Cable Organizer With Bendable Tabs For Retention
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cable organizers have structural detriments and complications that hinder effective cable management and retention, such as non-desirable configurations and difficulties in cable insertion and removal.
Innovation Solution
A cable organizer with a unitary body featuring a top surface with bendable tabs and cable channels of a substantially triangular cross-section, allowing for easy cable insertion and retention, and a bottom surface adaptable for placement on a work surface with optional striations or adhesive recesses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional cable organizers use fixed rigid structures, then cable retention is provided, but cable insertion and removal becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The cable organizer incorporates flexible tabs that can be dynamically positioned. During insertion, the tabs are bent to open the cable channel aperture, allowing easy cable passage. Once the cable is in place, the tabs return to their original position to close the aperture and secure the cable. This dynamic flexibility resolves the contradiction between ease of operation and reliable retention.
Solution Approach 2:
The cable organizer is divided into multiple cable channels, each with its own flexible tabs. This segmentation allows independent operation of each channel, enabling users to insert or remove cables from specific channels without affecting others. The segmented structure with flexible tabs provides both ease of operation for individual cables and reliable retention through controlled aperture closure.
2Reliability
If cable organizers use complex fastening mechanisms, then cable retention is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible tabs are integrated directly into the cable organizer body and automatically perform the retention function. When the cable is inserted, the tabs self-actuate to close the aperture and secure the cable without requiring any additional fastening mechanisms. This self-service approach provides reliable cable retention while maintaining simple device structure, eliminating the need for zippers, straps, or hook-and-loop fasteners.
3Adaptability or versatility
If cable organizers use multiple separate components, then cable management flexibility is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple cable channels with individual flexible tabs are integrated into a single unitary body. This merging of multiple functional elements into one monolithic structure provides versatile cable management capabilities while simplifying manufacturing. The unitary construction eliminates the need for assembling multiple separate components, reducing manufacturing complexity while maintaining the flexibility to manage multiple cables independently.
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AI summary
A cable organizer including a front surface and a rear surface, wherein the front surface and the rear surface define a width therebetween; a first end and a second end, wherein the first end and the second end define a length therebetween; a bottom surface, wherein the bottom surface is adapted for placement proximate a work surface; a top surface, wherein the top surface comprises at least one aperture for receiving a cable therethrough, and wherein the top surface comprises at least one of a tab and detent which is controllably bendable, thereby facilitating releasable insertion of a cable into at least one cable channel such that the cable is retained in the at least one cable channel during normal use and removable by a user upon upward displacement of the cable by the user.