Woven Chair Surface Assembly Using Protrusion-Clamped Strips
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing woven products are costly and time-consuming to manufacture due to the difficulty in mechanically arranging woven strips on support structures, limiting their mass production potential.
Innovation Solution
A woven structure with staggered strips featuring first protrusions at the ends, allowing for mechanical connection with a skeleton or wrapping strip, enabling efficient assembly and mass production.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If woven strips are arranged manually on support structures, then the woven product can be fabricated with fine weaving and compact arrangement, but the manufacturing cost increases and production time is consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure is segmented into a skeleton with multiple bars, and the woven strips are segmented with first protrusions at their ends. This segmentation allows each strip to be independently positioned and fixed to the corresponding bar, enabling precise arrangement while facilitating mechanical assembly and mass production.
Solution Approach 2:
The first protrusion serves as an intermediary connection element between the woven strip and the skeleton bar. This intermediary feature enables mechanical fixation of the woven strip to the support structure, replacing manual arrangement with automated clamping and fixing processes.
2Manufacturing precision
If woven strips are arranged manually on support structures, then the woven product can be fabricated with proper positioning, but the manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure is divided into multiple bars on the skeleton, and each woven strip is equipped with first protrusions at its ends. This segmentation allows precise positioning of each strip relative to its corresponding bar while enabling standardized mechanical components that can be mass-produced, thereby reducing manufacturing cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The first protrusion acts as an intermediary that provides a standardized mechanical interface between the woven strip and the skeleton bar. This standardized interface enables automated assembly processes, reducing labor costs and overall manufacturing cost while maintaining positioning accuracy.
3Manufacturing precision
If woven strips are arranged manually on support structures, then the woven product can be fabricated with correct strip arrangement, but mass production cannot be achieved
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure is segmented into multiple bars, and each woven strip is segmented with first protrusions at the ends. This segmentation creates discrete, independently positionable units that can be automatically fed, positioned, and fixed by manufacturing equipment, enabling mass production while maintaining arrangement accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The first protrusion serves as a mechanical intermediary that enables automated clamping and fixing of woven strips to the skeleton bars. This intermediary feature allows robotic or automated assembly systems to grasp and position the strips accurately, achieving both precision and automation.
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AI summary
A woven structure, which includes a woven surface, a skeleton or a wrapping strip, and a chair with the same. The woven surface has an edge and is formed by a staggered arrangement of a plurality of woven strips. One or both ends of several or all the woven strips are provided with a first protrusion, and both ends of each woven strip form edges. The skeleton or the wrapping strip can be disposed and clamped with the first protrusion on the edges of the woven surface. The chair with the woven structure comprises a chair seat and a chair surface. The chair surface includes a woven structure and is fixed on the chair seat.