Installation Box Profile Plates with Segmented Grooves
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing installation boxes lack flexibility and mechanical stability, particularly when designed as flush-mounted or surface-mounted modular systems, as they require a large number of components and struggle to withstand loads without deformation or destruction.
Innovation Solution
The design incorporates chamber profile plates with varying cross-sections and grooves, allowing for adjustable depth and width, along with deformable corner connectors and locking elements, enabling the use of a few components to assemble different boxes with enhanced mechanical stability and flexibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If chamber profile plates with multiple chambers of different cross sections are used, then flexibility and adaptability of the installation box are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The installation box is divided into multiple chambers with different cross-sections within single profile plates. These chambers can be independently configured to accommodate different components (electrical, meter, gas boxes), allowing one type of profile plate to serve multiple functions and reducing the need for multiple specialized plate types.
Solution Approach 2:
The profile plates are designed with multiple chambers of varying cross-sections that can accommodate different types of installation components. The same profile plate design can be used for electrical boxes, meter boxes, gas boxes, and other installation types, making the system universal and reducing overall component variety needed.
2Strength
If reinforcement elements are added to chambers, then mechanical strength is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Reinforcement elements are pre-integrated into the profile plate structure during manufacturing, specifically positioned within chambers of appropriate cross-sections. This preliminary incorporation of strengthening features eliminates the need for separate reinforcement installation steps and reduces the perceived complexity during assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The reinforcement elements are combined with the profile plate structure itself, creating an integrated component rather than separate parts. The strengthening features become part of the profile plate's inherent design, reducing the total number of discrete components and simplifying the overall device.
3Adaptability or versatility
If grooves with different depths are provided in profile plates, then adaptability for different wall element arrangements is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The grooves are segmented into different depth levels within the same profile plate, allowing wall elements to be positioned at various depths to accommodate different installation requirements. This segmentation of the groove structure enables multiple configuration options without requiring entirely different plate designs.
Solution Approach 2:
The groove depth parameter is varied within the profile plate design to create different positioning levels for wall elements. By changing this single geometric parameter while maintaining the overall groove structure, the system achieves adaptability for different wall element arrangements without fundamentally altering the manufacturing process complexity.
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AI summary
Chambers (3-5) of chamber profile plates (1) are of specified structures and contain grooves (11,12,18) in profile plates at one side of side walls, parallel to axis of chambers. Part of grooves is formed in stepped configuration and at least two adjacent grooves are of different depth. Between plug profiles (6-8) of corner connectors (9) are located grooves for flat wall parts (10) fitting in grooves of profile plates. Independent claims are included for chamber profile plate and corner connector.