Cable Store Guide Layout for Low-Wear Energy Line Winding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing energy supply systems are complex and require specifically designed carriers for different intake capacities, leading to varying winding heights at the outlet and inefficient management of energy lines.
Innovation Solution
An energy supply system with a line storage that uses a centrally located winding center and guide arches and sections to manage energy lines, allowing for a spiral winding and unwinding process without movable parts, reducing friction and wear, and enabling adaptable length adjustment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a complex carrier design with stepped tracks and multiple guide sections is used, then the energy line can be wound and unwound, but the device complexity increases and specifically designed carriers are required for different intake capacities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by designing a single standardized carrier that can accommodate different energy line diameters through adjustable guide sections. Instead of creating specifically designed carriers for each intake capacity, the system uses a universal carrier with adaptable guide mechanisms that can be reconfigured for different line sizes, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining versatility
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamics by making the guide sections adjustable and movable within the carrier structure. The guide sections can be repositioned along the carrier to accommodate different energy line diameters, allowing the same carrier to adapt to varying intake capacities without requiring redesign, thus resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity
2Quantity of substance
If the carrier width varies to accommodate different winding layers, then the energy line can be wound in multiple layers, but the winding height at the outlet varies and the carrier design becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the carrier into multiple independent guide sections that can be adjusted separately. Each guide section can be positioned to accommodate different winding layers, allowing the carrier to handle multi-layer winding without requiring a completely different carrier design for each layer configuration, thus reducing structural complexity while maintaining winding capacity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamics by enabling the guide sections to be repositioned dynamically according to the winding layer being used. This adjustability allows the same carrier structure to accommodate varying winding heights and capacities without requiring fixed, complex structures for each possible configuration, resolving the contradiction between winding capacity and structural complexity
3Stability of the object's composition
If guide sections and guide arches are used to guide the carrier to the winding center, then the carrier is guided orderly, but friction and wear increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies mechanics substitution by replacing traditional mechanical contact-based guidance systems with a magnetic guidance field. The magnetic field guides the carrier along the desired path to the winding center without physical contact between guide sections and the carrier, thereby maintaining orderly guidance while eliminating friction and wear associated with mechanical contact
Data Source
AI summary
An energy supply system includes a cable store for winding and unwinding an energy cable about a winding center of the cable store. A carrier is provided for the energy cable, and the cable store has an opening for the inlet and outlet of the carrier and the energy cable. The carrier can be guided through the opening in order to guide the carrier and the energy cable in sections in the cable store to the winding center of the cable store over a first guide path through a first guide arc, over a second guide path which adjoins the first guide arc, through a second guide arc, and over a third guide path which adjoins the second guide arc and lies further inwards relative to the winding center than the first guide path using guides.