Reading Table Support Structure to Prevent Deformation and Paper Loss

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Solution Overview

Problem

Reading tables made of wood or synthetic resin materials tend to deform when subjected to weight or pressure, causing papers to fall off due to lack of adequate fixation and rotation issues.

Innovation Solution

A structure featuring a quadrangular support bar with a recessed groove on the rear end surface of a second fixing body, coupled with a pressing member and angle adjustment mechanism to prevent bending by creating a stable interval between the reading table and its corners, ensuring the table remains flat and secure.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If the reading table is made of wood or synthetic resin materials with a simple structure, then the manufacturing cost is low and ease of manufacture is improved, but the table deforms under weight or pressure causing papers to fall off

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of manufactureVSAvoidstability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The reading table is divided into multiple structural components: a main body table, multiple support legs with adjustment mechanisms, and reinforcement brackets. This segmentation allows each component to be manufactured separately using simple processes while the assembled structure provides enhanced stability and load-bearing capacity to prevent deformation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Reinforcement brackets are strategically positioned at critical stress points where the support legs connect to the main table body. These localized reinforcement areas provide additional structural strength exactly where needed to prevent deformation under weight, while the rest of the table maintains its simple, easy-to-manufacture design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If the support of the reading table is rotated and coupled to prevent standing paper from falling off, then the stability is improved, but a gap is generated causing deformation

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovestabilityVSAvoidstructural integrity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

Adjustable support legs with extension mechanisms serve as intermediaries between the main table body and the ground. These supports can be extended or adjusted to fill gaps and maintain continuous contact, preventing the structural integrity issues that arise from gaps created by rotation and coupling mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The support legs incorporate adjustment mechanisms that allow dynamic adaptation to different table configurations and ground conditions. This dynamic adjustment capability ensures that the supports maintain proper alignment and contact without creating gaps, even when the table orientation or position changes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11553788B1Structure for preventing deformation of reading table
Publication Date: 2023.01.17 NICE PRODN CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided is a structure for preventing deformation of a reading table, which prevents deformation of a reading table itself, solves a problem that a gap is generated when a support of the reading table is rotated and coupled, and thus prevents a standing paper from falling off, and relates to a pressing structure for preventing deformation of a reading table, wherein a pressing member is located at a center of a rear surface of a reading table, and when a first support member is rotated at a predetermined angle, a central part of the reading table is pressed by a support member, and thus a predetermined interval is forcibly formed between the reading table and lower corners of two sides of the first support member.