Modular Honing Tool Components for Faster, Quieter Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing modular honing tools are time-consuming to assemble, prone to vibrations, and generate noise, especially at larger diameters, compromising the quality of honed surfaces.
Innovation Solution
A tool system with adjustable components allowing a wide range of effective diameters, featuring a tool body with transverse bores and support rail units, bolt guide elements, and interchangeable honing stones, ensuring stable and vibration-free operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If modular honing tools are assembled from multiple components to cover wide diameter ranges, then adaptability is improved, but assembly time and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The tool body is designed as a universal component that can accommodate support rail units for different effective diameter ranges through standardized transverse bores and guide pin interfaces, allowing one tool body to perform multiple diameter ranges without requiring separate tool bodies for each range
Solution Approach 2:
The honing tool is divided into modular components (tool body, support rail units, guide pins, bolt guide elements) that can be independently selected and assembled, enabling quick configuration for different diameter ranges while reducing overall assembly complexity through standardized interfaces
2Adaptability or versatility
If modular honing tools are assembled from multiple components, then adaptability is improved, but the number of components and assembly complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The tool body serves as a universal platform with standardized transverse bores that can work with support rail units from different sets, reducing the need for multiple specialized tool bodies and thereby reducing overall device complexity while maintaining high adaptability
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple functional elements (guide pins, support rails, bolt guide elements) are integrated into a coordinated system with standardized interfaces, allowing them to work together across different diameter configurations without requiring separate complete tool sets for each diameter range
3Adaptability or versatility
If honing tools operate at large effective diameters, then machining capability is improved, but vibrations and noise increase
Solution Approach 1:
Bolt guide elements are introduced as intermediary components that provide additional guidance and support for support rail units at large effective diameters, acting as mediators between the tool body and support rails to reduce vibrations and ensure stable operation without compromising machining capability
4Adaptability or versatility
If support rail units with longer guide pins are used to increase effective diameter range, then adaptability is improved, but stability decreases due to larger free length
Solution Approach 1:
Bolt guide elements serve as intermediary guidance structures that provide additional support points for support rail units with longer guide pins, reducing the effective free length and preventing instability while allowing the use of longer guide pins to achieve larger effective diameter ranges
Data Source
AI summary
A tool system for configuring honing tools includes at least one tool body that defines a tool axis and an axial bore arranged coaxially to the tool axis, as well as multiple transverse bores oriented perpendicular to the tool axis, wherein the transverse bores form multiple groups around the circumference of the tool body, each group having at least two axially spaced apart transverse bores. The tool system further includes multiple sets of support rail units with guide pins for introducing into transverse bores of a bore group, and also includes at least one set of bolt guide elements for mounting on the tool body, with each set having a bolt guide element for each transverse bore provided for receiving a guide bolt, with a guide bore formed therein, which, when the bolt guide element is mounted on the tool body, runs coaxially with the transverse bore.