Damped Roller Side Bracket for Low-Wear Line Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing line-routing devices experience high friction and wear due to sliding action between upper and lower leads, leading to undesirable vibrations, and existing solutions with rollers can cause collisions and shocks.
Innovation Solution
A side bracket for a link in a line-routing device featuring a rotatable roller with variable spacing from the running surface, allowing for rolling movement that reduces friction and wear, and includes a damping mechanism to prevent shocks during collisions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If rollers are used to facilitate sliding between upper and lower leads, then friction and wear are reduced, but collisions between rollers cause shocks and vibrations
Solution Approach 1:
The roller is made movable relative to the running surface through a damping element, allowing the roller to dynamically adjust its position. This dynamic configuration enables the roller to absorb collision impacts while maintaining continuous contact with the running surface, thereby reducing both friction and collision-induced vibrations simultaneously
Solution Approach 2:
A damping element is introduced between the roller and the running surface to provide beforehand cushioning. This damping element absorbs collision impacts before they can be transmitted to the line-routing device structure, preventing shocks and vibrations while maintaining the roller's ability to reduce friction during normal operation
2Device complexity
If the roller is fixed at a constant distance from the running surface, then structural simplicity is maintained, but collision impacts cannot be absorbed
Solution Approach 1:
A damping element is introduced between the roller and the running surface to provide beforehand cushioning. This damping element absorbs collision impacts before they can be transmitted to the line-routing device structure, preventing shocks and vibrations while maintaining the roller's ability to reduce friction during normal operation
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 friction and wear, minimizes vibrations, and prevents shocks by allowing the upper and lower leads to move smoothly past each other with reduced contact variability, enhancing the operational stability of the line-routing device.
Implementation Method 1
a roller (5) which is mounted so as to be rotatable about an axle (29), wherein the axle (29) is disposed so as to be parallel to the running surface (4) and perpendicular to the longitudinal direction (27)
Implementation Method 2
a damping device (7) having at least one damper (12), by way of which the roller support (6) is held in the receptacle (8)
Data Source
AI summary
A side bracket is for a link for a line-routing device. The side bracket has a longitudinal periphery which extends in a longitudinal direction of the side bracket and on which a running surface is formed. The side bracket has a roller which is mounted so as to be rotatable about an axle. The axle is disposed so as to be parallel to the running surface and perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. A spacing between the running surface and the axle is variable in a damped manner. The roller, at least in a first position, protrudes from the running surface.