Multi-Positional Clip Accessory With Spline Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing handling accessories for portable electronic devices often fail to provide multiple functionalities such as secure handling, adjustable support as a stand, and the ability to attach to external structural objects, while also lacking versatility for use with non-electronic devices and organizing electrical cords.
Innovation Solution
A multi-positional clip accessory with a base, cylindrical support, and pivoting arms that allows for angular adjustability, attachment to electronic and non-electronic devices, and alternative uses such as organizing electrical cords, featuring a rotatable rod with splines and semi-radial sidewalls for radial adjustability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a handling accessory is designed to provide secure handling of electronic devices, then secure handling capability is improved, but the ability to serve as an adjustable support stand is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The clip accessory is designed to perform multiple functions: it can securely attach to devices for handheld use, adjust to various angles to serve as a support stand, and attach to external structural objects. This multi-functionality resolves the contradiction by making a single accessory capable of both secure handling and adjustable support.
Solution Approach 2:
The accessory incorporates a rotatable rod with splines and semi-radial sidewalls that allow dynamic adjustment between different angular positions. This dynamic mechanism enables the transition from a fixed secure-handling configuration to an adjustable support-stand configuration, resolving the functional limitation.
2Reliability
If a handling accessory is designed to provide secure handling functionality, then secure handling is improved, but the ability to attach to external structural objects is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The clip mechanism is designed with dual capability: it can attach to electronic devices for secure handling and can also attach to external structural objects like belt loops or bag handles. This universality allows the accessory to function in multiple contexts beyond just device handling.
3Ease of manufacture
If a handling accessory is designed with simple structure for secure handling, then ease of manufacture is improved, but the ability to provide angular adjustability is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The accessory uses a rotatable rod with splines engaged in semi-radial sidewalls to achieve angular adjustability. This mechanical design provides multiple adjustable positions while maintaining a relatively simple structure that can be manufactured using conventional processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjustable mechanism is divided into discrete components: the rotatable rod, the splines, and the semi-radial sidewalls with grooves. This segmentation allows for easier manufacturing and assembly while still providing the desired angular adjustability functionality.
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AI summary
A multi-positional clip accessory for use with electronic and non-electronic devices to facilitate handling thereof, organizing wires, and hanging personal articles, which includes a base configured with a cylindrical support having an interior cylindrical chamber for housing therein a rotatable rod with first and second ends affixed to first and second pivoting arms, with each respectively including a catch that interacts with a free end of a spring clip and a pair of inline apertures for accepting terminal ends of the spring clip. The rotatable rod incudes splines geometrically corresponding to linear grooves configured within semi-radial sidewalls of the interior cylindrical chamber, whereby movement of the pivoting arms effects rotation of the rotatable rod within the interior cylindrical chamber while simultaneously expanding the semi-radial sidewalls outwardly as the splines release from their mating relation with the linear grooves and re-engage with neighboring linear grooves to establish an altered angular relationship of the pivoting arms.