Gas Spring Trigger Clamp Housing for Low-Force Actuation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing gas spring triggering devices require significant forces and are difficult to regulate, making it challenging to adjust the speed of the gas spring, especially in compact spaces with varying geometrical conditions.
Innovation Solution
A device with a housing featuring a continuous gas spring connection recess and a clamping element that uses a screw or nut mechanism to securely fix the gas spring, allowing for reduced force transmission and precise positioning, enabling a compact, reliable, and cost-effective solution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a simple lever actuating element is used to trigger the gas spring, then the device structure is simple, but considerable forces are required for triggering and speed regulation is virtually impossible
Solution Approach 1:
A lever mechanism with lever arm and trigger lever is introduced as an intermediary between the actuating device and the gas spring trigger. This mechanical intermediary provides force multiplication and motion transformation, reducing the triggering force required while enabling controlled staged triggering through the lever's rotational movement.
Solution Approach 2:
The actuating element transitions from a static simple lever to a dynamic lever mechanism with rotational degrees of freedom. The lever arm and trigger lever can rotate and pivot, allowing the system to adapt force transmission characteristics during operation, enabling both force reduction and speed regulation through controlled angular displacement.
2Force
If a lever mechanism with multiple levers is used to reduce triggering force, then the required force decreases, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The lever arm and trigger lever are merged into a single integrated lever mechanism that performs multiple functions simultaneously. This combined structure reduces the number of separate components compared to using multiple independent levers, achieving force reduction while limiting the increase in device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The lever mechanism is designed to perform multiple functions: force multiplication, motion transformation, and staged triggering control. By making the actuating element multi-functional, the patent reduces the need for additional separate components, thereby achieving force reduction without proportionally increasing overall device complexity.
3Ease of manufacture
If the gas spring connection recess is designed as a discrete assembly, then assembly is straightforward, but the connection precision and reliability are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The gas spring connection recess is merged with the housing as an integrated feature rather than a separate discrete assembly. This integration ensures precise positioning and reliable connection between the gas spring and housing, eliminating alignment errors that would occur with separate components while maintaining ease of manufacture through single-piece housing formation.
4Reliability
If a threaded pin is used to secure the gas spring end region, then the connection is secure, but the device requires additional components and assembly steps
Solution Approach 1:
The gas spring connection function is merged into the housing structure through the integrated gas spring connection recess. This eliminates the need for separate threaded pins or additional fastening components, maintaining secure connection reliability while reducing the total number of parts and simplifying assembly procedures.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The device ensures a compact, reliable, and precise connection of the gas spring, reducing the required forces for triggering and allowing for adjustable speed control, while being economical and adaptable to various geometrical spaces.
Implementation Method 1
The clamping element (50.1, 50.2) has two clamping surfaces (53.1, 53.2) which lie against one another and between which the end region of the gas spring is clamped
Implementation Method 2
the actuating element acts directly or indirectly on the trigger and is formed in particular as a lever arrangement, which reduces or increases the transmitted force and/or displacement
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to a device (10) for triggering a gas spring (1), comprising an actuating apparatus (2), an actuating element (4), which is operatively connected to the actuating apparatus (2) and acts on an end trigger (3) of the gas spring (1), and a housing (20), wherein the housing (20) has a gas-spring connection hole (70), by means of which the upper end region of the gas spring (1) can be connected with the trigger (3) fed through into the interior of the housing (20), the gas-spring connection hole (70) is designed a through-hole, and means for the clamping fixation of the upper end region of the gas spring (1) inserted into the hole are present, characterized in that the housing (20) has an open slot (60), which extends from the gas-spring connection hole (70) to the end outer face (66) of the housing (20) and over the length of the gas-spring connection hole (70) at least in some regions, a left and a right protruding side wall region (68.1, 68.2) are formed by means of the slot (60), and the means for clamping and fixing are present in the region of the left and the right side wall regions (68.1, 68.2), which means for clamping and fixing clamp the left and the right side wall regions (68.1, 68.2) to each other, whereby a clamping force is applied to the end region of the gas spring (1) inserted into the gas-spring connection hole (70).