Adapter for Single Voltage Battery Pack Compatibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing power tool systems require multiple battery packs with different specifications due to varying tool voltages, leading to increased costs and resource waste, as single voltage battery packs are incompatible with multi-voltage power tools, resulting in idle batteries.
Innovation Solution
An adapter that connects a single voltage battery pack to a power tool interface, allowing the power tool to be powered by a multi-voltage battery pack, thereby expanding the usage range of single voltage battery packs and preventing resource waste.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a multi-voltage battery pack is designed with multiple coupling states to match multiple power tools, then the adaptability of the battery pack is improved, but the device complexity increases and existing single voltage battery packs become incompatible
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter serves as an intermediary device that bridges the single voltage battery interface and the power tool interface. It includes an input interface that couples with the single voltage battery pack and an output interface that couples with the power tool, thereby enabling compatibility without modifying the original battery pack or power tool designs.
Solution Approach 2:
The solution segments the compatibility function into a separate adapter device rather than integrating multiple coupling states directly into the battery pack. This allows the battery pack design to remain simple while the adapter handles the interface conversion and voltage matching requirements.
2Reliability
If different power tools are configured with corresponding single voltage battery packs, then the reliability of power supply is improved, but the quantity of battery packs required increases and storage space is occupied
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter enables a single battery pack to serve multiple power tools with different voltage requirements by providing interface conversion and voltage adaptation. This universal solution allows one battery pack to replace what would otherwise require multiple specialized battery packs.
3Ease of manufacture
If single voltage battery packs are used with old power tools, then the ease of manufacture is improved, but the adaptability to new power tools deteriorates causing resource waste
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter acts as a mediator that allows simply manufactured single voltage battery packs to be used with new power tools. The adapter handles the interface incompatibility issue without requiring complex manufacturing of multi-voltage battery packs, thus preserving the manufacturing simplicity while achieving compatibility.
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AI summary
An adapter (100) for connecting a single voltage battery pack (50) to a power tool (60), the single voltage battery pack (50) configured to output only one voltage and provided with a single voltage battery interface (51), the power tool (60) detachably coupled with a multivoltage battery pack and provided with a power tool interface, the single voltage battery interface (51) being not couplable to the power tool interface, the adapter (100) comprising a housing (10), an input interface (20) disposed in the housing (10) and provided for electrically and mechanically coupling with the single voltage battery interface (51)of the single voltage battery pack (50), an output interface (30) disposed in the housing (10) and provided for electrically and mechanically coupling with the power tool interface of the power tool (60), the input interface (20) electrically connected with the output interface (30), wherein the power tool (60) can be powered by the single voltage battery pack (50) through the adapter (100).