Multi-Height Battery Housing with Differential Guides
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing housing devices for storage batteries, such as those for electric motorcycles, often require users to handle and insert batteries into multiple compartments at different heights, leading to increased physical burden and manufacturing costs due to the need for customized designs to accommodate various user postures and battery sizes.
Innovation Solution
The housing device incorporates multiple guides with different shapes, dimensions, and movement mechanisms for each compartment, allowing for assisted insertion of batteries at varying heights, reducing user effort and manufacturing complexity by standardizing compartment designs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple compartments are designed at different heights to accommodate various battery sizes and user postures, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The housing is divided into multiple compartments (first compartment and second compartment) with different opening heights. The first opening has a greater height than the second opening, allowing different battery orientations and sizes to be accommodated in separate segments, thus improving adaptability while maintaining manageable complexity through modular design
Solution Approach 2:
The housing device is designed to perform multiple functions by accommodating different battery sizes and orientations through its multi-compartment structure. The same housing serves both as a protective enclosure and as a guide mechanism, eliminating the need for separate guiding components and reducing overall device complexity
2Ease of operation
If guide members are provided in each compartment to assist battery insertion, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The guide members are integrated directly into the compartment structures rather than being separate components. The first guide member is provided in the first compartment and the second guide member in the second compartment, with each guide member forming an integral part of its respective compartment, thus improving ease of operation while avoiding the complexity of additional separate guiding mechanisms
Solution Approach 2:
The guide members are designed to automatically assist battery insertion without requiring external control or adjustment mechanisms. The guides passively guide the battery into the correct position and orientation, providing self-service functionality that improves ease of operation while maintaining simple device structure
Data Source
AI summary
A housing device includes a first housing part and a second housing part arranged at different heights, each housing part to house a storage battery, and a first guide and a second guide to assist insertion of the storage battery into a respective one of the first housing part and the second housing part. The first guide and the second guide assist the insertion of the storage batteries in different respective manners.