Bundled Wire Guide Structure for Compact Cable Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cable management systems for electronic devices, such as clamps, often lead to cable entanglement and pinching issues, requiring multiple clamps and reducing design flexibility and increasing apparatus size due to inadequate space for cable routing.
Innovation Solution
A bundled wire guide with a storage portion and side walls, featuring holding portions with hinge and engagement mechanisms to securely store and route cables along a defined path, preventing interference with other components and allowing for more design freedom.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If clamps are used to hold cables, then cables can be wired in a desired path, but cables may get stuck with other members and inserted between members on the wiring path
Solution Approach 1:
The clamp is divided into a holding portion and a covering portion that can be assembled separately. The holding portion secures the cable while the covering portion protects it, preventing both loosening and interference with other members along the wiring path.
Solution Approach 2:
The covering portion is designed to cover and protect the cable that is already held by the holding portion. This nested structure provides layered protection, ensuring the cable remains stable and protected within the groove portion throughout its wiring path.
2Reliability
If multiple clamps are arranged to prevent cable loosening, then cable stability improves, but assembly time increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple clamping functions are merged into a single integrated clamp structure. The holding portion and covering portion work together to provide both cable securing and protection, eliminating the need for multiple separate clamps and reducing assembly time while maintaining cable stability.
3Ease of operation
If clamps are arranged in places with inadequate space, then cable routing is achieved, but design freedom decreases and apparatus size increases
Solution Approach 1:
The clamp utilizes the depth dimension by extending into the groove portion, allowing effective cable management in spaces that would be inadequate for traditional surface-mounted clamps. This dimensional approach maintains design flexibility while achieving proper cable routing in compact spaces.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic apparatus includes a first electronic device, a second electronic device, a bundled wire configured to supply at least one of an electric signal and electric power between the first and the second electronic devices, a frame member, a bundled wire guide, and a plurality of holding portions disposed at different positions on the wiring path. Each of the plurality of the holding portions includes a hinge portion connected to an upper portion of one of the pair of the side wall portions, a cover portion connected to the storage portion via the hinge portion, and an engagement portion to secure the cover portion in a closed position. The frame member includes a groove portion to which the bundled wire guide is fitted, and the bundled wire guide with the bundled wire stored is fitted into the groove portion.