Floorball Rink Boarding Using Tennis Stringing Concept

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing floorball rink boarding designs are inefficient in material usage and structurally complex, limiting training to only the inner side of the rink perimeter, restricting players' ability to practice skills on both sides.

Innovation Solution

Applying the concept of tennis racket stringing to create subsidiary structural elements with reduced material consumption, allowing for easier assembly and placement of rink boards that can be inclined arbitrarily, using strings, aluminium terminals, and threaded rods to form a lightweight yet robust structure that allows practice on both sides of the rink.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of substance

If traditional plate elements are used for rink boarding, then structural strength is maintained, but material consumption increases and structural complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvematerial consumptionVSAvoidstructural strength

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of substanceVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The rink boarding is divided into multiple individual elements, each consisting of separate components (strings, terminals, threaded rods) that can be independently manufactured and assembled. This segmentation reduces material consumption while maintaining structural integrity through modular construction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The invention uses composite construction combining different materials (strings for tension, aluminium terminals for connection, threaded rods for structural support) to create elements that achieve required strength with reduced material consumption compared to traditional homogeneous plate structures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #40Composite materials

2Device complexity

If traditional plate elements are used for rink boarding, then structural stability is maintained, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural complexityVSAvoidstructural stability

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

By segmenting the structure into standardized modular elements with simple connection mechanisms (threaded rods and nuts), the overall device complexity is reduced while maintaining stability through repetitive, reliable connection patterns.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The elements are designed with universal connection features (threaded rods, aluminium terminals) that can be used in multiple configurations and positions, simplifying the overall structure by reducing the variety of unique components needed while maintaining structural stability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Adaptability or versatility

If traditional perimeter boarding design is used, then structural integrity is maintained, but training versatility is limited to inner side only

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetraining versatilityVSAvoidstructural integrity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The elements are designed to be dynamically configurable, allowing arbitrary inclination and placement in different zones of the rink. This dynamic adaptability enables training on both inner and outer sides while maintaining structural integrity through standardized connection mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

Each element is designed as a universal component that can function in multiple positions and orientations (inner side, outer side, inclined, horizontal), allowing the same structural design to serve multiple training purposes without compromising integrity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

4Ease of manufacture

If elements are made lightweight with reduced material use, then ease of assembly improves, but manufacturing precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of assemblyVSAvoidassembly precision

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

Segmenting the structure into discrete components with standardized connection interfaces (threaded rods, nuts, terminals) simplifies manufacturing of individual parts while the standardized interfaces maintain assembly precision through repeatable connection procedures.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS10252129B2Structure of accessory element for equipment of floorball training court and use of it for formation of floorball simulator

Publication Date: 2019.04.09 BETHOC AB

AI summary

The invention refers to the equipment of the training rink for floorball, manufacturing of exerciser structural element, applying concept of tennis racket stringing. Proposed design of subsidiary element for floorball rink arrangement characterized with that it is made as latticework formed by: two parallel end plates; several threaded rods as stiffening members; two elastic string structures disposed in two parallel planes, at that each of it presents one side of mentioned latticework and provided with:holes for fastening threaded rods which assure rigidity and load bearing capacity of the subsidiary element frame structure;holes for criss-cross stringing in two parallel planes and string fastening at mentioned end plates independently one from another.