Heavy-Object Packing Structure With Elastic Lateral Restriction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing packing solutions for heavy objects often result in intense impact on the packed items due to the absence of a buffer material, leading to potential damage during transportation.
Innovation Solution
A packing body design that includes a bottom plate, a box body, and a restricting member with one end fixed to the bottom plate and protruding to restrict lateral movement of the packed item, utilizing elastic deformation to absorb impact energy without a buffer material between the packed item and the box body.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If no buffer material is placed between the packed body and the box body, then loading efficiency is improved and space is saved, but intense impact occurs on the packed body during transportation
Solution Approach 1:
The restricting member is designed with elastic deformation capability to provide beforehand cushioning. It protrudes toward the packed body with a specific clearance that allows controlled elastic deformation during impact, absorbing shock energy before it reaches the packed body. This eliminates the need for separate buffer materials while protecting against impact.
Solution Approach 2:
The restricting member acts as an intermediary element between the box body and the packed body. It mediates the impact force by deforming elastically when the packed body shifts during transportation, distributing the impact energy across its structure rather than allowing direct contact between the box body and packed body.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If a buffer material is placed between the packed body and the box body, then impact protection is improved, but loading efficiency decreases and space is wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the buffer function from separate buffer materials and integrates it into the restricting member structure itself. The restricting member's elastic deformation capability provides the cushioning effect that would otherwise require additional buffer materials, thereby eliminating wasted space and improving loading efficiency while maintaining impact protection.
3Stability of the object's composition
If the restricting member protrudes close to the packed body, then lateral movement restriction is improved, but the risk of direct impact increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention optimizes the clearance parameter between the restricting member and the packed body. The clearance is designed to be larger than the gap between the inner surface of the box body and the packed body, ensuring that during lateral movement, the packed body contacts the box body first. This parameter optimization allows effective lateral restriction while preventing direct impact on the packed body.
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 design effectively distributes impact energy across the packed item's surface, preventing damage by ensuring surface-contact with the box body, thereby enhancing protection and maintaining loading efficiency.
Implementation Method 1
clearance between the restricting member and the part of the packed body is larger than a gap between an inner surface of the box body and the packed body, and the clearance is defined as a movement amount obtained by adding an elastic deformation amount of the restricting member in a case where the packing body has received a horizontal impact
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AI summary
A packing module includes a packed body and a packing body configured to accommodate the packed body. The packing body includes a bottom plate on which the packed body is placed, a box body that covers the packed body, and a restricting member, of which one end is fixed to the bottom plate and the other end protrudes toward a base body of the packed body with a gap and that restricts lateral movement of the packed body by coming into contact with the base body of the packed body in a case where the packed body has moved laterally. The restricting member is configured to penetrate through a hole provided in the base body of the packed body. Clearance between the restricting member and the hole of the base body is larger than a gap between an inner surface of the box body and the packed body.