Louvered awning structure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing louvered awnings provide inadequate side shading, allowing sunlight, wind, and rain to enter, and have complex and inefficient mounting processes requiring multiple persons.
Innovation Solution
A louvered awning structure with a frame, support columns, and side curtains, featuring pivotally connected louvers and communication passages that allow for easy mounting and improved stability, enabling single-person assembly and enhanced side shading.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If side curtains are added to provide side shading, then the shading effect is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The side curtain is divided into multiple independent components: curtain body, first connecting portion with first clamping portion, and second connecting portion with second clamping portion. This segmentation allows each component to be independently manufactured and assembled, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining shading functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The first and second clamping portions act as intermediary components that facilitate the connection between the side curtain and cross beams. These clamping portions provide a standardized interface that simplifies the assembly process and reduces the complexity of direct connections.
2Manufacturing precision
If the shaft body is mounted in a closed pivot hole requiring positioning of two opposite cross beams, then the mounting precision is improved, but the ease of manufacture deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The pivot holes are pre-formed in the cross beams at the correct positions and orientations before final assembly. This preliminary preparation of mounting holes eliminates the need for complex positioning operations during assembly, allowing workers to simply insert the shaft bodies into the pre-positioned holes.
Solution Approach 2:
The pivot hole serves as an intermediary element that mediates between the cross beam positioning and louver attachment. By providing a standardized pivot hole interface, the system decouples the positioning requirement from the final louver mounting operation.
3Stability of the object's composition
If multiple persons are required to adjust the distance between cross beams simultaneously, then the stability of the structure is improved, but the productivity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The louver assembly is segmented into independent units with pre-configured shaft bodies that connect to individual pivot holes. This segmentation allows each louver to be mounted independently without requiring coordinated adjustment of entire cross beam assemblies, enabling faster installation.
Solution Approach 2:
The pivot hole design allows the shaft body to be inserted and positioned automatically when the cross beams are in place, eliminating the need for multiple workers to simultaneously adjust and coordinate beam positioning. The structure essentially assembles itself once the beams are positioned.
4Ease of manufacture
If the inlet passage and pivot hole are arranged in a staggered manner via communication passage, then the ease of manufacture is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The communication passage is nested within the pivot portion structure, with the inlet passage and pivot hole arranged in sequence along the same structural element. This nesting allows the staggered arrangement to be achieved through a single integrated component rather than multiple separate parts.
Solution Approach 2:
The pivot portion is designed to serve multiple functions: it provides the pivot hole for shaft body insertion, contains the inlet passage for alignment, and incorporates the communication passage to connect these features. This multi-functionality reduces the number of separate components needed.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a louvered awning structure including an awning structure and a plurality of support columns, where a side curtain is mounted on the awning structure, a shaft body on the louver of the awning structure is pivotally connected to the pivot portion; the pivot portion includes an inlet passage, a pivot hole and a communication passage, and the shaft body is pivotally connected into the pivot hole via the inlet passage and the communication passage, which enhances the use effect of the louvered awning, and makes mounting of the louver relatively convenient.