Easy-Pull Male Network Connector with Pivotable Hook
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing male network connectors are difficult to remove from mating female connectors when the user's hand cannot access the resilient clip, requiring significant effort and a complex spring-based mechanism.
Innovation Solution
A simplified design featuring a pivotable hook and protective jacket that allows the user to disengage the resilient clip by moving the protective jacket backwards, with an optional tool for assistance, eliminating the need for a spring member and enabling easy removal with less effort.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a resilient clip is used to lock the male connector to the female connector, then the connector can be securely locked, but the connector becomes difficult to remove when the user's hand cannot access the resilient clip
Solution Approach 1:
The protective jacket is divided into a first portion and a second portion that can move relative to each other. The first portion engages the resilient clip while the second portion extends to provide a remote pulling surface, allowing the user to activate the release mechanism from a distance without directly accessing the resilient clip.
Solution Approach 2:
The pivotable hook acts as an intermediary mechanism between the user's pulling action on the protective jacket and the resilient clip. When the user pulls the second portion of the protective jacket, the pivotable hook translates this motion into activation of the resilient clip, enabling indirect control of the release mechanism.
2Ease of operation
If a spring member is used to enable easy removal of the connector, then the connector can be easily pulled out, but the structure becomes complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The resilient clip serves dual functions: it locks the connector during normal operation and automatically releases when activated by pulling the protective jacket. The pivotable hook and movable protective jacket portions work together to automatically trigger the release mechanism without requiring additional spring members or complex actuating mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The protective jacket is designed with multiple functions: it protects the connector body, provides a gripping surface for insertion, and contains the release mechanism activation features. The first and second portions of the protective jacket work together to both secure and release the connector, eliminating the need for separate release mechanisms.
3Ease of operation
If the protective jacket is made to move backwards to disengage the resilient clip, then removal can be achieved with less effort, but the structure requires additional components
Solution Approach 1:
The release activation features (first protective jacket portion, second protective jacket portion, and pivotable hook) are merged into a single integrated structure. The first portion engages the resilient clip while the second portion extends to provide remote access, and the pivotable hook connects these elements to translate pulling motion into release activation, all as one unified mechanism.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The design allows for convenient and effortless removal of the male network connector from the female connector, even in inaccessible locations, with a simplified structure and optional tool assistance, enhancing usability and ease of use.
Implementation Method 1
a resilient clip located at a top side of one end of the male connector body
Implementation Method 2
allows the user to disengage the resilient clip by moving the protective jacket backwards
Data Source
AI summary
An easy-pull male network connector includes a male connector body providing a resilient clip lockable to a mating female network connector, a protective jacket surrounding the male connector body, a bracket located at one end of the male connector body remote from the resilient clip, a pivotable hook pivotally mounted at the bracket and hooked on the resilient clip and biasable to release or press the resilient clip when the protective jacket is moved forwards or backwards relative to the male connector body, and a tool attachable to the protective jacket and operable to move the protective jacket backwards relative to the male connector body. Thus, when the user pulls the protective jacket backwards, either with the hand or by means of the tool, to press the resilient clip, the easy-pull male network connector is disengaged from the mating female network connector.