Foldable Electric Bed Frame Nesting to Reduce Folded Volume
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional foldable electric beds retain a bulky volume when folded, making transportation and storage inconvenient due to their overall thickness being greater than the sum of the individual bed frame heights.
Innovation Solution
A foldable electric bed design featuring a first and second bed frame with pivot shafts, allowing the frames to rotate relative to each other, thereby reducing the overall height when folded, resulting in a smaller volume.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the electric bed is designed to be foldable, then the convenience of transportation and storage is improved, but the overall thickness under folded state remains greater than the sum of the thicknesses of respective parts, resulting in bulky volume
Solution Approach 1:
The first bed frame is nested within the second bed frame when folded, with the first bed frame rotated 180 degrees to position its bottom surface against the top surface of the second bed frame. This nesting arrangement allows the thickness of the folded electric bed to be less than the sum of the thicknesses of the individual bed frames, thereby reducing overall volume while maintaining foldability for convenient transportation and storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes rotational movement in a third dimension to achieve compact folding. By rotating the first bed frame 180 degrees about a pivot axis, the bed frame transitions from a linear extension to a nested configuration, effectively utilizing spatial dimensionality to reduce the overall thickness and volume of the folded structure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If conventional foldable electric beds are designed, then folding capability is achieved, but the structure requires considerable space due to overall thickness being greater than sum of individual parts
Solution Approach 1:
The first bed frame is nested within the second bed frame through 180-degree rotation, allowing the folded structure to occupy less storage space. The nesting configuration ensures that the overall thickness is reduced to less than the sum of individual frame thicknesses, thereby decreasing the volume required for stationary storage while preserving full folding capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The bed frame incorporates a dynamic folding mechanism with pivot joints that allow smooth rotation and nesting. This dynamic design enables the transition between extended and folded states, providing adaptability for both use and storage while minimizing the space required in the folded configuration.
Data Source
AI summary
A foldable electric bed includes a first bed frame having top and bottom edges at first top and bottom planes respectively, and a second bed frame having top and bottom edges at second top and bottom planes respectively. A first fixation frame of the first bed frame has a bottom portion with two first longitudinal rods pivotally connected at outer lateral sides of two second longitudinal rods provided at a bottom portion of a second fixation frame of the second bed frame in a way that the first bottom plane is located between the second top and bottom planes and an overall height of the electric bed is less than a sum of the heights of the first and second bed frames when the electric bed is folded. As such, the folded electric bed has a reduced volume, facilitating transportation and storage.