Adjustable Exhaust Mount Brackets for Sealing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exhaust treatment systems face challenges in achieving a gas and pressure-tight seal between components with varying dimensional tolerances, often requiring flexible or adjustable fluid connectors, which increase costs and complexity.
Innovation Solution
The system employs a mount with adjustable brackets and curved contact surfaces that can accommodate components of indeterminate diameter, allowing for independent adjustment in multiple directions to ensure a secure and flexible fit, eliminating the need for flexible connectors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If flexible or adjustable fluid connectors are used to achieve gas and pressure tight seal between components with dimensional tolerances, then sealing reliability is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting bracket incorporates adjustable elements that allow dynamic positioning to compensate for dimensional tolerances. The bracket can be adjusted in multiple directions (radially and axially) to achieve proper alignment and sealing between exhaust components, eliminating the need for complex flexible connectors while maintaining sealing reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting system allows changing of geometric parameters (position, orientation, spacing) of the bracket relative to the exhaust component. By adjusting these parameters, the system compensates for manufacturing tolerances and achieves reliable sealing without requiring flexible or complex connector designs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If adjustable mounting systems are used to align inlet and outlet connections, then adaptability to dimensional variations is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting bracket is designed with adjustable features allowing dynamic repositioning in multiple directions. This enables the bracket to adapt to various dimensional variations in exhaust components while maintaining a relatively simple overall mounting system structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting bracket serves multiple functions: it provides structural support, enables alignment adjustment in multiple directions, and facilitates secure mounting of exhaust components. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate adjustment mechanisms, thereby limiting the increase in device complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If components are compressed to indeterminate diameter to suit variable block dimensions, then adaptability to component variations is improved, but manufacturing precision deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting bracket provides dynamic adjustment capability that compensates for variations in component dimensions. Instead of requiring precise manufacturing of the housing to a single diameter, the adjustable bracket adapts to the actual dimensions of each component, maintaining adaptability while reducing the stringency of manufacturing precision requirements.
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AI summary
An exhaust treatment component may be mounted in brackets, each bracket having a clamping surface which in a use orientation is arranged in parallel with a corresponding mounting surface of a fixed mount, the mounting surfaces defining adjustment planes which are spaced apart along a length axis of the mount. Each bracket may be adjusted independently in its use orientation to define a variable clamping position in the adjustment plane. In another aspect, the component may be mounted in one or more brackets, each bracket comprising curved contact surface, each surface being defined by an arc of a respective circle, each arc being contained in the circle of the other respective arc, whereby the centre points of the respective circles are spaced apart in the reference plane so that each arc is contained in the circle of the other respective arc. The component can be clamped to the bracket irrespective of its diameter.