Room Partitioning System with Hidden Connecting Clips
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing room partitioning systems lack flexibility in accommodating varied geometries and aesthetics, as they often require wall attachment and expose mechanical connections, making them unsuitable for mid-room setups and aesthetically unappealing.
Innovation Solution
A room partitioning system featuring profiles with longitudinally extending recesses on both surfaces, connecting clips with protrusions, and frame profiles with recesses for sheet accommodation, allowing for easy setup and dismantling without wall attachment, and hiding mechanical connections for an aesthetic appearance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If traditional structural frameworks with visible mechanical connections are used, then structural strength is ensured, but aesthetic appearance deteriorates due to visible connections
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the mechanical connection function from the visible surface by introducing separate connecting clips that engage with recesses in the profiles. The connections are taken out to the rear surfaces or hidden positions, leaving the front surfaces clean and aesthetic while maintaining structural strength through the clip-profile engagement mechanism.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces connecting clips as intermediary elements that mediate between profile components. These clips serve as hidden mediators that provide mechanical connection strength while remaining inconspicuous, allowing the main visible profiles to maintain their aesthetic appearance without exposed fasteners or connections.
2Ease of operation
If modular systems with clips and recesses are used, then ease of assembly is improved, but adaptability to varied geometries deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates universal profiles with recesses that can accommodate multiple types of connecting clips and configuration options. The profiles are designed with multi-functional recesses that work with different clip orientations and positions, enabling the same basic profile design to adapt to various geometric arrangements while maintaining simple clip-based assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic adaptability through the ability to position connecting clips at different locations along the profile lengths and to configure profiles in various orientations. The system transitions from fixed geometric configurations to dynamic, adjustable arrangements while preserving the simplicity of clip-based connection and disconnection.
3Adaptability or versatility
If profiles with recesses and connecting clips are used, then adaptability to mid-room setups is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the partitioning system into standardized profile sections that can be independently configured and assembled. By dividing the structure into modular profile units with consistent recess patterns, the system achieves adaptability for mid-room installations without proportionally increasing complexity, as each segment follows the same connection protocol.
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AI summary
1. The invention relates to a room partitioning system (200) comprising: one or more partitioning profiles (300); one or more frame profiles (400); one or more connecting clips (500); 5 wherein said one or more partitioning profiles (300) is having an extension in a longitudinal direction X and an extension in a transverse direction Y and wherein said one or more partitioning profiles (300) comprises a front surface (2) and a rear surface (4), and wherein said front surface comprises a longitudinally extending recess (6) for accommodating a connecting clip (500); 10 wherein said one or more frame profiles (400) is having an extension in a longitudinal direction X and an extension in a transverse direction Y, and wherein said one or more frame profiles comprises a front surface (8) and a rear surface (10), and wherein said front surface 8) comprises a longitudinally extending recess (12) for accommodating a room partitioning sheet (600); and wherein said rear surface comprises a longitudinally extending recess (14) for 15 accommodating a connecting clip (500); wherein said one or more connecting clips (500) comprise a sheet like material (16) comprising a first set of protrusions (18) and a second set of protrusions (20); wherein the dimensions and topographies of the one or more partitioning profiles (300), the one or more frame profiles (400), and the one or more connecting clips (500), respectively, 20 are adapted to each other so as to enable the first set of protrusions (18) of the one or more clips (500) to engage with the longitudinally extending recess (6) of one or more of the partitioning profiles (300); and so as to allow the second set of protrusions (20) of the one or more connecting clips (500) to engage with the longitudinally extending recess (14) of the rear surface (10) of one or more of the frame profiles (400); thereby allowing locking one or more 25 partitioning profiles (300) to an associated frame profile (400) via said one or more connecting clips (500).