Modular Construction Unit for Frame Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional construction methods for inner walls require time-consuming and skill-intensive interconnection of girders and uprights, often necessitating additional material and struggling with non-straight walls, leading to aesthetic and practical challenges.
Innovation Solution
A construction unit comprising a first elongated profile with sliding parts, and second and third profiles that are hingeably connected to form a frame with adjustable length and angle, allowing for quick assembly and adaptation to non-straight walls, using a combination of hingeable and rotatable connections for efficient interlocking and minimal material usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional separate girders and uprights are used, then the frame structure is stable, but the assembly process is time-consuming and requires high skill level
Solution Approach 1:
The invention combines the girder and upright into a single integrated construction unit. The construction unit includes a first profile serving as an upright and second and third profiles serving as girders, pre-connected to form an L-shape. This merging eliminates the need for separate connection operations between girders and uprights, significantly reducing assembly time and skill requirements while maintaining structural stability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If rectangular construction units with fixed dimensions are used, then the manufacturing is simple, but the adaptability to non-straight walls is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The invention introduces adjustable mechanisms to the construction unit. The first profile has a variable length achieved through sliding parts that can be fixed at different positions. The second and third profiles are hingeably connected to the first profile, allowing angular adjustment. These dynamic features enable the construction unit to adapt to non-straight walls and various spatial configurations while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
3Loss of substance
If construction units with abutting first profiles are used, then the material usage is high, but the space utilization is efficient
Solution Approach 1:
The invention employs an asymmetric L-shaped configuration where the second and third profiles extend from different ends of the first profile at different heights. This asymmetric arrangement allows successive construction units to be staggered and interlocked more efficiently, reducing the overall material required compared to symmetric abutting configurations, while maintaining assembly simplicity through standardized connection interfaces.
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AI summary
Construction unit (1) for building up a frame (2), wherein the frame (2) comprises at least two girders (3a, 3b) and multiple uprights (4), wherein the construction unit (1) comprises a first construction profile (4), a second construction profile (5) and a third construction profile (6), wherein the first construction profile (4) is provided to serve as an upright (4) and the second and the third construction profile (5, 6) are each provided to be part of a respective girder (3a, 3b), wherein each construction unit (1) is provided to form only one upright (4) of a frame (2) and that multiple such construction units (1) are provided to be successively interconnected so that the first construction profiles (4) of successively construction units (1) extend at a distance from one another.