Battery Mounting Sling With Hose Holding Opening

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional battery mounting structures on vehicles often lead to decreased work efficiency and increased risk of failure when attaching components, particularly hose members, during the assembly process.

Innovation Solution

A battery mounting method utilizing a sling with a hose holding portion that facilitates easy assembly and detection of assembly failures by positioning the hose opening on the worker's side, ensuring the hose member is caught when removal issues occur, thus preventing assembly failures.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If the hose member is attached to the battery module before mounting on the vehicle, then the work efficiency is improved, but the risk of failure to attach the hose member correctly increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvework efficiencyVSAvoidattachment success rate
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The hose member attachment process is segmented into two independent stages: (1) attaching the hose to the battery module before vehicle mounting, and (2) completing the hose attachment to the vehicle body after mounting. This segmentation allows each stage to be optimized independently, improving both efficiency and reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The hose member is preliminarily attached to the battery module before the battery is mounted on the vehicle. This preliminary action ensures the hose is positioned correctly and reduces the complexity of the final attachment step, thereby improving both work efficiency and attachment success rate.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If the hose member is attached after the battery is mounted on the vehicle, then the attachment failure risk is reduced, but the work efficiency declines

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveattachment success rateVSAvoidwork efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The hose member attachment process is segmented into two independent stages: (1) attaching the hose to the battery module before vehicle mounting, and (2) completing the hose attachment to the vehicle body after mounting. This segmentation allows each stage to be optimized independently, improving both efficiency and reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The hose member is preliminarily attached to the battery module before the battery is mounted on the vehicle. This preliminary action ensures the hose is positioned correctly and reduces the complexity of the final attachment step, thereby improving both work efficiency and attachment success rate.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If the hose opening is not positioned on the worker side, then the assembly structure is simpler, but the ease of assembly is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of assemblyVSAvoidhose holding portion structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The hose holding portion is designed with a specific local quality feature: the hose opening is positioned on the worker side (rear end side) of the sling. This localized design change improves the ease of assembly by allowing workers to easily access and manipulate the hose during the attachment process, while the overall sling structure remains simple.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP3031647B1Structure for mounting battery on vehicle
Publication Date: 2018.09.05 NISSAN MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

To prevent the failure to assemble a hose member to a vehicle body during an operation for mounting a battery on a vehicle, while increasing the ease of assembly of the hose member, which is an attached component of the battery. A sling (5) is used which is mounted to move a battery (4) and which is removed after the battery (4) is moved to a position for assembly onto the vehicle body. In this structure for mounting a battery on a vehicle, the battery (4) includes a gas discharge hose (6) as an attached component which is assembled onto the vehicle body after the battery (4) is mounted. The sling (5) is provided with a hose holding opening (51) for holding the gas discharge hose (6). The hose holding opening (51) includes a hose opening (52) for removing the gas discharge hose (6) being held, the hose opening being set on the worker side.