Oscillating Multi-Bar Closet Organizer for Segmented Clothes Storage

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing closet organizers with movable clothes bars face limitations in flexibility, storage capacity, accessibility, and ease of use due to structural constraints, such as limited type and quantity of items that can be stored, and the difficulty in moving the bars between positions without excessive effort.

Innovation Solution

A closet organizer system with two parallel bars that can move between two levels, allowing for the storage of multiple types of items, featuring a movement mechanism with a rotational axis and adjustable length, enabling easy inversion of item positions and facilitating access without excessive effort.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a single bar hanging clothes is used in the oscillating device, then the structure is simple, but the storage capacity and flexibility for different types of clothes is limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflexibility of use and storage capacityVSAvoidstructural configuration

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The single bar is divided into multiple separate bars (first bar and second bar) that can independently hold different types of clothes. This segmentation allows simultaneous storage of summer and winter clothes on different bars, increasing storage capacity and flexibility while maintaining manageable structural complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The bars are arranged in a vertical array configuration that can oscillate between vertical and horizontal positions. This dimensional arrangement maximizes space utilization within the accommodation room while allowing easy access to all clothes types stored on different bars

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Ease of operation

If return springs are used to assist lifting the bar, then the bar returns to lifted position automatically, but users must exert considerable effort to lower the bar

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of actuationVSAvoideffort to lower the bar

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSForce

Solution Approach 1:

The oscillating mechanism is designed so that the weight of the bars and clothes creates a counterbalancing effect. When the bars are pulled down, gravity assists the downward movement, reducing the force needed to lower them. The springs provide gentle assistance for upward movement without creating excessive resistance downward

Inventive Principle:

Principle #8Anti-weight (Counterweight)

Solution Approach 2:

The system transitions from a static bar position to a dynamic oscillating mechanism where the bars can move freely between vertical and horizontal positions. This dynamic design allows the system to adapt to user needs, making both lifting and lowering operations more efficient with reduced effort

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Quantity of substance

If the bar is allocated to both Summer and Winter clothes, then storage capacity increases, but the quantity of hanging garments for each type is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetotal storage capacityVSAvoidsegregated storage for different clothes types

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple separate bars are provided instead of a single bar, allowing summer clothes and winter clothes to be stored on different bars simultaneously. This segmentation maintains high total storage capacity while enabling segregated organization of different clothes types, providing both quantity and adaptability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP3666118B1Accessory hanging items, in particular clothes/clothing, for furniture, in particular cupboards or cabinets or similar bodies presenting accommodation rooms and furniture, in particular cupboard or cabinet or similar body presenting an accommodation room, equipped with this accessory hanging items

Publication Date: 2021.10.27 GIORGI

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AI summary

An accessory hanging items (1) for furniture (2) comprises: at least one support element (3) engageable with at least one wall (2a) of an accommodation room (2b) of a respective piece of furniture (2); at least one element hanging items (4) operatively engaged with the support element (3) at at least one point of engagement (5) identifiable on the latter and movable between at least two different levels; at least one movement mechanism (7) operatively interposed between the support element (3) and the element hanging items (4) to allow the latter to translate along a predetermined direction (X) between a first limit position, in which the point of engagement (5) of the element hanging items (4) is arranged inside the accommodation room (2b) of the respective piece of furniture (2) and a second limit position, in which the point of engagement (5) of the element hanging items (4) is arranged outside the accommodation room (2b) of the respective piece of furniture (2).