Console and console support structure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional consoles are often custom-manufactured, making them expensive and difficult to modify or reconfigure to meet changing user needs, as they typically come in standard sizes and shapes that do not easily accommodate unique room layouts or equipment requirements.
Innovation Solution
A modular console support structure with horizontally spaced leg structures, vertically adjustable supports, and pivotably connected lateral support structures that allow for customizable height, angle, and configuration, including storage and cable management options, enabling flexible placement and reconfiguration of work surfaces and equipment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If consoles are custom-manufactured to meet unique user requirements, then adaptability and customization are improved, but manufacturing cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The console is divided into modular components including leg structures, lateral support structures, work surfaces, and equipment supports that can be independently selected and assembled. This segmentation allows customization without custom manufacturing, as standard modules can be configured to meet unique user requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The leg structures and lateral support structures are designed as universal components that can serve multiple functions and be used in various configurations. The adjustable features allow a single standardized component to adapt to different user needs, eliminating the need for custom-manufactured parts.
2Adaptability or versatility
If consoles are custom-manufactured for unique requirements, then adaptability is improved, but modification and reconfiguration difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The modular construction with separable leg structures, lateral support structures, and work surfaces enables easy disassembly and reconfiguration. Users can modify the console by simply detaching and reattaching standardized components rather than working with custom-manufactured monolithic structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The console incorporates adjustable and movable features such as vertically adjustable work surfaces and reconfigurable lateral support structures. This dynamic design allows the console to be easily modified and adapted to changing user needs while maintaining standardized components.
3Ease of manufacture
If standard sizes and shapes are used, then manufacturing cost is reduced, but adaptability to unique room layouts and equipment requirements decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The console features adjustable leg structures with variable height capabilities and reconfigurable lateral support structures that can be positioned at different angles and locations. This dynamic design allows standardized components to adapt to unique room layouts and equipment requirements without requiring custom manufacturing.
Solution Approach 2:
The console allows modification of key parameters such as height, angle, and position of various components through adjustable mechanisms. These parameter changes enable the standardized console to accommodate different room layouts and equipment configurations while maintaining cost-effective manufacturing.
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AI summary
Many traditional consoles struggle with changing user needs. Many existing technical furniture and consoles are custom manufactured, but may be expensive and/or cumbersome to design and assemble. According to some embodiments, there is provided a console support structure that includes two or more leg structures horizontally spaced apart. Each leg structure includes a respective base and at least one respective vertically adjustable support mounted on the base. For each adjacent pair of leg structure, a respective elongated lateral support structure extends between and interconnects the first and second leg structures. At least one work surface may be mounted on and supported by the vertically adjustable supports of the leg structures.