Adapter Part With Vibration Damping Element For Machine Tools
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Solution Overview
Problem
Hand-held machine tools experience significant mechanical loads and noise pollution due to vibrations from the drive motor, gear unit, and tool interactions during operation, which existing technologies fail to adequately address.
Innovation Solution
An adapter part with a vibration damping element that can be easily installed and removed between the housing parts of a hand-held machine tool, featuring adapter connection elements for direct connection without auxiliary tools, and optionally includes additional functionalities like lighting, measuring, or cooling units, utilizing elastically deformable adapter rings for optimal damping.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If a vibration damping element is integrated into the adapter part, then vibration reduction is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter part is designed to serve multiple functions: it acts as a structural connector between housing parts, provides vibration damping through an integrated damping element, and offers modular functionality where additional components can be attached. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate vibration damping devices while maintaining the damping effect.
Solution Approach 2:
The adapter part functions as an intermediary component between the housing parts and the vibration damping element. It provides a standardized interface that allows the damping element to be integrated without requiring direct modification of the housing parts, thus simplifying the overall structure while maintaining damping performance.
2Ease of operation
If the adapter part uses standardized connection elements, then ease of installation is improved, but adaptability for different functionalities decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter part is segmented into distinct functional zones: standardized connection elements for easy installation, a core damping function, and modular attachment interfaces for additional functionalities. This segmentation allows the standardized connection to coexist with specialized functional attachments, resolving the contradiction between ease of installation and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The adapter part incorporates dynamic characteristics through its vibration damping element that can adapt to different operational conditions. The standardized connection provides static reliability, while the damping element provides dynamic vibration reduction, and additional modules can be dynamically attached or removed as needed.
3Device complexity
If the adapter part is designed as a single integrated component, then device complexity is reduced, but ease of repair decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter part is designed with modular segmentation, separating the connection elements, damping element, and functional attachments into distinct replaceable components. This allows the connection interfaces to remain standardized and simple while enabling individual components to be replaced or repaired independently, thus maintaining ease of repair despite the integrated design.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The adapter part effectively reduces vibrations and noise, allowing for quick installation and removal, and can be combined with other functional elements to enhance machine tool performance, providing a robust and versatile solution for vibration reduction and additional functionalities.
Implementation Method 1
the adapter ring is designed to be elastically deformable. This design is particularly suitable for a functional element that is designed as a vibration damping element, since the inherent elasticity of the adapter ring causes deformation due to the vibrations or impacts that occur, and these deformations are reduced in the vibration damping element.
Implementation Method 2
A functional element is integrated into the adapter part, via which the desired functionality is generated. The functional element is designed as a vibration damping element and is used to reduce vibrations in the machine tool.
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AI summary
The invention relates to an adapter part for a machine tool. Said adapter part is designed to be inserted between two housing parts and comprises an adapter connection element that corresponds to a housing connection element on a housing part.