Custom Decorative Tile Configurations for Acoustic Room Coverage

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing decorative tiles are often fixed on a backing mesh with limited size and pattern options, lacking customization and flexibility for users to rearrange or create their own designs.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that allows users to design custom decorative tile patterns through a graphical user interface, enabling selection of shapes, colors, orientations, and patterns, with the option to purchase the tiles from a store and providing tools for creating and modifying designs, including virtual placement and real-time updates.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If decorative tiles are fixed on a backing mesh with a predesigned pattern, then the tiles are easy to install and maintain structural integrity, but the customer cannot rearrange the tiles and the size is limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of installationVSAvoidcustomization flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The decorative tile set is divided into individual modular tiles that can be separately handled, arranged, and reconfigured. Each tile maintains its structural integrity while allowing flexible combination patterns, enabling customers to create custom designs rather than being constrained by fixed predesigned patterns on backing mesh.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The tile configuration transitions from a static fixed pattern on backing mesh to a dynamic reconfigurable arrangement. Customers can freely rearrange, rotate, and reposition individual tiles to create different designs, making the system adaptable to changing aesthetic preferences and room configurations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of manufacture

If decorative tiles are available in fixed predesigned patterns, then the manufacturing process is simplified, but the customer cannot create their own designs

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemanufacturing simplicityVSAvoiddesign customization

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of manufacturing complete fixed patterns as single units, the system manufactures individual tile units that can be independently produced using standardized processes. This maintains manufacturing simplicity while enabling endless combinatorial design possibilities when tiles are assembled by customers.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The individual tiles are designed with universal characteristics - standardized shapes, sizes, and mounting mechanisms - that allow them to serve multiple design functions. The same tile can be used in various positions, orientations, and combinations to create different patterns, making the manufacturing process efficient while providing design versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Stability of the object's composition

If decorative tiles are arranged in fixed patterns on backing mesh, then the structural integrity is maintained, but the tiles cannot be easily rearranged or reconfigured

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural integrityVSAvoidrearrangement flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The decorative tile set is segmented into individual modular units that maintain their own structural integrity independently. Each tile is designed to be self-supporting with proper mounting features, allowing them to be handled, moved, and reconfigured separately while maintaining stability during installation and display.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The tiles are pre-equipped with mounting features, alignment guides, and attachment mechanisms during manufacturing. This preliminary preparation ensures that when customers arrange and install the tiles, structural integrity is automatically maintained without requiring complex assembly procedures or specialized tools.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250232347A1Systems and methods for determining decorative tile configurations based on acoustic characteristics

Publication Date: 2025.07.17 FELTRIGHT LLC

AI summary

A system for determining decorative tile configurations is configurable to: (i) present, at a user interface, a room use prompt; (ii) receive user input directed to the room use prompt indicating one or more room use parameters associated with a physical room; (iii) present, at the user interface, a room characteristics prompt; (iv) receive additional user input directed to the room characteristics prompt indicating a set of room characteristics associated with the physical room, wherein the set of room characteristics comprises room size and one or more of: existing soft surface coverage, open entryways, or plush furniture characteristics; (v) generate one or more target coverage areas for a set of decorative tiles installable within the physical room by using the one or more room use parameters and the set of room characteristics as inputs; and (vi) present the one or more target coverage areas on the user interface.