Handle Mounting Track for Secure Sliding Device Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mounting track systems lack flexibility and versatility in securely attaching and positioning objects, such as electronic devices, along a surface while allowing for limited movement, which restricts user convenience and safety.
Innovation Solution
A handle with a mounting track system featuring a base, vertical and horizontal rails, and insertion zones that accommodate a retention element of a mount assembly, allowing for secure attachment to a surface and flexible positioning of objects along the track, with open or closed ends for easy insertion and retention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a mounting track system is provided to enable flexible positioning of objects along a surface, then adaptability and ease of operation are improved, but device complexity increases due to the need for tracks, retention elements, and mount assemblies
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system is divided into separate functional components: a mounting track fixed to the surface, retention elements that slide along the track, and mount assemblies that hold objects. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while providing flexible positioning through the interaction of these simple, modular parts.
2Ease of operation
If open ends are provided on the mounting track to permit insertion of retention elements, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability decreases due to potential loss or misplacement of components
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting track provides dynamic functionality with open ends that allow retention elements to be easily inserted and removed when needed, while the track structure itself remains stable and secure. The system transitions between accessible (open) and secured (retained) states to balance ease of operation with component retention.
3Strength
If multiple legs are used to attach the handle to a surface, then strength and stability are improved, but device complexity increases due to additional attachment points and structures
Solution Approach 1:
The handle structure concentrates attachment functionality at specific localized points through legs, while the main handle body remains simple and graspable. Each leg provides localized attachment strength at the surface interface without requiring the entire handle structure to be complex, allowing strong surface attachment while maintaining handle simplicity.
Data Source
AI summary
A handle with a mounting track includes a handle section. One or more legs extend from the handle section and are attachable to a surface. When the leg is attached to the surface, the handle section forms a graspable handle. A mounting track is formed along at least a portion of the handle section. The mounting track includes a base, two vertical rails extending opposite each other from the base, and two horizontal beams each extending from a different one of the vertical rails over the base toward the other horizontal beam. The horizontal beams are laterally spaced apart from each other by a first distance. The vertical rails and the horizontal beams define a track within which a retention element of a mount assembly can move.