Modular Workstation Frame Connectors for Easier Cable Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing workstation systems face challenges in assembly, dismantling, and redesign due to direct connections between profile strands, which complicate the transfer of cables and require openings at connection points, making the process labor-intensive.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of a connecting element with a plug-in connection and a screw connection allows for easy assembly and disassembly, enabling indirect connections between profile strands, facilitating cable transitions and line transfers without the need for direct openings, and providing modular expandability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If direct connections between profile strands are used, then structural stability is achieved, but assembly and cable transfer become labor-intensive and complex
Solution Approach 1:
A connecting element is introduced as an intermediary component between profile strands. This connecting element features a body with a first receiving region for a first profile strand and a second receiving region for a second profile strand, enabling indirect connection between profile strands. This mediator simplifies assembly operations while maintaining structural integrity, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and device complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If openings are made in line ducts for cable transfer, then cable routing flexibility is improved, but structural integrity and assembly simplicity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The connecting element acts as a mediator that provides integrated cable transfer capabilities without requiring openings in the profile strands' line ducts. The connecting element's design allows cables to be transferred between profile strands through its structure, maintaining the integrity of the original line ducts while achieving cable routing flexibility.
3Adaptability or versatility
If profile strands are directly connected, then structural stability is maintained, but design flexibility and modular expandability are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The connecting element serves as a mediator that enables modular design flexibility while maintaining connection strength. The body of the connecting element is designed to securely receive and connect profile strands through its receiving regions, providing both the flexibility needed for modular assembly and the structural strength required for stable connections.
4Reliability
If screw connections are used for profile strand connections, then connection reliability is improved, but assembly time and labor effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The connection system is segmented into modular components: the connecting element body with integrated receiving regions and profile strands with connecting elements. This segmentation allows for pre-fabricated reliable connections that can be quickly assembled, reducing overall assembly time while maintaining connection reliability through the specialized design of each segment.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a workstation system (10, 84, 88) with an inherently stable frame support structure (11, 87, 90) for attaching add-on elements (18, 27, 85, 91), the frame support structure (11, 87, 90) having several has separate profile strands (12, 13, 14, 29, 57, 89), and with a line channel (33) formed integrally by means of at least one profile strand (12, 13, 14, 29, 57, 89) for receiving lines. In order to increase design flexibility with regard to the structure and/or to be able to carry it out more easily, in particular facilitating the assembly, dismantling and/or redesign of the workplace system, the workplace system (10, 84, 88) is characterized in that the frame support structure ( 11, 87, 90) forming profile strands (12, 13, 14, 29, 57, 89) can be connected to one another by means of connecting elements (15, 16, 58), with one connecting element (15, 16, 58) for connecting two profile strands ( 12, 13, 14, 29, 57, 89) is provided between the two profile strands (12, 13, 14, 29, 57, 89) to be connected.