Rotating Floor Plate Layout for Flush High-Load Installation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing rotating devices with large diameters and high static loads are complex, heavy, and costly, posing safety hazards and requiring significant structural modifications for integration into buildings, especially when flush integration is desired.
Innovation Solution
A rotating plate device with three support units and a rotary bearing unit, embedded in a substrate like a screed floor, allowing for flexible, low-profile installation that adapts to settlement and expansion, with drive apparatuses concealed or integrated into furnishings, and featuring a rotating plate that can be rotated smoothly using friction wheels or air bearings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If rotating devices with large diameter and high static load are used, then load-bearing capacity is improved, but device complexity and weight increase
Solution Approach 1:
The rotating device is divided into multiple independent support units (at least three) arranged circumferentially within a circular area. Each support unit can be individually inserted into the substrate in a recess, allowing the load-bearing function to be distributed across multiple simple components rather than requiring a single complex heavy structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The support units are arranged in a circular pattern around the axis of rotation, utilizing radial distribution to achieve load-bearing capacity. This dimensional arrangement allows multiple lightweight support units to collectively support the rotating plate, replacing the need for a single heavy central support structure.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If rotating devices are integrated flush into building floor elements, then safety and aesthetics are improved, but installation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device is segmented into independently insertable support units that can be individually placed into recesses in the substrate. This modular approach simplifies installation compared to integrating a single large complex structure flush with the floor, while still achieving the safe flush appearance.
Solution Approach 2:
The substrate (building floor element) acts as an intermediary that receives and integrates the support units. The support units are inserted into recesses in the substrate, allowing the rotating device to be integrated flush with the floor surface while the substrate provides the structural connection and alignment.
3Stability of the object's composition
If support units and rotary bearing unit are directly connected, then structural stability is improved, but adaptability to settlement and expansion decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The substrate serves as an intermediary between the support units and the rotary bearing unit. The support units are inserted into recesses in the substrate, and the rotary bearing unit is mounted on the substrate, creating an indirect connection through the substrate. This allows the substrate to absorb and compensate for settlement and expansion, protecting the rotational mechanism from direct stress.
Solution Approach 2:
The indirect connection through the substrate segments the structural path, allowing the support units and rotary bearing unit to move independently relative to each other while maintaining their functions. This segmentation enables adaptation to substrate deformation without compromising overall structural stability.
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 provides a resource-efficient, flexible, and visually appealing rotating device suitable for retrofitting or new construction, minimizing load-bearing capacity loss and maintaining thermal and acoustic insulation, enabling barrier-free access and adaptable space usage.
Implementation Method 1
Each of the at least three support units has at least one roller bearing element supported on the housing, which projects from the housing and by means of which the rotating plate is supported in a rotationally movable manner
Implementation Method 2
featuring a rotating plate that can be rotated smoothly using friction wheels or air bearings
Implementation Method 3
featuring a rotating plate that can be rotated smoothly using friction wheels or air bearings
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a rotating device for integration in a substrate, preferably in a building floor element, more particularly in a screed floor, having at least three support units, which can be arranged individually in the circumference of the substrate within a circular area about an axis of rotation, a rotating plate which extends at least over the circular area and has a room side and a bearing side opposite the room side, a rotary bearing unit, and at least one drive apparatus, wherein the rotating plate is rotatably mounted in the axis of rotation and the at least three support units support the rotating plate in a rotationally movable manner in the orientation of the axis of rotation in a vertical axis on the bearing side, and wherein the drive apparatus is configured to set the rotating plate in rotation about the axis of rotation.