Mounting Device Guide Walls for Insulating Glass Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Structural glazing systems face installation challenges due to varying installation accuracy tolerances of fastening grooves in insulation glass units, leading to difficulties in aligning holding arms, which can result in slow or impossible construction, increased costs, and rejection of glass units as unfit for installation.
Innovation Solution
A mounting device with inner and outer guide walls, configured as a plate-like element, is used to align and secure fastening grooves between glass plates, ensuring precise alignment and correct tightening torque, comprising materials like plastic, rubber, or metal, and featuring protrusions to maintain the correct position during assembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If holding arms are rotated to align with fastening grooves of insulation glass units, then the glass units can be fixed to the supporting structure, but installation accuracy tolerances cause misalignment making the process slow or impossible
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting device is pre-assembled with the fastening groove in a predetermined position before being attached to the insulation glass unit. This preliminary positioning ensures that when the mounting device is installed, the fastening groove is already correctly aligned with the holding arm, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual alignment and rotation during installation.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting device acts as an intermediary component between the insulation glass unit and the holding arm. It includes a fastening groove that receives the holding arm, and guide walls that ensure proper alignment. This intermediary structure transfers the loading arm from a state of misalignment to correct alignment, solving the tolerance issue without requiring precise manual adjustment.
2Manufacturing precision
If mounting devices with guide walls are used to ensure precise alignment, then alignment accuracy improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting device is divided into distinct functional components: the main body that attaches to the insulation glass unit, guide walls that provide alignment, and a fastening groove that receives the holding arm. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide walls are positioned only at the critical locations where alignment is needed, rather than making the entire mounting device complex. The guide walls have specific geometries tailored to their local function of guiding the holding arm into the fastening groove, providing precise alignment only where required without unnecessary structural complexity elsewhere.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a mounting device for a fastening groove configured to be mounted between glass plates of an insulating glass unit. The mounting device is configured to be fastened to an end of the fastening groove. The mounting device is a plate-like element and comprises at least an inner guide wall or an outer guide wall on its planar side surface for guiding fastening of the mounting device to the end of the fastening groove. The invention further relates to a mounting unit, an insulation glass unit, a structural glazing system, and a method for assembling a mounting unit in an insulation glass unit.