Buckle Type Roller Conveying Slideway Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing roller conveying slideways have inflexible designs, leading to tedious, inefficient, and costly production processes due to fixed lengths and high precision requirements, often resulting in defects from inaccurate alignment and low machining precision.
Innovation Solution
A buckle type roller conveying slideway with separable ends and base, utilizing inverted buckle type chucks and clamping cavities for easy assembly through buckle connecting structures, eliminating the need for screws and stamping, and allowing for flexible length adjustments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the ends and base are connected through screws and side covers, then the connection is achieved, but the production and machining procedures become tedious, low in efficiency and high in cost
Solution Approach 1:
The slideway is divided into modular components (base, ends, side covers) that can be assembled through buckling connection rather than traditional screw fastening. The end pieces are segmented with buckling structures that enable quick connection to the base, eliminating the need for multiple screws and complex machining procedures while maintaining connection reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The traditional screw-fastening mechanical system is replaced with a buckling-based mechanical system. The buckling connection uses elastic deformation and geometric interlocking instead of threaded fasteners, significantly simplifying the assembly process and reducing machining requirements while ensuring reliable connection between components.
2Ease of manufacture
If the stamping mode is used to connect ends and base, then the assembly is achieved, but the production and machining precision requirement is high, and defects of end damage or looseness are easily caused
Solution Approach 1:
The buckling structures are designed with built-in elastic deformation capabilities that act as cushions during assembly. The elastic portions absorb assembly tolerances and prevent direct transmission of impact forces to the end pieces, thereby avoiding end damage and loosening defects even when assembly precision varies.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection method transitions from rigid stamping with high precision requirements to elastic buckling connection with tolerance accommodation. By changing the mechanical parameter from rigid deformation to elastic deformation, the system can withstand variations in assembly precision without causing defects.
3Device complexity
If the roller conveying slideway has fixed length structure, then the structure is simple, but the flexibility in production process is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The slideway structure transitions from a fixed, static design to a dynamic, adjustable configuration. The modular end pieces with buckling connections can be easily added or removed to change the overall length of the slideway, providing production flexibility while maintaining relative structural simplicity through standardized components.
Solution Approach 2:
The base and end pieces are designed as universal components that can be configured in different combinations to create slideways of various lengths. The buckling connection structure serves multiple functions: connection, length adjustment, and alignment, enabling a single set of standardized parts to fulfill multiple production requirements.
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AI summary
A buckle type roller conveying slideway comprises a base, two ends and two side covers, the two ends are arranged at the front end and the rear end of the base respectively, and at least one end is assembled together with the end part of the base through a buckle connecting structure. During assembly, the ends and the base are firmly assembled and fixed together through the buckle connecting structures between the ends and the base, the whole assembling process is simple, easy and fast, and fasteners such as screws do not need to be additionally used or stamping and other procedures do not need to be additionally added for fixing, so that the assembling efficiency is improved, and the assembling labor intensity is also reduced.