Electrical track system : Utveckling av ett nytt system, innefattande elektrisk golvlist och uttag, som medger flytt av de traditionellt fasta vägguttagen

Sammanfattning: This degree project concludes the Innovation and Design Engineering programme at Karlstad University. The project was carried out by David Brocker, Erik Hallberg and Andreas Hertzman during the spring of 2006 and corresponded to 15 weeks of work per student. Assigner was Martin Larsson at Arexor and instructor at Karlstad University was Monica Jakobsson. Arexor has a patent to a construction of an electrical skirting board with moveable wall sockets, called Electrical Track System. The lowest parts of the interior walls along the floor are today almost always covered by a conventional skirting board. Arexors patented product replaces that with the possibility to move and increase the number of wall sockets by choice along an electrical skirting board. Conventional wall sockets are limited due to fixed positions and are not transferable. It causes a problem when the number of fixed wall sockets controls the possibilities and not the users demand. The assignment commissioned by Arexor to the students was to improve and develop the Electrical Track System because the patent did not fulfil the requirements for CE certification. The project results were to be used by Arexor as the basic data when the product was tested by ETL SEMKO. The objective of the project was to present directions for production to a functioning prototype of the Electrical Track System, within the estimated time period. The prototype was to be shown at the exhibition for degree projects at Karlstad University in May 2006. The objective also included to create a product brochure and a display case. The development method were divided into five phases: preparation phase, research phase, idea generating phase, conception development phase and concretisation phase. They were carried out linear up to the conception development phase. Then iteration between the research phase, idea generating phase, conception development phase was repeated until satisfied result was achieved. The result included a number of functioning prototypes, a display case, a product brochure, CAD drawings, renderings and this academic report. The prototypes were manufactured by Modellteknik in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Parts of the result cannot be presented due to that the solutions was not, at the time, protected by the patent. Arexor announced in the end of the project that they would apply for a new patent that included our solutions. Because of that these solutions could not be shown in public. Some parts in the report therefore refer to secrecy.