Dual Voltage Floor Box With Segmented Housing Divider
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional floor boxes are difficult to customize to accommodate both higher voltage power and lower voltage data, requiring complex configurations that complicate the separation of high and low voltage services.
Innovation Solution
A customizable outlet box assembly with a housing divider and bracket system that separates and insulates higher voltage power conductors from lower voltage data conductors, using a partitioned receptacle bracket with removable knock-outs and alignment tabs to create compartments for secure and easy installation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional floor boxes are used to accommodate both higher voltage power and lower voltage data, then the box can handle multiple services, but the physical separation requirement creates complex configuration and reduces ease of customization
Solution Approach 1:
The floor box is divided into multiple compartments using housing dividers that physically separate high voltage and low voltage services. The bracket is also segmented with partitions that create distinct conductor compartments. This segmentation allows both power and data services to coexist in a single box while maintaining the required physical separation, thus improving versatility without increasing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The floor box design integrates multiple functions into a single device by incorporating both high voltage power receptacles and low voltage data receptacles within one housing. The universal bracket structure can accommodate various conductor configurations and receptacle types, allowing the same basic design to serve multiple services simultaneously, thereby improving adaptability while maintaining simplicity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If customized configurations of ganged receptacles or controls are required, then specific installation needs are met, but the division of high/low voltage becomes more complex to configure
Solution Approach 1:
The housing dividers and bracket partitions are designed to be reconfigurable rather than fixed, allowing installers to dynamically adjust the configuration of compartments to match specific installation requirements. This dynamic design enables customized arrangements of ganged receptacles while maintaining proper voltage separation, thus improving ease of operation without sacrificing adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The floor box is pre-configured with housing dividers and bracket partitions that establish the basic high/low voltage separation framework before installation. This preliminary structuring of compartments simplifies the field configuration process, as installers only need to make minor adjustments rather than creating the separation structure from scratch, thereby improving ease of operation while maintaining customization capability.
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AI summary
An outlet box assembly for separating and insulating higher voltage power conductors from lower voltage data conductors. The assembly includes a housing, a housing divider and a bracket. The housing including at least one vertically extending side wall defining an interior space therein. The housing divider disposed within the housing and extending across the interior space forming a vertical barrier between a first housing compartment and a second housing compartment. The bracket capable of having secured thereto at least one of the higher voltage power conductors and at least one of the low voltage data conductors. The bracket including at least one partition separating conductor compartments therein, the at least one partition extending vertically and substantially perpendicular to the divider. A floor of each conductor compartment extends across at least a portion of both the first housing compartment and the second housing compartment.