Storage table/stool
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing storage boxes are limited in their functionality as they cannot be stacked, leading to increased transportation costs and space occupancy during movement.
Innovation Solution
A storage table/stool design featuring a hollow cylinder body with a detachable table or seat cushion, and a bottom plate, allowing for easy assembly and stacking, utilizing connectors and screws for secure connections, and enabling the storage of articles within the hollow cylinder body.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If storage boxes are designed for storage functionality, then storage capacity is improved, but they cannot be stacked leading to increased transportation space occupancy
Solution Approach 1:
The storage box is divided into multiple detachable components: a bottom plate, a hollow cylinder body with screen frame, and a table/seat plate. This segmentation allows the components to be disassembled and stacked efficiently during transportation, reducing space occupancy while maintaining storage capacity when assembled.
Solution Approach 2:
The design allows smaller storage boxes to be nested inside larger ones during transportation. The hollow cylinder body structure enables inner boxes to be placed within outer boxes, significantly reducing transportation space occupancy while preserving full storage capacity when deployed.
2Stability of the object's composition
If storage boxes are made as single integrated units, then structural stability is improved, but they occupy large space during transportation
Solution Approach 1:
The storage box is segmented into bottom plate, hollow cylinder body, and table/seat plate components that can be separately transported and assembled. This segmentation reduces transportation volume while the designed connection structures ensure structural stability when assembled.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection structures (connectors, locating bumps, limiting grooves) are pre-designed and pre-positioned on the components. This preliminary preparation ensures that when components are assembled, they automatically achieve stable connection without requiring additional stabilization steps during assembly.
3Ease of operation
If storage boxes use simple connection structures, then ease of assembly is improved, but connection strength may be insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
Locating bumps and limiting grooves are pre-formed on the components during manufacturing. This preliminary action ensures that during assembly, components automatically align and connect properly, providing both ease of assembly and reliable connection strength without requiring complex alignment procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple connection functions are merged into single integrated structures. The connectors combine locating, limiting, and fastening functions in one component, simplifying the assembly process while ensuring strong, multi-functional connections between parts.
Data Source
AI summary
A storage table/stool, having a bottom plate, a hollow cylinder body and a table plate or a seat cushion, the table plate or the seat cushion is placed at the top of the hollow cylinder body, and the bottom plate is arranged at the interior or the bottom of the hollow cylinder body; the hollow cylinder body has a screen frame body, an upper side frame at the top of the screen frame body, and a lower side frame at the bottom of the screen frame body, the upper side frame, the screen frame body and the lower side frame are formed separately or integrally, the upper side frame is bent inwards to form a first boss, the table plate or the seat cushion is detachably placed on the first boss, and the bottom plate is arranged at the interior or the bottom of the screen frame body.