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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional drawers lack additional functional capabilities beyond their basic design, limiting their versatility and functionality.
Innovation Solution
A drawer design that incorporates a functional device on the drawer bottom, featuring a receiving groove with a light strip or LED elements, allowing for enhanced functionality such as lighting, which can be retrofitted into existing drawers, and includes electrical connections for power supply via the rear side or batteries.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional drawers are used without additional functional elements, then the structure remains simple and manufacturing is easy, but the functionality and versatility are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The drawer bottom is designed to serve multiple functions: it provides structural support as a base element and simultaneously serves as a mounting surface for functional elements like light strips. The receiving groove integrated into the drawer bottom allows accommodation of various functional elements, enabling the drawer to perform both storage and auxiliary functions (lighting, heating, etc.) without requiring separate structural components for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines the drawer bottom structure with the mounting mechanism for functional elements. The receiving groove is formed directly in the drawer bottom, merging the support function and the mounting function into a single integrated structure. This eliminates the need for separate mounting brackets or additional structural elements, thus reducing overall device complexity while maintaining versatility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If functional elements like light strips are integrated into the drawer bottom, then additional functions are achieved, but the manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The drawer bottom is designed as a modular structure with an integrated receiving groove that can accommodate separate functional elements. This segmentation allows the drawer bottom to be manufactured independently using standard processes, while functional elements like LED strips can be added separately through simple mounting operations. The receiving groove acts as a standardized interface that simplifies the integration process.
Solution Approach 2:
The receiving groove is pre-formed as an integral part of the drawer bottom during the drawer manufacturing process. This preliminary action creates a ready-to-use mounting structure that simplifies subsequent installation of functional elements. The groove geometry is designed to automatically guide and secure functional elements, reducing the complexity of the installation process.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables the enhancement of conventional drawers with additional functions like lighting, improving their utility and versatility while maintaining compatibility with existing furniture systems.
Implementation Method 1
The light strip consists of two light strip parts in the form of flexible LED strips
Implementation Method 2
a strip-like diffuser made of translucent material that is accommodated in the gap and via which the light emitted by the LEDs is scattered into the interior of the drawer
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AI summary
In a furniture part which has a bottom (12) and can be accommodated in a furniture slot of a furniture carcass so as to be movable relative to the furniture carcass between an open position and a closed position by means of a guiding mechanism, the bottom (12) of the furniture part is provided with a functional device (21) that does not have any guiding and damping tasks.