Passive Monitoring Mount Realignment After Impact
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Solution Overview
Problem
Monitoring devices mounted in high-traffic areas, such as near moving machines or freight, often experience field view alterations due to collisions, leading to inaccurate data and increased resource consumption, and existing solutions require motorized systems with additional sensors and resources to maintain optimal positioning.
Innovation Solution
A non-motorized mount system using a support structure, alignment coupling, and extension arm with passive dampening components to reposition and realign monitoring devices after impacts, allowing them to remain in impact zones without motorized devices, utilizing shock-resistant materials and gravitational forces for stabilization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If monitoring devices are mounted in high-traffic areas near moving machines or freight, then monitoring coverage and productivity are improved, but the devices experience collisions that alter field of view and generate false readings
Solution Approach 1:
The mount system incorporates a movable monitoring device that can dynamically adjust its position and orientation in response to collisions. The device is mounted on a mechanism allowing it to move along a rod and rotate, enabling it to recover from impacts and maintain optimal field of view automatically
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses sensors to detect collisions and field of view obstructions, providing feedback to the control system. This feedback triggers automatic repositioning and reorientation of the monitoring device to restore proper monitoring coverage and eliminate false readings
2Stability of the object's composition
If motorized systems with additional sensors are used to maintain optimal positioning, then field of view stability is improved, but device complexity and resource consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The mount system is designed to be self-correcting through passive mechanical elements. After a collision displaces the monitoring device, the mechanical mounting structure and gravitational forces automatically guide the device back to its proper position and orientation without requiring external control
Solution Approach 2:
The invention removes the need for complex motorized systems and additional sensors by using a simplified mechanical mounting structure. The core stabilization function is achieved through passive mechanical elements rather than active electronic control systems
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables continuous monitoring with reduced resource consumption and fewer false readings by passively reorienting the device to maintain its field of view, even after collisions, without the need for motorized systems or additional sensors.
Implementation Method 1
A non-motorized mount system using a support structure, alignment coupling, and extension arm with passive dampening components to reposition and realign monitoring devices after impacts
Implementation Method 2
utilizing shock-resistant materials and gravitational forces for stabilization
Data Source
AI summary
A mount system for a monitoring device is disclosed. The mount system may include an extension arm attached to a device structure for housing the monitoring device. The mount system may include an alignment cup coupled to a support structure, wherein the extension arm is received through a through hole in a base of the alignment cup, and an oblong fitting attached to the extension arm opposite the device structure, wherein the oblong fitting is complementarily shaped to be received within the alignment cup to be received within the alignment cup, such that when the oblong fitting is received within the alignment cup, the device structure is aligned into a monitoring location. The mount system may include a dampening component between the support structure and the extension arm to bias the device structure into the monitoring location.