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Innovative new folding bicycle design by Graham Powell

格雷厄姆·鲍威尔 (Graham Powell) 设计的创新折叠自行车

基本信息

批准号：
710395
负责人：
金额：
$ 7.44万
依托单位：
NINETWENTY LTD
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
GRD Proof of Concept
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2013 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=710395
关键词：
Innovative new folding bicycle design

项目摘要

The project focuses on proving the concept of an innovative new folding bicycle design that issignificantly different from existing products currently available in the marketplace.The design aims to provide a high quality riding experience, a very quick fold, a compact'suitcase' size folded machine and an attractive aesthetic. Typically most folding bicycles fitinto only one or two of the above four categories, which limits their broader appeal. Ifsuccessful it is anticipated that both existing and new market opportunities may becommercially exploited as a result.The folding design is the invention of Graham Powell, a design engineer with over 30 yearsexperience of product development and industrial collaborations. The project seeks to build upon an existing ‘proof of principles’ mock-up, further developing and proving the concept into a fully working prototype for thorough evaluation and testing. A key aim of the project is to prove that lateral and torsional stiffness, particularly within specific areas of the frame’s design, can be fully achieved. As such the proof of concept prototypes developed in this project will be tested to replicate bicycle industry safety standards along with real-life user testing.It is envisaged that upon successful completion of the proof of concept stage a patent will beprepared for filing. Following this, options for UK manufacturing will be explored.

该项目的重点是证明一种创新的新型折叠自行车设计概念，与目前市场上现有的产品有很大不同。设计的目的是提供高品质的骑行体验，非常快速的折叠，一个紧凑的“手提箱”大小的折叠机和一个有吸引力的美学。通常，大多数折叠自行车只能属于上述四种中的一种或两种，这限制了它们更广泛的吸引力。如果成功，预计现有的和新的市场机会都可能因此得到商业利用。折叠式设计是Graham Powell的发明，他是一位拥有30多年产品开发和工业合作经验的设计工程师。该项目旨在建立在现有的“原理验证”模型的基础上，进一步开发和证明概念为一个完整的工作原型，以进行彻底的评估和测试。该项目的一个关键目标是证明横向和扭转刚度，特别是在框架设计的特定区域内，可以完全实现。因此，在这个项目中开发的概念验证原型将进行测试，以复制自行车行业安全标准以及现实生活中的用户测试。设想在成功完成概念验证阶段后，将准备申请专利。在此之后，将探讨英国制造业的选择。