Chair Foot Connecting Structure for Detachable Strength and Packing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Chair feet occupy significant space, leading to high packaging and transportation costs, and the buckle tongue's poor support strength can cause damage to the chassis structure.

Innovation Solution

A connecting structure for support feet and a central piece featuring rotation limit slots and protrusions, a clamping platform, and hooks that provide stable force distribution and prevent weak stress points, ensuring reliable performance and long service life.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If integrally formed chair feet are used, then the structure is simple and strong, but the molding process is difficult and production efficiency is low

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural strengthVSAvoidproduction efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
StrengthVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The chair foot is divided into multiple components: a center piece with connecting portions and multiple support feet with connecting ends. This segmentation allows each part to be manufactured separately through simpler processes (injection molding, casting, or forming) and then assembled together, improving production efficiency while maintaining structural strength through the connecting mechanisms (slots, stoppers, buckles, and round shaft protrusions).

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Productivity

If detachable chair feet with buckle tongue are used, then production efficiency is improved, but the buckle tongue has poor support strength and causes stress points

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction efficiencyVSAvoidsupport strength
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The connection mechanism merges multiple functional elements into a unified structure: the slot and stopper provide positioning and retention, the buckle provides mechanical coupling, and the round shaft protrusion provides rotational freedom and additional support. This combination distributes stress across multiple contact points and structural elements rather than concentrating it on the buckle tongue alone, thereby improving support strength while maintaining the benefits of detachability and production efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Volume of moving object

If chair feet are made detachable, then packaging and transportation space is reduced, but the connection structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepackaging spaceVSAvoidconnection structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Volume of moving objectVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The chair foot is segmented into a center piece and multiple support feet that can be detached from each other. This segmentation significantly reduces the volume occupied during packaging and transportation, as the components can be nested or arranged more compactly. The connection structure, while comprising multiple elements (slot, stopper, buckle, round shaft protrusion), uses simple geometric forms and straightforward assembly steps (insertion, rotation, buckling) that minimize the complexity burden.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11825958B2Connecting structure between feet and central member, feet, central member, chassis and chair
Publication Date: 2023.11.28 ZHEJIANG YUYUE FURNITURE CO LTD
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AI summary

A connecting structure for connecting support feet and a center piece, a support foot, a center piece, a chassis and a seat are provided. The connecting structure for connecting support feet and a center piece includes: center piece connecting portions provided on the outer periphery of the center piece for connecting with the support feet; support foot connecting portions provided on one end of the support feet for connecting with the center piece. Two side walls of each of the center piece connecting portions are further provided with rotation limit grooves, with a clamping platform arranged inside; two side surfaces of the support foot connecting portion are respectively provided with rotation limit protrusions outwardly protruding, an abutting portion is provided on the lower surface.