Smart wall
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing number of connected media devices and home appliances in smart homes leads to clutter and safety issues, particularly around living room walls, where devices like TVs and speakers protrude, creating a messy appearance and potential hazards, especially with children around.
Innovation Solution
A smart wall system that integrates multimedia devices and home appliances, featuring a frame structure with moving art walls and drivers to minimize exposure, allowing devices to be mounted on the wall, hidden behind a unified art wall that can be selectively opened for use, providing a tidy and safe appearance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If devices are mounted on the wall to provide functionality, then device availability is improved, but visual clutter and safety risks increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent embeds devices within wall-mounted compartments that can be opened or closed. When closed, devices are hidden inside the wall structure; when opened, devices are accessible for use. This nesting approach allows devices to be both available for functionality and hidden to reduce visual clutter and safety risks.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs movable panels or doors that can dynamically change the visibility and accessibility of mounted devices. These panels can be opened when devices need to be used and closed when devices should be hidden, providing dynamic adaptability between functionality and aesthetics/safety.
2Shape
If a screen is used to cover the front of a device, then aesthetic appearance is improved, but the structure to maintain the screen becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates the screen or panel directly into the wall structure itself, rather than using separate support structures. The wall-mounted compartment serves both as the device housing and as the support for the aesthetic panel, merging structural and aesthetic functions into a single integrated system.
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 smart wall system effectively reduces clutter and safety risks by embedding devices within the wall, offering a unified aesthetic and allowing for easy access and control of appliances, enhancing both functionality and aesthetics.
Implementation Method 1
a first moving art wall positioned in front of the mounting cell and configured to move in a thickness direction... a horizontal driver configured to drive the first moving art wall
Implementation Method 2
a second moving art wall positioned in front of the mounting cell and configured to move in a vertical direction... a vertical driver configured to drive the second moving art wall
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein is a smart wall including a frame structure including a mounting cell, an electronic appliance disposed in the mounting cell, a first moving art wall positioned in front of the mounting cell and configured to move in a thickness direction, a second moving art wall positioned in front of the mounting cell and configured to move in a vertical direction, a horizontal driver configured to drive the first moving art wall, and a vertical driver configured to drive the second moving art wall. The smart wall may be equipped with multimedia devices, such as a display device and an audio devices, and household appliances, such as an air cleaner and a humidifier, on a wall, thereby minimizing the exposure of the home appliances.