Protection and display case
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display cases for valuable or delicate objects are often complex, costly, and difficult to reuse due to their specific design, failing to balance high protection needs with cost-effectiveness and efficient public display quality.
Innovation Solution
A modular display case design featuring a load-bearing base platform with a sealed horizontal separator, allowing systems like humidity control and lighting to be housed inside while thermal machines and illuminators are outside, connected via light guides to prevent heat dispersion, and air treatment systems to maintain climate conditions without heating the display space.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If display cases are designed with fixed complex structures for specific objects, then protection quality is improved, but manufacturing cost and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The base platform is divided into an upper portion inside the sealed display space and a lower portion outside, separated by a sealed horizontal separator. This segmentation allows different systems to be housed in appropriate locations while maintaining a modular, reusable case structure that reduces overall complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The base platform is designed as a universal modular component that can support different display spaces of varying heights and accommodate different systems and devices. This multi-functionality enables the same base platform to be reused across multiple case configurations, reducing manufacturing costs and complexity.
2Device complexity
If thermal machines and illuminators are placed inside the display space, then device integration is simplified, but climate control and temperature stability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
Thermal machines and illuminators are extracted from the sealed display space and housed in the lower portion of the base platform outside the sealed environment. This extraction prevents heat generation within the display space, maintaining temperature stability and climate control while still integrating these systems into the overall case structure.
Solution Approach 2:
Light guides serve as intermediaries to transmit light from illuminators located outside the display space to lighting bodies inside the display space. This intermediary mechanism allows illumination without placing heat-generating illuminators directly in the climate-controlled environment.
3Ease of manufacture
If modular base platform design is implemented, then manufacturing cost and adaptability are improved, but sealing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The base platform is segmented into upper and lower portions separated by a sealed horizontal separator, creating distinct zones for different systems. This segmentation enables modular manufacturing and assembly while the separator provides a defined sealing interface that manages the complexity of creating weatherproof connections between interior and exterior components.
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
This modular design rationalizes case production, reduces costs, and ensures high protection and display quality while allowing for flexible use in various configurations, maintaining optimal climate and lighting conditions without overheating or polluting the display space.
Implementation Method 1
at least one lighting body in the display space and at least one light guide between the at least one illuminator and the at least one lighting body
Implementation Method 2
a lower portion and an upper portion separated by a sealed horizontal separator
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AI summary
The protection and display case (1, 1') comprises a sealed display space (3, 3'), a load-bearing base platform (2, 2'), which includes a lower portion (11, 11') and an upper portion (12, 12') separated by a sealed horizontal separator (13, 13'). The base platform (2, 2') is sealingly coupled to the sealed display space (3, 3') in a manner such that the upper portion (12, 12') of the base platform (2, 2') is inside the sealed display space (3, 3') while the lower portion (11, 11') is outside the sealed display space (3, 3').