Modular Design Material Set with Integer-Fold Covers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing design materials for surfaces, such as walls and ceilings, lack versatility in pattern design and require uniform dimensions for functional materials, limiting aesthetic and functional variations.
Innovation Solution
A design material set comprising attachments and covers with varying shapes and sizes, allowing for multiple configurations, orientations, and replacements to create diverse design patterns without dedicated fixtures, and incorporating a hollow space for sound absorption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If uniform outside dimensions of the case body are used, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the design pattern variations are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The case body is divided into multiple modular units (first case body, second case body, third case body, fourth case body) that can be independently manufactured with standardized dimensions but combined in various configurations. This segmentation allows both easy manufacture of individual units and diverse design patterns through different arrangements.
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment mechanism is designed to be universal, allowing the same attachment structure to connect different types of case bodies (single, double, triple, quadruple configurations) in various orientations. This universality enables multiple design patterns using the same basic components, resolving the contradiction between manufacturing simplicity and design versatility.
2Device complexity
If functional materials have fixed dimensions within uniform outside dimensions, then the structure is simple, but the functional material replacement and rearrangement flexibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment mechanism is designed to be detachable and reconfigurable, allowing functional materials (covers) to be dynamically removed, replaced, and rearranged. The attachment can be connected and disconnected easily, enabling flexible replacement of functional materials while maintaining a simple overall structure through standardized attachment points.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows changing the configuration parameters of the functional materials by attaching different types of covers (single, double, triple, quadruple) to the attachments in various orientations (lengthwise or widthwise). This enables parameter changes in the design pattern without complicating the basic attachment structure.
3Adaptability or versatility
If integer-fold covers of different integer-fold numbers are used, then the design pattern variations increase, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates asymmetric configurations through integer-fold covers of different fold numbers (single, double, triple, quadruple) that can be arranged in non-uniform patterns. This asymmetry creates diverse design patterns while the underlying attachment mechanism remains symmetric and standardized, preventing excessive device complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances design flexibility, reduces the number of attachments needed, improves operational efficiency, and provides a wider range of aesthetic and sound absorption options.
Implementation Method 1
the cover is capable of being attached to the attachment by fitting between the side wall of the cover and the side wall of the attachment
Data Source
AI summary
The shape of an attachment (3a to 3d) is a one-fold shape, which is inscribed in a rectangle, or an integer-fold shape, which is inscribed in sides of a shape formed by an integer number of rectangles arranged side by side. Covers include a one-fold cover (2a), which has a size that allows the cover to be attached to a one-fold attachment (3a) or an integer-fold cover (2b to 2d), which has a size that allows the cover to be attached to an integer-fold attachment (3b to 3d). Variations of a design pattern formed by a plurality of covers can be provided by attaching the one-fold cover (2a) to the one-fold attachment (3a), attaching the integer-fold cover (2b to 2d) to an integer number of one-fold attachments (3a), or attaching the integer-fold cover (2b to 2d) to the integer-fold attachment (3b to 3d).