Passive Monitoring Mount Alignment for Impact Recovery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Monitoring devices mounted in high-traffic areas, such as near moving machines or freight, often experience field view alterations due to collisions, leading to inaccurate data and increased resource consumption, as they require enhanced resolution and additional sensors to maintain a safe distance or reposition motorized systems.
Innovation Solution
A non-motorized mount system with a support structure, alignment coupling, and extension arm that passively reorients and stabilizes the monitoring device within an impact zone, using dampening components and shock-resistant materials to absorb impacts and maintain a stable field of view without the need for motorized repositioning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If monitoring devices are mounted in high-traffic areas to monitor environments up close, then monitoring accuracy and field of view are improved, but the devices are subject to collisions and impacts that alter their field of view and cause inaccurate data
Solution Approach 1:
The mount system incorporates a dynamic response mechanism where the extension arm can pivot relative to the support structure when subjected to impact forces. This dynamic behavior allows the system to absorb collisions and return to its original position, maintaining monitoring accuracy while withstanding impacts from high-traffic environments
Solution Approach 2:
The alignment coupling is designed with inherent cushioning characteristics that absorb impact forces before they can significantly alter the field of view. This beforehand cushioning protects the monitoring device from collision damage while maintaining its positioning stability
2Reliability
If monitoring devices are positioned at a safe distance from high-traffic areas to avoid impacts, then device reliability is improved, but the devices require enhanced resolution and additional sensors which increases resource consumption
Solution Approach 1:
The mount system provides a cost-effective solution by using a simple mechanical pivot and alignment coupling rather than expensive motorized repositioning systems or additional high-resolution sensors. This approach maintains reliability in high-traffic areas without proportionally increasing resource consumption
Solution Approach 2:
The extension arm and alignment coupling automatically respond to impacts through passive mechanical means, repositioning themselves without requiring external power or control systems. This self-service mechanism maintains field of view stability without consuming additional energy resources
3Reliability
If motorized systems are used to reposition monitoring devices after impacts, then field of view recovery is improved, but device complexity and resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces complex motorized repositioning mechanisms with a simple passive mechanical pivot and alignment coupling. This mechanical substitution achieves field of view recovery through natural pivot motion rather than requiring motors, controllers, and power systems
Solution Approach 2:
The invention extracts the essential function of field of view recovery from complex motorized systems and implements it through a simple pivot mechanism. By taking out only the necessary mechanical elements, the system achieves recovery functionality with minimal complexity
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables continuous and accurate monitoring of environments within high-traffic zones by passively reorienting and stabilizing the device, reducing resource consumption and minimizing false data, while maintaining the monitoring device's position and orientation post-impact.
Implementation Method 1
a dampening component configured to reduce friction between the support structure and the extension arm
Implementation Method 2
an alignment coupling configured to cause the device structure to return to the monitoring location... passively reorients and stabilizes the monitoring device
Data Source
AI summary
A mount system for a monitoring device is disclosed. The mount system may include an extension arm attached to a device structure for housing the monitoring device. The mount system may include an alignment cup coupled to a support structure, wherein the extension arm is received through a through hole in a base of the alignment cup, and an oblong fitting attached to the extension arm opposite the device structure, wherein the oblong fitting is complementarily shaped to be received within the alignment cup to be received within the alignment cup, such that when the oblong fitting is received within the alignment cup, the device structure is aligned into a monitoring location. The mount system may include a dampening component between the support structure and the extension arm to bias the device structure into the monitoring location.