Industrial Connector Translational Buckle Plate Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing industrial connectors are labor-consuming to assemble and prone to installation errors due to thread-based fixation, leading to unstable signal connections and operational issues.
Innovation Solution
An industrial connector featuring a translational buckle plate structure with a snap fastener and torsion spring mechanism, allowing for quick and reliable assembly and disassembly, with customizable buckle placement for enhanced stability and reduced operating space requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If thread-based fixation is used for industrial connectors, then connection strength is maintained, but assembly time increases and assembly efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The connector is divided into separate components: a connector body with internal threading and a separate plug with external threading. This segmentation allows for rapid engagement by simply aligning and pushing the plug into the connector body, eliminating the need for manual thread rotation and significantly reducing assembly time while maintaining connection strength through the threaded interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The threaded structures are pre-formed during manufacturing on both the connector body and plug. This preliminary action ensures that when assembly is required, the components are ready for immediate engagement without requiring any additional preparation or thread formation steps, thus improving assembly efficiency and reducing time loss.
2Reliability
If thread-based fixation is used for industrial connectors, then connection strength is maintained, but assembly complexity increases and error probability increases
Solution Approach 1:
The threaded connector and plug are designed with self-aligning features where the threading automatically guides the plug into the correct orientation during insertion. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for operators to manually align threads or worry about incorrect installation angles, reducing assembly complexity and minimizing human error while maintaining reliable connections.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of requiring active manipulation to engage threads (turning the plug), the design inverts the approach by using a push-to-engagement mechanism where the threading passively engages through linear motion. This inversion simplifies the assembly process from a multi-step rotational operation to a single linear insertion action, reducing complexity and error probability.
3Productivity
If traditional buckle plate structures are used, then connection speed is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases and production cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The buckle plate is merged with the connector body as a single integrated component rather than a separate part. This combining eliminates the need for additional manufacturing steps to produce and assemble the buckle plate separately, simplifying the manufacturing process and reducing production costs while maintaining the rapid connection capability provided by the buckle mechanism.
Solution Approach 2:
The connector body is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as the structural housing and as the buckle plate for rapid engagement. This universal design approach allows a single component to fulfill multiple functions, reducing the total number of parts that need to be manufactured and assembled, thereby simplifying manufacturing and lowering production costs while maintaining fast connection speed.
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
The solution significantly reduces assembly time and errors, enhances connection reliability, and allows for more connectors to be mounted in limited spaces, while being simpler and cost-effective to manufacture.
Implementation Method 1
the elastic component comprises a first torsion spring; the connecting base is provided with a protruding fixing column within the assembly region, the connecting base is provided with a protruding baffle on an edge of an opening of the connecting cylinder, the first torsion spring is sleeved on the fixing column, and the first torsion spring has one end rested against the baffle and the other end rested against the pressing surface
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AI summary
The present invention discloses an industrial connector and a connecting structure. The industrial connector comprises a holder and a plug matingly connected to the holder, wherein the holder comprises: a hollow connecting cylinder; a connecting base fixed around an opening of the connecting cylinder; a buckle plate and an elastic component fixed within the connecting base, with buckles embedded into the connecting cylinder being provided on the buckle plate; and an elastic component which is connected to the buckles and used for driving the buckle plate to translate along the plane of the opening. The industrial connector provided by the present invention is easy to mount and reliable in connection.