Magnetic Holding Fixture With Replaceable Adapters for Precision Tools
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Solution Overview
Problem
The handling and transport of sensitive precision tools, such as miniature cutting and stamping tools, involve significant time and risk of damage due to individual packaging and handling, leading to inconsistent quality and high handling effort.
Innovation Solution
A holding device with a magnetic unit, receiving unit, and replaceable adapter unit that allows for stable, precise, and flexible fixation of substrates using magnetic fields and replaceable adapter units, enabling secure transport and processing without direct contact, and accommodating various substrate shapes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If individual packaging and handling steps are used to protect tools, then damage protection is improved, but handling effort and time expenditure increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple substrates are grouped together and held simultaneously on a single holding device during transport and processing. This combines individual handling operations into a single collective operation, reducing handling time while maintaining protection through the group holding arrangement.
Solution Approach 2:
The holding device serves multiple functions: it provides magnetic holding, lateral guidance through adapter units with recesses, and protective shielding during transport and processing. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate protective packaging while reducing handling steps.
2Reliability
If individual packaging is used for each substrate, then damage protection is improved, but the complexity of handling operations increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple substrates are handled simultaneously as a group rather than individually. The holding device consolidates multiple protection and handling functions into a single operational unit, simplifying the overall handling process while maintaining protective capabilities.
3Manufacturing precision
If multiple holding devices are used for different substrate types, then substrate-specific precision is improved, but device complexity and variety increase
Solution Approach 1:
The holding device is divided into modular components: a magnetic holding unit and interchangeable adapter units. Each adapter unit is designed for specific substrate types with appropriate recess configurations, allowing precise handling of different substrates while using a single base holding device platform.
Solution Approach 2:
The adapter units are made replaceable and interchangeable based on substrate type requirements. This dynamic configuration allows the same base holding device to adapt to different substrate types, maintaining precision without requiring multiple permanent device variants.
4Manufacturing precision
If substrates are handled individually, then processing precision is improved, but handling effort and damage risk increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple substrates are held and transported together on a single holding device, reducing the number of handling operations. The lateral guidance features ensure each substrate maintains its position and orientation, preserving processing precision despite the combined handling approach.
Solution Approach 2:
Substrates are pre-positioned and laterally guided by adapter units with recesses before processing begins. This preliminary positioning ensures correct orientation and placement is achieved during the single handling operation, maintaining processing precision without requiring subsequent adjustment steps.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Reduces handling effort and risk of damage, ensures precise processing, and allows for versatile use with different substrates by replacing adapter units, thus minimizing the need for multiple holding devices.
Implementation Method 1
a magnetic holding unit arranged at the end for fixing the substrate at the end by forming a magnetic field
Data Source
AI summary
The invention relates to a holding device (2) for holding a magnetizable substrate (8) during machining of at least one substrate surface, in particular of a magnetizable tool to be machined, comprising a magnetic holding unit (4) arranged at the end for fixing the substrate (8) at the end by forming a magnetic field, a receiving unit (6) arranged on the holding unit (4) for receiving the substrate (8), a replaceable adapter unit (10) arranged within the receiving unit (6) for guiding and shielding the substrate (8), the adapter unit (10) having at least one recess (12) for the feedthrough of the substrate (8), the substrate (8) being fixable within the holding device (2) in a laterally supported manner by means of the recess (12).