An arrangement with a base plate and a covering hood for a screen
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Solution Overview
Problem
In medical care settings, there is a need for compact and user-friendly screening systems that maintain high hygiene standards, as space is limited and existing rigid screens do not adequately adapt to different heights or provide optimal tilt resistance and mobility.
Innovation Solution
The solution involves a supporting base plate with optimally positioned weights and a covering hood, which reduces space requirements while maintaining safety, allowing for adjustable tilt resistance and easy cleaning, and uses the same hood for different screen sizes, featuring a rigid structure with smooth surfaces and joints only on the lower side for improved hygiene.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If compact folding screens are used to reduce space requirements, then space efficiency is improved, but tilt resistance and stability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The base plate is segmented into multiple functional zones: an inward-bent region forming a bight, outward-extending regions with feet, and intermediate regions with weights. This segmentation allows each zone to serve a specific purpose - the bight provides compact storage, the weights provide tilt resistance, and the feet provide stability, resolving the contradiction between compactness and stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The base plate utilizes the depth dimension by creating an inward bight that folds the plate back on itself, forming a three-dimensional structure rather than a flat plate. This dimensional transformation allows the screen to occupy less floor space while maintaining a large base area for stability and tilt resistance.
2Stability of the object's composition
If rigid structures are used to ensure stability, then tilt resistance is improved, but ease of cleaning and hygiene deteriorate due to difficult-to-reach joints
Solution Approach 1:
All joints and connection points are extracted from the upper and front surfaces of the base plate and relocated exclusively to the lower side, beneath the covering hood. This extraction allows the visible surfaces to be completely smooth and joint-free, making them easy to clean and maintain high hygiene standards while still providing the necessary structural stability.
Solution Approach 2:
A covering hood is introduced that encloses the lower side of the base plate where all joints are located. This shell-like covering protects the complex joint structures from view and contact, allowing rigid connections for stability while maintaining smooth, easily cleanable surfaces above the hood.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple screen heights are required, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The base plate design uses parameter changes in weight positioning rather than structural redesign. By adjusting the position, size, and distribution of weights within the base plate's weight contours, the same base plate structure can be optimized for different screen heights and configurations, maintaining adaptability without increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The base plate is designed as a universal platform with standardized features including weight contours, foot mounting points, and hood attachment points. This universal design allows a single base plate type to support multiple screen heights and configurations by simply repositioning weights, rather than requiring different base plate designs for each screen size.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to an arrangement for a screen with a number of sections (1-3), which are foldable and/or pivotal in relation to one another and which together form a screen-off, which comprises a fixed section (1) and two sections (2, 3) pivotal in relation thereto, or one fixed section and a number of sections which are foldable or pivotal in relation to one another and which are pivotally mounted on the fixed section, the fixed section (1) being mounted on a foot (7) which includes a supporting base plate (9) which is covered by a hood (36) in order to prevent direct contact of at least the upper side of the base plate (9) and possibly also the major portion of the edges of the base plate (36).