Adjustable Truss End Support for Variable Angle Configurations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing truss systems lack the ability to easily adjust and form various angles and shapes, limiting their versatility in supporting stage lights and other items, particularly in forming complex geometric structures like rings and arcs with precise angles.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable truss end support system comprising overlapping plates with multiple slots and locking mechanisms, allowing for adjustable spacing and angle formation between truss parts, enabling the creation of different geometric configurations such as 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8-sided rings or arcs with specific angles by adjusting the distance between truss edges.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional fixed truss systems are used, then structural stability is maintained, but versatility in forming various angles and shapes is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The truss end support incorporates an adjustable mechanism that transforms a fixed structure into a dynamic one, allowing the angle between truss sections to be modified. The support can be adjusted to different angles and locked in position, enabling the truss system to adapt to various geometric configurations while maintaining structural integrity.
Solution Approach 2:
The truss end support is divided into distinct functional segments: adjustment mechanism, locking mechanism, and support structure. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function independently, simplifying the overall design while enabling versatile angle adjustment capabilities.
2Adaptability or versatility
If adjustable mechanisms are added to truss systems, then versatility in forming geometric structures is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The truss end support is designed as a universal component that can be applied to various truss configurations and angle requirements. A single support design can accommodate multiple angles and geometric shapes, eliminating the need for different specialized components for each configuration, thus reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjustment mechanism and locking mechanism are integrated into a single cohesive unit at the truss end support. This merging of functions into one compact component reduces the total number of separate parts, simplifies assembly, and maintains structural stability while enabling versatile angle adjustment.
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AI summary
A truss hinge that allows hinging between truss parts, and also allows configuration into a different size, and spreads the angle of the truss open ends. One embodiment uses a first plate, having a connection part to a first truss, where the connection part is adapted for connection to a first truss. A second plate is movable relative to the first plate. The second plate also has a second connection part adapted for connection to a second truss. An angle setting part forms a connection between the first plate and the second plate, that holds the first plate relative to the second plate at any of a number of different relative locations between the first plate and the second plate. The plates include angle markings to set the connections.