Charging Station Housing Lock Layout for High Closing Force
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional housing locking devices for control cabinets and server cabinets require external forces to achieve tight closure due to limited closing forces, leading to inefficiencies and potential user interference with locking mechanisms.
Innovation Solution
A housing design featuring a door lock with two or three rotating locking elements connected via rigid coupling elements, allowing for high closing forces and enabling a display device to cover most of the door surface, while ensuring user safety by positioning locking elements vertically and avoiding protrusions that could cause obstruction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Force
If a conventional locking device with a single locking element is used, then the device complexity is low, but the closing force is limited and external force is required to achieve tight closure
Solution Approach 1:
The locking device is segmented into multiple independent locking elements (at least two) that are spaced apart from each other. Each locking element can be rotated independently about its fastening element, allowing the closing force to be distributed across multiple engagement points, thereby achieving high closing force without requiring excessive complexity in a single locking mechanism
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple locking elements are combined with rigid coupling elements that mechanically connect them. This merging allows the locking elements to move simultaneously and in unison, ensuring that all locking elements engage or disengage together, which maintains synchronization while achieving cumulative locking force
2Area of moving object
If the locking device is integrated into the door element, then the ease of operation is improved, but the display device surface area is reduced due to space occupied by locking components
Solution Approach 1:
The locking elements are extracted from the door element and repositioned on the cladding element. This extraction removes the locking mechanism components from the door element surface, freeing up space for the display device to occupy a larger area, while the locking function remains integrated into the overall housing structure
Solution Approach 2:
The locking elements are arranged in a vertical dimension on the cladding element rather than being distributed across the door element surface. This dimensional repositioning allows the display device to cover the door element surface while the locking elements are positioned in a different spatial plane, eliminating the trade-off between display area and locking functionality
3Reliability
If locking elements are positioned to achieve high closing force, then the reliability of locking is improved, but user safety is compromised due to potential entanglement with protruding locking elements
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of having locking elements protrude outward from the door element toward the user, the locking elements are inverted and positioned on the cladding element. This reversal of positioning ensures that the locking elements do not protrude into the user's space, eliminating the entanglement hazard while maintaining their locking function through proper engagement with the door element's locking mechanism
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 solution enables secure, high-force locking and efficient use of space within the housing, allowing for a large display area and preventing user entanglement with locking elements, while maintaining ease of operation through lever mechanisms that amplify locking forces and reduce manual effort.
Implementation Method 1
The at least two locking elements are spaced apart from one another and are arranged on the at least one cladding element so as to be capable of being rotated about the respective fastening element by means of a respective fastening element
Implementation Method 2
The at least two locking elements are mechanically connected to one another via at least one first rigid coupling element
Implementation Method 3
In the locking position, the at least two locking elements engage by means of the respective latching element with a respective locking bolt of the at least two locking bolts, so that the door element is fixed relative to the cladding element
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to a housing, in particular for a charging station, comprising at least one cladding element and a door element, wherebythe at least one cladding element has a door lock comprising at least two locking elements, wherebythe at least two locking elements are spaced apart from one another and are arranged on the at least one cladding element so as to be capable of being rotated about a respective fastening element by means of the respective fastening element, wherebyon a first end of the respective locking element, the at least two locking elements have a latching element, wherebythe at least two locking elements are mechanically connected to one another via at least one first rigid coupling element, wherebythe at least two locking elements can in each case be displaced between a release position and a locking position, wherebythe door element has at least two locking bolts, wherebyin the locking position, the at least two locking elements engage by means of the respective latching element with a respective locking bolt of the at least two locking bolts, so that the door element is fixed relative to the cladding element, and wherebyin the release position, the at least two locking elements release the respective locking bolt, so that the door element can be displaced relative to the cladding element.