Modular Wall System Standardized Posts Panels
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing modular wall systems for sports arenas require a large number of variants to meet customer demands, leading to increased manufacturing and storage costs, and are often complex for clients to order, while also being expensive and difficult to assemble.
Innovation Solution
A modular wall system comprising standard elements, including posts and panels with a common cross-sectional design, allowing for flexible assembly configurations using aluminum and steel components with extruded profiles and recesses for easy connection, reducing the need for multiple variants and enabling cost-effective production and assembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a large number of variants are used to meet customer demands, then customer requirements are satisfied, but manufacturing and storage costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by designing panels with standardized dimensions and multiple mounting configurations that can be adapted to different post positions. The panels can be mounted with edges facing forward or backward, and can be positioned at various heights on posts, allowing a single panel design to serve multiple customer needs without requiring separate variants for each configuration
Solution Approach 2:
The wall system is segmented into independent standardized components (posts and panels) that can be combined in various configurations. This segmentation allows the system to provide versatility through combinatorial arrangements of a limited set of standard elements, rather than requiring complete variants for each possible wall configuration
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple variants are maintained to provide design options, then customer choice is increased, but the system becomes complicated to order and manage
Solution Approach 1:
A single universal panel design with standardized dimensions and multiple mounting configurations replaces the need for numerous specialized panel variants. The universality of the design simplifies ordering and management while still providing customers with diverse design options through different arrangement and mounting possibilities
3Adaptability or versatility
If specialized components are used to meet specific customer needs, then custom requirements are satisfied, but assembly difficulty and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments wall constructions into standardized modular units (posts and panels) that can be easily assembled through simple connections. This segmentation allows custom wall configurations to be achieved through combinatorial arrangements of standard components rather than requiring custom-built specialized components, thereby maintaining assembly simplicity
Solution Approach 2:
Universal connection mechanisms and standardized panel dimensions enable the same components to be used across different custom configurations. The panels can be mounted in various orientations and positions on standard posts, allowing assembly personnel to satisfy custom requirements using the same simple assembly procedures regardless of the specific wall design needed
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AI summary
A modular wall system comprising a first set of posts (8), a second set of posts (8b) and a first set of panels (70a), said panels having a left side edge and a right side edge arranged to be fastened to a first and a second post respectively from said first or second set of posts. The posts from the first set of posts are made of steel and in that the posts from the second set of posts are made of aluminium and the panels of the first set of panels and/or the posts of the first and second set of posts comprise a panel spacing arrangement which ensure that the spacing between two adjacent panels which are connected to a post will be the same when using a post from the first set of posts and when using a post from the second set of posts.