Mobile Cabin Rail System for Flexible Interior Layout

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional moving bodies have fixed interior components, making it difficult to change the layout within the cabin.

Innovation Solution

A mobile cabin set with rails on the ceiling and side surfaces that allow for the attachment, detachment, and movement of interior components, enabling flexible arrangement of layout based on intended use.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Stability of the object's composition

If interior components are fixed to the main body of the moving body, then structural stability is improved, but layout flexibility deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidlayout flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The interior components are segmented from the main body structure and mounted on independent rails, allowing them to be separated into movable modules that can be repositioned while maintaining structural connection points

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The interior components transition from a fixed static state to a dynamic state by being mounted on rails with attachment/detachment mechanisms, enabling them to move along the rail while maintaining stable connection when attached

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If interior components are made movable along rails, then layout flexibility is improved, but device complexity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelayout flexibilityVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The rail system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides structural support, enables movement, allows attachment/detachment, and defines positioning, replacing what would otherwise require multiple separate mechanisms

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The rail acts as an intermediary element between the fixed main body and the movable interior components, providing a standardized interface that simplifies the connection mechanism while enabling complex reconfiguration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11370347B2Mobile cabin set, mobile cabin, and attachment for cabin

Publication Date: 2022.06.28 TOYOTA BOSHOKU KK

AI summary

Provided is a mobile cabin set that allows flexible arrangement of layout in a cabin. One aspect of the present disclosure provides a mobile cabin set that includes a cabin body configuring a part of a moving body and including a ceiling surface, a floor surface, and two or more side surfaces that define an interior space; at least one rail arranged on at least one surface of the ceiling surface, or the two or more side surfaces of the cabin body, the at least one rail extending in a direction that intersects a vertical direction; and at least one attachment arranged in the interior space. The at least one rail includes an attachment/detachment mechanism to allow attachment/detachment of the at least one attachment at a given position of the at least one rail.