Oil pan bracket structure and grill
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing grill designs with movable oil pans lack a reliable limit structure, making them prone to detachment and laborious to draw out for cleaning and replacement.
Innovation Solution
An oil pan bracket structure featuring a support with a sliding guide structure, including a guide groove and guide post, and a clamping groove mechanism that allows for secure attachment and easy detachment of the oil pan bracket, facilitating labor-saving sliding and locking mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the oil pan is made movable for easy cleaning and replacement, then the ease of operation is improved, but the reliability deteriorates due to lack of limit structure causing easy detachment
Solution Approach 1:
A bracket is introduced as an intermediary component between the oil pan and the support. The bracket includes a clamping groove that engages with a roller on the support, creating a reliable mechanical connection that prevents detachment while allowing controlled movement for cleaning and replacement.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from a static fixed support to a dynamic system with controlled movement. The bracket can slide along the support when needed for maintenance, but the clamping groove and roller mechanism dynamically locks it in position during normal operation, providing both mobility and stability.
2Ease of operation
If the oil pan is made movable for cleaning and replacement, then the ease of operation is improved, but the operation becomes laborious without proper guiding mechanism
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket serves as a mediator that simplifies the interaction between the oil pan and support. By incorporating the clamping groove and working with the roller on the support, it creates an intuitive sliding and locking mechanism that reduces the force and effort needed to draw out the oil pan while maintaining structural simplicity.
3Reliability
If a limit structure is added to prevent detachment, then the reliability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket acts as an intermediary that provides the limit structure functionality without adding complex components to the overall system. The clamping groove on the bracket engages with the simple roller on the support, creating an effective limiting mechanism that prevents detachment while maintaining device simplicity through the use of existing components in a new configuration.
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 solution enables easy and secure sliding and locking of the oil pan bracket, preventing detachment and simplifying the process of drawing and cleaning the oil pan, while ensuring it remains securely attached when not in use.
Implementation Method 1
a roller is provided on the support, causing the bracket to slide along the supports in a labor-saving manner
Implementation Method 2
folded edges at both sides of the oil pan are usually in contact with a guide surface of a fixed support to produce frictional sliding
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention discloses an oil pan bracket structure including a support, the support is slidably connected to a bracket, the bracket has an oil pan mounted thereon to cause the oil pan to be drawably mounted on the support along with the bracket, and a sliding guide structure is provided between the support and the bracket. The present invention also discloses a grill having the oil pan bracket structure. The present invention allows the oil pan not to be detached from a grill even after being drawn to an extreme position along with the bracket.