Modular Media Dispenser With Rotatable Guides And Clamp
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing media dispensers face challenges such as difficulty in accessing and repairing components, jamming issues, inconvenient media stacking and handling, and limited flexibility in design and functionality, particularly when delivering large quantities of media to customers.
Innovation Solution
A modular media dispenser design featuring rotatable media guides, a stacking module with tangent wheels and separation plates, and a delivery clamp module with a clamp assembly and magnetic sensors, allowing for easy assembly, maintenance, and flexible media delivery and rejection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If components are provided between guide plates in a fixed configuration, then media feeding is stable, but accessibility for maintenance and repair becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The media dispenser is divided into separate functional modules: media box, feeding path components, reject box, and delivery components. Each module can be independently accessed and maintained. The guide plates are designed to allow removal of feeding path components without disassembling the entire device, enabling easy cleaning and repair while maintaining stable media feeding operation.
2Stability of the object's composition
If discharge part is fixed in position relative to guide plates, then structural integrity is maintained, but flexibility in discharge direction is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The delivery clamp and associated components are designed to be movable relative to the guide plates. The delivery clamp can be positioned at different locations along the guide plates and can rotate to change the discharge direction. This dynamic configuration allows the system to adapt to different discharge requirements while the guide plates themselves remain as stable structural elements.
3Ease of manufacture
If media are freely dropped for customer collection, then simple media delivery is achieved, but stacking efficiency and customer convenience deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
A delivery clamp acts as an intermediary between the media feeding path and the customer collection area. The clamp grasps multiple media items and transports them together to a designated delivery location. This intermediary mechanism enables efficient batch delivery of media while maintaining simple overall system operation, improving customer convenience without complicating the manufacturing process.
4Ease of operation
If reject box is positioned adjacent to customer pickup area, then rejected media can be collected, but ability to feed media back to dispenser is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The delivery clamp and delivery path are designed with multi-functionality. The same delivery clamp that delivers media to customers can also transport rejected media from the reject box back to the media box for refeeding. This universal mechanism eliminates the need for separate feed paths, enabling both rejected media collection and media refeeding capabilities through a single adaptable system.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a media dispenser. According to the present invention, there is provided a media dispenser. The media dispenser comprises guide plates 10 and 10′ installed to face each other with a predetermined spacing therebetween; a delivery module 1 for feeding media by a driving force of a driving source one by one, said delivery module including a plurality of media guides 61, 62, 73, 74, and 75 between the guide plates 10 and 10′, among which the media guides 61 and 62 are installed rotatably with respect to the guide plates 10 and 10′ by a predetermined angle; a stacking module 3 provided in a space between the guide plates 10 and 10′ for stacking a plurality of the media which pass through the delivery module 1 on the stacking plate 140 by using the stacking wheels 110; and a delivery clamp module 5 including a clamp guide installed in the guide plates 10 and 10′ and a clamp assembly 160 which moves along the clamp guide 20, clamps the media stacked on the stacking module 3, and causes the media to move to a position where the customer may take out the media.