Hollow Shower Panel Structure for Water Control Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing shower devices lack improvements in design, particularly in how they integrate with existing water control mechanisms and provide user access while maintaining a compact, wall-mounted form factor.
Innovation Solution
A shower device with a U-shaped body having a throughgoing receptacle for existing water control access, a hose system connecting to a water source, and modular upper and lower body parts allowing for adjustable installation and accessory mounting, including shelves, with a passage for hose management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If the body is designed as a solid structure, then structural strength is improved, but user access to water control means is obstructed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a hollow body structure that surrounds and protects the water control means while allowing user access through the hollow space. The control means are positioned within the hollow cavity of the body, enabling users to operate them without removing or dismantling the body structure.
2Ease of operation
If the body is made hollow for access, then ease of operation is improved, but structural strength deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The body is divided into distinct functional sections: a hollow main body for housing control means, separate hose connection points, and modular components. This segmentation allows the hollow structure to maintain sufficient strength while providing access pathways.
3Ease of repair
If hose means are connected externally, then ease of repair is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The hose connection means are integrated into the body structure itself, with connection points formed as part of the body rather than as separate external components. This merging reduces overall device complexity while maintaining ease of repair through accessible connection points.
Data Source
AI summary
A device for showering and the like has a body having a front wall, a peripheral wall and an open rear side with an edge configured to abut against a wall, hose means associated with the body for supplying water for taking a shower, a throughgoing receptacle formed in the body, so that the body is formed as an element surrounding the receptacle, which receptacle allows a user through the receptacle to access existing water control means in assembled condition, means for connecting the hose means to a source of water, and to existing water controlled means, the body having at least a portion which is formed as a hollow element having a U-shaped cross-section with a rear edge configured to abut against a wall so as to form hollow channels for the hose means.