Motor Mount Connector Layout for Stable Drug Delivery Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing drug delivery devices face challenges in achieving structural stability and reduced complexity, with components often experiencing undesired mechanical or electrical decoupling during operation.
Innovation Solution
The motor assembly includes a support structure with a motor mount and connectors that provide mechanical and electrical stability, using features like raised portions, posts, and projections to secure the motor and controller, allowing for efficient assembly and minimizing component displacement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple separate components are used to secure the motor and form electrical connections, then the device achieves functional requirements, but the structural stability deteriorates due to potential mechanical or electrical decoupling during operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines mechanical securing and electrical connection functions into a single integrated connector component. The connector includes both mechanical engagement features (protrusions, recesses, latches) and electrical contact elements, allowing one component to perform multiple functions that previously required separate parts. This reduces the number of components while maintaining both mechanical stability and electrical connectivity, directly resolving the contradiction between reliability and device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The connector is designed as a multi-functional component that simultaneously provides mechanical retention of the motor, structural support, and electrical connection pathways. The single component performs multiple roles: securing the motor assembly, providing structural rigidity, and establishing electrical circuits. This multi-functionality approach eliminates the need for separate mechanical fasteners and electrical connectors, thereby improving reliability without increasing overall device complexity.
2Productivity
If traditional assembly methods are used with multiple separate components, then manufacturing is achievable, but the assembly process becomes time-consuming and complex
Solution Approach 1:
By merging mechanical fastening and electrical connection into a single integrated connector, the patent reduces the number of assembly steps. Instead of separately installing mechanical fasteners and then electrical connectors, the single multi-functional component is installed once to accomplish both tasks simultaneously. This directly improves assembly speed while the integrated design simplifies the overall assembly process, reducing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The connector is pre-designed and pre-configured with both mechanical engagement features and electrical contact elements in their final positions. This preliminary integration of functions into a single component allows for expedited assembly as the component is ready for immediate installation without requiring sequential assembly of multiple separate parts. The pre-integrated design eliminates the need for complex multi-step assembly procedures.
3Reliability
If multiple separate connectors are used for mechanical and electrical functions, then functional requirements are met, but the risk of component decoupling increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges separate mechanical connectors and electrical connectors into a single integrated connector component. This unified design eliminates the interfaces between separate mechanical and electrical components, removing potential failure points where decoupling could occur. The single integrated component ensures that mechanical and electrical functions remain coupled throughout the device lifetime, improving reliability without requiring multiple separate connector components.
Solution Approach 2:
The universal connector design performs both mechanical retention and electrical connection through a single component, eliminating the need for multiple specialized connectors. This multi-functionality approach reduces the total number of connectors while ensuring that both mechanical and electrical functions are maintained through a single reliable interface, thereby reducing the risk of component decoupling.
Data Source
AI summary
A motor assembly described herein generally includes a support structure having a first side opposite a second side; a motor mount extending from the first side of the support structure, the motor mount including: a first side opposite a second side; and a first raised portion adjacent a second raised portion; a motor retained by the motor mount; and a first connector and a second connector mechanically securing the motor to the motor mount and configured to form an electrical connection between the motor and a controller, wherein the first connector and the second connector extend from the first side of the motor mount, over the motor mount, to the second side of the motor mount, wherein the first connector is at least partially positioned between the first raised portion and the second raised portion of the motor mount.