Vehicle Reinforcement Module With Housing For Component Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge is to reduce the space occupied by an installment panel in vehicles while ensuring the strength of the reinforcement and efficiently utilizing the inner space, as wire harnesses and components like ECU's hinder downsizing due to their configuration and integration with reinforcement members.
Innovation Solution
A reinforcement module with an elongated shape featuring housing parts opened towards the outer peripheral side, which are closed by covering parts, allowing for the secure attachment and housing of electrical and wiring components, and utilizing elastic members for power supply lines to enhance heat radiation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the reinforcement has an open outer periphery to incorporate components like wire harnesses, then the inner space can be utilized, but the strength of the reinforcement is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The reinforcement is divided into a reinforcement body and a separate covering part. The reinforcement body provides structural strength while the covering part closes the opening to maintain strength, allowing components to be housed within the segmented structure without compromising the overall strength of the reinforcement.
2Volume of moving object
If the installment panel is downsized to increase indoor space, then the indoor space increases, but the integration of wire harnesses and components becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The reinforcement module allows wire harnesses, ECU's, and other components to be nested within the reinforcement body structure. This nesting approach integrates multiple components into a compact unit that can be incorporated into the installment panel without increasing its overall size, thereby enabling downsizing of the panel while maintaining functional integration.
3Strength
If a closed shape reinforcement is used to secure strength, then the strength is maintained, but it becomes difficult to incorporate components like wire harnesses
Solution Approach 1:
The covering part is designed to be attached to close the opening of the reinforcement body after components are positioned within it. This preliminary arrangement allows components to be easily incorporated during assembly, and the covering part is subsequently attached to maintain strength, resolving the contradiction between ease of component incorporation and strength maintenance.
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
This configuration allows for easy securing of strength and efficient use of inner space, easy housing of module components, noise shielding between power and signal modules, and effective heat radiation, thereby facilitating the downsizing of installment panels.
Implementation Method 1
at least some of the power supply lines is fixed to the covering part via an elastic member, and the elastic member presses the at least some of the power supply lines to an inner surface of the housing part
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AI summary
A reinforcement is formed into an elongated shape, and includes a reinforcement body in which a housing part opened toward an outer peripheral side is formed and a covering part attached to close an opening of the housing part. A module component which is an electrical component or a wiring component may be housed in the reinforcement while being attached to the covering part.