Foldable Storage Rack With Removable Slat Shelves
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional article-holding racks are difficult to fold or disassemble, leading to inconvenient storage and transportation due to complex construction, which increases production costs and user inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
A rack design featuring a foldable frame with removable shelves, where each shelf has a simple construction with slots and slats that can be easily connected and disconnected from the frame, allowing for quick assembly and disassembly, and using connectors to secure the shelves to the frame for easy deployment and storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If conventional racks use complex construction to achieve stability and strength, then the structural integrity is improved, but the ease of assembly and disassembly deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The rack is divided into separate modular components including frame members, shelves, and connectors. Each component can be independently manufactured and assembled, allowing the complex structure to be built from simple parts that are easy to handle and connect.
Solution Approach 2:
The rack incorporates movable and adjustable elements such as height-adjustable shelves and foldable frame sections. These dynamic features allow the structure to be easily reconfigured, assembled, and disassembled while maintaining structural integrity when properly configured.
2Reliability
If conventional racks use complex construction to achieve stability, then the reliability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The rack structure is segmented into standardized modular components with simple geometric shapes. This segmentation allows each part to be manufactured with basic processes while the overall system achieves stability through the arrangement and connection of these simple modules.
Solution Approach 2:
The connectors and frame members are designed with universal features that serve multiple functions: providing structural support, enabling adjustment, and facilitating easy connection and disconnection. This multi-functionality reduces the number of different component types needed, simplifying the overall construction.
3Volume of moving object
If conventional racks are designed for easy storage and transportation by making them foldable, then the volume for storage is reduced, but the ease of assembly and disassembly deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The frame incorporates hinge joints and movable connections that allow the rack to be folded into a compact configuration for storage and transportation. These same dynamic features enable easy assembly and disassembly by allowing components to be moved and repositioned without complex tools or procedures.
Data Source
AI summary
A rack has a frame and a plurality of shelves. Each shelf has an enclosing frame member that has two first sides connected by two second sides, a connecting bar that connects the first sides at about the center of the first sides, a plurality of slots provided on the inner surfaces of the second sides, and a plurality of slats, each slat having opposing ends that are fitted into opposing slots at the second sides, and with each slat being connected to the connecting bar. At least one connector is provided for removably connecting each shelf to a portion of the frame.