Modular system for building furniture using aluminium profiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing furniture systems face challenges in achieving uniformity and flexibility in design due to columns and pillars, requiring specialized assembly and machinery, and materials like wood are prone to fire, rust, and require painting or varnishing.
Innovation Solution
A modular system of extruded aluminum profiles with double hitch finishes allows for easy assembly and disassembly, enabling customizable furniture configurations without the need for specialized tools, and features reinforced areas for accessory installation and fire-resistant properties.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If conventional furniture materials like wood are used, then aesthetic appearance is improved, but fire resistance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses aluminum profiles as a composite material alternative to traditional wood-based furniture materials. Aluminum provides both the structural integrity needed for furniture manufacture and inherent fire resistance, eliminating the harmful effect of combustion while maintaining aesthetic capabilities through various finishing options.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If aluminum profiles are used, then fire resistance is improved, but ease of assembly deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The furniture system is segmented into modular aluminum profiles that can be independently assembled. Each profile contains integrated reinforcement areas and standardized connection points, allowing users to easily assemble fire-resistant furniture without specialized tools or machinery through a simple modular construction approach.
3Manufacturing precision
If specialized assembly machinery is used, then manufacturing precision is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The aluminum profiles are pre-manufactured with integrated reinforcement areas, standardized connection geometries, and precise dimensional tolerances. This preliminary preparation of connection elements allows for high-precision assembly without requiring complex specialized machinery during the assembly process, as the precision has already been built into the components themselves.
4Strength
If furniture is made fully assembled, then structural strength is improved, but transport efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The furniture structure is segmented into separate aluminum profile components that can be compactly transported and later assembled by users. The modular nature of the profiles allows them to be efficiently packed in minimal space during transport while maintaining the capability to form strong structural assemblies when put together, resolving the contradiction between structural strength and transport efficiency.
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AI summary
Constituted from aluminum profiles object of the present invention is constituted from a set of extruded aluminum profiles, more or less long and rectangular, which make up the walls, the base and the ceiling, forming in itself the structure of the furniture, and that present at their ends double terminations in the form of a hitch that allow linking and fixing each other varying the dimension of the bottom of the furniture. They also include a slot to house a silicone rubber, tubular reinforcements to improve grip by screws, a space to fix metal plates that will make the bottom, and an increase in interior thickness at certain points to improve grip by fixing screws for hinges, shelf supports, or any other accessory.