Elastic Device Structure with Symmetric Connection Seats
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional elastic devices face assembly challenges due to mismatched sizes of connection components, leading to loosening and increased processing costs, making them difficult to disassemble and reuse.
Innovation Solution
The design features two identical connection seats with symmetrically disposed sections, lateral hooks, and receiving channels with stop raised blocks, allowing for secure sliding and easy assembly/disassembly, and the use of elastic members between these seats to facilitate elastic movement without loosening.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the opening of the connection passageway is made larger than the connection protrusion to allow passage, then the connection protrusion can pass through, but a gap is formed causing shaking and loosening
Solution Approach 1:
The connection structure is divided into multiple functional elements: connection protrusion with lateral hooks, connection passageway with receiving sockets, and stop raised blocks. The lateral hooks engage with the stop raised blocks to provide both passage capability and connection stability, eliminating the gap and loosening issues while maintaining ease of assembly.
2Ease of operation
If pivot pins are used to connect connection seats with slide members, then assembly is convenient, but processing cost increases and repair becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts and eliminates the pivot pins from the connection structure. Instead of using separate pivot pins to connect connection seats with slide members, the connection seats are designed to directly connect with slide members through the simplified connection structure, removing the need for additional components and reducing processing costs while maintaining assembly convenience.
3Ease of repair
If pivot pins are forcedly disassembled for repair, then the connection can be detached, but the connection seats and slide members are likely to damage
Solution Approach 1:
The connection structure is designed with built-in detachable features from the beginning, including the lateral hooks and stop raised blocks configuration. This preliminary design allows for easy detachment and reattachment without forcing or damage, enabling repair and reuse of the elastic device while maintaining structural integrity of all components.
4Stability of the object's composition
If the slide guide raised block is inlaid in the slide guide slot, then the connection is secure, but the connection protrusion shakes and loosens from the connection passageway
Solution Approach 1:
The connection protrusion is designed with asymmetric lateral hooks that engage with the stop raised blocks in a specific orientation. This asymmetric design provides sliding stability through the hook-block engagement while simultaneously preventing shaking and loosening from the connection passageway, as the hooks provide lateral constraint while the overall asymmetric configuration ensures proper positioning.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This design simplifies components, reduces assembly time, lowers manufacturing costs, and enables the elastic device to be conveniently installed, uninstalled, and repeatedly used, enhancing economic efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
By means of the elasticity of the elastic members 3, the first connection seat 6 and the second connection seat 7 are elastically slidable relative to each other without loosening and connected with each other
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AI summary
An elastic device structure includes two identical connection seats and multiple elastic members. Each connection seat is defined with a central line and has a protruding connection section and a connected section. The connection section and connected section are symmetrically disposed on two sides of the central line. A laterally protruding lateral hook is disposed on the connection section. The connected section is formed with a receiving channel for receiving the connection section of the other connection seat. A stop raised block is disposed in the receiving channel and positioned at a dead end of slide paths of the lateral hook. Multiple receiving sockets are disposed beside the connection section and connected section. Two end sections of the elastic members respectively extend into the receiving sockets, whereby the two connection seats are elastically slidable relative to each other.