Furniture Wall with Split-Core Recess for Flush Fitting Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing furniture designs face challenges in accommodating larger door and flap fittings due to limited installation depth and surface uniformity issues, leading to reduced storage space, cleaning difficulties, and aesthetic concerns.
Innovation Solution
A composite wall structure featuring panel-shaped core halves with recesses that are integrated before cover layers are applied, allowing for larger fittings and maintaining a uniform surface quality by creating a recess during production, which can accommodate fittings of varying depths and widths.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If fittings are mounted on the inside of the side wall, then the furniture body can accommodate door hinges and flap fittings, but the usable storage space is reduced and the interior structuring is impaired
Solution Approach 1:
The recess is formed by removing material from the end face of the wall rather than from the inner surface, utilizing the thickness dimension of the wall to accommodate the fitting. This allows the fitting to be received in a recess that extends from the end face, keeping the inner surface of the wall free while still providing adequate space for the fitting.
2Adaptability or versatility
If fittings are mounted on the inside of the side wall, then the furniture body can accommodate door hinges and flap fittings, but cleaning the interior becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The fitting is extracted from the interior space and positioned in a recess that is open to the end face of the wall. This extraction allows the inner surface of the wall to remain free and accessible, enabling easy cleaning of the interior while the fitting is still accommodated in the recess formed from the end face.
3Volume of stationary object
If a pocket is milled from the end face into the side wall to accommodate door hinges, then the inside of the side wall remains free, but the installation depth is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The recess is formed in the end face of the wall before the wall is assembled into the furniture body. This preliminary formation of the recess allows for deeper accommodation of fittings while maintaining the freedom of the inner surface, as the recess is created in the thickness direction of the wall rather than encroaching on the interior space.
4Length of stationary object
If a housing is used to accommodate larger door hinges or flap fittings, then larger installation depths are possible, but the surface appearance and haptics do not correspond to the conventional part of the side wall
Solution Approach 1:
The recess is integrated directly into the wall structure itself, merging the fitting accommodation function with the wall's structural form. This eliminates the need for a separate housing that would create surface discontinuities, as the recess is formed as an integral part of the wall's end face, maintaining uniform surface appearance and haptics.
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AI summary
A wall for a basic furniture structure, having a panel-like core, which is arranged between two laterally positioned cover layers. The core has a recess extending at least along part of an end side of the wall and serves for accommodating a fitting, which guides a movable furniture part. The core has two core halves, which are located one upon the other by way of their side surfaces located opposite the respective cover layer and have recesses which supplement one another to form the recess.