Battery Process Carrier Track Structure for Tolerance-Free Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional secondary battery manufacturing carriers suffer from assembly tolerances and require precise track interval settings, leading to inefficiencies in flatness maintenance and increased assembly time.

Innovation Solution

A secondary battery manufacturing process carrier with an integrated carrier base, featuring carrier rollers and rolling members that move along tracks, eliminating the need for precise interval settings and allowing for easy flatness adjustment using bolts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If a conventional carrier structure is used, then the device complexity is low, but the manufacturing precision deteriorates due to cumulative positioning errors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning precisionVSAvoidcarrier structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The carrier is divided into multiple independent carriers, each with its own positioning track structure. This segmentation allows each carrier to be positioned independently without being affected by cumulative errors from other carriers, thereby improving positioning precision while keeping each individual carrier structure relatively simple.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The positioning track structure extends in the width direction (lateral dimension) of the processing apparatus. By adding this lateral dimension to the positioning mechanism, the system achieves higher positioning precision through multi-dimensional coordinate definition rather than relying solely on longitudinal positioning, which would accumulate errors.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Productivity

If multiple batteries are transported simultaneously, then the productivity is improved, but the manufacturing precision deteriorates due to positioning errors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetransport capacityVSAvoidpositioning precision
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses multiple independent carriers instead of a single carrier for multiple batteries. Each carrier independently transports one battery with its own positioning track, enabling simultaneous transport (improving productivity) while maintaining individual positioning accuracy (preserving manufacturing precision) without cumulative errors.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

3Ease of manufacture

If the carrier structure is simplified, then the ease of manufacture is improved, but the reliability deteriorates due to positioning errors

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecarrier manufacturing easeVSAvoidpositioning reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The positioning system is segmented into multiple independent carriers with individual positioning track structures. This allows the use of simpler, more reliable positioning mechanisms for each carrier rather than attempting to build a single complex high-precision system, improving both ease of manufacture and positioning reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP3982449B1Secondary battery manufacturing process carrier having carrier transporting track structure
Publication Date: 2026.04.29 MPLUS
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AI summary

Proposed is a secondary battery manufacturing process carrier having a carrier transporting track structure. The secondary battery manufacturing process carrier includes: a carrier base (20); a carrier roller (30) provided at a first side of the carrier base (20); a rolling member (40) provided at a second side of the carrier base (20); and a track base (10) on which the carrier base (20) is movably disposed. The carrier base (20) has a first carrier side plate (122) and a second carrier side plate (124) at left and right sides thereof, the first carrier side plate (122) and the second carrier side plate (124) include the carrier roller (30) and the rolling member (40), respectively, and the carrier roller (30) and the rolling member (40) are configured to be rolled on the track base (10).