METHOD OF CONTROLLING AN INTELLIGENT HEIGHT-ADJUSTABLE TABLE WITH INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC FUNCTIONS

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD

The invention relates to the technical field of height-adjustable table, in particular to a method of controlling an intelligent height-adjustable table with integrated electronic functions.

BACKGROUND ART

As the modern office environment continues to evolve, smart height-adjustable tables have become one of the key pieces of furniture to enhance office comfort and efficiency. These tables achieve tabletop height adjustability through an electric mechanism, aiming to provide users with a working state more accords with human body engineering. However, while existing intelligent height-adjustable tables fulfill basic height adjustment needs, they typically lack comprehensive function integration, limiting their application potential in modern high-efficient office environments.

Design of traditional height-adjustable tables have focused on improving the user experience, such as providing basic lifting and lowering functions to accommodate different work postures, but it often neglected multifunctional needs for the table as a work center. For example, many height-adjustable tables lack practical functions such as integrated charging solutions, sound systems, light adjustments, and temperature-controlled coasters, all of which are increasingly popular requirements in modern office environments. In addition, in order to add these extra functions, users often need to purchase and install a variety of devices separately, which not only increases costs, but also clutters the workspace and detracts from overall office experience.

More importantly, existing intelligent height-adjustable tables face design and structural challenges when attempting to integrate additional electronic functions. In order to accommodate various electronic devices and manage their wiring, structure of the table often becomes complex and difficult to maintain, which not only raises cost of production, but also reduces aesthetics of the table and flexibility of user-defined functions. In addition, such designs are difficult to adapt to rapidly changing technology and user requirements, limiting long-term applicability and scalability of intelligent height-adjustable tables.

Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop an integrated control method for intelligent height-adjustable table that can elegantly integrate multiple electronic functions while maintaining simplicity of the table design and convenience of user operation. By integrating a flexible wiring control system and a scalable master controller, a highly customizable and easily scalable intelligent work environment can be provided to the user, thereby significantly enhancing functionality and adaptability of the table without sacrificing aesthetics and structural simplicity.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The technical problem to be solved by the invention is to provide a method of controlling an intelligent height-adjustable table with integrated electronic functions, as as to solve problems in background art.

The invention is realized through the following technical solutions, a method of controlling an intelligent height-adjustable table with integrated electronic functions, comprising following steps:

• • (a) providing a height-adjustable table which can adjust height, comprising a tabletop and at least one set of telescopic table legs for supporting the tabletop;
  • (b) a wiring control system is integrated in the height-adjustable table, which extends through the legs and the tabletop for connecting electronic function modules on the table;
  • (c) selecting a plurality of electronic function modules to be integrated into the height-adjustable table, each module being connected to power source and data through the wiring control system;
  • (d) designing and implementing a master controller which is electrically connected to the wiring control system, which is configured with a control software for managing and controlling operation of selected electronic function modules and height adjustment of the height-adjustable table;
  • (e) user interaction with the master controller is enabled via a physical control panel or a mobile application APP for controlling height of the height-adjustable table and activating or configuring the integrated electronic function modules.

As a preferred technical solution, step (d) further comprises configuring a master controller to support wireless communication protocol to enable the user to remotely control lifting and lowering of the tabletop as well as switch and setting of electronic function modules via the application on the mobile device.

As a preferred technical solution, the wiring control system further comprises a table leg controller, which is mounted inside the table leg for receiving signals from the master controller and controlling lifting mechanism to adjust height of the tabletop.

As a preferred technical solution, the master controller is disposed on one side of the table and is connected to table leg controller via electric wire for centralized management of electronic function modules on the tabletop and height adjustment of the height-adjustable table.

As a preferred technical solution, the master controller is further connected to a power box which provides required power to the master controller and all electronic function modules connected via the wiring control system.

As a preferred technical solution, it further comprises at least one power strip, which is provided on one side of the power box and is electrically connected to the power box; the power strip is provided with a plurality of outlets for connecting and supplying power to external devices.

As a preferred technical solution, step (e) comprises using the master controller to selectively turn on or off external devices connected to the power strip.

As a preferred technical solution, the master controller is equipped with a wireless communication module that allows communication with the mobile application APP via wireless network, thus enabling remote control of function modules of the height-adjustable table.

As a preferred technical solution, the mobile application APP provides a graphical user interface that allows the user to monitor and adjust status of the electronic function modules on the tabletop, including but not limited to adjusting brightness of lights, volume control and switch of wireless charger.

As a preferred technical solution, the steps comprise providing one or more preset module slots for height-adjustable table, making operation of adding or removing electronic function modules simple and convenient.

Advantageous effects of the invention are as follows:

• • 1. A variety of electronic functions (such as wireless charging, sound system, light control, temperature-controlled coaster, etc.) can be integrated in a single height-adjustable table through the integrated control method proposed by the invention, which significantly improves convenience of use and technical content of the table. At the same time, the method supports the user to customize function modules according to personal needs and preferences, increasing personalization of the product and flexibility to adapt to different users;
  • 2. The invention greatly reduces need for external cables and additional devices through the built-in wiring control system and modular design, thus maintaining neatness of the office environment and simplicity and beauty of the tabletop. This design not only enhances overall aesthetics of the office space, but also optimizes space utilization of the office area;
  • 3. The invention adopts modular electronic functional components and a unified wiring control system, which makes maintenance and upgrading easier and faster, and allows users to easily add, replace or upgrade function modules to adapt to technological advances or changes in personal needs, prolonging service life of the intelligent height-adjustable table and reducing cost of long-term use;
  • 4. With the integrated master controller and user-friendly interactive interface (such as physical control panel or mobile application), users can easily control lifting and lowering of the tabletop as well as switch and setting of various electronic functions, which provides a more intuitive and convenient operation experience;
  • 5. Users can adjust the tabletop height as needed via electric lifting function, thus easily switching between sedentary and standing, conducive to reduce health problems associated with prolonged sitting and working, and the integrated intelligent functions such as moderate light adjustment and music's play further enhance a comfortable and healthy working environment.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPANY DRAWINGS

In order to illustrate the preferred embodiment of the invention or the technical solution more clearly, the technical solution of the preferred embodiment or drawings required by the prior art is further described briefly. Obviously, only partial embodiments of the invention are shown and the actual structure is not limited thereto. It is to be understood by those skilled in the art that other drawings can be obtained based on the drawings of the invention with non-creative labor.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of the three-dimensional structure of the invention;

FIG. 2 is a first structural diagram of bottom of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a second structural diagram of bottom of the invention;

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of system of the invention.

As shown in the accompanying drawings:

2—lifting wireless speaker; 3—tabletop plate; 4—storage box; 5—power strip; 6—power box; 7—host bracket; 9—table leg controller; 10—master control box; 11—drawer; 13—tool box; 14—wireless charger; 15—hot/cold coaster; 16—table leg; 17—table foot; 18—table feet decorating part; 19—ambient light bar; 21—signal-controlling cable; 100—charging station.

SPECIFIC EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION

All features disclosed in the specification, or all steps in disclosed method or process, may be combined in any manner except for mutually exclusive features and/or steps.

Embodiment

As shown from FIG. 1 to FIG. 4, an intelligent height-adjustable table of the invention comprises a height-adjustable table body, which is capable of electrically controlling lifting and lowering; one side of the height-adjustable table body is provided with a detachable tool box 13, and the other side thereof is provided with a host bracket 7;

• • a plurality of identical or different function modules, all of which are detachably or fixedly mounted on the height-adjustable table body; these function modules may or may not be electrically powered, which can be a plurality of identical modules, or a plurality of different function modules used in combination;
  • in the embodiment, bottom surface of the height-adjustable table body is a wiring surface, on which is provided with an integrated wiring control system, and each function module that uses electricity is powered and controlled by the integrated wiring control system; as shown in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, layout of all modules is compactly positioned, and all are integrated on the bottom of the height-adjustable table body, which reasonably utilizes bottom space of the tabletop without occupying tabletop space; layout between modules is reasonable to reduce wiring distance and make it convenient for wiring, which can achieve shorter wiring requirements in wiring layout and there will be no problem of winding and wiring messy.

Wherein, the height-adjustable table body includes a tabletop plate 3, lifting table legs 16, and table feet 17;

• • lifting table legs 16 are symmetrically provided on both sides of bottom of the tabletop plate 3, and the table feet 17 are fixed to bottom of the lifting table legs 16; a drawer 11 is slidably provided at bottom of front of the tabletop plate 3, and the drawer 11 is located at front end of power box 6; a charging station 100 is provided at one side of the drawer 11, and the charging station 100 is connected to the power box 6.

In the embodiment, one side of the power box 6 is also provided with a power strip 5, and the power strip 5 is electrically connected to the power box 6; the power strip 5 is provided with a plurality of outlets for plugging in external devices, and some external electronic devices can obtain power input through the power strip 5.

Wherein, other side of the drawer 11 is provided with a master control box 10, and a table leg controller 9 is provided at rear of the master control box 10; the master control box 10 is connected to the table leg controller 9, and lifting table legs 16 are controlled by the table leg controller 9 to lift and lower, to meet needs of different usage scenarios; a plurality of signal-controlling cables 21 are drawn from output end of the master control box 10, and all function modules are connected to the master control box 10 through signal-controlling cables 21.

In addition, a hot/cold coaster 15 is provided on one side of the height-adjustable table body, which is used to heat as well as cool the cup when the cup is placed on the hot/cold coaster 15;

In addition, a wireless charger 14 is provided on the height-adjustable table body for wirelessly charging cell phone.

Wherein, the power box 6 is connected to the lifting table legs 16, table leg controller 9, hot/cold coaster 15, and wireless charger 14 to play the role of power supply; above the power box 6 is installed with a heat dissipation aluminum plate to play effect of heat dissipation, so as to ensure cooling needs of devices in the process of prolonged operation.

In the embodiment, the height-adjustable table body is provided with ambient light bars 19; when used at night, the ambient light bars 19 are powered by the power box 6 to provide a comfortable and cozy environment for the user; in the embodiment, the ambient light can also be arranged on back plate of the height-adjustable table body, or can be arranged around edges of the height-adjustable table body, or locally, mainly used to create ambience and illumination.

Wherein, table feet decorating parts 18 are provided on table feet 17 of the height-adjustable table body, which improves aesthetics of the height-adjustable table body.

In addition, the height-adjustable table body is also installed with a storage box 4 to facilitate storage of the keyboard and other devices by the user to keep the space tidy, of course, the storage box 4 can also be arranged on any other location of the height-adjustable table body, as long as it can be mounted, such as side surfaces and back plate of the height-adjustable table body.

In the embodiment, function modules can include LED lights, wireless charger, hot/cold cup, lifting wireless speaker 2, etc., the function modules can be installed according to users' needs, so there are a plurality of module mounting holes on the height-adjustable table body, and the user can install corresponding function modules in different module mounting holes; when the function module is installed in place, the power cable of which can be connected to the power box 6, wherein the power box 6 supplies electricity, and the master control box 10 is connected to control switch; in the invention, the mounting type and number of functional modules is not specifically discussed.

The invention and its embodiments have been described above, but the description is not limited thereto; only one embodiment of the invention is shown in the drawings, and the actual structure is not limited thereto. In general, it is to be understood by those skilled in the art that non-creative design of structural forms and embodiments that are similar to the technical solutions without departing from the spirit of the invention shall all fall within the protective scope of the invention.