Removable Attachment Jig for Precise Adhesive Bonding Alignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing attachment jigs, such as crimping jig devices, face challenges in allowing space for work around the fixing target member due to continuous pressure until adhesive curing, leading to potential interference and reduced work efficiency.

Innovation Solution

An attachment jig with a pressing member and detachment member configuration that positions and temporarily fixes the target component on the fixing target member, allowing for easy detachment and minimizing space constraints, utilizing a guide portion to reduce friction and improve positioning precision.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If the target component is continuously pressed against the fixing target member by the device main body portion until the adhesive is cured, then the positioning precision is maintained, but the work space around the fixing target member is pressed and work efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning precisionVSAvoidwork efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The device main body portion is divided into two separate components: a pressing member that applies pressure to the target component and a detachment member that provides positioning support. This segmentation allows the pressing member to be removed after initial positioning, freeing up work space while the detachment member remains to maintain positioning precision during adhesive curing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The pressing function is extracted as a separate, removable pressing member that can be detached after initial contact. This allows the work space to be freed while the target component remains positioned on the detachment member, resolving the contradiction between maintaining positioning and freeing work space.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Manufacturing precision

If the crimping jig device is used to press the target component against the fixing target member, then the target component is securely positioned, but additional work is required to provide a positioning protrusion on the fixing target member

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning accuracyVSAvoidease of manufacture
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of modifying the fixing target member by adding positioning protrusions, the invention inverts the approach by providing positioning support through the removable detachment member. This eliminates the need for additional manufacturing steps on the fixing target member while maintaining positioning accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Solution Approach 2:

The detachment member acts as an intermediary that provides positioning support without requiring modifications to the fixing target member. It mediates between the target component and the fixing target member, enabling accurate positioning through its abutting portions that contact the pressing member and support surfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11318584B2Attachment jig and attachment method
Publication Date: 2022.05.03 MITSUBISHI HEAVY IND LTD
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AI summary

An attachment jig includes a pressing member having a positioning portion configured to position a target component in a direction where an attachment target surface of a fixing target member extends, and a pressing portion configured to press the target component positioned by the positioning portion toward the attachment target surface, and a detachment member having a first abutting portion configured to come into contact with the attachment target surface, the first support surface, and the second support surface, and a second abutting portion configured to come into contact with the pressing member on the attachment target surface, is the detachment member being configured to cause the pressing member to be positioned in a direction where the attachment target surface extends with respect to the first support surface and the second support surface, and detachable from the pressing member.