Modular Computer Console With Rear Frame Cable Separation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing computer consoles fail to effectively separate the working area from the equipment placement area, leading to cable invasion and laborious assembly and wiring.
Innovation Solution
A modular console with a visible rear frame and tubular profiles that supports a work surface, featuring direct means of attachment for components and accessories, allowing for easy assembly and cable management through internal or external chutes, enabling modular and angular configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If computer components are placed on or around the work surface, then equipment placement is enabled, but the working area is reduced and cables invade the workspace
Solution Approach 1:
The console is divided into distinct functional zones: a clean work surface area and a separate equipment placement area with the rear frame. This segmentation allows the work surface to remain free while providing dedicated spaces for computer components and cable management structures, resolving the conflict between workspace clarity and equipment accommodation.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention moves equipment placement from the horizontal work surface plane to the vertical rear frame dimension. By utilizing the vertical space and rear structure of the console, computer components and cable channels are positioned in a different spatial dimension, allowing the horizontal work surface to remain completely free while still providing equipment placement capabilities.
2Ease of manufacture
If traditional console structures are used, then equipment can be placed, but assembly and wiring become laborious
Solution Approach 1:
The rear frame serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides structural support for the console, acts as a mounting structure for computer components, incorporates integrated cable channels for wire management, and offers attachment points for various accessories. This multi-functionality reduces assembly steps and wiring complexity while maintaining equipment placement capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The rear frame acts as an intermediary structure that mediates between the work surface and the equipment/cables. It provides dedicated channels and mounting points that simplify the connection and organization of computer components and cables, reducing the labor required for assembly and wiring while managing device complexity.
3Area of stationary object
If the working area and equipment area are not separated, then space utilization is maximized, but cable invasion and workspace clutter occur
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the cable management and equipment placement functions from the work surface area and relocates them to the rear frame. By taking out the cables and equipment from the workspace dimension and placing them in the rear structural dimension, the work surface remains free of cable invasion while equipment placement is maintained.
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AI summary
The main object of the present invention is a modular console for computers and the like, which includes the perfect placement of all typical computer components and also offers a large free working surface.