Modular Control Box Compartments Without Complex Connecting Rails
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing control box arrangements lack flexibility in subdividing their interior space, making it difficult to adapt to varying needs and requiring complex connecting rails for assembly.
Innovation Solution
A modular control box system with adaptable side wall sections, mounting plates, and horizontal compartment-dividing floors that allow for variable spatial subdivisions, enabling easy assembly and retrofitting, along with compartment doors and a U-shaped divider strip for enhanced safety and accessibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If complex connecting rails are used to subdivide control box space, then assembly possibilities are provided, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control box interior is divided into multiple horizontal compartments using simple horizontal compartment-dividing floors that separate the space into stacked cubbyholes. This segmentation approach replaces complex connecting rails with straightforward horizontal dividers, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining subdivision flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The side wall sections are designed as universal mounting structures with standardized fastening holes arranged in rows, allowing the same wall section design to accommodate various compartment heights and configurations. This universal mounting system eliminates the need for custom connecting rails for each specific arrangement.
2Ease of manufacture
If fixed compartment structures are used, then manufacturing is simplified, but adaptability to different control box heights is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The compartment configuration becomes dynamic through the adjustable positioning of horizontal compartment-dividing floors along the vertical side wall sections. The standardized rows of fastening holes allow floors to be mounted at different heights, enabling the same manufactured components to adapt to various control box heights and compartment arrangements.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows parameter changes in compartment height and configuration by selecting different positions for the horizontal compartment-dividing floors on the standardized side wall sections. The fixed manufacturing of wall sections with predetermined fastening hole patterns enables flexible parameter adjustment during assembly without requiring custom manufacturing for each configuration.
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AI summary
A control box arrangement including at least one control box which is sub-divided, or can be sub-divided, by vertical wall sections with a horizontal sub-division, into a plurality of cuboid compartments surrounded on all sides. A variable structural design of compartments, particularly functional compartments, for example for low voltage systems, is obtained by providing wall sections including lateral wall sections adapted to the same or different compartment heights, adapted rear wall sections embodied as mounting plates, and horizontal partition bottoms, in order to produce a plurality of horizontal compartments, in the form of pigeonholes, arranged one above the other.