Customizable Virtual 3D Kitchen Components

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing computer-aided design tools for commercial kitchens do not adequately facilitate the intuitive and simple use of customized appliances and fixtures, failing to meet the diverse requirements of various application settings.

Innovation Solution

A control circuit that allows users to create custom virtual three-dimensional kitchen components by selecting from a list of customizable components, providing an interactive form for feature selection, and automatically defining the component based on user entries, enabling the inclusion of customized components in kitchen layout designs for physical construction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If existing computer-aided design tools use fixed library components, then the system complexity is reduced, but the adaptability to customized appliances and fixtures deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecustomization capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The kitchen component library is segmented into standardized base components (cabinets, appliances, fixtures) that can be independently selected and configured. Each component is divided into modular units with standardized dimensions and connection interfaces, allowing flexible combination while maintaining systematic organization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The design tool implements a universal parameter structure that can accommodate both standardized library components and customized appliances/fixtures. The system uses a unified data model with extensible properties, allowing the same framework to handle predefined components and user-customized components through consistent interfaces and configuration methods.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If the system stores detailed information for each customized component, then the customization capability is improved, but the memory requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecustomization capabilityVSAvoidmemory requirements

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of storing complete detailed models for every customized component, the system creates simplified digital representations or proxies that reference the base component library. Customized components are defined by specifying modifications to standard components, storing only the differentiation parameters rather than full component definitions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-defines a comprehensive library of standardized kitchen components with complete specifications, dimensions, and properties. When customization is needed, the system starts from these pre-prepared base components and applies modifications, rather than creating components from scratch, thereby reducing the need to store extensive custom component data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Manufacturing precision

If the system processes complex customized components, then the design accuracy is improved, but the computational intensity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedesign accuracyVSAvoidcomputational intensity

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The computational processing is segmented into hierarchical levels: basic geometric operations for component shapes, intermediate operations for assembly relationships, and advanced operations for detailed customization. This segmentation allows the system to process only the necessary level of detail for each component, maintaining accuracy while reducing overall computational intensity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements progressive level-of-detail processing, where components are processed with appropriate precision based on their importance and stage in the design process. Not all components require maximum computational processing at all times; the system applies partial processing for preliminary layouts and reserves full processing power for final detailed design and collision detection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11507711B2Customizable virtual 3-dimensional kitchen components

Publication Date: 2022.11.22 DOLLYPUP PRODN LLC

AI summary

A control circuit provides a user with an opportunity to create a custom virtual three-dimensional kitchen component selected from a categorical list of available customizable kitchen components. Upon detecting the user's assertion of the opportunity, the control circuit automatically provides the user with an interactive form that includes a plurality of selectable features for the selected customizable kitchen component. Upon receiving user entries regarding the plurality of selectable features, the control circuit automatically defines a customized virtual three-dimensional kitchen component that comports with the user entries. By one approach the control circuit accesses information that describes a merged three-dimensional kitchen component that comprises an aggregation of all available user-selectable features for that particular categorical component The control circuit then employs the user entries to delete unselected ones of the user-selectable features from this merged three-dimensional kitchen component to thereby define the customized virtual three-dimensional kitchen component.