Battery Guide Separator Plate for Handheld Scanner Connector Stress
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Solution Overview
Problem
Scanning devices with battery power face challenges in proper battery insertion and retention, leading to potential power disruptions and damage due to incorrect alignment and physical stress during use, especially in handheld devices prone to drops and impacts.
Innovation Solution
A battery support system featuring a separator plate with multiple elongate battery guides that guide the battery connector into place, preventing physical stress on the connector and ensuring secure alignment within the scanning device casing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the battery is held in place only by connector connection and circuitboards, then the device structure remains simple, but the battery may move or disconnect during drops and impacts
Solution Approach 1:
The battery support structure is divided into multiple independent battery guides that are attached to the separator plate. Each battery guide independently engages with the battery to provide support and alignment, distributing the retention function across multiple segmented elements rather than a single complex structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The battery guides act as intermediary elements between the battery and the device housing. These guides transfer and distribute the mechanical forces from drops and impacts away from the battery connector, preventing direct stress transmission that could cause disconnection or damage.
2Ease of operation
If the battery is inserted without guidance structures, then the insertion process is faster, but the connector alignment may be incorrect leading to power disruption
Solution Approach 1:
The battery guides are pre-installed on the separator plate before battery insertion. These guides preliminarily establish the correct spatial relationship and alignment between the battery connector and the device connector, ensuring proper positioning is achieved automatically during insertion without requiring manual alignment precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The battery guides serve as intermediary structures that mediate between the user's insertion action and the connector alignment requirement. They physically guide the battery along a predetermined path, ensuring the connectors align correctly while allowing the user to perform a simple insertion motion.
3Strength
If the battery connector directly supports the battery weight and forces, then the connector structure remains simple, but physical stress may damage the connector during drops and impacts
Solution Approach 1:
The force support function is segmented from the connector and assigned to multiple battery guides. These guides are distributed around the battery, each bearing a portion of the mechanical loads from drops and impacts, thereby protecting the connector from excessive stress while distributing the structural load across multiple elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The battery guides act as intermediary load-bearing structures between the battery and the device housing. They intercept and distribute the forces from drops and impacts before these forces can be transmitted to the battery connector, thereby protecting the connector from damage while maintaining a relatively simple overall structure.
Data Source
AI summary
A battery support for a scanning device includes a separator plate and multiple elongate battery guides. The separator plate includes multiple mounting supports to engage mounting portions of the interior of the head portion to install the separator plate within the casing. The multiple elongate battery guides extend from the handle-side surface of the separator plate into the interior of the handle portion when the separator plate is installed within the casing. The multiple elongate battery guides engage a removable battery as the battery is inserted into a second end of the handle portion opposite a first end to guide a battery mating connector towards a scanner battery connector. The multiple battery guides continue to engage the removable battery while the battery connector engages the mating connector. The multiple battery guides are configured to prevent exertions of physical stress on the battery connector through the mating connector by the battery.