Adjustable Sunshade Upright Mounting for Uneven Walls
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sunshade mounting systems face challenges with imprecise alignment due to non-linear walls, misalignment between uprights and walls, and complex disassembly issues, often requiring additional components that are inflexible and cumbersome.
Innovation Solution
A sunshade mounting apparatus featuring adjustable profile bars and gauging crosspieces that allow for precise alignment and easy installation, using movable coupling members and fixing profiles to accommodate wall irregularities, and a method that includes steps for connecting guides and uprights with threaded elements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of substance
If silicone is used to fill the space between uprights and wall, then the gap is filled, but the work quality deteriorates and material consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the problematic silicone filling operation entirely from the mounting process. Instead of filling gaps with silicone, the system uses adjustable profile bars that physically adapt to the wall surface, eliminating the need for silicone and its associated drawbacks of material consumption and difficult disassembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The profile bars are designed with adjustable mechanisms that allow them to dynamically adapt to different wall positions and inclinations. This dynamic adjustment capability eliminates gaps without requiring rigid fixation methods like silicone, thereby reducing material consumption and simplifying disassembly.
2Adaptability or versatility
If additional lateral profiles are inserted relative to the base upright, then the mounting flexibility improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The profile bars serve multiple functions: they provide lateral support, enable adjustment to wall inclinations, and eliminate gaps simultaneously. This multi-functionality achieves mounting flexibility without requiring separate components for each function, thereby avoiding increased device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges the functions of lateral profiles, adjustment mechanisms, and gap-filling elements into integrated profile bars. This consolidation achieves the same adaptability as separate components would provide while reducing overall device complexity.
3Manufacturing precision
If the slat length is determined imprecisely, then the manufacturing is simpler, but the mounting precision deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary measurement and adjustment operations during installation using the adjustable profile bars and gauging crosspiece. This allows for precise determination of slat length requirements before final manufacturing, ensuring both manufacturing precision and mounting accuracy without requiring overly complex preliminary processes.
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AI summary
An apparatus (1) for mounting a sunshade (10), comprising: a pair of uprights (2), adapted to be fixed to the wall to support the sunshade (10) so it at least partly closes the opening (A); first connecting elements (3) for mounting the guides (11) of the sunshade (10) to the uprights (2); second connecting elements (4) for mounting the uprights (2) to said wall (P). Each upright (2) of said pair of uprights comprises a respective first fixing profile (21) and a second fixing profile (22). The apparatus comprises, for each upright (2), a first profile bar (5A), including a respective first coupling member (51), configured to be coupled to the first fixing profile (21), and a second profile bar (5B), including a respective second coupling member (52), configured to be coupled to the second fixing profile (22). Said first and the second coupling member (51, 52) are movable relative to the corresponding upright (2) along an adjustment direction having at least one component along the normal direction (N).