Adjustable Setting Piece for Glued Window Leaf Profile
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Solution Overview
Problem
In minimum profile windows where the leaf profile is glued to the glass pane, manufacturing tolerances and size deviations between the frame and glass pane pose challenges, as traditional pinning methods are not applicable, leading to installation difficulties.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable setting piece is fastened to the glass pane, allowing the leaf profile to be freely positioned and adjusted to compensate for manufacturing tolerances, using a screw-thread mechanism between a first part mounted on the glass pane and a second part that keeps the leaf profile at a set distance, ensuring a stable connection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If the leaf profile is glued to the glass pane, then the window structure is simplified and aesthetics are improved, but the ability to accommodate manufacturing tolerances is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a setting piece as an intermediary component between the glass pane and the leaf profile. This setting piece can be adjusted to compensate for manufacturing tolerances while maintaining the glued connection between the leaf profile and glass pane, thus resolving the contradiction between structural simplicity and tolerance accommodation.
Solution Approach 2:
The setting piece incorporates adjustable elements (such as threaded holes and adjustment screws) that allow dynamic positioning during installation. This enables the system to adapt to varying dimensional tolerances while maintaining a fixed, simplified structure once adjusted, effectively resolving the contradiction.
2Manufacturing precision
If traditional pinning methods are used to accommodate tolerances, then manufacturing variations are compensated, but the method is not applicable when the leaf profile is glued to the glass pane
Solution Approach 1:
The setting piece serves as a mediator that enables tolerance compensation in the glued configuration. It provides adjustment capability similar to traditional pinning methods but is compatible with the glued leaf profile arrangement, thus making tolerance accommodation applicable to modern glued window constructions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent divides the mounting system into separate functional components: the setting piece (with adjustment mechanism) and the leaf profile (glued to glass). This segmentation allows the adjustment function to be independently implemented without complicating the overall glued structure, resolving the contradiction between precision and ease of manufacture.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the leaf profile is fastened to other leaf profiles, then the structure is stable, but the positioning is restricted and cannot be adjusted freely
Solution Approach 1:
The setting piece acts as an intermediary that decouples the leaf profile from direct fastening to other leaf profiles. It provides a stable mounting interface to the glass pane while allowing free positioning adjustment, thus resolving the contradiction between structural stability and positioning flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjustable setting piece allows the system to transition from a fixed, restricted positioning to a dynamically adjustable position during installation, while maintaining structural stability through the adjustable connection mechanism. This dynamic capability resolves the contradiction between stability and flexibility.
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
This solution enables accurate adjustment and stable mounting of the leaf profile relative to the glass pane, accommodating manufacturing variations and ensuring proper window closure and aesthetics, without the limitations of fixed fastening to other profiles.
Implementation Method 1
the second part is adjustably fastened by means of a screw thread in the first part
Implementation Method 2
a leaf profile for a window, a window and method for installing a window... whereby the leaf profile is or can be connected to the setting piece
Data Source
AI summary
Covering element (7) to cover the edge of a glass pane (5), characterized in that the covering element (7) includes a leaf profile (6) for a leaf (3,4) of a window (1) or door and includes at least one adjustable setting piece (10), whereby the setting piece (10) is or can be fastened to an edge of the glass pane (5), whereby the leaf profile (6) is or can be connected to the setting piece (10), and whereby the setting piece (10) is arranged to be able to adjust the distance between the leaf profile (6) and the edge of the glass pane (5) when using the covering element (7).