Bicycle Handlebar Clamping Device With Snap Connection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing clamping devices for fastening components to bicycle handlebars require complex assembly processes and extensive alignment, making them cumbersome and costly.
Innovation Solution
A clamping device with an open, annular base body featuring a snap connection and a fastening element, allowing for one-handed fixation of components to the handlebar through a detachable connection and screw fixation, enabling quick and intuitive assembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional clamping devices are used for fastening components to bicycle handlebars, then reliable fastening is achieved, but the assembly process becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The clamping device is divided into two separable parts: a clamping element that attaches to the component and a base body that attaches to the handlebar. This segmentation allows the component to be pre-assembled with the clamping element, then quickly attached to the handlebar as a single unit, reducing assembly complexity while maintaining reliable fastening through the threaded connection of the two segments.
Solution Approach 2:
The clamping element serves as an intermediary component between the component and the handlebar. It features a threaded connection that interfaces with both the component's mounting structure and the handlebar, simplifying the overall assembly process while ensuring reliable fastening through the intermediary's precise threading mechanism.
2Reliability
If traditional clamping devices are used, then secure fastening is achieved, but extensive alignment is required during assembly
Solution Approach 1:
The clamping element is pre-assembled with the component before attachment to the handlebar. This preliminary assembly allows for precise alignment and securing of the component to the clamping element in a controlled environment, ensuring proper positioning is achieved before the final attachment to the handlebar, thereby reducing the alignment precision requirements during the final assembly step.
3Reliability
If complex assembly processes are used, then reliable component fixation is achieved, but assembly time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The clamping element and base body are designed to be merged into a single integrated assembly that attaches to the handlebar as one unit. The threaded connection allows the clamping element (with component) to be screwed onto the base body, creating a unified structure that reduces assembly time by eliminating the need for separate attachment steps while maintaining reliable fixation through the combined structural integrity.
4Reliability
If multiple assembly steps are required, then secure component attachment is achieved, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The clamping element is extracted as a separate, removable component from the base body. This extraction allows the clamping element to be manufactured independently with optimized features for secure attachment, while the base body can be manufactured separately and attached to the handlebar. The threaded connection enables easy assembly and disassembly, reducing manufacturing complexity and cost while maintaining attachment security.
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AI summary
A clamping device for fastening a component to a bicycle handlebar includes (i) an open, annular base body bent around a central axis having a first circumferential end and a second circumferential end, and (ii) a locking area configured to form a detachable snap connection with the component. The base body is configured to enclose the bicycle handlebar. A joining gap is formed between the first circumferential end and the second circumferential end. The locking area is arranged at the first circumferential end. The first circumferential end and the second circumferential end are configured to be connected by a fastening element along a fastening axis in order to fix the clamping device to the bicycle handlebar. The locking area is configured to fix the component by way of the fastening element.