield to the vehicle, the side view mirror support arm holds a side view mirror to the vehicle, and the fixing plate secures the body panel to the frame.