Creative assembly model structure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional paper-made gifts are prone to damage during assembly due to interlocking slits, making them difficult for those less skilled in handicrafts to assemble and disassemble, leading to a lack of interest in DIY assembly.
Innovation Solution
A creative assembly model structure featuring a base with first insertion slots and modeling bodies with protruding parts, folding lines, and modeling holes, allowing for easy folding and fixing through fitting protrusions and notches, enhancing structural integrity and ease of assembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If interlocking slits are used to fix paper-made gifts, then the structure can be assembled, but the structure becomes weak and easy to damage during assembly
Solution Approach 1:
The paper-made gift is divided into multiple modular components (base component, upper component, side components) that can be assembled separately and then connected. This segmentation allows each component to be pre-assembled and tested independently, reducing the risk of damage during the overall assembly process while maintaining structural integrity through standardized connection interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
Connection components with protrusion-notch structures serve as intermediaries between the base component and upper/side components. These intermediary connection elements distribute mechanical stresses across multiple contact points rather than concentrating forces at single slit interfaces, thereby preventing damage and strengthening the overall structure.
2Strength
If longer or deeper interlocking slits are used for long-structure paper-made gifts, then the firmness of the finished product improves, but the parts become easier to damage during assembly
Solution Approach 1:
Long-structure paper-made gifts are divided into multiple shorter segments or modules that can be assembled in stages. This segmentation reduces the length of individual components, allowing for shorter and less vulnerable interlocking slits while maintaining overall structural firmness through the cumulative effect of multiple connection points along the structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection components are designed with optimized local geometries where protrusions and notches are strategically shaped and positioned to maximize mechanical interlocking strength. This local optimization ensures that each connection point provides sufficient firmness without requiring excessively long or deep slits that would increase vulnerability to damage during assembly.
3Ease of manufacture
If traditional interlocking slits are used, then assembly can be completed, but disassembly becomes inconvenient and reduces interest in DIY assembly
Solution Approach 1:
The connection components are designed with dynamic characteristics that allow easy transitions between assembled and disassembled states. The protrusion-notch interfaces are shaped to provide strong holding force during assembly but can be easily released through simple actions such as pushing or pulling, enabling convenient disassembly and reuse of components for repeated DIY assembly activities.
Data Source
AI summary
A creative assembly model structure is disclosed. The creative assembly model structure comprises a base and two modeling bodies, wherein a top surface of the base includes a plurality of first insertion slots to insert the two modeling bodies; the lower end of each of the two modeling bodies includes two first protruding parts to be inserted into the plurality of first insertion slots, the central position of each of the two modeling bodies includes at least one fitting part to assemble the two modeling bodies with each other, each of the two modeling bodies has a left-right symmetrical shape to facilitate folding in half, and each of the modeling bodies includes a plurality of modeling holes and a slit configured below the plurality of modeling holes to hang ornaments therein.