Umbrella Supporting Member Design for Simplified Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing umbrellas with multiple panels have complex spacer assemblies, including many components like brackets and springs, making them difficult to assemble and maintain.
Innovation Solution
The umbrella features a simplified structure with supporting members and fixing members that connect umbrella surfaces to a frame, allowing for a layered design with improved ventilation and a beautiful appearance, using rotatable installation arms and hollow structures with limiting ribs to reduce the number of components and facilitate assembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If traditional spacer assemblies with multiple components (brackets, springs, elongate members) are used to separate umbrella panels, then the umbrella structure provides panel separation and ventilation, but the structure becomes complex and assembly becomes inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple components (bracket, resilient member, elongate member) into a single integrated supporting member. This supporting member includes a fixing end that connects to the umbrella rib, an installing end that connects to the umbrella surface, and intermediate portions with first and second supporting surfaces that provide both structural support and ventilation functions. By merging these previously separate components into one piece, the structure becomes simpler and assembly more convenient while maintaining panel separation and ventilation capabilities.
2Reliability
If multiple components are used in spacer assemblies, then the umbrella provides stable panel separation, but the number of parts increases making assembly inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the bracket, resilient member, and elongate member into a single supporting member structure. This unified component maintains the functional benefits of the original multi-component system (panel separation, stability, ventilation) while reducing the number of parts that need to be assembled.
Solution Approach 2:
The supporting member is designed with distinct functional segments: a fixing end for connecting to the umbrella rib, an installing end for connecting to the umbrella surface, and intermediate portions with supporting surfaces. This segmentation allows each part of the single component to perform its specific function effectively, maintaining reliability while simplifying the overall structure.
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AI summary
This application provides an umbrella including an umbrella frame, supporting members, rotating shafts, fixing members, and umbrella surfaces. The umbrella surfaces are installed at the umbrella frame through connections of the supporting members and the fixing members so as to form a layered structure with a beautiful appearance and good breathability and ventilation. Each of the supporting members has installation arms which can be directly installed at the umbrella rib through the rotating shaft. Each of the supporting members has a first supporting surface and a second supporting surface cooperating with the umbrella rib to achieve limitation, which can limit a rotation range of the supporting members and reduce members such as a bracket, a spring and so on. The structure is simpler, and the assembly is very convenient.