Angled-Bore Plate Mount for Anti-Rotation Frame Clamping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Structural frames in automation equipment, buildings, and furniture often experience loosening of nut and bolt combinations due to vibration and environmental factors, compromising their integrity and alignment.
Innovation Solution
A plate mount design featuring a cylindrical head with a bolt-receiving bore at an acute angle, a flange, and spacers that interlock with a frame member's slot and cavity, providing a clamping force to secure the plate to the frame, preventing rotational movement and maintaining alignment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If nut and bolt combinations are used to secure frame members, then the frame components can be assembled, but the connection loosens over time due to vibration and environmental factors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a plate mount as an intermediary component between the plate and frame member. This mount includes a cylindrical head with alignment structure that receives the bolt, and a flange with spacer that clamps the plate. The intermediary mount isolates the plate from direct vibration while maintaining secure connection through the frame member's slot and cavity system.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection system is segmented into distinct functional components: the plate mount (with cylindrical head and flange), the frame member (with slot and cavity), and the fastening elements (bolt and nut). This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function - alignment, clamping, and securing - thereby improving overall connection reliability while distributing stress and reducing loosening.
2Ease of manufacture
If traditional fastening methods are used, then assembly is simple, but alignment precision deteriorates as components rotate relative to each other
Solution Approach 1:
The cylindrical head of the plate mount includes an alignment structure with features that preliminarily establish precise alignment between the plate and frame member before final tightening. The alignment structure receives the bolt and guides its insertion, ensuring correct positioning is achieved during assembly rather than requiring post-assembly adjustment.
Solution Approach 2:
The plate mount acts as an intermediary that maintains precise alignment between the plate and frame member. The cylindrical head with alignment structure and the flange with spacer work together to prevent rotational movement, thereby preserving alignment precision throughout the service life of the connection.
3Stability of the object's composition
If spacers with diameter greater than aperture are used, then rotational movement is prevented, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The plate mount merges multiple functions into a single integrated component: the cylindrical head provides alignment and bolt reception, the flange provides clamping surface, and the spacer provides anti-rotation capability. By combining these functions into one piece rather than separate components, the design prevents rotational movement while minimizing overall device complexity.
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AI summary
A plate mount is provided for mounting a plate to a frame assembly. The plate mount includes a generally cylindrical head extendable through an aperture the plate and having an upper surface, a lower face, an outer peripheral surface, and an alignment structure receivable in a slot of the frame member. The cylindrical head including a bolt-receiving bore extending through the cylindrical head along a bore axes at an acute angle to the upper face. A flange extending radially extending from the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical head. The flange has a diameter. At least one spacer is positionable about the outer peripheral surface of the cylindrical head at a location between the flange and the plate.