Asymmetric Booth Panel Configuration for Space Efficiency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Booth designs with regular hexagonal, octagonal, circular, rectangular, or cubic shapes face inefficiencies in space utilization due to dead spaces between the booth and surrounding fixtures, hindering effective installation and usability, and reducing the workspace visibility from behind the user.
Innovation Solution
A booth configuration featuring a main body with interconnected panels, an inclined panel forming an entrance, and a top plate with edge extensions that limit visibility from behind the user, optimizing space use and usability while preventing workspace exposure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the booth size is increased to improve usability inside the booth, then the workspace and leg space for users are improved, but the space use efficiency in the installation space decreases due to increased dead spaces between the booth and surrounding fixtures
Solution Approach 1:
The booth employs an asymmetric triangular configuration where three panels extend in different directions from a common vertex, creating an irregular shape that efficiently utilizes installation space while maintaining adequate internal workspace and leg space for users
2Productivity
If the booth size is reduced to increase space use efficiency, then dead spaces are minimized, but the workspace and leg space for users decrease, leading to reduced usability
Solution Approach 1:
The asymmetric triangular design allows the booth to maintain a compact footprint for high space efficiency while internally providing sufficient workspace and leg space through optimized panel arrangements and orientations
3Ease of manufacture
If a regular hexagonal, octagonal, circular, rectangular, or cubic shape is used for the booth, then the structural design is simplified, but dead spaces are formed between the booth and other fixtures or wall surfaces, hindering effective use of installation space
Solution Approach 1:
The patent adopts an asymmetric triangular configuration with three panels at different orientations, which better adapts to irregular installation spaces and reduces dead spaces compared to symmetric regular shapes, while still maintaining relatively simple structural design and fabrication
Solution Approach 2:
The booth utilizes three-dimensional spatial arrangement with panels extending in different directions from a common vertex, creating an efficient use of installation space by occupying angular volumes that regular shapes cannot utilize effectively
Data Source
AI summary
A booth includes a booth main body including a facing panel, a right-side panel, and a left-side panel, a top plate, and an inclined panel that extends from a booth left front-end portion of the right-side panel of the booth main body while being inclined to become farther from the facing panel toward the right-side panel in the plan view and forms an entrance into the booth main body between the inclined panel and a booth right front-end portion of the right-side panel of the booth main body. The top plate includes a panel side edge portion that extends along at least the facing panel and the right-side panel, and a front edge portion that includes a first edge portion that becomes closer to the facing panel from a first end on the right-side panel side of the front edge portion toward the left-side panel.