Adjustable Faucet Handle With Clamping Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing faucet handles are inconvenient due to the need for matching handles with specific cross-sectional shapes and sizes that correspond to various faucet shafts, limiting their universal application.
Innovation Solution
A faucet handle design featuring a containment space with an assembly aperture and adjusting member, including engaging columns and slots, and a clamping mechanism with stepped surfaces, allowing for adjustable height and fitment with different shaft dimensions and shapes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a faucet handle is designed with a fixed structure to match specific shaft dimensions and shapes, then the connection reliability is improved, but the adaptability to different shaft types deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the handle structure adjustable rather than fixed. The handle includes an adjusting member that can change the height and position of the clamping mechanism, allowing it to adapt to different shaft lengths and positions. This dynamic adjustment capability resolves the contradiction by enabling the same handle to reliably connect to various shaft types through positional adaptation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements parameter changes by allowing the clamping mechanism's position and height to be varied. The adjusting member enables changes in the vertical position of the clamping face relative to the shaft, and the stepped surface provides discrete height options. This parameter variability allows the handle to maintain reliable connection across different shaft specifications.
2Device complexity
If the handle structure is made simple and fixed, then the device complexity is reduced, but the ease of operation for different shaft types deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the handle into modular components: a main handle body, an adjusting member, and a clamping mechanism. This segmentation allows each component to perform a specific function while maintaining overall simplicity. The adjusting member can be independently positioned, and the clamping mechanism can be independently adjusted, making the system easier to operate with different shaft types.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements universality by designing the handle to serve multiple shaft types through the adjusting member. The same handle structure can be adapted to different shaft lengths, positions, and configurations by adjusting the member's position, eliminating the need for multiple specialized handles and simplifying the overall system.
3Adaptability or versatility
If an adjusting member with multiple positions is added to the handle, then the adaptability to different shaft lengths is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the nested doll principle by placing the adjusting member within the handle's containment space. The adjusting member is nested inside the handle body, with its engagement features interacting with corresponding features in the handle structure. This nesting approach allows the adjusting mechanism to be integrated compactly without significantly increasing the overall handle size or complexity.
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AI summary
A faucet handle includes a handle having a containment space, the containment space having an assembly aperture on a top surface, the assembly aperture accepting a limiting member, with two limiting ribs disposed adjacent to two opposite sides of the assembly aperture. An adjusting member has a through aperture and two engaging columns adjacent to a side of the through aperture. Each engaging column is inserted between the two limiting ribs of the handle. The adjusting member also has two engaging slots adjacent to another side of the through aperture and an assembly device having an assembly base. The assembly base has an assembly space and two positioning columns adjacent to the assembly space, and each positioning column engages with an engaging slot of the adjusting member.