Resilient Cable Restraint for Secure Push-In Installation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cable restraints are complex to install and compromise security for ease of use.
Innovation Solution
A cable restraint with a resiliently deformable design that allows easy installation by inserting arms into a pre-formed hole, biased into an open configuration, and secures with overlapping gripping portions and optional biasing means, ensuring secure attachment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the cable restraint uses a design with barbs and arms that must be pressed together to enter a hole, then security of cable fixation is improved, but ease of installation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The cable restraint employs a resiliently deformable structure with arms that can dynamically change configuration. The arms are biased apart by spring means, allowing them to be pushed together to pass through the hole, then automatically spring back to secure the cable. This dynamic behavior resolves the contradiction by providing both ease of installation (arms can be compressed) and secure fixation (arms spring back to grip the cable).
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the physical state and configuration parameters of the arms through resilient deformation. The arms transition from a separated state (easy insertion) to a compressed state (cable securing). This parameter change allows the device to achieve both ease of installation and reliable cable fixation without compromise.
2Ease of operation
If the cable restraint is designed to be resiliently deformable with biasing means, then ease of installation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The invention merges the biasing function directly into the arm structure itself. The spring means are integrated with the arms, eliminating the need for separate complex mechanisms. This integration achieves ease of installation through resilient deformation while minimizing device complexity by combining multiple functions into unified components.
Solution Approach 2:
The resiliently deformable arms with integrated biasing means are self-actuating. Once the arms are pushed together to pass through the hole, they automatically spring back to their biased position to secure the cable without requiring additional actuators or complex control mechanisms. This self-service characteristic improves ease of installation while avoiding increased device complexity.
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
Facilitates easy and secure cable attachment without increasing complexity, allowing reuse and enhanced retention in various surfaces.
Implementation Method 1
The cable restraint is resiliently deformable. Furthermore, the cable restraint may be biased into the open configuration. The biasing preferably arises a result of the resiliently deformable nature of the cable restraint.
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AI summary
A cable restraint has: a first arm, having a first proximal end, a first distal end, and a first gripping portion located at the first distal end; a second arm, having a second proximal end, a second distal end and a second gripping portion located at the second distal end; wherein: the first proximal end is joined to the second proximal end, and the cable restraint is movable between: an open configuration in which the first gripping portion and the second gripping portion are spaced from each other to define a gap into which a cable may be inserted, and a closed configuration in which the first gripping port and the second gripping portion cooperate with each other to define a cable restraint channel.