Double-Layer Spiral Fiber Winding Device with Radial Slide Drive
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current carbon fiber winding devices face inefficiencies in multi-bundle winding, leading to uneven winding, stress concentration, and poor production efficiency due to limited space and hardware quality, resulting in suboptimal performance and high manufacturing costs.
Innovation Solution
A device for manufacturing storage containers by integrally winding multiple bundles of fibers in a double-layer spiral circumferential direction, utilizing a rotary drive unit and radial slide drive units with Archimedean curved gears for precise and synchronous radial feeding, enabling double-layer spiral and annular winding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If single-bundle spiral winding is used, then the winding process is simple, but fiber stacking and crossing occur causing uneven winding and stress concentration
Solution Approach 1:
The device segments the winding process into multiple independent bundles, each controlled by separate guide wire tubes. Multiple fiber bundles are wound simultaneously but independently, allowing precise control of each bundle's path to prevent stacking and crossing while maintaining operational simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention transitions from single-layer to double-layer spiral winding structure. By adding a vertical dimension with two layers of guide wire tubes, the system achieves better fiber distribution and eliminates the stacking problem inherent in single-layer winding while maintaining process simplicity.
2Productivity
If multi-station synchronous winding is implemented, then production efficiency improves, but hardware quality requirements increase and space limitations prevent further station increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device merges multiple winding functions into a single integrated structure. Multiple guide wire tubes are arranged in concentric circles on the same radial slide drive unit, allowing simultaneous winding of multiple bundles without requiring separate stations, thereby improving productivity while reducing space and hardware complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention uses radial arrangement of guide wire tubes in concentric circles, utilizing the radial dimension to accommodate multiple bundles. This allows multi-bundle winding within the same station footprint, avoiding the need to increase the number of stations while maintaining high production efficiency.
3Manufacturing precision
If foreign multi-bundle winding devices are imported, then advanced winding capability is achieved, but device space occupation increases and winding efficiency remains suboptimal
Solution Approach 1:
The device employs a nested structure where multiple guide wire tubes are arranged in concentric circles on the same radial slide drive unit. Inner and outer guide wire tubes share the same radial movement mechanism, nesting multiple winding functions within a compact footprint, thereby reducing space occupation while maintaining advanced winding capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The radial slide drive unit serves multiple functions simultaneously by controlling both inner and outer guide wire tubes. A single drive mechanism achieves both radial feeding and rotational movement for multiple bundles, reducing the overall device space while maintaining high winding precision and efficiency.
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AI summary
A device for manufacturing a storage container by integrally winding multiple bundles of fibers in a double-layer spiral circumferential direction. The device includes a rotary drive unit and two radial slide drive units provided at two sides of the rotary drive unit, each of the two radial slide drive units is provided with several spiral winding guide wire tubes in a circumferential array and drives the spiral winding guide wire tubes to perform a radial telescopic movement, the rotary drive unit drives the spiral winding guide wire tubes on the two radial slide drive units to perform a rotation movement, the rotary drive unit is connected to the two radial slide drive units by means of brackets, and a rack plate is connected to one side of each of the two radial slide drive units away from the rotary drive unit.