Adjustable Door Mounting Bracket for Closure Alignment Correction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Closures, such as doors in refrigerators, often become misaligned with their access openings due to assembly or usage-related issues, leading to improper seating and compromised seals, which affect temperature maintenance and efficiency.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an adjustable mounting bracket system that allows for the correction of misalignments by positioning mounting brackets at selected distances along the closure inward surface, utilizing a bracket adjusting arrangement with threaded elements and grooves to adjust the attitude of the closure inward surface seating site relative to the enclosure seating site.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If a fixed mounting bracket system is used to support the closure, then the device complexity is reduced, but the alignment precision between the closure and the access opening deteriorates due to misalignment from assembly or usage
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting bracket is designed with adjustable features that allow it to change position relative to the closure inward surface. The bracket can be positioned at selected distances inwardly and outwardly of the closure inward surface, transforming a static fixed mounting system into a dynamic adjustable one that can compensate for misalignment while maintaining reasonable system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting bracket system allows changing the positional parameters of the bracket relative to the closure. By adjusting the distance of the bracket from the closure inward surface and changing its attitude (orientation), the system can correct misalignment between the closure seating site and the access opening seating site, thereby improving alignment precision.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the mounting bracket is positioned far from the closure inward surface, then the adjustment range increases, but the structural stability of the closure system decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting bracket employs adjustable support arrangements that allow dynamic positioning at optimal distances from the closure inward surface. This enables the system to achieve both sufficient adjustment range for correcting misalignment and adequate structural stability by selecting appropriate positions based on specific alignment needs.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This solution ensures proper alignment and sealing between the door and the refrigerator compartment, maintaining efficient temperature control and extending the lifespan of the appliance by allowing for adjustments to compensate for misalignments over time.
Implementation Method 1
The adjusting element can include an adjusting element first portion that can be threaded so as to adjustably secure the adjusting element to the closure inwardly and outwardly of the closure inward surface
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AI summary
Closures for opening and closing the access openings of enclosures can include an adjusting feature that allows misalignments of the closures, in relation to seating surfaces at the access openings, to be corrected. A closure can include a closure inward surface that includes a closure inward surface seating site that is configured to engage an enclosure seating site at the access opening when the access opening is closed by the closure. At least one mounting bracket can be adjustably secured to the closure inward surface so as to be positionable at selected distances inwardly and outwardly of the closure inward surface. The at least one mounting bracket can be configured to have mounted thereto a system by means of which the closure can be supported for travel along a path away from and toward the access opening upon the opening and closing, respectively, of the access opening by the closure.