Vehicle Visor Cover with Strap Connectors and Poles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle visor covers require customization for specific visor shapes and are not user-friendly or functional in terms of easy attachment.
Innovation Solution
A vehicle visor cover design featuring a cover panel with top and bottom loops and straps with connectors that securely attach to poles, allowing for easy assembly and adjustment, providing a universal fit across various visor shapes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the cover is fixed to the visor by making the cover a sleeve or having fixed strapping, then the cover is securely attached to the visor, but the cover requires customization for specific visor shapes and is not user-friendly
Solution Approach 1:
The cover is divided into a cover body and removable strapping components. The strapping can be detached and reattached, allowing the cover to be universally fitted to different visor shapes without requiring custom molding for each visor type, thereby maintaining secure attachment while improving ease of installation and removal.
Solution Approach 2:
The removable strapping design with connectors allows a single cover design to accommodate multiple visor shapes and sizes. The strapping can be adjusted and reconfigured to fit various visor configurations, making the cover universal rather than requiring customized sleeves for each specific visor type.
2Manufacturing precision
If the cover is customized to fit specific visor shapes, then the cover provides a precise fit, but the device complexity increases and requires multiple customized covers
Solution Approach 1:
A single standardized cover design with adjustable removable strapping can fit multiple visor shapes and sizes. The strapping system allows the same cover body to be adapted to different visors by adjusting strap length and configuration, eliminating the need for multiple customized cover variants.
Solution Approach 2:
The removable strapping provides dynamic adjustability, allowing the cover to be configured for different visor shapes. The strapping can be tightened, loosened, and repositioned to accommodate various visor geometries, providing precision fit without requiring multiple static cover designs.
3Ease of operation
If removable strapping is used to attach the cover, then the cover is easier to attach and remove, but the attachment mechanism becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment system is segmented into separate components: the cover body with attachment points and the removable strapping with connectors. This segmentation allows the strapping to be independently designed for ease of removal and reattachment while keeping the cover body simple and universally applicable.
Data Source
AI summary
A cover for a vehicle includes two straps with at least one strap forming a connector at one end; a cover panel with at least one of top and bottom loops along top and bottom peripheries of the cover panel and at least one of a first and second opening along at least one of the one of top and bottom loops configured to receive a connector on the end of the at least one strap; and at least one of a first and a second pole disposed through the loop of the cover panel and engaging the connector on the end of the at least one strap. The connector is configured to releasably secure the strap to the cover panel. The cover panel may be placed against one side of a visor with the straps against the other side of the visor to form a system. A method for assembling the cover and system are also disclosed.