Screen Base Plate and Hood for Compact Tilt-Resistant Screening

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Solution Overview

Problem

In medical care settings, there is a need for compact and user-friendly screening systems that maintain hygiene standards while ensuring safety and adaptability to different heights and spaces, as conventional screens often occupy too much space and compromise on tilt resistance.

Innovation Solution

The arrangement features a supporting base plate with optimally positioned weights and a covering hood, reducing space requirements without compromising safety, allowing for adjustable tilt resistance and easy cleaning, with a design that accommodates different screen heights and includes a smooth, gentle surface for patient and staff contact, and a natural foot space for mobility.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If conventional screening systems are used, then screening function is provided, but space requirement increases and tilt resistance is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetilt resistanceVSAvoidspace requirement

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The base plate utilizes an inward bight configuration that creates a triangular support structure, effectively using geometric dimensioning to enhance stability without increasing the horizontal footprint of the screen system

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

Weights are optimally positioned within the base plate structure to counterbalance the screen sections, providing tilt resistance in multiple directions (forwards, backwards, right, left) without requiring additional space

Inventive Principle:

Principle #8Anti-weight (Counterweight)

2Strength

If rigid structure is used for base plate, then structural strength is improved, but hygiene and ease of cleaning deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural strengthVSAvoidease of cleaning

Core Design Contradiction:

StrengthVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The base plate features rounded corners and smooth curved surfaces instead of sharp edges and flat surfaces, eliminating corners where dirt and bacteria can accumulate, making the structure easy to clean while maintaining rigidity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #14Spheroidality (Curvature)

Solution Approach 2:

The base plate is designed with continuous smooth surfaces without joints on the upper side, creating a seamless structure that prevents contamination accumulation and facilitates easy wiping and cleaning

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

3Stability of the object's composition

If joints are positioned on upper side, then structural connection is improved, but hygiene and ease of wiping deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestructural connectionVSAvoidease of wiping

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

All joints and connection points are extracted from the upper side and repositioned to the lower side of the base plate, creating a completely smooth and joint-free upper surface that is easy to wipe and maintain hygienically

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS9615681B2Arrangement with a base plate and a covering hood for a screen

Publication Date: 2017.04.11 GORANSON DAG

AI summary

An arrangement for a screen with a number of sections which are foldable and/or pivotal in relation to one another and which form a screen-off, which includes a fixed section and two sections pivotal in relation thereto, or one fixed section and a number of foldable or pivotal sections in relation to one another, which are pivotally mounted on the fixed section, the fixed section being mounted on a foot, the foot includes a supporting base plate, and the base plate is covered with a hood for preventing direct contact of at least the upper side of the base plate and possibly also the major portion of the edges of the base plate.