Detachable Vise Jaw Assembly With Self-Aligning Clamping Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional workholding and mounting apparatuses have integrated jaws and mounting platforms that are difficult to disassemble, necessitating a solution for easily assembled and disassembled mating members with protrusions and cavities.
Innovation Solution
A workholding apparatus comprising lower and upper members with protrusions and cavities, respectively, where an actuator moves the lower members toward each other along an axial axis, providing clamping force, and a mounting apparatus with similar design for easy assembly and disassembly, utilizing a bolt with a shank and threaded section for coupling and a base defining a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If conventional integrated jaws and mounting platforms are used, then structural strength and stability are improved, but ease of assembly and disassembly deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The jaw assembly is divided into separate upper and lower members that can be independently assembled and disassembled. The upper member contains a cavity that receives a protrusion from the lower member, creating a modular connection that maintains structural integrity while enabling easy separation. This segmentation allows the jaw to be reconfigured or replaced without affecting the entire vise assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The protrusion from the lower member is inserted into the cavity of the upper member, creating a nested connection where one component fits within another. This nesting arrangement provides a secure mechanical connection that maintains strength while allowing for simple assembly by insertion and disassembly by withdrawal of the protrusion.
2Ease of operation
If detachable mating members with protrusions and cavities are used, then ease of assembly and disassembly is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The jaw assembly is divided into separate upper and lower members that can be independently assembled and disassembled. The upper member contains a cavity that receives a protrusion from the lower member, creating a modular connection that maintains structural integrity while enabling easy separation. This segmentation allows the jaw to be reconfigured or replaced without affecting the entire vise assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The protrusion from the lower member is inserted into the cavity of the upper member, creating a nested connection where one component fits within another. This nesting arrangement provides a secure mechanical connection that maintains strength while allowing for simple assembly by insertion and disassembly by withdrawal of the protrusion.
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AI summary
A workholding apparatus comprises a base having a channel, two lower members each having a protrusion, and two upper members each having a cavity. Each lower member is coupled with an actuator placed inside the channel. Each upper member is removably coupled with a lower member by inserting the protrusion inside the cavity. The protrusions and the cavities include triangular regions having tilted sides. The upper members releasably engage the lower members by inserting the protrusions into the cavities. The lower members are coupled with an actuator which operates to move the lower members toward one another causing the upper members to generate a clamping, force. A mounting apparatus comprises two lower members and a single upper member, having similar protrusions and cavities, provides a mounting platform.