Carrier Strip Component Pack for Rolled Technical Component Handling
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing demand for electrical contact devices and punched cell connector plates due to vehicle hybridization and electrification leads to significant packaging and logistical challenges, including manual handling and processing costs.
Innovation Solution
A component pack system featuring a carrier strip with technical components fastened to it, allowing for efficient bundling and processing by being rolled up spirally, which reduces manual handling and processing costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual handling and packaging of individual technical components is used, then flexibility in handling is maintained, but handling time and labor costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the handling process by introducing a carrier strip that divides and organizes multiple technical components into discrete, manageable units. Each component is individually mounted on the carrier strip, allowing for systematic processing while maintaining overall bundle integrity during transport and storage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple separately handled technical components into a single integrated bundle mounted on a carrier strip. This combining approach allows multiple components to be transported, stored, and processed as one unit, significantly reducing the number of handling operations required.
2Reliability
If individual technical components are packaged separately, then each component is protected, but packaging space and logistical complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple individual packaging operations are merged into a single bundling process. The carrier strip serves as a common platform that holds multiple technical components together, replacing numerous separate packaging tasks with one integrated bundling operation that reduces logistical complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The carrier strip acts as an intermediary element between individual technical components and the final packaging structure. It provides a standardized interface that simplifies the packaging process while maintaining component protection, serving as a mediator that reduces the complexity of direct component-to-packaging interactions.
3Ease of manufacture
If technical components are bundled without a carrier structure, then bundling is simple, but alignment and bundling precision deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The carrier strip segments the bundling process into standardized mounting positions, ensuring each technical component is placed at a precise, predetermined location. This segmentation provides natural alignment references that maintain manufacturing precision while keeping the overall bundling process simple and repeatable.
4Productivity
If large quantities of technical components are transported in loose form, then transport flexibility is maintained, but logistical costs and processing efficiency decrease
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple loose technical components are merged into a single consolidated bundle mounted on a carrier strip. This merging reduces the total volume occupied by loose components during transport and storage, improving space utilization while maintaining the ability to process individual components when needed.
Data Source
AI summary
A component pack including a carrier strip extending in a longitudinal direction and a plurality of technical components formed initially separately from the carrier strip and each fastened on the carrier strip. The technical components project from the carrier strip laterally in a transverse direction of the carrier strip.