Movable Cable Reception Element for Wear Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cable conducting systems in vehicles with movably connected parts fail to efficiently manage large numbers of cables and heavier power cables, leading to excessive wear and increased safety risks due to insulation damage.
Innovation Solution
A system featuring a stabilization element with movably arranged reception elements that allow cables to compensate for movements between vehicle parts, reducing wear by distributing stress and movement at the reception elements rather than the cables themselves, using flexible materials like metal leaf springs and guide devices for cable support and guidance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional cable conducting systems are used with cable carriers laterally projecting from spring devices, then cables can be conducted between vehicle parts, but the cables experience excessive wear due to relative movement and rubbing against the cable carriers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a reception element as an intermediary component between the stabilization element and the cable. This reception element is movably arranged at the stabilization element and receives the cable, allowing relative movement to occur at the reception element-stabilization element interface rather than between the cable and fixed cable carriers. This mediator absorbs the wear that would otherwise affect the cable insulation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the reception element movably arranged at the stabilization element, creating a dynamic system that can adapt to relative movements between vehicle parts. Instead of fixed cable carriers that cause rubbing, the movable reception element follows the cable's movement path, eliminating friction and wear on the cable itself while accommodating the dynamic requirements of articulated vehicle operation.
2Quantity of substance
If the capacity to receive and conduct cables is increased to handle larger numbers and heavier cables, then more cables can be conducted between vehicle parts, but conventional solutions become exhausted and cannot satisfy the demands
Solution Approach 1:
The reception element is designed as a universal component that can accommodate multiple cables of varying sizes and weights. Rather than requiring separate fixed cable carriers for each cable, the movable reception element can receive and conduct multiple cables simultaneously, adapting its configuration to handle different cable arrangements and loads between articulated vehicle parts.
3Ease of operation
If cables are arranged freely movable between vehicle parts, then the required degree of freedom of movement is achieved, but wear phenomena occur as cables rub against cable carriers and each other
Solution Approach 1:
The reception element serves as a mediator that enables free movement of cables while preventing direct contact and rubbing between cables and fixed structures. The movable reception element follows the cable's path, absorbing all relative movements and eliminating the friction that would occur between freely moving cables and stationary cable carriers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the conventional mechanical system of fixed cable carriers with a movable reception element system. This substitution changes the mechanical interaction from friction-based rubbing contact to a follower mechanism where the reception element moves with the cable, eliminating wear through a different mechanical approach.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The system effectively reduces cable wear and maintains efficient cable management, preventing premature failure and safety risks while accommodating the movement and weight of multiple cables.
Implementation Method 1
The stabilization element is advantageously a part composed of flexible, thin material having a main direction of extent in the manner of a leaf spring
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AI summary
A system for conducting cables in a vehicle having vehicle parts that are movably connected to one another. The system for conducting cables having a stabilization element and a reception element for receiving a cable and the reception element is movably arranged at the stabilization element.