Retaining Bracket with Rotatable Bearing Journals for Container Mount
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing transport devices for containers, such as suitcases, often suffer damage due to improper handling, as current fastening methods are inadequate in preventing deformation or breakage, especially when handling heavy and cumbersome containers.
Innovation Solution
A transport combination featuring a retaining bracket with rotatable bearing journals and elastic bearing elements, along with a positioning device using notches and elevations, allows for secure attachment and reversible pivoting between horizontal and vertical planes, preventing damage during handling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional fastening methods are used to attach containers to transport devices, then the container can be secured for transport, but the holding device becomes vulnerable to deformation or breakage when containers are improperly removed
Solution Approach 1:
The holding bracket is designed with reversible pivoting capability between horizontal and vertical planes through bearing journals and bearing elements. This dynamic design allows the bracket to adapt its orientation during container loading/unloading operations, reducing stress concentration and preventing deformation while maintaining secure attachment during transport.
Solution Approach 2:
The bearing elements are designed to change their geometric parameters (width of recess) through elastic portions, allowing the holding bracket to flexibly adapt to container handle dimensions. This parameter change capability enables proper force distribution during container removal, preventing breakage of the holding device while maintaining reliable attachment.
2Reliability
If rigid fastening structures are used to securely hold containers, then attachment reliability is improved, but the device cannot accommodate improper handling without deformation or breakage
Solution Approach 1:
The elastic portions in the bearing elements provide beforehand cushioning by absorbing impact forces and stresses during improper container removal. This cushioning effect protects the holding device from deformation or breakage while maintaining attachment reliability during normal transport conditions.
Solution Approach 2:
The bearing elements incorporate elastic portions that function as flexible components, allowing the holding bracket to deform elastically under improper handling forces and return to its original position. This flexibility prevents permanent deformation or breakage while maintaining secure container attachment during proper use.
3Device complexity
If the holding bracket is fixed in one position, then the structure is simple, but it cannot adapt to different container handling orientations
Solution Approach 1:
The holding bracket incorporates bearing journals and bearing elements that enable reversible pivoting between horizontal and vertical planes. This dynamic design provides handling orientation flexibility while maintaining relatively simple structure through the use of standard bearing components rather than complex mechanical linkages.
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
The solution effectively prevents damage to the holding device by allowing flexible attachment and secure locking of containers, ensuring safe and durable transport of heavy and cumbersome containers without deformation or breakage.
Implementation Method 1
the first and second bearing element each contain an elastic portion, as a result of which the width of the recess on the respective bearing element can be changed
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AI summary
A device (1) for holding at least one container (2), particularly a case, on a transport apparatus (3), containing a retaining bracket (4) for introduction into a recess (11) of the container (2), by means of which the container (2) is retained by the retaining bracket (4) and fastened to the transport apparatus (3), wherein the retaining bracket (4) contains a first and a second bearing journal (13, 14) and a first bearing element (5) for receiving the first bearing journal (13) and a second bearing element (6) for receiving the second bearing journal (14), wherein the first and the second bearing journals (13, 14) can be rotated in the respective bearing elements (5, 6) about a common axis; wherein the retaining bracket (4) can be reversibly positioned in a first and a second plane and wherein the first plane is substantially horizontal and the second plane is substantially vertical, and wherein the retaining bracket (4) can be introduced into the recess (11) of the container (2) when the retaining bracket (4) is disposed in the second plane. The first and second bearing element (5, 6) each contain a recess (15, 16), so the first and second bearing journals (13, 14) can be removed from the respective bearing elements (5, 6) when the retaining bracket (4) is disposed in a removal position.