Workspace Tablet Arm Assembly That Avoids Wall Contact
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing workspace arrangements for temporary use in open facilities lack visibility, privacy, and durability, often being misplaced or damaged due to their structural design, which reduces their utilization and effectiveness for individual work activities.
Innovation Solution
A modular workspace arrangement featuring a lounge chair surrounded by a partial wall structure with transparent and opaque elements, ergonomically designed to provide privacy while maintaining openness, and integrated with robust lower walls to support components and prevent damage, allowing for intuitive use and consistent appearance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If walled hotelling offices are constructed to provide privacy for individual work, then privacy is improved, but visibility to others deteriorates and the space becomes less accessible
Solution Approach 1:
The partition structure uses different transparency qualities at different heights: the lower portion is opaque to provide privacy, while the upper portion is transparent to maintain visibility. This local differentiation of optical properties resolves the contradiction between needing privacy and maintaining visibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The partition extends vertically into the third dimension, with the transparent upper portion allowing visual connection while the opaque lower portion provides privacy. This vertical dimensionality change enables simultaneous achievement of both privacy and visibility.
2Shape
If hotelling offices are positioned in out of the way locations to maintain aesthetic appearance, then appearance is improved, but accessibility and utilization deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The partition uses thin, aesthetically pleasing transparent panels in the upper portion that maintain visual appeal while allowing the structure to be positioned in more accessible locations without severely degrading the overall space appearance.
Solution Approach 2:
The partition provides partial enclosure rather than complete walled structures, achieving sufficient privacy and aesthetic appearance while maintaining openness and accessibility to the surrounding space.
3Reliability
If complete wall structures are used for hotelling offices to provide privacy, then privacy is improved, but claustrophobic feelings increase and utilization decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The partition provides partial enclosure rather than complete walls, achieving sufficient privacy for focused work while maintaining a sense of openness that prevents claustrophobic feelings and encourages utilization.
Solution Approach 2:
The partition structure provides localized privacy at the lower level where it is needed for privacy, while the upper level remains open to maintain a sense of spaciousness and reduce claustrophobic feelings.
4Adaptability or versatility
If moveable affordances are provided in hotelling spaces to support work activities, then functionality is improved, but damage from collision increases
Solution Approach 1:
The partition structure is pre-installed in a fixed position, eliminating the need for users to move it. This preliminary placement prevents collision damage while maintaining the functionality of the space.
Solution Approach 2:
The partition is divided into fixed lower portions and upper screen portions, with the sturdy lower structure providing stable support and the upper portions providing visual privacy without requiring movement, thus preventing damage.
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AI summary
A tablet assembly for use in a space partially defined by a wall structure having a substantially planar wall surface, the assembly comprising a first coupler supported by the wall structure, a tablet support arm assembly having a support arm length dimension between proximal and distal ends, the proximal end mounted to the first coupler adjacent the planar wall surface for rotation about a first vertical axis through a first range of motion between first and second first-axis limit positions, the arm assembly extending from the planar wall surface to form acute angles with the planar wall surface in each of the first and second first-axis limit positions and a tablet member forming top and bottom surfaces and having a side edge, the tablet member supported at the distal end of the arm for rotation about a second vertical axis through a second range of motion between first and second second-axis limit positions, wherein the limit positions limit the tablet member to positions in which the side edge of the tablet member is constrained from contacting the planar wall surface.