Clamping Jaw Guide Layout for High-Force Package Commissioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing controllers for commissioning devices used in storing and retrieving medicinal packages face challenges in applying high clamping forces efficiently while maintaining a simple design and minimizing the need for complex drive systems.
Innovation Solution
A controller with a clamping jaw guide apparatus featuring parallel guides and carriages, driven by a centralized drive unit, allows for independent and synchronous movement of clamping jaws, enabling high clamping forces without requiring individual drives for each jaw, and incorporates a compact design with non-slip materials to prevent slippage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If individual drives are used for each clamping jaw, then precise control of each jaw is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple clamping jaw drive functions into a single centralized drive unit. This drive unit simultaneously controls multiple clamping jaw carriages through a unified mechanism, reducing the number of separate drive components while maintaining synchronized operation of all clamping jaws.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized drive unit serves multiple functions by controlling various clamping jaw carriages through a single mechanism. This multi-functional drive system can adjust and control all clamping jaws using one drive assembly, eliminating the need for individual drives at each jaw location.
2Device complexity
If a centralized drive unit is used, then device complexity is reduced, but control precision over individual jaws may worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the clamping jaw system into multiple independent carriages that can be individually positioned along the guides. Each carriage is associated with specific clamping jaws and can be independently controlled by the centralized drive unit, allowing precise control of individual jaws while maintaining system simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The clamping jaw carriages act as intermediaries between the centralized drive unit and the clamping jaws. These carriages receive motion from the centralized drive and transmit it to the appropriate clamping jaws, enabling precise individual control while maintaining the simplicity of a single drive source.
3Force
If parallel guides and carriages are used, then clamping force is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple guide structures into a unified parallel guide system. The first and second guides work together as an integrated apparatus, with carriages moving along both guides in a coordinated manner to generate high clamping forces through combined mechanical advantage.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a second guide parallel to the first guide, adding a dimensional aspect to the clamping mechanism. This parallel arrangement allows carriages to move along multiple paths simultaneously, multiplying the clamping force output while maintaining a systematic and organized structure.
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AI summary
A commissioning device is provided that includes storage surfaces for storing piece goods, a delivery table, elongated clamping jaws disposed above the delivery table and a clamping jaw guide apparatus. The clamping jaw guide apparatus includes a frame structure, first and second guides disposed in parallel with the frame structure, clamping jaw carriages coupled to the first and second guides, the clamping jaw carriages driven in parallel with the frame structure. First clamping jaw carriages are associated with the first guide and second clamping jaw carriages are associated with the second guide, wherein at least two of the plurality of clamping jaw carriages are coupled to each of the clamping jaws. A first drive element is connected to the first clamping jaw carriages and a second drive element is connected to the second clamping jaw carriages at a distance from the first drive element along the delivery table.