Geared Motor Adapter Flange for Compact Sealing and Freewheel Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing geared motor solutions lack an optimal design that balances compactness with additional functional features such as improved sealing and freewheeling without excessive effort or additional components.
Innovation Solution
The adapter series for geared motors incorporates a first adapter with a compact design and a second adapter featuring an intermediate flange for additional functions like sealing or freewheeling, utilizing a unique bearing arrangement with interrupted and continuous bearing seats, and a stepped key for multiple functionalities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If a compact adapter design is used, then the geared motor size is reduced, but additional functions like sealing and freewheeling cannot be integrated
Solution Approach 1:
The adapter is divided into modular components: a compact basic adapter structure and an optional intermediate flange that can be added when additional functions are needed. This segmentation allows the system to maintain compactness by default while providing a clear path to expand functionality when required, resolving the contradiction between small size and functional versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The intermediate flange serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides sealing surfaces for improved sealing, mounting positions for freewheel mechanisms, and structural connection points. By integrating these multiple functions into a single intermediate component rather than adding separate components, the design achieves high adaptability without proportionally increasing adapter size.
2Adaptability or versatility
If additional functions are integrated into the adapter, then versatility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple functional elements (sealing features, freewheel mounting, structural connection) are merged into the single intermediate flange component. This consolidation approach allows the adapter to achieve high versatility while minimizing the increase in overall device complexity, as one well-designed intermediate component replaces what would otherwise require multiple separate additions.
Solution Approach 2:
The intermediate flange acts as an intermediary component that mediates between the basic adapter structure and the additional functional requirements. It provides a standardized interface that can accommodate various sealing arrangements, freewheel mechanisms, and connection types without requiring fundamental changes to the core adapter design, thereby managing complexity effectively.
3Volume of moving object
If a bearing arrangement with interrupted bearing seats is used, then compactness is improved, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The bearing seats are designed with different characteristics in different locations: interrupted bearing seats in regions where compactness is prioritized and continuous bearing seats where higher precision is required. This local differentiation allows the adapter to achieve overall compactness while ensuring that critical bearing mounting locations meet the necessary precision requirements for reliable operation.
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AI summary
The invention relates to an adapter series for geared motors and to a method for producing an adapter from a modular system, which comprises - a first housing part, - a second housing part, - an intermediate flange and - a first bearing, wherein: selectively either a first adapter or a second adapter is produced; to produce the first adapter, the first housing part is directly connected to the second housing part, the outer ring of the first bearing being accommodated in the first and second housing parts, and the first housing part being centered with respect to the second housing part; to produce the second adapter, the first housing part is directly connected to the intermediate flange, and the intermediate flange is directly connected, on the side thereof facing away from the first housing part, to the second housing part, the outer ring of the first bearing being accommodated in the first housing part and in the intermediate flange, and the first housing part being centered with respect to the intermediate flange.