Camera Base Plate with Rotating Wrench for Battery Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
The inconvenience of replacing camera batteries while the camera is mounted on a base plate due to the difficulty in accessing the battery compartment without detaching the camera.
Innovation Solution
A camera base plate with a rotatable wrench connected via a damping assembly, allowing the battery compartment opening to be adjusted without removing the camera, facilitated by a damping mechanism that ensures smooth operation and controlled rotation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the camera is mounted on the camera base plate, then the camera is securely fixed and stable, but the battery compartment opening is blocked and battery replacement becomes inconvenient
Solution Approach 1:
The camera base plate is segmented into a fixed plate body and a rotatable wrench component. The plate body provides stable mounting, while the rotatable wrench can be rotated to different positions to either block or expose the battery compartment opening, allowing battery replacement without removing the camera from the base plate.
Solution Approach 2:
The wrench is designed to be rotatable relative to the plate body through a damping assembly. This dynamic component can switch between a first position where it blocks the battery compartment opening (providing secure fixation) and a second position where it exposes the opening (enabling battery replacement), thus resolving the contradiction between stability and operational convenience.
2Ease of operation
If a rotatable wrench is added to allow battery replacement, then battery replacement convenience is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The damping assembly merges multiple functions into a single compact mechanism: it provides the rotational connection between the wrench and plate body, incorporates elastic members for damping and positioning, and integrates limiting protrusions with slots to define precise angular positions. This consolidation minimizes the number of separate components needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The damping assembly serves multiple purposes: it enables rotation of the wrench, provides damping to control rotation speed and reduce impact, maintains positioning through limiting protrusions and slots, and ensures reliable connection between the wrench and plate body. This multi-functionality reduces the need for additional separate components.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables convenient battery replacement without detaching the camera from the base plate, enhancing user experience and operational efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
the damping assembly further includes at least one elastic member sleeved on the shaft, and the elastic member is located on a side of the first connecting member away from the second connecting member, or on a side of the second connecting member away from the first connecting member
Implementation Method 2
the elastic member is a spring or a bowl-shaped washer
Implementation Method 3
The wrench is rotatably connected to the plate body through a damping assembly
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure discloses a camera base plate, which includes a plate body and a wrench. The plate body is defined with a battery avoiding port corresponding to an opening of a battery compartment of a camera. The battery avoiding port extends along a thickness direction of the plate body. The wrench is rotatably connected to the plate body through a damping assembly, and the wrench defines a part of a side wall of the battery avoiding port. In the present disclosure, the wrench can rotate to be gradually opened so as to define a gap in the battery avoiding port. After the plate at the opening of the camera's battery compartment is fully opened, a portion of the plate extends into the gap, thereby the plate can be opened completely, such that the battery can be removed or placed without detaching the camera from the camera base plate.