C-Shaped Anchoring Fastening Element for Concealing Uprights
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sound-absorbent and sound-insulating barriers along communication pathways are difficult to assemble flexibly and quickly, requiring significant time and lacking an aesthetic appeal as uprights remain visible.
Innovation Solution
A fastening element with a C-shaped anchoring portion and a through-opening in a plate that constrains the upright and allows for flexible assembly of sound-absorbent and sound-insulating panels, ensuring stability and aesthetics by hiding the uprights.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If nut and bolt systems are used to fix panels to uprights, then the panels can be arranged frontally to hide uprights, but the assembly becomes time-consuming and complex
Solution Approach 1:
The fastening element is divided into distinct functional segments: a plate for mounting on the upright, anchoring portions for securing panels, and a through-opening for constraint. This segmentation allows each part to perform its specific function efficiently, enabling rapid assembly while maintaining the frontal panel arrangement for aesthetic purposes.
Solution Approach 2:
The fastening element acts as an intermediary component between the upright and the panels. It provides a standardized interface that simplifies the connection process, allowing panels to be quickly attached to uprights without requiring complex nut and bolt systems, thus reducing assembly time while enabling the panels to conceal the uprights effectively.
2Reliability
If traditional fastening methods are used, then structural stability can be achieved, but assembly flexibility and ease are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The fastening element incorporates dynamic characteristics through its anchoring portions that can adapt to panel positions. The C-shaped anchoring portions allow for flexible insertion and securing of panels at different locations on the upright, providing assembly flexibility while maintaining structural stability through secure anchoring.
Solution Approach 2:
The fastening element is designed with multi-functionality: the plate provides mounting surface, the through-opening enables constraint and alignment, and the anchoring portions secure multiple panels. This universal design allows a single component to achieve both structural stability and assembly flexibility that would require multiple separate components in traditional systems.
3Ease of manufacture
If panels are arranged frontally to conceal uprights, then aesthetic appeal improves, but the complexity of the fastening system increases
Solution Approach 1:
The fastening element merges multiple functions into a single integrated component: the plate for upright mounting, the through-opening for panel constraint, and the anchoring portions for panel attachment. This consolidation reduces the number of separate parts needed, simplifying the fastening system while enabling the frontal panel arrangement that provides aesthetic appeal by concealing the uprights.
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AI summary
A fastening element (1) for fixing a plurality (2) of sound-absorbent and/or sound-insulating panels to an upright (3), for realising a sound-absorbent and/or sound-insulating barrier (100) along a communication pathway, and a relative barrier (100). The plurality (2) of sound-absorbent and/or sound- insulating panels comprises a sound-absorbent and/or sound-insulating panel (5, 6) comprising a lateral wall (50, 60) which is provided with a projection (51 ) or a recess (61 ). The fastening element (1) comprises: a plate (10) which affords a through- opening (11), which through-opening (1 1) originates from a first flank (10a) of the plate (10) and is conformed for receiving a coupling portion (4) of the upright (3) so as to constrain the plate (10) to the upright (3); an anchoring portion (12) which is C-shaped, which originates from a second flank (10b) of the plate (10) and which is dimensioned such that when the fastening element (1) and the panel (5, 6) are assembled, it internally contains the projection (51) or is contained internally of the recess (61) so that the panel (5, 6) is fixed to the upright (3).