Modular Floor Support with Clamping and Insulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing floor assembly systems create significant waste when adjusting supports to varying heights and transfer noise to underlying surfaces, leading to noise pollution and inefficiency in installation.
Innovation Solution
The floor assembly uses modular support members that can be stacked and shortened as needed, with sound-insulating materials and clamping mechanisms to minimize waste and noise transfer, allowing for adjustable height and stable surface contact.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If longer supports are used to accommodate larger floor heights, then the floor assembly can achieve greater height adjustment, but significantly more waste is created when sawing off the excess length
Solution Approach 1:
The support is divided into a modular system consisting of a reusable accommodation part and a separate support member that can be manufactured in standard lengths. This segmentation allows the support member to be precisely cut to the required length while the accommodation part remains intact for reuse, thereby reducing material waste while maintaining adaptability for different floor heights.
Solution Approach 2:
The support member is inserted into the accommodation part, creating a nested structure where the support member fits within the accommodation part. This nesting arrangement allows for precise length adjustment of the support member without affecting the accommodation part, enabling waste reduction while achieving the required floor height adjustment range.
2Adaptability or versatility
If supports are made longer to achieve greater floor heights, then height adjustment is improved, but the structural stability and load-bearing capacity may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The support system is segmented into an accommodation part that remains at a consistent, optimized length for structural stability, and a separate support member that provides the adjustable length component. This segmentation ensures that the critical accommodation part maintains its structural integrity while the support member can be adjusted to achieve the required floor height.
Solution Approach 2:
The accommodation part is pre-formed with optimized dimensions and structural features to ensure maximum stability and load-bearing capacity. By preparing this critical component in advance with precise dimensions, the system ensures structural stability is maintained regardless of the variable length of the inserted support member.
3Ease of manufacture
If standard length supports are used for all applications, then manufacturing and inventory management is simplified, but significant waste is generated when cutting to accommodate varying floor heights
Solution Approach 1:
The support system is segmented into a standardized accommodation part and a separate support member. The accommodation part is manufactured once as a reusable component, while the support member can be produced in standard lengths and then precisely cut to the required length. This segmentation maintains manufacturing simplicity for the accommodation part while reducing waste through precise cutting of the replaceable support member.
Solution Approach 2:
The support member is designed as a disposable or replaceable component that can be precisely cut to length and discarded after use, while the expensive accommodation part is recovered and reused. This approach shifts the waste to a low-cost component, maintaining ease of manufacture for the primary structure while minimizing overall material waste.
4Device complexity
If walking sounds are transferred via supports to the gallery floor, then the floor structure remains simple, but noise pollution is generated for the gallery below
Solution Approach 1:
A sound-absorbing material is introduced as an intermediary layer between the support member and the accommodation part. This intermediary layer interrupts the direct transmission path of walking sounds to the gallery floor below, reducing noise pollution while maintaining the overall simplicity of the floor structure. The sound-absorbing material is integrated into the support assembly without adding significant structural complexity.
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AI summary
Floor assembly for placing a floor built up from floorboards on an existing surface, comprising supports for supporting the floorboards, wherein the supports have been built up from several support members that can be placed onto each other, wherein the support members comprise an insertion part and an accommodating counterpart that are adjusted to one another for partially inserting the support members into each other, preferably clampingly. Because the supports have been built up from several support members, they can be placed into each other or be stacked in order to bring the floor at height. It may then suffice that one of these support members that have been placed onto each other is sawn to size. As a result the quantity of waste can remain limited.