Cutting Tool Base Plates With Coplanar Guide Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cutting tools face challenges in ensuring precision and efficiency due to manual errors and the complexity of aligning guide devices with cutting lines, particularly when the position of the guide device needs to be constantly changed, leading to potential deviations in the cutting process.
Innovation Solution
A cutting tool design featuring a housing with a motor and transmission mechanism, including base plates with abutting surfaces that can be moved relative to each other to align with a guide surface, allowing for convenient and precise cutting without the need for additional measurement, using a connecting mechanism that enables the base plates to be coplanar or non-coplanar to match the guide surface effectively.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If a guide device is used to guide the cutting tool, then cutting precision is improved, but the operation becomes more troublesome and working efficiency decreases due to the need for measurement and positioning adjustments
Solution Approach 1:
The abutting surface of the base plate is designed to be coplanar with the saw blade plane, enabling the guide device to be directly aligned with the cutting line without requiring manual measurement or positioning adjustments. The system serves itself by eliminating the need for external measurement tools and procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
The abutting surface is pre-positioned to be coplanar with the saw blade plane during manufacturing, so that when the guide device is placed against the abutting surface, the cutting line is automatically aligned with the saw blade. This preliminary positioning action eliminates the need for operational measurement and adjustment.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the base plate has a certain width, then structural stability is improved, but the distance between the saw blade and the lateral side of the base plate creates alignment complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The abutting surface is extracted from the lateral side of the base plate and repositioned to be coplanar with the saw blade plane. This allows the guide surface to be directly aligned with the cutting line, eliminating the complexity caused by the base plate width.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of using the lateral side of the base plate for guiding (side dimension), the abutting surface is positioned on the bottom surface plane (horizontal dimension), allowing direct alignment with the cutting line without being affected by the base plate width.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the invention provides a cutting tool. The cutting tool includes a housing; a motor, accommodated in the housing; a transmission mechanism, connected to the motor and used for driving a saw blade, having a saw blade plane; and base plates, connected to the housing and comprising a first base plate provided with a first bottom surface and a second base plate provided with a second bottom surface, wherein at least one of the first base plate and the second base plate is provided with an abutting surface coplanar with the saw blade plane; the abutting surface is used for being matched with a guide surface, and the first base plate and the second base plate are movable to expose the abutting surface.