Smart desk
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing desks are inconvenient for students due to fixed sizes that do not accommodate rapid body growth, causing physical strain and limited exercise opportunities for office workers and students due to time and space constraints.
Innovation Solution
A smart desk with adjustable height and angle features, incorporating a frame with guide rails, a slide body, and exercise equipment for aerobic and muscle strength training, allowing users to adjust the table height, rotate a monitor, and perform exercises during breaks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If desks are supplied in standard fixed sizes, then manufacturing and inventory management are simplified, but they cannot accommodate students whose bodies change rapidly due to growth
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a height adjustment mechanism that allows the desk surface to move vertically between multiple fixed height positions. This dynamic adjustment capability enables the desk to adapt to students of different heights and growth stages while maintaining a standardized fixed structure for manufacturing simplicity.
2Productivity
If users sit for long periods with heads down at fixed-height desks, then work and study continuity is maintained, but physical strain and diseases such as herniated discs occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates a height adjustment mechanism that enables users to change desk height during work or study sessions. This allows alternation between sitting and standing positions, reducing prolonged static posture strain while maintaining productivity through uninterrupted work flow.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the vertical position parameter of the desk surface, allowing transition between multiple height levels. This parameter variation enables users to adjust desk height according to their physical condition and work needs, preventing health issues while maintaining productivity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If exercise equipment is added to desks for office workers and students, then exercise opportunities increase, but device complexity and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges exercise equipment functionality with the desk structure by integrating a stepping mechanism into the desk's support legs. This combination allows exercise functionality to be incorporated without requiring separate standalone equipment, thereby reducing overall device complexity while increasing exercise opportunity availability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the desk multi-functional by combining work surface, height adjustment, and exercise capabilities in a single integrated unit. The stepping mechanism serves both as structural support and exercise equipment, demonstrating universality that increases exercise opportunities without proportionally increasing complexity.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a smart desk, including: a frame part erected from a support surface with the bottom surface thereof supported on the support surface, and provided with guide rails in the height direction thereof; a slide body part connected to the guide rails, and configured to slide in the height direction of the frame part via the guide rails; a table part rotatably mounted on the slide body part, and configured to allow a user's object to be placed on the top thereof and a monitor to be provided thereunder; a slide body lifting/lowering part provided in the frame part, connected to the slide body part, and configured to lift/lower the slide body part; and an exercise equipment part provided on upper and lower sides of the frame part and the table part, and configured to allow the user to perform aerobic exercise and muscle strength training.