Flush-Mounted Radio Base Modular Integration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing flush-mounted radio devices require multiple components and installation boxes, limiting their versatility and integration with different installation programs, and often include loudspeakers that restrict acoustic placement.

Innovation Solution

A flush-mounted radio device base with integrated structural components except for loudspeakers, utilizing a single flush-mounted box with a modular design allowing universal compatibility with various programs, featuring a control panel, receiver/amplifier circuit board, power circuit board, and a housing with support structures for precise component positioning, enabling the use of different C-discs and cover frames for diverse designs and colors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If all structural components of a radio device are integrated into a single flush-mounted socket, then device complexity is reduced and versatility is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveversatilityVSAvoidmanufacturing precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The radio device is divided into modular components (control panel, receiver/amplifier circuit board, power circuit board, housing parts) that can be manufactured separately and assembled. This segmentation allows each component to be produced with standard tolerances while achieving high overall precision through modular integration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The flush-mounted radio device base is designed as a universal platform that can accommodate different installation device programs through interchangeable C-discs and cover frames. The standardized mounting interface and modular architecture enable the same base unit to serve multiple functions and aesthetic requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If loudspeakers are excluded from the flush-mounted radio device base, then adaptability for different installation programs is improved, but device complexity increases due to separate speaker installation requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveadaptabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Loudspeakers are extracted from the flush-mounted radio device base, allowing the base unit to be universally applicable to different installation programs. The speaker connection is maintained through dedicated connection blocks that enable flexible external speaker installation without compromising the universal compatibility of the main device base.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Ease of manufacture

If a single flush-mounted box is used, then ease of installation is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase for component positioning

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of installationVSAvoidcomponent positioning precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

Support platforms and positioning lugs are pre-formed during manufacturing of the housing and circuit boards. These preliminary positioning features ensure precise component alignment when assembled in the single flush-mounted box, eliminating the need for complex field adjustments while maintaining installation simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP2093852B1Built-in radio
Publication Date: 2010.10.27 ABB AG(DE)
  • EP2093852B1 patent drawingFigure 1
  • EP2093852B1 patent drawingFigure 2
  • EP2093852B1 patent drawingFigure 3~4

AI summary

The radio has a support ring (37) fastened at a housing-upper part (30), and a main-conductor plate (18) with a layer located by a support platform (24) in a housing-lower part (23) and walls (34) of the upper part. A layer of a receiver/amplifier-conductor plate (13) is located by a support platform (27) in the lower part and plates (32) of the upper part, where the plates are dipped in the lower part. A central disk and a cover frame are selected by a desired program for completing a flush-mounted radio-appliance base (1).