Elastic Attaching Structure for Precise Wall Decoration Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing wall surface decoration systems face challenges in precise mass-production and attachment of wall surface decoration bodies due to the difficulty in aligning and attaching these bodies with high accuracy, leading to increased costs.

Innovation Solution

An attaching structure using elastic attaching members that cover the abutting portions of wall surface decoration bodies, allowing for precise alignment and attachment by fitting to intersecting wire rods, accommodating dimensional variations through elastic deformation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If wall surface decoration bodies are arranged linearly with high accuracy to exhibit a woven structure appearance, then the decorative effect is improved, but the manufacturing cost increases due to the difficulty of mass-producing with high precision

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvearrangement precisionVSAvoidmanufacturing cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary component (attachment structure with positioning protrusions and recesses) between the wall surface decoration bodies and the support member. This intermediary system provides the necessary positioning and alignment functions, allowing the decoration bodies themselves to be manufactured with standard precision while achieving high overall arrangement precision through the mediating attachment mechanism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent divides the attachment system into separate functional components: the support member with positioning protrusions, the attachment structure with corresponding recesses, and the wall surface decoration bodies. This segmentation allows each component to be manufactured independently with standard precision, while the assembly of these segmented parts achieves the required high arrangement precision through their interlocking design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Manufacturing precision

If wall surface decoration bodies are attached with high precision to show continuous woven structure, then the decorative appearance is improved, but the attachment process becomes more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveattachment precisionVSAvoidattachment ease
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The attachment structure serves as an intermediary that provides built-in positioning features (protrusions and recesses) which guide and constrain the relative positions of the wall surface decoration bodies during attachment. This intermediary mechanism automatically achieves high precision alignment when the components are assembled, eliminating the need for complex manual alignment procedures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The positioning protrusions and recesses are designed to automatically align and guide the wall surface decoration bodies into their correct positions during the attachment process. The system is self-aligning, where the geometric features of the attachment structure itself provide the positioning function, allowing workers to attach the bodies without requiring specialized alignment skills or tools.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Manufacturing precision

If supporting portions are arranged adjacent to each other to prevent seam exposure, then the decorative effect is improved, but the positioning accuracy requirement increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning accuracyVSAvoidattachment structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The attachment structure acts as an intermediary that provides built-in positioning features (protrusions and recesses) which guide and constrain the relative positions of the wall surface decoration bodies during attachment. This intermediary mechanism automatically achieves high precision alignment when the components are assembled, eliminating the need for complex manual alignment procedures.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

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

Ensures accurate and easy attachment of wall surface decoration bodies, maintaining decorative continuity while adjusting for size variations, and preventing seam exposure, thus reducing manufacturing costs.

Implementation Method 1

an attaching member is made of an elastic plate and formed in a shape that it covers an end surface from a decorative surface side of an abutting portion and protrudes toward an opposite side of the decorative surface

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElastic deformation: Elasticity

Data Source

PatentUS20250237060A1Attaching structure for wall surface decoration body
Publication Date: 2025.07.24 YOSHIMITSU KOGYO INC
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AI summary

An object of the present invention is to provide an attaching structure for wall surface decoration body in which the wall surface decoration body can be arranged on a support with high precision and attached thereto with ease. In the attaching structure for wall surface decoration body, a pair of attaching members 4 is fixed to abutting portions 31 provided extending to both ends of a main body portion 30 of a wall surface decoration body 3, an attaching member 4 is made of an elastic plate and formed in a shape that it covers an end surface from a decorative surface side of the abutting portions 31 and protrudes toward an opposite side of the decorative surface, in a portion abutting on the decorative surface side, a fixing portion 40 to be fixed to the wall surface decoration body 3 is formed, and in a portion that protruding opposite to the decorative surface, a fitting portion 41 to fit an intersecting portion of wire rods is formed.