Garage Shelf External Access Wall Opening
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Solution Overview
Problem
In densely populated urban areas, the reduction of available space often restricts the creation of a passageway between a house and a garage, limiting the usable area within the garage and preventing the construction of additional structures like garden houses or sheds, while also causing disorganization and accessibility issues due to the need to clear other items to reach storage areas.
Innovation Solution
A garage is equipped with an additional exterior opening area that allows access to a shelf from the outside, featuring a closing element that can be opened from both inside and outside, enabling external loading and unloading of items without entering the garage, thus enhancing storage efficiency and accessibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a passageway is maintained inside the garage for access, then accessibility is improved, but the usable storage area is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a vertical dimension by placing shelves on the outer wall surface rather than only inside the garage. This allows access to storage items from outside the garage building, eliminating the need for internal passageways and maximizing the usable storage area while maintaining accessibility.
2Area of stationary object
If the garage is densely built to save space, then land utilization is improved, but accessibility to storage areas deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the storage function by creating separate access points: one from inside the garage and one from outside through the outer wall. This segmentation allows the garage to be densely built while maintaining accessibility to storage areas through the external opening, resolving the contradiction between space efficiency and accessibility.
3Quantity of substance
If items are stored inside the garage, then storage capacity is improved, but accessibility to specific items deteriorates due to disorder
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the storage function from the interior space and places it on the outer wall. This allows items to be stored externally, improving accessibility by eliminating the need to clear other items from inside the garage. The storage capacity is maintained while the disorder problem is solved by having dedicated external storage locations.
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AI summary
A garage with four exterior walls (11, 12, 13, 14) arranged substantially at right angles to each other, wherein the garage door opening (15) is arranged in a first exterior wall (11) and at least one opening area (21, 21a, 21b) is provided on a third exterior wall (13) opposite the first exterior wall and/or on an exterior wall (12, 14) adjoining the first exterior wall (11), which is coupled to and can be closed by at least one locking element (22a, 22b, 23), wherein the at least one locking element (22a, 22b, 23) can be opened from the outside, wherein a shelf (30) is arranged in an interior space (17) of the garage (10), wherein the shelf (30) has at least one shelf side (31) which abuts an interior side (17a) of the garage, wherein the interior side abuts The side of the shelf faces the opening area and is accessible from this opening area.