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Union Hjólalás by Lyuting Ma and Hong Yu

Union Hjólalás by Lyuting Ma and Hong Yu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award í járni in Hönnun ökutækja, hreyfanleika og samgangna Competition Category.


JárnÖkutæki· 2022

Union Hjólalás

by Lyuting Ma and Hong Yu

Client: Beijing Institute of Technology

A' Design Award í járni Winner in Ökutæki Category

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The Design

About Union Hjólalás

Bókartexti: Union er hjólalás sem er samþættur í sætisstólpa reiðhjóls. Lásinn býður upp á þrjár aðgerðir: fingrafaralæsingu, segulfestingu og endurskinsviðvörun. Fingrafaraskönnun útilokar þörf fyrir lykla og gerir daglega notkun hraðari. Segull inni í lásnum heldur lásnum föstum við sætispípuna á meðan hjólað er. Keðja er geymd inni í pípunni og er dregin út til að festa hjólin við fastan hlut. Stærðin er 28 sinnum 74 sinnum 352 millimetrar, sem samsvarar staðlaðum sætisstólpa, svo að grindin helst hrein og geymsluvandamál eru umflúin.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award í járni

Union Hjólalás vann A' Design Award í járni, virta viðurkenningu sem veitt er góðum hönnunarverkum sem uppfylla þær faglegu og iðnaðarlegu kröfur sem gerðar eru til vel hannaðra sköpunarverka. Sigurvegarar í járni sýna mikla færni, mikla sérhæfingu, sérfræðiskilning og skapandi getu höfunda sinna. Þess er vænst að Union Hjólalás sé mjög metið, dáð og elskað sköpunarverk sem er hagnýtt og nýstárlegt. Þetta hönnunarverk sem vann A' Design Award í járni sameinar bestu starfsvenjur greinarinnar og hefur hæfa tæknilega eiginleika tengda þekkingu og hæfileikum. Union Hjólalás er virt fyrir nákvæmni sína og er hannað til að veita lífsgæðabætur sem hjálpa til við að gera heiminn að betri stað.

Behind the Design

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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
#2:Hong Yu,Lyuting Ma,2020
#3:Hong Yu,Lyuting Ma,2020
#4:Hong Yu,Lyuting Ma,2020
#5:Hong Yu,Lyuting Ma,2020

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