Virtual Stability Checking for Assembling Toy Connections
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of assembling toys, such as Legos, face challenges in determining the stability of connections and balance before actual assembly, leading to trial and error and inconvenience, especially when creating custom designs.
Innovation Solution
A method and device that assess connection stability by calculating coupling power and weight information of assembling elements in a virtual space, and balance stability by analyzing mass distribution and location data, allowing users to check stability before physical assembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users directly assemble assembling toys in actual space, then they can create custom designs, but they face trial and error and inconvenience due to inability to check stability beforehand
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs stability checking calculations before actual assembly by computing coupling power based on coupling types and numbers, weight information of assembling elements, and mass distribution. This preliminary virtual assessment allows users to verify connection and balance stability before physically assembling, eliminating trial and error time while maintaining ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual model of the assembling toy structure that replicates the physical assembly's weight distribution and coupling characteristics. By calculating stability parameters in this virtual copy, users can assess connection and balance stability without physical trial assembly, reducing time loss while preserving operational simplicity
2Adaptability or versatility
If users create custom designs with complex assembly structures, then design versatility increases, but connection stability becomes difficult to determine
Solution Approach 1:
The patent provides feedback on connection stability by calculating coupling power for each coupling part based on coupling type, coupling number, and weight information. This quantitative feedback allows users to assess and adjust their custom designs to ensure adequate connection stability while maintaining design versatility
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces physical trial assembly with computational mechanics calculations. By substituting the mechanical trial-and-error process with mathematical computations of coupling power and mass distribution, the system enables users to create versatile custom designs while reliably determining connection stability through calculation rather than physical testing
3Adaptability or versatility
If users create custom designs with complex assembly structures, then design versatility increases, but balance stability becomes difficult to determine
Solution Approach 1:
The patent provides feedback on balance stability by calculating mass distribution across the virtual model of the assembling toy. This computational feedback allows users to assess and adjust their custom designs for adequate balance stability while maintaining design versatility, without requiring physical balancing trials
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a method for checking connection stability of a plurality of assembling elements disposed in a virtual space, each of the assembling elements having at least one coupling part complementarily coupled to another coupling part and being connected to another assembling element through the coupling part. A connection stability checking method includes: assigning preset weight information to the assembling element; calculating a coupling power of the coupling part in consideration of a coupling type and a coupling number of the coupling part; and determining connection stability between the assembling element and another assembling element on the basis of the coupling power and the weight information assigned to the assembling element.