Peel-and-Stick Building Block Plates for Crevice-Filling Adhesion
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing building block mounting plates face challenges with messy and difficult adhesive application, inadequate adhesion, especially in crevices and grooves, and limited size options that do not fully utilize surfaces, leading to inefficient use and storage solutions.
Innovation Solution
Peel-and-stick plates with a flowable adhesive applied within crevices on one surface and a peelable cover, and scored plates for easy size adjustment, providing strong and even adhesion to surfaces and allowing for flexible storage solutions like sliding drawers and adhesive tubs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If liquid adhesive is applied to mounting plates, then adhesion strength is improved, but application becomes messy and difficult to control
Solution Approach 1:
The adhesive is pre-applied to the mounting plate during manufacturing, eliminating the need for users to apply liquid adhesive themselves. This preliminary action ensures even distribution and proper curing while preventing messy application, directly resolving the contradiction between achieving strong adhesion and maintaining ease of operation.
2Ease of operation
If double-sided tape is used to adhere mounting plates, then application simplicity is improved, but adhesion strength decreases due to inability to fill crevices
Solution Approach 1:
The adhesive is formulated with specific flow characteristics that allow it to fill crevices and grooves in the mounting plate surface while maintaining ease of application. By changing the physical parameters of the adhesive (viscosity, flowability), the solution achieves both simple application and strong adhesion, resolving the contradiction between application simplicity and adhesion strength.
3Ease of manufacture
If mounting plates are made in fixed sizes, then manufacturing simplicity is improved, but surface utilization efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting plate system is designed with score lines that allow the plate to be segmented into smaller sections. Users can break the plate along these pre-defined lines to create custom sizes that fit different surfaces, thereby improving surface utilization efficiency while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through standardized plate production.
4Reliability
If adhesive coverage is increased to ensure full coverage, then adhesion reliability is improved, but adhesive material consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The adhesive application features increased viscosity and flowability characteristics that allow it to concentrate and fill crevices locally rather than spreading uniformly. This local quality approach ensures reliable adhesion in critical areas (crevices and grooves) while reducing overall adhesive material consumption, resolving the contradiction between adhesion reliability and material loss.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution enables easy, reliable adhesion of building block plates to various surfaces, including those with crevices, and allows for customizable plate sizes to fit any space without spilling, enhancing both usage and storage efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
the adhesive is applied as a flowable material onto the second surface and disposed within the crevices of the second surface
Implementation Method 2
a peelable cover disposed on the adhesive, wherein removal of the peelable cover exposes the adhesive for adherence thereon to a surface
Data Source
AI summary
Peel-and-stick apparatuses for building blocks generally comprise peel-and-stick plates for disposing on surfaces, such as tables, walls, floors, or other like surfaces to provide surfaces whereby building blocks may be appended. Other embodiments of the present invention comprise peel-and-stick table drawers, peel-and-stick mount tubs, curved plates, and scored plates for easily breaking the same to change the sizes thereof. Systems and methods of using the same are further provided.