Tiltable Floor Profile Wing Elastic Stop
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing tiltable floor profile arrangements face challenges in easy assembly and require excessive tilting, limiting the need for simplified solutions with reduced tipping requirements.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of a transversely extending wing on the intermediate profile between fastening sections, which acts as a stop to limit tilting movement and ensures the intermediate profile remains upright during assembly, combined with an elastic design that allows predefined tilting angles through a receptacle and joint arrangement, facilitates easier assembly and adjustable tilting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the intermediate profile is made tiltable relative to the base profile to compensate for floor covering height differences, then adaptability to different floor heights is improved, but the assembly process becomes more complex and difficult to control
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the physical state of the wing from rigid to elastically flexible, allowing it to deform during assembly and tilting operations. This elastic parameter change enables the wing to accommodate tilting movements while maintaining its structural function as a stop, thereby simplifying the assembly process while preserving adaptability to different floor heights.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamic characteristics by making the wing elastically bendable rather than rigid. This allows the system to adapt dynamically during assembly - the wing can flex to permit tilting movements and then return to its original position, providing controlled movement without requiring complex mechanical joints or fastening mechanisms.
2Manufacturing precision
If the wing is made rigid to effectively limit tilting movement, then tilting control is improved, but the ability to assemble and tilt the profile becomes restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies elastic flexibility to the wing, changing its mechanical parameter from rigid to flexible. This allows the wing to temporarily deform during assembly and tilting operations, accommodating the movement requirements, while still maintaining its function as a stop to limit excessive tilting. The elastic property enables both precise tilting control and ease of assembly.
3Manufacturing precision
If the wing extends close to the fastening sections to provide stopping action, then tilting limitation is improved, but the receptacle space for elastic deformation is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by creating a receptacle with specific geometric characteristics (larger vertical extension) at the location where elastic deformation is needed, while maintaining the wing's proximity to fastening sections for effective tilting limitation. The receptacle's localized volume provision allows the wing to deform elastically without compromising its stopping function.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent resolves the spatial conflict by extending the receptacle primarily in the vertical direction rather than horizontally. This dimensional approach provides sufficient volume for elastic deformation while maintaining the wing's close proximity to the fastening sections, as the additional space is obtained through vertical extension rather than lateral expansion.
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
This solution simplifies the assembly process by maintaining the intermediate profile in an upright position during installation, allowing for adjustable tilting angles while preventing excessive tilting, thus enabling the cover profile to be mounted vertically and ensuring secure attachment at various heights.
Implementation Method 1
the at least one wing is elastically bendable in the vertical direction (VR)
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AI summary
The arrangement relates to a floor‑profile arrangement for bridging a gap between adjacent floor coverings, having a base profile and a covering profile, and having an intermediate profile, which can be tilted in relation to the base profile and has a first fastening portion, for fastening on the covering profile, and a second fastening portion, for fastening on the base profile, wherein at least one transversally extending wing is formed on the intermediate profile, between the first fastening portion and the second fastening portion.