Pivoting Storage Card Mount for Multi-Length Module Attachment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing storage systems face challenges in accommodating storage components of different lengths using a single card mounting device, leading to installation issues and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
A storage component attachment system with a relocatable attachment component, including a pivot portion and card attachment extension, allows for a single mounting device design to support multiple card form factors, such as M.22280 and M.222110, by enabling pivoting and extension to accommodate different lengths.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single card mounting device design is used for multiple storage component form factors, then device complexity is reduced, but installation difficulty increases due to length accommodation issues
Solution Approach 1:
The card attachment portion is made pivotable relative to the card mounting device, allowing it to dynamically adjust its position to accommodate different storage component lengths. This dynamic adjustment enables a single mounting device design to work with multiple form factors while maintaining ease of installation.
Solution Approach 2:
The attachment system is divided into separate functional portions: a card mounting device, a card attachment portion with fastener, and a card attachment extension portion. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, with the extension portion adjusting to different lengths while the mounting device remains standardized.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a single card mounting device design supports multiple storage component form factors, then adaptability improves, but manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The card mounting device is designed as a universal platform that can accommodate multiple storage component form factors through the adjustable card attachment portion. The standardized mounting device interface ensures consistent manufacturing precision while the adjustable attachment mechanism provides form factor versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The card attachment extension portion acts as an intermediary element between the standardized card mounting device and various storage component form factors. This intermediary absorbs the manufacturing tolerance variations and ensures precise alignment regardless of the specific storage component being installed.
3Adaptability or versatility
If storage components of different lengths are accommodated, then versatility improves, but device complexity increases due to additional attachment mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The card attachment portion and card attachment extension portion are merged into a single integrated attachment system that works together as one unit. This merging reduces overall system complexity compared to having separate adjustment mechanisms, while still providing the versatility to accommodate different storage component lengths.
Data Source
AI summary
A storage component mounting system of storage system. The storage component mounting system includes a card mounting device; and, a storage component attachment system, the storage component attachment system including a card attachment portion, the card attachment portion including a card fastener, the card fastener physically coupling the storage component to the card mounting device; a pivot portion, the pivot portion enabling the card attachment portion to pivot between a plurality of locations on the card mounting device to enable storage components corresponding to a plurality of storage component form factors to be mounted to a single card mounting device design; and, a card attachment extension portion, the card attachment extension portion extending between the card attachment portion and the pivot portion.