Architectural Connection Assembly with Fine Adjustment Brackets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing architectural connection assemblies fail to maintain structures flush with each other, leading to loose and unstable joints in architectural structures, which can cause assembly difficulties and compromise the structural integrity under vibrational and impact loads.
Innovation Solution
The connection assembly employs fine adjustment surfaces and a clamping mechanism to draw structures together, utilizing brackets with inclined surfaces and fasteners to apply a clamping force that aligns and secures beams and posts in close proximity, ensuring a tight and stable joint.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional fasteners are used to couple horizontal and vertical structures, then the structures are secured together, but the structures cannot be kept flush with one another, resulting in loose and unstable joints
Solution Approach 1:
The connection assembly incorporates adjustable brackets with fine adjustment surfaces that allow dynamic alignment adjustments during assembly. The brackets can be positioned and adjusted to accommodate variations in structure dimensions and alignment requirements, enabling the joint to achieve both secure fastening and precise flush alignment between horizontal and vertical structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection assembly introduces intermediary components (brackets with fine adjustment surfaces) between the horizontal and vertical structures. These intermediaries provide the necessary adjustment capability and alignment precision that traditional direct fastening cannot achieve, allowing the structures to be both securely coupled and precisely aligned.
2Ease of manufacture
If structures are coupled with fasteners only, then assembly is simplified, but the joints become loose and unstable under vibrational and impact loads
Solution Approach 1:
The connection assembly uses adjustable brackets that can be fine-tuned during assembly to optimize joint strength. The fine adjustment surfaces allow for precise positioning that maximizes contact area and load distribution, enhancing the joint's ability to withstand vibrational and impact loads while maintaining relatively simple assembly procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection assembly modifies the connection parameters by introducing adjustable geometric features (fine adjustment surfaces) that allow optimization of the joint configuration. By adjusting the position and orientation of the brackets, the joint strength can be enhanced to resist vibrational and impact loads while keeping the assembly process relatively simple.
3Device complexity
If traditional connection methods are used, then device complexity is reduced, but assembly difficulties arise due to loose joints and misalignment
Solution Approach 1:
The connection assembly incorporates adjustable brackets with fine adjustment surfaces that provide dynamic alignment capability. This allows assembly workers to easily adjust and align structures during assembly, eliminating the difficulties associated with loose joints and misalignment while adding only moderate complexity to the connection assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The fine adjustment surfaces are designed to be self-aligning, where the geometry of the surfaces naturally guides the alignment process during assembly. This self-service feature reduces the skill level and time required for proper alignment, improving assembly ease while maintaining reasonable device complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This solution results in a tight, strong, and stable joint that minimizes the effects of vibrational and impact loads, facilitating easier assembly and maintaining structural integrity by ensuring beams and posts are securely aligned and flush.
Implementation Method 1
a clamping mechanism that applies a clamping force to the first and second fine adjustment surfaces to pull the first and second structures together
Data Source
AI summary
A connection for a subarchitectural workspace includes a first structure with a first end and a second end opposite the first end and a second structure with a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The connection assembly further includes a first bracket with a first fine adjustment surface mounted to the first structure, a second bracket with a second fine adjustment surface that engages the first fine adjustment surface, and a clamping mechanism that applies a clamping force to the first and second fine adjustment surfaces to pull the first and second structures together.