Adjustable Connecting Device for Flat Profile and Accessible Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing connecting devices for substrates and objects to be fastened, such as fence posts, face challenges in maintaining tension, pressure, and bending resistance while allowing for comfortable inclination adjustment without protruding laterally and ensuring accessible adjustment screws, often resulting in complex and costly designs with play issues.
Innovation Solution
A connecting device with a flat, circular-cylindrical design featuring a single pulling connection part and four pushing connection parts, utilizing threaded connections aligned parallel to the substrate for easy accessibility and adjustable inclination without lateral protrusion, using screws and plates with adjustable threaded connections to maintain secure and play-free alignment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If the connecting device is made flat without lateral protrusion, then the aesthetic appearance and safety are improved, but the accessibility of adjustment screws deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The adjustment screws are reoriented from a vertical arrangement (requiring lateral protrusion) to a horizontal arrangement parallel to the ground. This dimensional change allows the screws to be accessed from the front or side of the connecting device without requiring it to protrude laterally beyond the object's base, thus resolving the contradiction between flat design and screw accessibility.
2Strength
If vertically oriented tension screws are used to connect upper and lower parts, then the connection strength is improved, but the complexity of adjustment increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into single components: the same horizontal threaded connection serves both as a structural support element and as the adjustment mechanism. By merging the support function and adjustment function into one integrated system with horizontal screws, the design reduces complexity while maintaining connection strength, eliminating the need for separate vertical tension screws and complex adjustment mechanisms.
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 solution provides a cost-effective, robust, and play-free connection that maintains tension, pressure, and bending resistance with adjustable inclination, ensuring accessible adjustment screws without lateral protrusion, enhancing usability and safety.
Implementation Method 1
the threaded connection with the help of which the adjustment is driven is aligned parallel to the plane of the subsoil
Implementation Method 2
which is intended to be used to form a connection between a substrate and an object to be fastened that is resistant to tension, pressure and bending
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AI summary
The invention relates to an adjustable connecting device (1) for connecting a substrate (3) and an object (2) to be attached thereto. The connecting device has an upper part (5) and a lower part (4) that rests on the substrate (3). The inclination of the upper part (5) relative to the lower part (3) is adjustable by adjusting threaded connections (16) which have a thread axis parallel to the plane of the substrate (3), thereby displacing a connecting element (12) between the upper part (5) and the lower part (4), the displacement movement having a directional component perpendicular to the plane of the substrate (3).