Removable Clamp Connection Arrangement for Precision Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current connection systems for mechanical automation groups are burdensome in design and manufacturing, costly, and lack precision in aligning components, particularly in transverse directions, leading to inefficiencies and potential misalignment issues.
Innovation Solution
A connection arrangement featuring modular, unified bodies with dove-tail recesses and locking clamps that utilize threaded stems and tongues for precise alignment, minimizing bulk and ensuring high precision in both longitudinal and transverse directions, while allowing easy assembly and disassembly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional connection systems with plates, brackets, and threaded holes are used, then components can be connected in different configurations, but the design and manufacturing become burdensome and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by creating a standardized connection system where identical connection elements (connection pieces with threaded holes and corresponding threaded stems) can connect any two components in any configuration. This eliminates the need for custom-designed plates and brackets for each specific connection scenario, allowing the same universal connection mechanism to serve multiple purposes across different component arrangements.
Solution Approach 2:
The connection system is segmented into distinct, interchangeable elements: connection pieces attached to components, and corresponding connection elements with threaded stems. This segmentation allows each element to be independently manufactured and combined in various configurations, simplifying both design and assembly while maintaining versatility.
2Ease of manufacture
If standardized connection systems are used to reduce design burden, then manufacturing becomes simpler, but alignment precision in transverse directions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The connection piece acts as an intermediary element between two components to be connected. It provides a standardized interface with predetermined threaded holes that receive threaded stems from connection elements. This intermediary structure ensures precise alignment in transverse directions by establishing a fixed geometric relationship between components, while the standardized nature of the connection piece maintains ease of manufacture.
3Ease of operation
If removable connection systems are used to facilitate assembly and disassembly, then ease of operation improves, but connection rigidity and precision deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The connection pieces are preliminarily attached to components during component manufacturing or pre-assembly stages. This preliminary action ensures that when components need to be connected, the alignment and positioning are already predetermined by the fixed attachment of connection pieces to their respective components. The threaded stems are then simply screwed into the predetermined threaded holes, providing both ease of operation and reliable rigidity.
Data Source
AI summary
A connection arrangement having at least two bodies of components to be connected to each other and a constraining group for constraining two bodies to each other in a removable manner is disclosed. When the two bodies are in the connection configuration to each other, a recess of one of them defines with a corresponding recess of the other one a respective coupling seat with the constraining group, having at least one pair of locking clamps insertable into a respective coupling seat. When the two bodies are in the connection configuration to each other, they are spaced from each other so that their faces do not have portions in mutual contact with each other.