Customizable Wobble Dolls Perpendicular Spring Mounting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional bobblehead dolls lack customization and versatility in their wobble mechanism, limiting their application and user interaction.
Innovation Solution
A mounting assembly featuring a spring secured perpendicularly to a mounting plate, allowing for customizable images to be secured, which can be activated manually and exhibit a wobble or wiggle motion due to inertia, with optional microchip integration for audio output and various base configurations for multiple wobble elements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional bobblehead dolls use a vertically mounted spring for head movement, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the movement is limited to bobbing in fixed directions without customization
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting assembly is divided into separate components: a mounting plate for securing the image, a spring element for providing motion, and a base for support. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall simplicity
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting assembly design allows the same basic structure to accommodate various images and configurations. The spring-mounted plate can be used with different images, making the system universal and customizable without requiring complex redesign for each application
2Duration of action of moving object
If the spring is mounted vertically under the head, then the manufacturing process is simple, but the motion duration and interaction capability are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The spring is oriented perpendicular to the mounting plate rather than vertically, enabling dynamic side-to-side wobble motion. This dynamic configuration extends motion duration by allowing the image to rock back and forth in a more natural, extended arc while maintaining simple assembly through perpendicular mounting
3Adaptability or versatility
If customizable images are added to bobblehead dolls, then user interaction and application versatility improve, but the device complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The image is pre-mounted on a separate mounting plate before being attached to the spring assembly. This preliminary action simplifies the final assembly process, as the image unit can be pre-prepared and then easily attached to the spring mechanism, reducing overall manufacturing complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting plate serves as an intermediary between the spring mechanism and the customizable image. This mediator allows images to be easily swapped and customized without affecting the spring mechanism, maintaining ease of manufacture while enabling versatility
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables customizable and interactive wobble heads that can be used in various applications, including greeting cards, advertising, and educational tools, with extended motion duration and versatility in mounting options.
Implementation Method 1
a spring secured to the first mounting plate. The spring is positioned substantially perpendicular with respect to the first mounting plate
Implementation Method 2
inertia takes over darting the head/image from side to side in a wobble/wiggle type motion
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AI summary
An action wobble head doll includes a preprinted, die cut, animated body having an image secured thereto. The image can be a customized digital photograph. The image is secured to the body of the doll via a mounting assembly, which includes a spring secured to at least one mounting plate in a substantially perpendicular manner thereby creating a unique side-to-side movement of the image with respect to the body.