Variable Space Golf Club Cover With Integrated Piping Magnets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional club covers face issues with accommodating larger golf club heads, leading to drooping entrance spaces that cause interference when stored, and existing solutions like magnets require multiple units to maintain sufficient force, increasing manufacturing costs and introducing foreign materials.
Innovation Solution
A club cover with a flexible entrance space that uses piping parts with integrated magnets and magnet pockets to efficiently expand and contract, minimizing the distance between magnets to reduce the number needed and prevent foreign material entry, while allowing easy insertion and withdrawal of club heads.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the entrance space part is made big to accommodate larger club heads, then the club head can be easily inserted and withdrawn, but the entrance space part droops and causes interference when multiple club covers are stored
Solution Approach 1:
The entrance space part is designed as a flexible structure that can dynamically change its shape. When a club head is inserted, the flexible material stretches to accommodate the club head. When the club head is removed, the material returns to its original shape, preventing drooping and interference with other club covers during storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The physical state of the entrance space part changes based on usage. The flexible material transitions from a contracted state (when no club head is present) to an expanded state (when a club head is inserted), allowing the same structure to serve both ease of operation and prevention of interference.
2Adaptability or versatility
If magnets are attached to the inner surface of thick outer fabric to expand and contract the entrance space part, then the space can be variable, but the attaching force is insufficient and multiple magnets are required, increasing manufacturing cost
Solution Approach 1:
The magnet is integrated directly into the piping part structure rather than being separately attached to the fabric. This merging of the magnet with the piping component allows for more effective magnetic force application with fewer magnets, reducing manufacturing complexity and cost while achieving the variable space function.
3Force
If multiple magnets are used to increase attaching force in thick fabric, then the variable space function is improved, but the distance between magnets increases, creating open spaces that allow foreign materials to enter
Solution Approach 1:
By integrating magnets into the piping parts, the structure eliminates gaps between magnetic components. The magnets are positioned adjacent to each other within the piping structure, maintaining strong magnetic force while preventing foreign materials from entering through open spaces that would exist if magnets were separately attached to fabric.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The club cover effectively protects and stores larger club heads without damage, reduces manufacturing costs, and maintains a clean, interference-free design by minimizing the number of magnets and eliminating open spaces for foreign matter.
Implementation Method 1
magnets M attached to the inner side of an outer fabric 14b of the foldable part 14. Accordingly, the entrance space part 13 of a golf club is expanded and contracted by the attachment and detachment of the magnets M
Data Source
AI summary
A club cover having variable internal space is proposed by being configured to be flexible in an entrance space part thereof, through which a golf club head (hereinbelow referred to as “a club head”) is inserted into and withdrawn from the club clover. More particularly, a club cover having variable internal space is proposed, wherein when a club head is inserted into the club cover, front and rear surfaces of a body part are brought close to each other to protect the club head, and when the club head is withdrawn, the front and rear surfaces of the body part are spaced apart from each other, so the club head is easily withdrawn and stored, and is safely stored without damage.