Water Spray Assembly with Non-Radial Jets for Interactive Bath Play
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current water toys for young children lack innovative features that enhance interactive play and safety in a water-filled environment, failing to provide engaging and controlled water experiences.
Innovation Solution
A bath toy system featuring a water play space delimiter and a water spray assembly that generates non-radial water sprays, interacting with floatable fanciful elements to create rotational displacement, along with a child-operable joystick for controlling water spray parameters and a multimedia generator for auditory and visual outputs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a water spray assembly generates non-radial water sprays to interact with floatable elements, then interactive play engagement is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The water spray assembly is divided into multiple independent spray nozzles arranged in a circular pattern, each capable of directing water sprays in different directions. This segmentation allows the system to create complex interactive water patterns while keeping each individual nozzle simple in design
Solution Approach 2:
The water spray assembly serves multiple functions: it generates water sprays for play engagement, creates rotational motion through non-radial spray patterns, and can be controlled by a simple joystick interface. This multi-functionality improves interactive play engagement without proportionally increasing device complexity
2Reliability
If a water play space delimiter is introduced to define a separate water play space, then safety and play control are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The water play space delimiter is implemented as a flexible, transparent plastic barrier that can be easily installed and removed. This thin film structure defines a safe, controlled play space without adding significant complexity to the system
Solution Approach 2:
The delimiter acts as an intermediary element that separates the controlled water play space from the rest of the bath, providing safety and play control while maintaining a simple, removable structure that doesn't complicate the overall system
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple spray modulating objects with different spatial configurations are introduced, then play versatility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The spray modulating objects are designed as simple, inexpensive components that can be easily replaced or exchanged. Their simplicity allows for multiple different objects with various spatial configurations to be introduced without significantly increasing overall device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
Different spray modulating objects change the spatial configuration of water sprays through their geometric parameters. By varying the shape and orientation of these simple objects, the system achieves high play versatility without complex mechanical adjustments
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system creates an engaging and interactive water play experience by controlling water spray patterns and multimedia outputs, ensuring safe and entertaining play for young children within a defined water play space.
Implementation Method 1
a water spray assembly generating at least one water spray within the water play space and at least one floatable fanciful element floatable on the water within the water play space. the water spray including a non-radial component in a plane of the delimiter within the water play space and impinging at least intermittently on the at least one floatable fanciful element, thereby causing rotational displacement of the delimiter and the at least one floatable fanciful element in mutually opposite directions
Implementation Method 2
the at least one floatable fanciful element is selectably placeable in water spray receiving engagement with the water spray assembly and is operative to convert a water spray having a first spatial configuration received at at least a first location thereat to a water spray having a second spatial configuration emitted at at least a second location thereat which is different from the first spatial configuration
Implementation Method 3
at least one self-rotatable fanciful spray modulating object which is selectably placeable in water spray receiving engagement with the water spray assembly and which is operative to self-rotate when placed in operative engagement with the at least one water spray
Implementation Method 4
the water spray assembly generates the at least one water spray above a water level within the water play space
Implementation Method 5
at least one floatable fanciful element floatable on the water within the water-filled water play space
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AI summary
A bath toy system including a water play space delimiter arranged to be located in a water-filled bath and to define a water play space separate from a remainder of the water filled bath, a water spray assembly generating at least one water spray within the water play space and at least one floatable fanciful element floatable on the water within the water play space.