Balancing Clamp With Radial Spring Cone for Inside-Outside Clamping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing balancing devices require multiple adapters for clamping workpieces from the inside and outside, leading to laborious assembly and exchange processes due to complex cone structures.
Innovation Solution
A clamping device with a disk-shaped spring element and clamping element, where the clamping diameter is adjustable via an actuating device, allowing the cone surfaces to move radially to clamp or release workpieces, simplifying assembly and enabling flexible clamping from various angles without needing multiple adapters.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple balancing adapters are used to clamp workpieces from inside and outside, then clamping versatility is improved, but device complexity and assembly labor increase
Solution Approach 1:
The balancing adapter incorporates both an internal clamping mechanism (for clamping from inside) and an external clamping mechanism (for clamping from outside) within a single device. The internal clamping mechanism includes an internal clamping body with internal clamping jaws, while the external clamping mechanism includes an external clamping body with external clamping jaws. This allows the same adapter to clamp workpieces from both inside and outside, eliminating the need for multiple separate adapters and thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining clamping versatility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If cone structures are used for adjusting clamping diameter, then clamping adjustability is improved, but assembly difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The adjusting mechanism uses a dynamic thread-based system where rotating the adjusting screw converts rotational motion into linear motion, which in turn moves the clamping bodies radially to adjust the clamping diameter. This dynamic adjustment mechanism replaces complex fixed cone structures with a simpler threaded adjustment system that achieves the same clamping diameter adjustment functionality while being easier to assemble and manufacture.
3Manufacturing precision
If multiple adapters are exchanged for different workpieces, then clamping accuracy is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The balancing adapter incorporates both an internal clamping mechanism (for clamping from inside) and an external clamping mechanism (for clamping from outside) within a single device. The internal clamping mechanism includes an internal clamping body with internal clamping jaws, while the external clamping mechanism includes an external clamping body with external clamping jaws. This allows the same adapter to clamp workpieces from both inside and outside, eliminating the need for multiple separate adapters and thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining clamping versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjusting mechanism uses a dynamic thread-based system where rotating the adjusting screw converts rotational motion into linear motion, which in turn moves the clamping bodies radially to adjust the clamping diameter. This dynamic adjustment mechanism replaces complex fixed cone structures with a simpler threaded adjustment system that achieves the same clamping diameter adjustment functionality while being easier to assemble and manufacture.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The solution allows for easy assembly and effective clamping of workpieces from both inside and outside, reducing labor and enhancing flexibility, while preventing bending of the clamping body and improving clamping accuracy.
Implementation Method 1
The clamping body has a disk-shaped spring element sprung in the radial direction... by displacing the clamping element in relation to the spring element, in particular in the axial direction of the clamping disk, in such a way that the cone surfaces of the clamping element cone and of the spring element cone move in relation to one another, and consequently the spring element is clamped and/or unclamped in the radial direction
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AI summary
A clamping device for clamping an article or workpiece to be balanced includes a clamping apparatus for clamping the article. The clamping apparatus has an adjusting device for adjusting the clamping diameter of a clamping body of the clamping apparatus for clamping the article on a placement surface. The clamping body has a disk-shaped spring element sprung in radial direction with a centrally disposed clearance forming at least one spring element cone. The clamping body also has a clamping element inserted into the clearance and having at least one corresponding clamping element cone. The adjusting device has an actuating device for displacing the clamping element relative to the spring element, for moving the cone surfaces of the clamping element cone and the spring element cone relative to one another and for consequently clamping and/or unclamping the spring element in radial direction by the cone surfaces.