Modular Floor Curved Connectors for Strength and Flexibility

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing modular floors face challenges in providing high strength to lateral and vertical forces, flexibility in panel unions, and resilience to torsional stress while maintaining ease of installation and using environmentally friendly materials.

Innovation Solution

A modular floor system using curved connectors that allow flexible coupling between modules, restricting relative movement in three Cartesian axes and enabling angular flexibility, with various coupling structures like curved, support, fitting, and rotating connectors for enhanced strength and adaptability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Strength

If rotating connectors are used to join modular panels, then lateral strength is improved, but vertical strength and flexibility are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelateral strengthVSAvoidflexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The connector is divided into two distinct functional parts: a rotating connector component for lateral strength and a curved connector component for vertical strength and flexibility. This segmentation allows each part to optimize its specific function without compromising the other.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The rotating connector and curved connector are merged into a single integrated connector assembly that combines the lateral strength benefits of rotating connectors with the vertical strength and flexibility benefits of curved connectors, resolving the contradiction between these opposing requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Ease of operation

If rotating connectors are used with removable pressure fit nature, then ease of installation is improved, but tensile strength and vertical strength are weakened

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of installationVSAvoidtensile strength

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The removable pressure fit rotating connector is merged with a curved connector that provides tensile strength, creating an integrated system that maintains ease of installation while compensating for the tensile strength deficiency through the combined action of both connector types.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Stability of the object's composition

If the connector configuration prevents transmission of torsional stress, then stability is improved, but flexibility and angular movement are restricted

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovestabilityVSAvoidangular flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The connector system transitions from a static rigid connection to a dynamic system where the curved connector allows controlled angular movement and flexibility while the rotating connector maintains stability, enabling the structure to adapt to terrain irregularities while remaining stable.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP4339366B1High-strength modular floor

Publication Date: 2026.04.22 INTERESTELAR X SPA

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AI summary

The invention relates to a high-strength modular floor, formed by two or more floor modules securely coupled together. The invention also relates to the floor modules and to a curved connector for securing coupled floor modules together. The high-strength modular floor is versatile, can be adapted for different industrial and commercial uses, and is formed by high-strength floor modules securely coupled together by one or more curved connectors, which restrict relative movement between coupled floor modules along the three Cartesian axes.