Cable Marking Label With Tool Hole for Safer Remote Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cable marking technologies, such as engraved plastic and stamped brass tags, are difficult to read in dirty or obscured conditions, often fall off, and require physical contact for identification, leading to safety risks and inefficiencies in high-voltage environments.
Innovation Solution
Marking labels with a tool hole and mount portion that allow directional positioning and manipulation using a tool, enabling technicians to read indicia without direct contact, even in challenging environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional engraved plastic or stamped brass tags are used for cable marking, then the tags can be securely attached to cables, but the tags become difficult to read when dirty, obscured, or positioned away from the technician
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extends the label structure by adding a tail portion with a tool hole that protrudes from the mount portion, creating a three-dimensional configuration. This allows the indicia to be positioned in space away from the cable surface, enabling technicians to read labels without直接接触 the cable, thus solving the readability problem while maintaining secure attachment through the mount portion
2Measurement precision
If technicians physically contact cables to read identification information, then they can accurately identify cables, but they expose themselves to safety risks in high-voltage environments
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a tool (such as a probe or stick) as an intermediary device that extends from the technician's hand through the tool hole in the label. This allows the technician to manipulate and read the label indicia without directly contacting the cable, thereby maintaining identification accuracy while eliminating exposure to electrical hazards
3Loss of information
If tags are made with engravings or embossing to provide identification, then the tags contain necessary information, but dirt accumulates in the engravings making them difficult to read
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the indicia from the traditional flat tag surface and positions it on the extended tail portion that protrudes from the cable. This spatial separation allows the indicia to be read from a distance without the technician needing to close their fingers around the cable, preventing dirt accumulation in engravings from obscuring the information
Data Source
AI summary
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for marking labels that are configured to provide for the manipulation of an object (e.g., a cable) by a tool. The marking labels are configured to attach to the object and are directionally positionable on the object. In one aspect, a label includes a tool hole and a mount portion. The tool hole is defined in the label and is sized to receive a tool that is configured to manipulate an object by the label. The mount portion is configured to attach to the object and is configured to orient the label relative to the object to position the tool hole in a location spaced apart from the object.