Window Insect Screen Kit with Recessed Cutting Guide

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing insect protection devices for windows face challenges in easy and safe assembly, often resulting in net edges protruding beyond the frame due to incorrect cutting or attachment issues.

Innovation Solution

A kit and method featuring profile strips with a recess acting as a guide channel for cutting the net, combined with clamping elements that securely attach to the profile strips, ensuring precise alignment and attachment without excess net edges.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the net is cut to the correct size before attaching it to the profile bar, then the assembly process is simplified, but there is a risk of cutting the net incorrectly resulting in protruding edges

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of assemblyVSAvoidcutting precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The recess in the profile strip serves as an intermediary guide structure that mediates between the cutting tool and the net. It provides a physical guide channel that ensures the cutting tool follows the correct path, thereby achieving precise cutting without requiring high skill from the operator.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The recess structure enables the cutting process to be self-guiding. The geometry of the recess automatically guides the cutting tool along the correct trajectory, making the cutting process self-correcting and eliminating the need for complex measurement or marking procedures by the operator.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Manufacturing precision

If the net is attached to the profile bar without pre-cutting, then cutting precision is less critical, but the net edges will protrude beyond the frame

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecutting precisionVSAvoidnet edge alignment
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The recess acts as an intermediary guide that controls the position of the net during attachment. By guiding the cutting tool through the recess, the system ensures that the net is cut to the exact dimensions needed, preventing edge protrusion while maintaining simplicity in the attachment process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Shape

If a complex cutting and attachment procedure is used to prevent net edge protrusion, then net edge alignment is improved, but the assembly process becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenet edge alignmentVSAvoidassembly complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ShapeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The recess structure performs the guiding function automatically through its geometry. The shape of the recess self-guides the cutting tool, eliminating the need for external guiding mechanisms, complex marking procedures, or skilled operator intervention, thereby maintaining simple assembly while achieving precise net edge alignment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentEP4471249A1Kit for a protective device for a window, protective device and method for producing a protective device
Publication Date: 2024.12.04 BASH TEC
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AI summary

The invention relates to a kit for a protective device for a window, comprising a net (3), at least one profile strip (1), wherein the at least one profile strip (1) has a fixing contour (1.1) extending along its longitudinal extent, and at least one clamping element (2) for fixing the net (3) to the at least one profile strip (1), wherein the at least one clamping element has a clamping contour (2.1), wherein the clamping contour (2.1) and the fixing contour (1.1) are aligned such that the net (3) can be fixed to the fixing contour (1.1) of the profile strip (1) with the at least one clamping element (2), wherein the profile strip (1) has a recess (1.2), wherein the recess (1.2) extends parallel to the fixing contour (1.1) along the longitudinal extent of the profile strip (1).