Cluster Block Inner Wall Overlap for Compact Insulating Distance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cluster blocks face challenges in ensuring adequate insulating distance between connection terminals while attempting to reduce their size, leading to difficulties in miniaturization.
Innovation Solution
The cluster block design incorporates a structure with overlapping inner walls from opposing plate portions to create individual storage spaces for connection terminals, ensuring insulating distance through detours and strategic placement of inner walls, allowing for reduced size and weight.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If storage chambers are made close to each other to reduce cluster block size, then the size is reduced, but the insulating distance between connection terminals becomes insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a vertical dimension by having inner walls protrude from both the first plate portion (first inner walls) and the second plate portion (second inner walls) toward each other. This creates an overlapping arrangement in the thickness direction, effectively utilizing the Z-axis dimension to increase insulating distance without expanding the horizontal footprint, thus resolving the contradiction between compact size and adequate insulation.
Solution Approach 2:
The inner walls are nested within the storage chambers, with first inner walls protruding from the first plate portion and second inner walls protruding from the second plate portion. These nested structures create partition walls that divide storage chambers into individual spaces while maintaining compact overall dimensions, allowing reduced cluster block size while ensuring insulating distance through the overlapping nested arrangement.
2Reliability
If inner walls are added to ensure insulating distance, then insulating distance is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functions of partition walls and insulating structures into a single integrated design. The first inner walls and second inner walls serve dual purposes: they partition storage chambers into individual spaces for organizing connection terminals and simultaneously provide the necessary insulating distance. This merging reduces the need for separate insulating components, thereby improving insulating distance without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The inner walls serve multiple functions simultaneously: they act as partition walls to create individual spaces, provide insulating barriers between adjacent connection terminals, and contribute to the overall structural integrity of the cluster block. This multi-functionality allows the structure to achieve adequate insulating distance without requiring additional dedicated insulating components, thus limiting the increase in device complexity.
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AI summary
To provide a cluster block that allows an insulating distance between connection terminals to be ensured and allows the size to be easily reduced, and the like. At least a part of an inner wall portion for separating a plurality of individual spaces for individually storing a plurality of connection terminals, respectively, is formed by overlapping of first inner walls, protruding from a first plate portion, and second inner walls protruding from a second plate portion. In the overlapping portion, an insulating distance between the adjacent connection terminals is not linear, and a detour is made among the first inner walls and the second inner walls and thus, an insulating distance can be ensured. By ensuring the insulating distance, the individual spaces can be easily made close to each other, and the size of the cluster block can be easily reduced.