Modular Smart Wall Frame Structure for Integrated Device Mounting

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Solution Overview

Problem

The challenge is to provide a smart wall that can easily accommodate multimedia devices and home appliances while minimizing the number of protruding furniture and electronics, ensuring a neat appearance and easy installation, especially in spaces with children, and allowing for customization and modular expansion.

Innovation Solution

A smart wall system using modular frame modules made of shape steels with standardized fastening portions, allowing for customizable installation and easy expansion by adjusting length and position, featuring a frame structure that integrates multimedia devices and home appliances into the wall, with features like outlets and ventilation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple multimedia devices and home appliances are placed in the living room, then device functionality and connectivity are improved, but the appearance becomes cluttered and safety risks increase for children

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice functionalityVSAvoidappearance
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts electronic devices from the living room space by integrating them into a wall-mounted frame structure. The frame is installed on the wall and provides mounting surfaces for TVs, speakers, and other devices, removing them from floor-level furniture and eliminating visual clutter while maintaining accessibility and functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from horizontal placement on furniture to vertical integration on the wall. The frame structure utilizes the wall surface as a mounting dimension, arranging devices vertically and horizontally across the wall plane, which optimizes space utilization and creates a streamlined appearance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Ease of manufacture

If traditional furniture and electronics are used in the living room, then device placement is simple, but the number of protruding objects increases creating safety hazards

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice placement simplicityVSAvoidsafety hazards
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple device mounting functions into a single integrated frame structure. The frame combines TV mounting, speaker placement, and cable management into one unified system, reducing the number of separate furniture pieces and eliminating protruding objects that pose safety risks to children.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Ease of manufacture

If a fixed wall structure is used for device mounting, then installation is straightforward, but customization and expansion are limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinstallation simplicityVSAvoidcustomization capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the wall-mounted frame into multiple modular components that can be independently configured and assembled. The frame structure includes separate mounting sections for different device types, allowing users to customize the arrangement according to their specific needs while maintaining simple installation through standardized connection interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP4015726B1Smart wall
Publication Date: 2026.01.14 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

A smart wall comprises: a frame structure including a mounting cell; an electronic product disposed in the mounting cell; and an art wall covering the front of the frame structure, wherein the frame structure comprises: a first steel section; a second steel section which includes a second fastening part formed at the end thereof and is disposed in a direction perpendicular to the first steel section; a first fastening part which includes multiple first fastening holes arranged in the width direction of the first steel section; the second fastening part which is located at the end of the second steel section and includes multiple second fastening holes corresponding to the multiple first fastening holes; and fastening screws passing through the first fastening part and the second fastening part, and the first fastening part comprises multiple first fastening parts disposed at predetermined intervals in the extension direction of the first steel section. Accordingly, various frame structures can be implemented and thus reduced manufacturing costs can be achieved.