Suspended Ceiling Tiles With Unique Identities For 3D Design
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing false ceiling and wall designs lack design flexibility while maintaining manufacturing, transportation, and installation efficiency, and fail to effectively address aesthetic, acoustical, lighting, and ventilation requirements.
Innovation Solution
A method involving mineral fibre based tiles with unique identities and calculated formats, positions, and orientations, allowing for complex 3-dimensional designs using flat tiles, facilitated by software calculations and visualizations, and precise installation techniques to ensure correct positioning and orientation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional rectangular or quadratic tiles are used in a rectilinear grid system, then manufacturing and installation are simple and cost-efficient, but design flexibility and aesthetic considerations are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by calculating the format, position, and orientation for each individual tile before manufacturing and installation. This pre-calculation enables complex 3-dimensional ceiling designs to be achieved while maintaining systematic organization, allowing tiles to be produced and installed efficiently despite their varied geometries
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the ceiling into numerous individual tiles, each with uniquely calculated format, position, and orientation. This segmentation allows each tile to be independently manufactured and positioned according to precise calculations, enabling complex overall designs while maintaining simplicity in individual tile production and installation
2Shape
If complex 3-dimensional designs are created using flat tiles with unique formats and positions, then aesthetic and functional properties are improved, but manufacturing and installation processes become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent calculates the format, position, and orientation for each individual tile in advance before manufacturing begins. This preliminary calculation allows complex 3-dimensional ceiling geometries to be achieved while maintaining efficient manufacturing processes, as each tile's specifications are predetermined and can be produced systematically
Solution Approach 2:
The patent varies multiple parameters (format, position, orientation) for each individual tile to create complex 3-dimensional ceiling designs. By systematically changing these parameters according to pre-calculated values, the patent achieves diverse ceiling geometries while maintaining manufacturing efficiency through standardized production processes for each tile type
3Manufacturing precision
If software calculations and visualizations are used to determine tile positions and orientations, then design precision is improved, but installation time and process complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs all software calculations for tile format, position, and orientation before the installation process begins. This preliminary computational work creates a complete installation plan that guides workers through the installation process systematically, ensuring high positioning accuracy while actually reducing installation time by eliminating on-site calculation and decision-making
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual measurement and positioning methods with software-based calculations and visualizations. This substitution of mechanical processes with computational methods achieves superior positioning accuracy and provides clear installation guidance that speeds up the actual installation process by eliminating trial-and-error adjustments
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AI summary
The disclosure relates to a method of preparing an installation, to a method of installation of a false ceiling or wall, to a tile for use in such a false ceiling or wall and to a false ceiling or false wall. The method of preparing an installation comprises: calculating (202) format, position and orientation for each individual tile in the suspended ceiling or wall, associating (202; 206) each individual tile with a unique tile identity, producing (300) the individual tiles according to the calculated format, providing (301) respective tile with the tile identity of respective tile, providing (302) a representation of the suspended ceiling or wall including an association of the position of respective tile with respective tile identity.