Range Hood Mounting Mechanism for Adjustable Cabinet Installation
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Solution Overview
Problem
The installation of range hoods in cupboards or cabinets is challenging due to non-standardized dimensions and structures, requiring complex operations, significant manual effort, and often necessitating multiple people to handle and secure the heavy appliances, with difficulties in accessing limited spaces and efficiently drilling holes for mounting.
Innovation Solution
A mounting apparatus with a moving mechanism that adjusts vertically, a latching mechanism, and a bearing mechanism, allowing for interchangeable directionality and simplified installation, including a spring-loaded latching system and adjustable connection means for secure and efficient mounting of range hoods.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If range hoods are mounted in non-standardized cupboards or cabinets, then the mounting apparatus must accommodate various dimensions and structures, but this increases the complexity of the mounting operation and requires more than two people
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting apparatus is designed with a universal bearing means that can accommodate moving mechanisms with different hole configurations. The bearing means accepts moving mechanisms where holes are arranged in various patterns, allowing a single apparatus design to work with different cabinet dimensions and structures without requiring multiple specialized tools or assemblies.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting apparatus incorporates a moving mechanism that can be positioned at different locations on the range hood body. The connection means allows the moving mechanism to be adjusted vertically and horizontally, enabling dynamic adaptation to various cabinet opening positions and sizes, thereby simplifying the mounting operation for different configurations.
2Reliability
If range hoods are supported during mechanical and electrical connections, then at least two people are required, but this increases installation time and labor cost
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting apparatus is designed so that the bearing means can be预先 installed on the cabinet or wall before the range hood is positioned. This preliminary installation creates a ready-to-receive mounting structure that can immediately support the range hood's weight, eliminating the need for continuous manual support during subsequent mechanical and electrical connection operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting apparatus acts as an intermediary between the range hood and the cabinet/wall structure. The bearing means serves as a mediating component that transfers the load from the range hood to the fixed structure, allowing installers to work on electrical connections without needing to physically support the heavy appliance throughout the entire process.
3Reliability
If multiple holes are drilled for fixing the range hood, then the mounting security is improved, but this increases drilling time and complicates the installation process
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting apparatus divides the mounting function into separate components: the bearing means that is fixed to the structure, and the moving mechanism that attaches to the range hood. This segmentation allows the holes to be drilled in the bearing means (which remains stationary and accessible) rather than in the range hood itself, making the drilling operation easier and faster while still achieving secure mounting through the distributed hole configuration.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables easier, cost-effective, and efficient installation of range hoods with reduced manual effort, allowing for self-mounting and two-way directional adjustment to accommodate various cabinet configurations, thereby simplifying the process and reducing installation time and errors.
Implementation Method 1
said mounting apparatus also comprises at least a spring (6) provided to allow said latching means (4) to be moved
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a mounting apparatus (1) for mounting a home appliance to a stationary assembly comprising a moving mechanism (3), a latching means (4) and a bearing means (2) accommodating said moving mechanism (3) and latching means (4). The invention is advantageous in that direction of the latching means (4) become interchangeable in vertical axis (y).