Roller Shutter Box with Dynamic Adaptation and Insulation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Standardized roller shutter boxes are inflexible and difficult to adapt to varying installation situations, particularly in retrofitting or using in old buildings and prefabricated houses, where precise dimensioning during production is not feasible, leading to inefficiencies in installation and insulation.
Innovation Solution
A roller shutter box design featuring oversize components, such as a U-shaped base body with adjustable legs and a detachable apron, made from plastic foam, allowing for easy adaptation during installation by shortening the upper horizontal leg and adjusting the opening width, ensuring optimal insulation and accessibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If roller shutter boxes are manufactured with standardized dimensions, then production efficiency and economy are improved, but adaptability to individual installation situations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The roller shutter box is designed with dynamic adaptability through predetermined breaking points that allow the box to be easily shortened to different lengths during installation. This enables a standardized production process to produce boxes that can be dynamically adapted to various installation depths without requiring custom manufacturing for each situation.
Solution Approach 2:
The roller shutter box is segmented into modular components with standardized connection elements. The box can be divided into sections that are easily assembled or disassembled, allowing adaptation to different installation situations while maintaining standardized production of individual components.
2Adaptability or versatility
If roller shutter boxes are customized for precise dimensions, then adaptability to installation situations is improved, but production complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of producing custom-sized boxes for each installation, the invention provides a standardized box design that can be dynamically adjusted on-site through the predetermined breaking points. This maintains production simplicity while achieving precise dimensioning during installation.
Solution Approach 2:
The predetermined breaking points are pre-formed during standardized production, preparing the box for future adaptation. This preliminary action enables easy customization without adding production complexity, as the breaking points are created as part of the standard manufacturing process.
3Loss of energy
If roller shutter boxes are made from insulating materials, then thermal insulation is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The roller shutter box is manufactured as a composite structure combining insulating materials (such as foam plastic) with structural elements. This integrated approach provides thermal insulation while maintaining manufacturing simplicity, as the insulating material is incorporated into the box construction process rather than added as a separate complex component.
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
Enables quick and easy assembly, precise adaptation to specific installation situations, and enhanced thermal and sound insulation due to the use of high-quality insulating materials like expanded polyethylene, polypropylene, or polystyrene foams, with optional additives like graphite and elastomer particles for improved thermal performance.
Implementation Method 1
The roller shutter box consists of a plastic foam... in order to provide common roller shutter boxes with sufficient insulation, that is to say primarily thermal but also sound insulation
Implementation Method 2
in order to provide common roller shutter boxes with sufficient insulation, that is to say primarily thermal but also sound insulation
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AI summary
The roller shutter box (1) comprises an opening (8) formed on the bottom side for the roller shutter or roller blind, and has a plastic foam. The roller-shutter box comprises a U-shaped base body (2), which limits an inner space (6) at three sides, a middle vertical section (4), a lower horizontal shank (3) and an upper horizontal shank (5).