Union Sykkellås by Lyuting Ma and Hong Yu is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award i Jern in Kjøretøy-, mobilitets- og transportdesign Competition Category.
JernKjøretøy· 2022
Union Sykkellås
Client: Beijing Institute of Technology
A' Design Award i Jern Winner in Kjøretøy Category
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About Union Sykkellås
Union er en sykkellås som er integrert i sykkelens sadelstolpe. Låsen har tre funksjoner: opplåsing med fingeravtrykk, magnetisk fastholding og reflekterende varsling. Fingeravtrykksgjenkjenning eliminerer behovet for nøkler og gjør daglig bruk raskere. En magnet inne i låshuset holder låsen fast mot sadelrøret under kjøring. En kjede er lagret inne i røret og kan trekkes ut for å sikre hjulene til et fast objekt. Størrelsen er 28 ganger 74 ganger 352 millimeter, som passer med en standard sadelstolpe, slik at rammen forblir ren og oppbevaringsproblemer unngås.
The Recognition
About the A' Design Award i Jern
Union Sykkellås er vinner av A' Design Award i Jern, en prestisjefylt anerkjennelse som tildeles gode design som oppfyller de profesjonelle og industrielle kravene man forventer av veldesignede skaperverk. Jernvinnere viser stor dyktighet, høy spesialisering, ekspertforståelse og kreativ kapasitet hos skaperne. Union Sykkellås forventes å være et høyt ansett, beundret og verdsatt skaperverk som er praktisk og nyskapende. Dette designet, som har vunnet A' Design Award i Jern, integrerer bransjens beste praksis og har kompetente tekniske egenskaper knyttet til kunnskap og talent. Union Sykkellås respekteres for sin grundighet og er utformet for å gi forbedringer i livskvalitet som bidrar til å gjøre verden til et bedre sted.
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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