Crane Machine Claw Gripper with Limiting Columns for Stable Grasping

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional claw devices for crane machines have a low success rate for child gamers, leading to a diminished sense of game experience due to tilting and inadequate design considerations for children's operating abilities.

Innovation Solution

The claw device incorporates an adjustment assembly with a fixed disk and connecting rods, an actuating assembly with a pivot plate and clamping rods, and limiting columns to control the movement of ropes, ensuring stable grasping and reducing tilting by limiting the range of motion and preventing detachment of ropes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the claw device is designed with a low success rate to stimulate adult gamers, then the challenge and enthusiasm for adult players is improved, but the game experience for child gamers deteriorates due to their limited operating ability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to different player age groupsVSAvoidcapture success rate
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by making the claw device adjustable between different operating modes (first and second modes) that can be switched based on the player's age group. The device transitions from a fixed low-success-rate design for adults to an adjustable system that can provide high-success-rate mode for children, thereby adapting the reliability parameter to different user demographics while maintaining challenge for adults.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameter of capture success rate by introducing adjustable mechanisms that modify the claw's gripping force and movement characteristics. Through parameter changes in the actuating assembly and limiting columns, the device can alter its operational parameters to achieve either high or low success rates depending on the intended player demographic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Ease of operation

If the claw device allows free movement of ropes to enable adjustment, then the ease of operation is improved, but the stability deteriorates due to tilting and rope detachment

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of adjustmentVSAvoidstability during operation
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces limiting columns as intermediary components between the ropes and the fixed disk/pivot plate. These limiting columns act as mediators that guide and constrain the rope movement, preventing excessive tilting and detachment while still allowing necessary adjustment. The limiting columns provide a controlled interface that balances ease of operation with operational stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by providing different degrees of freedom to different parts of the system. The limiting columns provide localized constraints in specific directions while allowing movement in other directions. This selective constraint approach maintains stability where needed (preventing tilting) while preserving ease of operation where required (allowing adjustment).

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20250276237A1Claw device for crane machine, gripper for crane machine, and crane machine
Publication Date: 2025.09.04 YAN CANQI
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AI summary

A claw device for a crane machine, a gripper for a crane machine, and a crane machine. The gripper includes an adjustment assembly, an actuating assembly, and a limiting column. The adjustment assembly includes a fixed disk and connecting rods. The actuating assembly includes a pivot plate and clamping rods. Each clamping rod includes a connecting segment, a fixed segment, and a holding segment. Each connecting rod is connected to the fixed disk and the connecting segment. The limiting column defines a limiting hole. A lower part of the fixing hole corresponds to the limiting column, and an aperture of the fixing hole is greater than an aperture of the limiting hole; or another the limiting column is arranged corresponding to a lower side of the second adjustment hole, and an aperture of the second adjustment hole is greater than an aperture of the limiting hole.