Modular Electric Connection Box With Guide Ribs
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electric connection boxes lack versatility and expandability, requiring multiple base types to accommodate varying electronic components, which complicates their design and limits adaptability to different vehicle types and grades.
Innovation Solution
An electric connection box design featuring a first base with guide ribs and a second base with guide grooves, allowing for detachable assembly and expansion, with locking protrusions to secure covers, enabling flexible mounting configurations while maintaining a simplified shape.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a connection structure for connecting the second base to the first base is additionally provided, then the mounting space can be expanded and versatility improved, but the base shape becomes complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The guide rib structure serves multiple functions: it guides the second base during assembly, locks the first lower cover, and provides structural support. This multi-functionality allows the base shape to remain simple while achieving expandability and versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The base is divided into a first base and a second base that can be assembled separately. The guide rib and guide groove enable modular assembly, allowing the mounting space to be expanded by adding the second base without complicating the fundamental base shape design.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple types of bases are prepared to accommodate different electronic components, then the mounting requirements can be met, but the device complexity and inventory requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
A single base design with guide ribs and locking protrusions can accommodate different electronic component configurations by assembling zero, one, or multiple second bases. This eliminates the need to prepare multiple types of bases for different vehicle types and grades.
Solution Approach 2:
The base configuration is made dynamic and adjustable rather than fixed. The second base can be assembled or disassembled from the first base according to the specific mounting requirements, allowing the system to adapt to different electronic component configurations without requiring multiple pre-designed base types.
Data Source
AI summary
An electric connection box includes a first base on which an electronic component is configured to be mounted, the first base having a first side surface portion and a second side surface portion, and a second base on which the electronic component is configured to be mounted, the second base configured to be assembled to the first base and having a first side surface portion and a second side surface portion. The first side surface portion of the first base faces the second side surface portion of the first base. The first side surface portion of the second base faces the second side surface portion of the second base. The first side surface portion of the first base has a guide rib. The first side surface portion of the second base has a guide groove.