Split Movable Desk Surfaces for Recliner Chair Access and Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional desks and chairs often fail to provide adequate comfort and ergonomics, especially for users of armchairs and recliners, as they do not allow easy positioning of computer and gaming components for comfortable operation.
Innovation Solution
A desk design with movable surfaces that can be positioned to allow easy access to and use from a chair, featuring supports on either side of the chair to accommodate the chair's width, with optional adjustable monitor mounts and stabilizing brackets to interface with the chair's arms, enabling a continuous desk surface and comfortable keyboard positioning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If desk surfaces are made movable to allow chair access, then chair accessibility is improved, but desk structural stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The movable surfaces incorporate stabilization mechanisms that engage when the surfaces are in use positions, providing structural stability during desk operations. The system transitions from a mobile state (for access) to a stabilized state (for work), resolving the contradiction between movability and stability.
2Area of moving object
If desk surfaces are extended to provide continuous work area, then workspace area is increased, but ease of adjusting individual surfaces deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The continuous desk surface is segmented into multiple independently adjustable sections. Each section can be individually positioned and adjusted without affecting the others, maintaining ease of adjustment while collectively providing an extended continuous workspace when all sections are deployed.
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AI summary
A desk for use with a chair, such as a recliner or arm chair, has desk surfaces supported on opposite sides of a front portion of the chair, with at least one of the desk surfaces movably mounted to move between a desk surface access position away from the front portion of the chair to allow access for a user to the chair and a desk surface use position with respect to the chair and a user in the chair to allow use of the desk surface for intended uses of the desk.