Apertured Coupling Interface for Torque Transfer and Bearing Support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing articles or systems for torque bearing or bearing support often fail to provide a balance between torque transfer and bearing support, and are typically designed for specific applications, lacking modularity, interchangeability, and compatibility with both circular and polygonal exterior cross-sections.
Innovation Solution
The development of an apertured article with a unique aperture design that includes an inner periphery and spaced protrusions, allowing for both torque transfer and bearing support, while being modular and interchangeable with other articles, and compatible with circular and polygonal exterior cross-sections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Force
If existing articles are designed to provide torque bearing, then torque transfer ability is improved, but bearing support capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The apertured article is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: it provides torque bearing through its structural configuration while also providing bearing support through the aperture interface. This multi-functional design resolves the contradiction by enabling a single article to deliver both torque transfer and bearing support capabilities without requiring separate specialized components.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention merges the functions of torque bearing and bearing support into a single integrated apertured article. The aperture structure combines torque transfer surfaces with bearing support surfaces, allowing the article to simultaneously execute both functions that were previously provided by separate components, thereby resolving the trade-off between torque transfer ability and bearing support capability.
2Reliability
If existing articles are designed to provide bearing support, then bearing capability is improved, but torque transfer ability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The apertured article achieves universality by incorporating both bearing support surfaces and torque transfer surfaces within a single component. The aperture interface simultaneously provides radial bearing support and tangential torque transfer, eliminating the need to choose between bearing capability and torque transfer ability.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention combines bearing support functionality and torque transfer functionality into one integrated structure. The aperture design merges the previously separate functions of supporting radial loads and transmitting torque, allowing the article to excel at both functions concurrently.
3Reliability
If articles are designed for specific applications, then application performance is improved, but modularity and interchangeability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The apertured article achieves universality across multiple applications by designing an aperture interface that can accommodate various insertion articles with different exterior cross-sections (circular, polygonal, etc.). This universal interface design maintains high application performance in each specific use case while enabling modularity and interchangeability across different applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces dynamic adaptability through the aperture design that can interface with multiple types of insertion articles. The aperture structure dynamically adjusts to accommodate different insertion article geometries while maintaining effective torque transfer and bearing support, thereby enabling interchangeability without sacrificing application-specific performance.
4Force
If additional components are used to provide torque transfer, then torque transfer ability is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The invention merges the torque transfer function into the apertured article itself through its structural design, eliminating the need for separate torque transfer components such as bolts or additional coupling elements. The aperture interface directly provides torque transfer capability, reducing device complexity while maintaining or improving torque transfer ability.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention extracts the torque transfer function from separate additional components and integrates it directly into the apertured article structure. By taking out the need for separate torque transfer mechanisms and incorporating the functionality directly into the aperture design, the solution reduces component count while preserving torque transfer capability.
Data Source
AI summary
An apertured article, insertion article and associated systems. The apertured article having an aperture, which has an aperture periphery, the aperture periphery having an aperture inner periphery and spaced aperture protrusions that extend radially outwardly from the aperture inner periphery to an aperture outer periphery. The aperture outer periphery is defined by distal edges of the spaced aperture protrusions. The aperture inner periphery is positioned along the circumference of an inner aperture reference circle, the inner aperture reference circle inscribing the aperture periphery, and the aperture outer periphery is positioned along the circumference of an outer aperture reference circle. As viewed along a radial line whose origin is at the center of the inner aperture reference circle, the aperture inner periphery can be positioned along 0.4 to 0.6 of the entire circumference of the inner aperture reference circle. The insertion article can be configured for insertion in the apertured article.