Suspended storage shelf assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing suspended storage shelf assemblies face challenges in achieving structural soundness while maintaining efficient packaging for assembly and disassembly, with a need for innovative solutions that enhance both structural integrity and ease of assembly.
Innovation Solution
A storage shelf assembly design featuring a platform support frame with cross members and uprights, utilizing a support bracket and clamp feature attachment assembly that securely suspends the platform, allowing for efficient assembly and disassembly, and optimizing material usage for reduced packaging size.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If the shelf assembly uses a complex attachment mechanism to ensure structural soundness, then the structural integrity is improved, but the assembly and disassembly process becomes more difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment assembly is divided into distinct functional components: a support bracket with shank and floor for load-bearing, and a separate clamp feature with three portions for securing. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently - the bracket for strength and the clamp for easy engagement - resolving the contradiction between structural integrity and assembly ease.
Solution Approach 2:
The clamp feature is designed to self-adjust and self-secure onto the side member through its three-portion structure that wraps around and clamps down. The design inherently provides its own fastening mechanism without requiring additional tools or complex procedures, achieving both secure attachment and operational simplicity.
2Volume of moving object
If the shelf assembly uses a compact design for efficient packaging, then the packaging efficiency is improved, but the structural stability during use may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the support bracket and clamp feature as separate attachable components, the design allows the shelf to be disassembled into compact segments for efficient packaging. When assembled, these same segments form a stable structure, resolving the contradiction between compact packaging and structural stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The clamp feature wraps around and encloses portions of the side member, creating a nested configuration where the attachment mechanism integrates with the frame structure. This nesting allows compact packaging while maintaining structural integrity when assembled.
3Quantity of substance
If the shelf assembly uses minimal material to reduce packaging size, then the packaging efficiency is improved, but the load-bearing capacity may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The attachment assembly concentrates material strategically at critical load-bearing locations - the shank and floor of the support bracket where vertical loads are transferred, and the clamp portions where lateral securing forces are applied. This local quality approach ensures adequate load-bearing capacity with minimal overall material usage.
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment assembly appears to utilize composite construction combining different material properties - potentially metal for the load-bearing shank and floor, and a different material for the clamp feature that provides both strength and flexibility for secure engagement. This composite approach optimizes the strength-to-weight ratio.
Data Source
AI summary
A storage shelf assembly includes a platform and a platform support frame including a first side member defining a first channel, a second side member defining a second channel opposite the first side member, and a plurality of cross members extending between the first and second side members and received within the first and second channels. A first upright is coupled to the platform support frame and a first structure and is configured to suspend the platform support frame from the first structure. The first upright is coupled to the first side member of the platform support frame via a first attachment assembly. The first attachment assembly includes a support bracket coupled to the first upright and configured to cradle the first side member, and a clamp feature coupled to the support bracket and configured to extend over the first side member.