Portable Container Bracket Locking for Seal Maintenance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing portable containers for professional equipment and instruments face challenges in maintaining a watertight and impurity-proof seal while allowing for rapid and easy removal of the support for maintenance operations, balancing the need for security and efficiency.
Innovation Solution
The portable container features a design with receptacles along the internal lateral walls for fixing brackets, which are detachably locked and connected to the support, enabling easy removal and repositioning, ensuring a secure seal against water and impurities using grub screws and screws for quick assembly and disassembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the support is fixed securely to maintain watertightness and impurity-proof seal, then the seal reliability is improved, but the removal time and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure is divided into modular components: the support plate, fixing brackets, and locking elements can be independently removed. This segmentation allows the support to be detached in parts rather than as a single unit, reducing removal time while maintaining seal integrity when assembled.
Solution Approach 2:
The fixing system transitions from a permanent fixed state to a dynamic removable state through the use of locking elements (screws or clips) that can be quickly engaged or disengaged. This dynamic capability allows rapid transitions between secure sealing and easy removal, resolving the contradiction between seal reliability and removal speed.
2Ease of operation
If the support is designed for rapid removal to perform maintenance operations, then the ease of operation is improved, but the seal effectiveness against water and impurities deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The locking elements and sealing structures are pre-configured in the half-shell and support bracket designs. Gaskets or sealing profiles are integrated into the bracket structure before assembly, ensuring that when the support is installed, the seal is automatically engaged without requiring additional sealing actions, thus maintaining protection while enabling quick removal.
Solution Approach 2:
A gasket or sealing element acts as an intermediary between the support bracket and the half-shell interior wall. This intermediary component provides the watertight and impurity-proof seal, while the bracket itself remains removable through its locking mechanism, thus decoupling the sealing function from the removal complexity.
3Reliability
If multiple locking mechanisms are used to ensure secure sealing, then the seal reliability is improved, but the device complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The locking elements serve multiple functions: they mechanically secure the support bracket to the half-shell, compress the sealing gasket to ensure watertightness, and provide positioning alignment. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components for each function, simplifying the overall device complexity while maintaining reliable sealing.
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AI summary
A portable container, particularly for professional equipment and instruments, comprising a first half-shell and a second half-shell, which are mutually associated so as to form at least one compartment for containing and protecting equipment and instruments, at least one of the first and second half-shells comprising, along at least one of the internal lateral walls, a distribution of receptacles for respective fixing brackets for at least one support for instruments and equipment, each one of the brackets being provided with locking devices for removable locking within the receptacle and with elements for detachable connection to the support.