Two-wheeler stand with fillable base element and method
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing two-wheeler stands are laborious to set up for initial use and are not suitable for private individuals due to their complex preparation requirements and limited usability.
Innovation Solution
A two-wheeler stand with a fillable base element and detachable carrying elements, allowing for easy transportation and assembly by filling the base with a heavy medium like water or cement to enhance stability, featuring a positioning element for wheel support and support elements for the fork or wheel, enabling stable placement and compact, lightweight design.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If a reinforced concrete block is used to provide sufficient mass for stability, then the two-wheeler stand becomes stable and prevents tipping over, but the stand becomes heavy and difficult to transport
Solution Approach 1:
The stand is divided into separate components: a lightweight base element and detachable carrying elements. The base element can be filled with heavy medium (water, sand, or cement) through a filling hole to provide stability when needed, while remaining lightweight and transportable when empty. This segmentation allows the stand to achieve stability only when required, resolving the contradiction between stability and weight.
2Weight of moving object
If the base element is made hollow and fillable with heavy medium, then the stand becomes transportable and cost-effective, but requires additional filling operations to achieve stability
Solution Approach 1:
The base element is designed with a filling hole that allows users to independently fill the chamber with heavy medium (water, sand, or cement) using readily available materials. This self-service approach eliminates the need for complex assembly operations or specialized equipment, making the stand easy to operate and customize while maintaining transportability. Users can fill the base element themselves based on their stability needs.
3Ease of operation
If the carrying element is made detachable, then the stand becomes easier to transport and assemble, but requires connection and disconnection operations
Solution Approach 1:
The stand is segmented into a base element and detachable carrying elements that can be easily connected and disconnected. This segmentation simplifies transport and assembly operations while maintaining structural integrity when assembled. The carrying elements can be attached to the base element through simple connecting means, allowing users to quickly assemble or disassemble the stand without complex operations.
4Stability of the object's composition
If the base element chamber is filled with heavy medium, then the stand provides sufficient mass for stability, but increases the volume and weight when empty
Solution Approach 1:
The base element's mass is made dynamic rather than fixed. The chamber can be filled with heavy medium (water, sand, or cement) to provide stability when needed, and emptied to reduce volume and weight for transport. This dynamic mass configuration allows the stand to adapt between two states: a stable, mass-filled state for use and a lightweight, empty state for transport, resolving the contradiction between stability and volume.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution provides a simple, lightweight, and cost-effective two-wheeler stand suitable for private use, allowing easy transportation and quick setup by filling the base with a heavy medium, ensuring stability and versatility.
Implementation Method 1
The base element is made up at least of an upper wall, a lower wall, and a circumferential wall which connects the upper wall and the lower wall. The upper wall, the lower wall and the circumferential wall enclose a chamber and may gradually blend into each other. The base element is thus hollow, as were, and as such it can be filled with a relatively heavy medium, such as water, cement or sand.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a two-wheeler stand and also to a method for assembling the same, which two-wheeler stand is configured to support a two-wheeler parked in or on the two-wheeler stand and which comprises a base element provided with a positioning element at the upper side thereof, which positioning element defines a wheel supporting surface, a carrying element which extends upward from the base element, a support element carried by the carrying element above the wheel supporting surface, which support element supports a two-wheeler parked in the two-wheeler stand in use. The invention is characterized in that the base element is made up at least of an upper wall, a lower wall, and a circumferential wall which connects the upper wall and the lower wall, wherein the upper wall, the lower wall and the circumferential wall enclose a chamber, and wherein a filling hole is provided in the base element, so that the chamber can be filled with a medium through the filling hole.