Geological Sampling Backpack Drilling Machine with Adjustable Support Bracket

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Solution Overview

Problem

Backpack drilling machines face challenges in maintaining drilling direction stability due to gravity center shifts and vibrations, limiting their ability to drill inclined rock structures and reducing sample quality and efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A geological sampling backpack drilling machine with a housing, drilling device, and seat, featuring limiting rotators and rotating supporting posts that allow adjustable angles for stabilizing the drilling direction and counteracting vibrations, enabling stable drilling at various angles without additional human support.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If backpack drilling machine is used for surface sampling to reduce portability structures, then ease of transport is improved, but drilling direction stability deteriorates due to gravity center shifts and vibrations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of transportVSAvoiddrilling direction stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by making the support bracket and supporting posts adjustable and movable rather than fixed. The support bracket can be adjusted to different angles and positions, and the supporting posts can be extended or repositioned during drilling operations. This dynamic adjustment capability allows the drilling machine to adapt to different drilling angles and maintain stability even when operating in inclined positions, resolving the contradiction between portability and drilling direction stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Manufacturing precision

If manual support is used to stabilize drilling machine during inclined drilling, then drilling direction control is improved, but labor cost and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedrilling direction controlVSAvoidlabor time consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements self-service through the automated support bracket and supporting posts system that can independently adjust and stabilize the drilling machine during inclined drilling operations. The support bracket automatically adjusts to provide the necessary stability, and the supporting posts can be extended or repositioned without requiring continuous manual intervention. This self-service capability maintains precise drilling direction control while eliminating the need for additional human support, thereby reducing labor time consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Stability of the object's composition

If backpack drilling machine drills vertically downwards to maintain stability, then drilling direction stability is improved, but adaptability to inclined rock structures deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedrilling direction stabilityVSAvoidadaptability to inclined rock structures
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by making the support bracket and supporting posts adjustable and movable rather than fixed. The support bracket can be adjusted to different angles and positions, and the supporting posts can be extended or repositioned during drilling operations. This dynamic adjustment capability allows the drilling machine to adapt to different drilling angles and maintain stability even when operating in inclined positions, resolving the contradiction between portability and drilling direction stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements universality through the multi-functional support bracket and supporting posts system that can accommodate both vertical and inclined drilling operations. The support bracket serves multiple functions by adjusting to different angles, and the supporting posts can be positioned to provide stability for various drilling orientations. This multi-functionality enables the drilling machine to handle diverse rock structures including inclined surfaces, thereby improving adaptability while maintaining drilling direction stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

4Adaptability or versatility

If additional support structures are added to enable inclined drilling, then adaptability to inclined rock structures is improved, but device complexity and portability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to inclined rock structuresVSAvoidstructure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by dividing the support system into modular components: a support bracket with adjustable arms and multiple supporting posts that can be independently positioned. This segmented structure allows each component to perform specific functions while maintaining overall simplicity. The modular design enables the system to adapt to inclined drilling without requiring a completely complex integrated structure, thus improving adaptability while controlling device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements universality through the multi-functional support bracket and supporting posts system that can accommodate both vertical and inclined drilling operations. The support bracket serves multiple functions by adjusting to different angles, and the supporting posts can be positioned to provide stability for various drilling orientations. This multi-functionality enables the drilling machine to handle diverse rock structures including inclined surfaces, thereby improving adaptability while maintaining drilling direction stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11840928B1Geological sampling backpack drilling machine
Publication Date: 2023.12.12 CHENGDU UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
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AI summary

The present disclosure providing a geological sampling backpack drilling machine includes a housing, a drilling device movably received in the housing, a seat arranged on the housing, and a bracket detachably connected to the housing via a limiting rotator, with an angle between the bracket and the housing being variable; the seat arranged between a tip of a drilling rod and the bracket, and rotating around the drilling rod as an axis thereof; a rotating member arranged on a surface of the seat and surrounding around the drilling rod to detachably connect with a supporting post, both the supporting post and the bracket cooperatively supporting the drilling device; the drilling rod passing through the housing and the seat; both the bracket and the supporting post supporting the drilling device that is obliquely drilled and the housing for enabling the drilling device to stably drill at an inclined state.