Modular Instrument Rack With Adjustable Tiers and Cable Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solutions for storing electronic musical instruments and accessories lack modularity and flexibility, leading to confusing arrangements, safety hazards, and inefficient cabling, with existing instrument racks requiring significant modification for expansion and offering limited options for arrangement and expansion.
Innovation Solution
A modular instrument and device rack with telescopically height-adjustable T-foot elements, adjustable support elements, and extension elements that can be angled and extended independently, allowing for flexible arrangement and expansion without significant disassembly, along with integrated cable management features like power distribution strips and cable guides.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing instrument racks are used, then instruments can be stored, but expansion requires significant modification or replacement of components
Solution Approach 1:
The instrument rack is divided into modular components including T-foot elements, support elements, extension elements, and connecting bridges. Each component can be independently attached or detached, allowing expansion without modifying the entire structure. The T-foot elements feature telescopic sections that can be extended independently, and extension elements can be added to support elements at various heights and angles.
Solution Approach 2:
The rack incorporates adjustable and movable components rather than fixed structures. Support elements can be positioned at different heights on the T-foot elements, extension elements can be angled independently, and the telescopic sections allow dynamic adjustment of the rack's footprint and capacity as needs change.
2Adaptability or versatility
If square legs with predetermined angles are used, then structural stability is achieved, but attachment options are limited to fixed angles
Solution Approach 1:
Extension elements are equipped with angle adjustments that allow them to be tilted independently relative to the support elements. This dynamic adjustment capability enables the rack to adapt to various instrument configurations and spatial requirements while maintaining structural stability through secure detachable connections.
Solution Approach 2:
The design adds angular freedom as an additional degree of freedom beyond the fixed spatial arrangement of square legs. By allowing extension elements to be angled independently in multiple dimensions, the rack achieves versatile attachment options without compromising the fundamental structural stability provided by the T-foot elements.
3Ease of operation
If instruments are arranged without a structured system, then placement flexibility is high, but arrangements become confusing and unsafe
Solution Approach 1:
The rack provides structured zones and levels through its modular architecture, with T-foot elements, support elements, and extension elements creating distinct arrangement areas. This segmentation allows instruments to be organized systematically by type, frequency, or function while maintaining easy access and clear spatial relationships, eliminating confusion and safety hazards associated with haphazard placement.
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AI summary
The problem addressed by the present invention is that of creating an instrument and device rack for receiving or storing electronic musical instruments and/or accessory devices, which rack can be modularly expanded easily and as needed and also enables the universal and orderly receiving and arrangement of the musical instruments and/or accessory devices or other accessories. Described is a modular instrument and device rack (1) for receiving or storing electronic musical instruments and/or accessory devices, wherein: two telescopically height-adjustable T-shaped foot elements (2) are connected by a connection bridge (3) and at least two bearing elements (4) for a shelf (5) are releaseably fastened on the connection bridge (3); on each of the at least two bearing elements (4) at least one extension element (7) is securely and releasably arrangeable by means of a support element (6) at at least one height and inclination different from that of the bearing elements (4); for two or more extension elements (7) arranged one above the other, the respective extension elements (7) are each arranged with a common support element (6) on the respective bearing element (4).