Quick-Release Socket with Sliding Lock Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Fixed sockets are immovable and pose safety risks due to their fixed nature, while movable sockets with long cables lack stability, leading to security concerns.
Innovation Solution
A mobile socket device with a socket and a fixed seat that can be quickly assembled and disassembled using a buckle system, allowing for flexible placement and secure attachment to various surfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the socket is made fixed on walls, then safety is improved by preventing unintentional touches, but mobility and flexibility are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The socket device transitions from a static fixed state to a dynamic movable state through the sliding mechanism. The socket can be fixed to walls when needed for safety, and moved to different locations when flexibility is required, resolving the contradiction between reliability and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The device is divided into separable components: the socket unit and the mounting bracket with sliding mechanism. This segmentation allows the socket to be independently moved or fixed, providing both mobility when detached and stability when mounted.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the socket is made movable with long cables, then flexibility and mobility are improved, but stability and safety are reduced due to arbitrary placement
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting bracket acts as an intermediary between the socket and the wall surface. It provides a stable mounting interface with sliding and locking mechanisms, allowing the socket to be securely fixed when needed while maintaining overall mobility of the device.
Solution Approach 2:
The sliding mechanism on the mounting bracket provides dynamic adjustment capability, allowing the socket to transition between fixed and movable states, thus achieving both stability when mounted and flexibility when moved.
3Ease of operation
If the socket is quickly fixed and disassembled, then ease of operation is improved, but connection reliability may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The traditional screw or bolt mechanical fastening system is replaced with a sliding and locking mechanism. This new mechanism achieves quick mounting and disassembly through simple sliding motions while maintaining connection reliability through the locking feature that secures the socket in place.
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 mobile socket device provides a secure and flexible solution by allowing the socket to be fixed in place to prevent accidents while also enabling easy removal for portable use, enhancing safety and usability.
Implementation Method 1
an elastic member connected to the pressure button to provide an elastic effect such that the buckle remains at the first position
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a mobile socket device that can be quickly fixed and disassembled, including a socket and a fixed socket. The socket has a placement surface provided with a clamp hole, and at least one power collecting surface each provided with at least one set of jacks. The fixed seat has a receiving surface provided with a buckle buckled with the clamp hole, and a mounting surface suitable for being mounted to a carrier. The mobile socket device takes into account the advantages of both a fixed socket and a mobile socket. On the one hand, the socket can be fixed in any place at any time through the fixed socket. On the other hand, the socket can be removed from the fixed seat and used as a mobile socket. In addition, the socket and the fixed seat are connected by buckle connection, facilitating mounting and disassembly.