Adjustable Hinge With Segmented Seats For Multi-Directional Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing hinges lack the ability to securely and stably adjust in multiple directions, such as horizontally or vertically, due to limited adjuster movement and engagement issues, leading to instability under heavy loads and increased manufacturing costs for various hinge types.
Innovation Solution
A hinge design featuring square-base housing seats with cross-shaped holes and rectangular flanged adjusters, allowing for adjustable movement in chosen directions through parallel or perpendicular alignment, with interlocking grooves and protrusions for secure anchoring, enabling operators to adjust the hinge in either horizontal or vertical directions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If elliptically-shaped housing seats with poly-grooved areas are used, then stable anchoring is achieved, but adjuster movement is limited to one predefined direction
Solution Approach 1:
The housing seat is segmented into multiple independent circular seats, each capable of accommodating an adjuster in different orientations. This segmentation allows the hinge to provide stable anchoring in one direction while enabling adjustment in multiple directions through the use of multiple seats arranged in a circular pattern.
Solution Approach 2:
The circular housing seats with cross-shaped holes provide universal adaptability, allowing adjusters to be positioned and secured in multiple orientations. Each seat can function independently to provide stable anchoring, while the collection of seats collectively enables adjustment freedom in multiple directions, making the hinge universally adaptable to different positioning requirements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If circular-base housing seats with cross-shaped holes are used, then adjuster movement freedom is improved, but secure engagement is lost
Solution Approach 1:
While the overall housing seat is circular to provide movement freedom, asymmetric features are introduced through the cross-shaped holes and the interaction between the adjuster's poly-grooved areas and the seat's geometry. This asymmetry ensures that when the adjuster is positioned, it engages securely in at least one predefined direction, preventing dislodgement while maintaining adjustment flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from a static, fixed-orientation engagement to a dynamic system where the adjuster can be positioned in multiple orientations. The circular seat with cross-shaped holes allows the adjuster to be dynamically positioned in different directions, and once positioned, the geometry provides secure engagement in the chosen orientation, combining flexibility with stability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple hinge types are manufactured to provide adjustment in different directions, then adjustment freedom is achieved, but manufacturing costs and stocking complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
A single hinge design incorporates multiple circular housing seats with cross-shaped holes arranged in a circular pattern, enabling this universal hinge to provide adjustment freedom in multiple directions. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for manufacturers to produce multiple specialized hinge types, reducing device complexity, manufacturing costs, and stocking requirements while maintaining full adjustability.
Solution Approach 2:
The hinge is segmented into multiple identical modular units (circular housing seats with cross-shaped holes), each capable of providing stable anchoring. This modular segmentation allows the same standardized component to be used in multiple orientations and configurations, providing adjustment freedom without requiring different hinge types, thereby simplifying manufacturing and inventory management.
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AI summary
The invention concerns a hinge of the type including of a pair of members of a hinge (1), each having a pair of screw-anchoring holes (5). The holes are obtained within housing seats (2) prearranged for the introduction of adjusters (3, 9). Each adjuster includes a body (6) and a flange (7). The edge of the flange rests on the surface of each member of the hinge (1) in various mutual positions of the adjuster in its respective seat. According to the invention, said housing seats (2) have a centered-symmetry base layout, and guiding means (6, 11, 11a) are provided for guiding said adjuster body (6) into its respective housing seat (2) so as to allow the free movement of the adjuster (3, 9) in a single direction, among multiple possible directions, depending on the orientation of each adjuster (2) in its respective seat.