Medical Cart Stabilizer With Foldable Feet for Uneven Floors
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Solution Overview
Problem
Medical carts with robotic systems face instability on non-planar surfaces, posing a risk to the accuracy and safety of robotic movements during dental or medical procedures.
Innovation Solution
A stabilization device for medical carts featuring ground stabilizing feet that can convert between deployed and folded configurations, controlled by a mechanism with articulations and a control transmission mechanism to ensure stable support and mobility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If ground stabilizing feet are deployed to support the medical cart on uneven ground, then stability is improved, but mobility is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The ground stabilizing feet are designed to be convertible between deployed and folded configurations. When deployed, they extend downward to contact the ground and provide stability on uneven surfaces. When folded, they retract upward to clear the ground, enabling the medical cart to be moved freely. This dynamic transformation allows the system to adapt its stability characteristics based on operational requirements.
2Reliability
If a control transmission mechanism with multiple articulations is added to control the stabilizing feet, then stability control is improved, but device complexity is worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The control mechanism integrates multiple functions into a unified system. The control transmission element connects the control mechanism to both the first and second ground stabilizing feet through articulations. A single actuation of the control mechanism simultaneously controls the deployment or folding of multiple stabilizing feet, coordinating their movement to maintain cart stability while reducing the number of independent control systems needed.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a stabilization device for medical carts as well as to a movable itinerant robotic dental or medical treatment station.One of the objectives of this invention is to provide a stabilization device (100) for a medical cart (200).For this, the inventors propose an easily-actuated mechanical structure and which can be removably mounted or permanently fixed to a floor of the medical cart (200).In practice, the stabilization device according to the invention comprises ground stabilizing feet (110), a control mechanism (120) and a control transmission mechanism (130).