Union Pany de Bicicleta by Lyuting Ma and Hong Yu

Union Pany de Bicicleta by Lyuting Ma and Hong Yu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award de Ferro in Disseny de Vehicles, Mobilitat i Transport Competition Category.

FerroVehicle· 2022

Union Pany de Bicicleta

by Lyuting Ma and Hong Yu

Client: Beijing Institute of Technology

A' Design Award de Ferro Winner in Vehicle Category

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The Design

About Union Pany de Bicicleta

Union és un pany de bicicleta integrat a la tija del seient d'una bicicleta. El pany ofereix tres funcions: desbloqueig per empremta digital, fixació magnètica i advertència reflectant. El reconeixement d'empremtes digitals elimina la necessitat de claus i fa que l'ús diari sigui més ràpid. Un imant a l'interior del cos del pany el manté fixat contra el tub del seient durant la conducció. A l'interior del tub s'emmagatzema una cadena que es pot estirar per subjectar les rodes a un objecte fix. Les mides són 28 per 74 per 352 mil·límetres, cosa que coincideix amb una tija de seient estàndard, de manera que el quadre es manté net i s'eviten problemes d'emmagatzematge.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award de Ferro

Union Pany de Bicicleta és un guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Ferro, un reconeixement prestigiós concedit a bons dissenys que compleixen els requisits professionals i industrials esperats de creacions ben dissenyades. Els guanyadors de Ferro demostren una gran habilitat, una alta especialització, una comprensió experta i la capacitat creativa dels seus creadors. Es preveu que Union Pany de Bicicleta sigui una creació molt apreciada, admirada i estimada que és pràctica i innovadora. Aquest disseny guanyador del guardó A' Design Award de Ferro integra les millors pràctiques del sector i té característiques tècniques competents lligades al coneixement i al talent. Union Pany de Bicicleta és respectat per la seva minuciositat i està pensat per oferir millores en la qualitat de vida que ajuden a fer del món un lloc millor.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This is a new design of convenient bicycle lock. It has three functions, fingerprint unlocking, magnetic fixing and reflective warning.
Dimensions & Packaging: Since the product is universal, there is no difference with the traditional seat tube size, the physical size is 28mmx74mmx352mm, it can be adapted to any bike.
Tags: bicycle，lock，fingerprint
Production Technology: The factors that determine whether a bike lock is good or bad are ease of use and versatility, in addition to security.
To ensure the security of the lock, we use a very mature fingerprint recognition technology. While ensuring security, it improves the user's operating experience. In consideration of the product's implementability, we retain the shape characteristics and material of the original bike seat tube, install the chain inside the car do tube, and place a magnet inside the lock body so that it can be easily sucked on the back of the bike do tube. All these designs ensure the manufacturability of the product.
Design Challenge: We wanted to create the perfect solution to design a convergent product for cyclists, rather than going the extra mile to buy a lock.
This design breaks through the limitations of traditional bicycle lock, it combines the lock with a bicycle part. The product not only brings convenience to users, but also reduces the waste of social resources, while also accelerating the progress of integrated innovation.
Research: To better understand the needs of lock users, we conducted research in shopping malls that sell bicycles, talking to dealers and exploring developments and changes in bicycles, such as how to alert small cars to attention and how to prevent theft.
We also talked to cyclists on the road to analyze the needs of users.
In the course of our research, we learned about the needs of users and the opinions of manufacturers and dealers associated with bicycles. With this insight, we began to refocus the project on the main issue: more efficient and natural unlocking and unlocking.
Inspiration: There are various types of traditional bicycle locks. Users often put the lock in different places, such as head tube, top tube and under the saddle, unsightly and inconvenient to store.
The lock breaks the form limitation of traditional bicycle by the way of creatively combining the lock and the seat post.
This product combines the lock with a bicycle part and it can not only ensure the safety of the bicycle, but also make the body cleaner.
Project Duration: The project started in Beijing in February 2020 and was completed in Beijing in April 2020. The project won the 2020 Red Dot Award：Best of the best and the Korea K-Design Award Grand Prize.
Operation Flow: How To Use
Step 1： Remove the lock
Step 2： Fingerprint to unlock
Step 3： Pull out the chain
Step 4： Pass the chain through the wheels and ground fence, then lock it.
Patents: none
Team Members: Lyuting Ma
Hong Yu
Image Credits: #1:Hong Yu,Lyuting Ma,2020
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