Assembly-Type Chair with Rotatable Body for Horizontal Stacking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional chairs occupy large volumes, making storage and transportation inefficient, especially in large quantities, due to their structural characteristics that limit stacking height and require labor-intensive vertical stacking.
Innovation Solution
An assembly-type chair with a specific structure featuring a body part with a rotatable seat plate and backrest, horizontal bar, rotating members, and connectors that allow for easy disassembly and stacking from front to back, minimizing volume and facilitating efficient storage and transportation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If chairs are designed with conventional structural characteristics, then structural stability is maintained, but storage and transportation efficiency deteriorate due to large volume occupation
Solution Approach 1:
The chair is divided into multiple separable components including a body part, support legs, and connectors. The body part itself is segmented into a seat plate and backrest that can be rotated relative to each other. This segmentation allows the chair to be disassembled into compact components for efficient storage and transportation while maintaining structural stability when assembled through the connector mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The chair design enables stacking in multiple dimensions - both vertical stacking and front-to-back stacking. The rotatable body part allows chairs to be folded compactly and stacked horizontally in front-to-back arrangement, utilizing three-dimensional space more efficiently than conventional vertical stacking alone, thereby reducing the volume occupied by multiple chairs.
2Quantity of substance
If chairs are stacked vertically in large numbers, then storage capacity is improved, but labor and time requirements increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The chair incorporates rotatable members that allow the body part to rotate about the horizontal bar, enabling dynamic transformation between extended and folded positions. This dynamic capability allows chairs to be quickly folded and stacked in front-to-back arrangement without requiring complex manual manipulation, reducing both time and labor for stacking large numbers of chairs.
3Ease of operation
If chairs are designed for easy assembly, then ease of operation is improved, but structural complexity increases due to additional components like connectors and rotating members
Solution Approach 1:
The connector is designed with self-aligning features including a front insertion protrusion that automatically guides the support leg into the correct position, and a coupling protrusion that engages with the rear support leg. The rotatable members are configured to rotate about the horizontal bar with inherent mechanical guidance. These self-service features enable easy assembly without requiring complex alignment procedures or specialized tools, despite the presence of multiple components.
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to an assembly-type chair and provides an assembly-type chair that has a specific structure, thereby conveniently storing and transporting the chair with a minimized volume, and has a structure in which a chair body part including a seat plate and a backrest is rotatable, thereby effectively storing a plurality of chairs by stacking the chairs in the horizontal direction so as to be in close contact with each other.