Movable Panel Hooking Mechanism for Tolerance-Tolerant Furniture Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing hooking devices for furniture panels face difficulties in aligning engagement elements with support profile elements due to assembly errors and tolerances, leading to incorrect hooking and repositioning needs.
Innovation Solution
A hooking device with a movable engagement element and drive means that allows the engagement element to adjust its position relative to the base body during assembly, ensuring proper alignment with support profile elements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If engagement elements are fixed to the base body, then the hooking device structure is simple, but alignment with support profile elements fails due to assembly errors and tolerances
Solution Approach 1:
The engagement element is made movable relative to the base body through a drive mechanism, allowing it to dynamically adjust its position during the hooking process. This dynamic capability enables the engagement element to compensate for assembly errors and tolerances, ensuring reliable alignment with the support profile elements while maintaining a relatively simple overall device structure.
2Manufacturing precision
If engagement elements are movable with adjustment mechanisms, then alignment accuracy improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The engagement element is made movable relative to the base body through a drive mechanism, allowing it to dynamically adjust its position during the hooking process. This dynamic capability enables the engagement element to compensate for assembly errors and tolerances, ensuring reliable alignment with the support profile elements while maintaining a relatively simple overall device structure.
3Reliability
If repositioning is required to achieve correct hooking, then alignment accuracy improves, but assembly time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The drive mechanism enables the engagement element to automatically adjust its own position relative to the base body during the hooking process. This self-adjusting capability allows the system to compensate for assembly errors and achieve correct alignment without requiring external repositioning operations, thereby maintaining high hooking accuracy while minimizing assembly time.
4Ease of operation
If engagement elements are fixed, then device complexity is low, but ease of operation deteriorates due to alignment difficulties
Solution Approach 1:
The drive mechanism enables the engagement element to automatically adjust its own position relative to the base body during the hooking process. This self-adjusting capability allows the system to compensate for assembly errors and achieve correct alignment without requiring external repositioning operations, thereby maintaining high hooking accuracy while minimizing assembly time.
Data Source
AI summary
The hooking device (16) for panels (15) of pieces of furniture comprises a base body (17) fixable to a covering panel (15) of the piece of furniture and at least one engagement element (18) connected to the base body (17) and hookable to a support element (11) of a piece of furniture; said at least one engagement element (18) is movable with respect to the base body (17), and drive means (19) are provided for moving said at least one engagement element (18) during an assembling step of the panel (15) on the piece of furniture.