Modular Console Furniture with Adjustable Frame and Work Surface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing consoles are often custom-manufactured, making them expensive and difficult to modify, and lack flexibility in size, shape, and configuration to accommodate unique user needs and environments, such as curved walls or specific equipment requirements.
Innovation Solution
A modular support structure with adjustable legs, frame braces, and lift assemblies that allow for customizable placement and height adjustment of work surfaces, along with cable management systems and slatwall structures for versatile equipment support.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If consoles are custom manufactured to meet unique user needs and specifications, then customization and adaptability are improved, but manufacturing cost and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The console is divided into modular components including frame assemblies, leg assemblies, support surfaces, and equipment racks that can be independently manufactured and then assembled. This segmentation allows standardization of individual modules while enabling customization through different combination configurations, resolving the contradiction between customization and manufacturing cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The frame assemblies and leg assemblies are designed with universal connection interfaces and standardized dimensions that can accommodate multiple console configurations and equipment types. These universal components can be used across different console applications, reducing the need for custom-manufactured parts while maintaining adaptability to unique user needs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If consoles are custom manufactured to meet unique user needs, then adaptability is improved, but modification difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the console into discrete modular assemblies with standardized connection points, individual modules can be easily removed, replaced, or reconfigured without affecting the entire structure. This modular architecture enables straightforward modifications and adaptations while maintaining customization capabilities.
Solution Approach 2:
The console design incorporates adjustable and reconfigurable elements such as height-adjustable legs, movable support surfaces, and repositionable equipment racks. These dynamic features allow the console to be easily modified and adapted to changing user needs without requiring custom manufacturing or complex modifications.
3Ease of manufacture
If standard sizes and shapes are used to reduce manufacturing complexity, then ease of manufacture is improved, but adaptability to unique environments decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The console is composed of standardized modular components that can be assembled in various configurations to create custom-sized and shaped consoles. This approach maintains manufacturing simplicity through standardization while achieving environmental fit through flexible assembly arrangements.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular components are designed with standardized interface dimensions but variable overall dimensions, allowing the same basic module to be used in different spatial arrangements and orientations. This dimensional flexibility enables adaptation to unique environmental constraints such as room layouts, ceiling heights, and floor plans while maintaining manufacturing simplicity.
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AI summary
The present disclosure is directed to console furniture and related features. A support structure is provided for supporting a work surface, the support structure comprising a frame defining an interior space, a frame brace receivable into the interior space of the frame, a support for supporting the work surface, and at least one fastening mechanism for extending between the frame brace and the support to clamp the frame therebetween, thereby securing the support about the frame. A console with a height adjustable work surface is also provided.