Climbing Wall Panel Integrated Fastening Elements
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing climbing walls require separate fastening elements and tools for attaching hand holds, complicating manufacturing and installation, and may pose injury risks due to protruding fasteners.
Innovation Solution
Integrated fastening elements within the climbing wall panels, featuring aperture patterns or recesses, allow for quick clamping of hand holds without additional fasteners, ensuring secure attachment and easy variation of climbing routes without tools.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If separate fastening elements and tools are used for attaching hand holds, then secure attachment is achieved, but manufacturing and installation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the fastening function directly into the wall panel by forming aperture patterns and recesses during panel manufacturing. This merging of the fastening element with the wall panel eliminates separate fasteners and reduces installation complexity while maintaining secure attachment capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The fastening elements (aperture patterns and recesses) are pre-formed into the wall panel during the manufacturing process. This preliminary action allows hand holds to be quickly installed by simply placing them into the pre-prepared recesses without requiring additional fastening operations or tools during installation.
2Reliability
If separate fasteners are used for hand hold attachment, then secure fastening is achieved, but installation time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The fastening elements are pre-formed into the wall panel during manufacturing, eliminating the need for separate fastening operations during installation. Hand holds can be quickly installed by simply placing them into the pre-prepared recesses or aperture patterns, dramatically reducing installation time while maintaining secure attachment.
3Reliability
If protruding fasteners are used for hand hold attachment, then secure attachment is achieved, but injury risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
The fastening function is merged into the wall panel structure itself through aperture patterns and recesses. This eliminates the need for protruding separate fasteners that could pose injury risks, while the recesses provide secure attachment by receiving and holding the hand hold structures in place.
4Ease of manufacture
If integrated fastening elements are used in wall panels, then manufacturing and installation are simplified, but fastening element integration complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The fastening elements are merged with the wall panel as integral features formed during the panel manufacturing process. This approach simplifies the overall system by eliminating separate fastening components and reduces integration complexity, as the fastening function is built-in rather than added later.
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AI summary
A climbing wall assembly comprising at least one wall panel (2) arranged to provide at least a portion of a climbing wall (1), a number of hand hold structures (5) to be placed to the at least one wall panel (2) and a number of integrated fastening elements (3) arranged in the at least one wall panel (2) for receiving the hand hold structures (5) to be placed to the at least one wall panel (2).