Flexible Building Material Installation Equipment with Nested Translation Plates
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing building material installation equipment lacks flexibility and a wide application range, particularly when encountering groove-shaped narrow installation spaces, as they struggle to adjust panel positions effectively within confined areas.
Innovation Solution
The equipment incorporates a sucking device, a rotating device, a cross translation device, a swinging device, and a mechanical arm, with a slip ring for power and signal transmission, allowing for compact design and flexible panel adjustment, including the use of longitudinal and transverse translation plates and sliding rails to reduce the equipment's footprint and enhance its ability to enter narrow spaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the equipment uses a traditional translation device structure, then it can maintain structural simplicity, but it cannot enter groove-shaped narrow installation spaces
Solution Approach 1:
The translation plate is nested within the swinging device structure, with the translation plate's movement path integrated into the swinging device's spatial envelope. This nesting allows the translation function to be accommodated within the existing structural footprint, enabling entry into narrow spaces without adding external volume.
Solution Approach 2:
The translation plate moves in a direction that utilizes the vertical dimension and radial dimension rather than only horizontal extension. By orienting the translation path along the mechanical arm's length direction and utilizing radial movement, the device achieves translation functionality without increasing the horizontal footprint, allowing access to narrow installation spaces.
2Ease of operation
If the equipment uses conventional translation plates, then it can maintain structural simplicity, but it cannot effectively adjust panel positions within narrow confined areas
Solution Approach 1:
The translation plate is designed with dynamic movement capabilities along sliding rails, allowing real-time adjustment of panel positions. The plate can move radially and vertically to accommodate different installation configurations, providing operational flexibility within a compact footprint that does not occupy excessive space in narrow areas.
3Ease of operation
If the rotating device has limited rotating angle, then it can maintain structural compactness, but it cannot align panels at installation positions when mechanical arm has included angle with horizontal plane
Solution Approach 1:
The rotation function is segmented from the main mechanical arm structure and integrated with the translation plate system. The rotating device is positioned at the end effector, allowing independent rotation operation that complements the mechanical arm's positioning, enabling panel alignment even when the arm operates at angles to the horizontal plane.
4Length of moving object
If the cross translation device has extended structure, then it can provide sufficient translation range, but it cannot easily extend into narrow installation spaces
Solution Approach 1:
The cross translation device employs dynamic extension and retraction capabilities through sliding rails and movable translation plates. The translation range is achieved through controlled movement rather than fixed extended structure, allowing the device to maintain a compact form when full translation range is not needed, and to extend only when required for panel positioning, thereby facilitating entry into narrow installation spaces.
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
This configuration enables the equipment to extend into narrow spaces and adjust panel positions effectively, meeting installation requirements while reducing the overall length and improving bearing performance, thus providing high flexibility and a broader application range.
Implementation Method 1
a sucking device for sucking panels
Implementation Method 2
a slip ring is arranged in the rotating device and electrically connected with the sucking device to supply power and transmit electric signals to the sucking device
Data Source
AI summary
Building material installation equipment includes: a sucking device for sucking panels, a rotating device for driving the sucking device to rotate, a cross translation device, a swinging device and a mechanical arm; a slip ring is arranged in the rotating device and electrically connected with the sucking device; the cross translation device comprises longitudinal translation plate and transverse translation plate which are capable of driving the sucking device to make a translational movement; the longitudinal translation plate and the transverse translation plate are arranged in a direction parallel to gravity, and are fitted; and the swinging device can drive the cross translation device to swing to one side of the mechanical arm.