Bed Frame Quick-Connect Assembly for Tool-Free Installation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing bed frame structures require tools for assembly and disassembly, leading to inefficiency and a risk of losing small parts, resulting in a poor user experience.
Innovation Solution
A bed frame structure with quick-connect assemblies that allow for tool-free assembly and disassembly, using connection wing plates and quick-connect holes and fasteners to connect leg posts and beams, enabling easy and rapid assembly without tools.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If traditional fasteners such as screws or bolts are used to lock and fix the bed frame body and bed support legs, then the connection strength and stability are improved, but the assembly complexity increases and assembly efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The connection structure is segmented into a connection wing plate integrated with the bed support leg and a separate connecting piece integrated with the bed frame body. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently - the connection wing plate provides stable connection with limited degrees of freedom, while the connecting piece enables tool-free attachment and detachment, resolving the contradiction between connection strength and assembly efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The connecting piece incorporates a limiting head that automatically limits the insertion depth when engaged with the connection hole, eliminating the need for external tools to secure the connection. The structure itself provides the locking mechanism through the limiting head bearing against the connection wing plate, achieving both strong connection and tool-free assembly.
2Stability of the object's composition
If traditional fasteners such as screws or bolts are used to lock and fix the bed frame body and bed support legs, then the connection stability is improved, but the assembly operation becomes more difficult and cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The connection system is divided into a connection wing plate with limited degrees of freedom and a connecting piece with a limiting head. This segmentation allows the limiting head to automatically control the engagement depth, providing stable connection while simplifying the assembly operation to a simple insertion motion that does not require tools or complex maneuvers.
Solution Approach 2:
The limiting head acts as an intermediary element between the connecting piece and the connection wing plate. It mediates the interaction by automatically limiting the insertion depth and providing a bearing surface that ensures stable connection, thereby simplifying the assembly operation while maintaining connection stability.
3Reliability
If traditional fasteners such as screws or bolts are used, then the connection reliability is improved, but the risk of losing small parts increases and user experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The connection wing plate is integrally formed with the bed support leg, and the connecting piece is integrally formed with the bed frame body. This merging eliminates the need for separate fasteners that could be lost, while the limiting head on the connecting piece ensures reliable connection by automatically limiting engagement depth and providing a secure bearing surface against the connection wing plate.
4Strength
If frequent tightening operations are required for assembly and disassembly, then the connection strength is maintained, but the assembly time increases and efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The connecting piece with its limiting head performs the connection function autonomously without requiring external tools or repeated tightening operations. The limiting head automatically limits insertion depth and provides a bearing surface that maintains connection strength, while the entire assembly and disassembly process can be completed in a single insertion or removal motion, dramatically reducing assembly time.
Data Source
AI summary
The bed frame structure, including leg posts and beams. An upper part of each leg post has connection wing plates. Each connection wing plate is quickly assembled/disassembled with an end portion of a respective beam through at least one quick-connect assembly. Each quick-connect assembly has a quick-connect hole and a quick-connect fastener on a respective connection wing plate and the corresponding end portion of the respective beam. No tools are required assembly. Users can achieve connection of a leg post and a beam manually through a corresponding pair of quick-connect hole and quick-connect fastener, such that assembly of the bed frame is easy and effort-saving.