Room cell for a room in room system
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing room-in-room systems require multiple components for assembly and lack a stable, universally adaptable design with minimal components, and struggle to integrate door frames and glass panes without additional connecting elements.
Innovation Solution
The design features wall elements engaging with spring sections in the ceiling profile elements' grooves, which include indentations for rubber profiles to hold door frames and glass panes, forming a closed ring anchor for stability, and uses sandwich elements with a double-curved shell structure for load-bearing capacity and sound insulation, along with integrated lighting and ventilation systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate components are used for wall elements, ceiling elements, door frames, and glass panes, then each component can be optimized for its specific function, but the overall system complexity increases and requires more connecting elements
Solution Approach 1:
The ceiling profile element integrates multiple functions into a single component: it provides structural support for ceiling elements, contains grooves for wall element connection, includes indentations for door frame and glass pane mounting, and forms part of the closed ring anchor system. This merging eliminates the need for separate connecting elements for each component type.
Solution Approach 2:
The ceiling profile element is designed as a universal component that can accommodate and connect multiple different types of elements (ceiling elements, wall elements, door frames, glass panes) through its integrated groove and indentation system, reducing the need for specialized connecting hardware for each element type.
2Reliability
If additional connecting elements are used to integrate door frames and glass panes, then the integration becomes more secure, but the assembly process becomes more complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting indentations for door frames and glass panes are integrated directly into the ceiling profile element structure, eliminating the need for separate mounting brackets or additional connecting elements. This reduces assembly steps while maintaining secure integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The ceiling profile element's groove and indentation structure automatically provides the mounting function for door frames and glass panes through its own geometry, without requiring external connecting components. The structure serves its own fastening purpose.
3Stability of the object's composition
If a closed ring anchor structure is formed by ceiling profile elements, then the stability of the room cell increases, but the design flexibility for different room configurations decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The closed ring anchor is segmented into multiple ceiling profile elements that can be independently positioned and connected. Each profile element maintains the structural integrity of the ring while allowing the overall configuration to be adapted to different room layouts and sizes.
4Strength
If spring sections are used to connect wall elements to ceiling profile elements, then the connection becomes more stable, but the manufacturing complexity of the ceiling profile elements increases
Solution Approach 1:
Spring sections made of elastic material are used to create flexible yet strong connections between wall elements and ceiling profile elements. The elastic property provides stable connection through mechanical deformation while maintaining manufacturability through simple forming processes.
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 solution allows for a stable, universally adaptable room cell with minimal components, enabling easy assembly and disassembly, integrated sound insulation, and efficient ventilation, while providing full illumination and hiding cables and lines, enhancing safety and aesthetics.
Implementation Method 1
the wall elements engage in the groove of the ceiling profile elements with spring sections on the upper side
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AI summary
The invention relates to a room module for a room-within-a-room system comprising at least one floor element (2), wall elements (3), wall corner elements (4) and at least one ceiling element (8), wherein adjacent wall elements (3) and wall corner elements (4) are detachably connected to each other according to the tongue-and-groove principle, and wherein a circumferential ceiling profile (9) made of several interconnected ceiling profile elements (10) is arranged between the wall elements (3) and the wall corner elements (4) and the at least one ceiling element (8), which have a downwardly open groove (12) into which the upper ends of the wall elements (3) engage.It is essential that the wall elements (3) with upper tongue sections (13) engage in the groove (12) of the ceiling profile elements (10) and that the groove (12) of the ceiling profile elements (10) has indentations (14, 15) on both sides for rubber profiles (16, 17) projecting into the groove (12) for holding a glass pane (7) or a door frame (5), wherein the respective ceiling profile element (10) and the at least one ceiling element (8) have complementary areas (18, 19) for a positive connection to each other.