Rigid Mounting Connector Structure for Vibration-Free Sensor Attachment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mounting connectors for sensing devices on equipment often fail to provide a stable and rigid connection, leading to inaccurate data collection due to vibrations and resonance, especially at high frequencies.
Innovation Solution
A rigid mounting connector with a base and column design that includes concentric cylinders and footings, allowing for secure attachment via bolts and screws, which constrains movement in six degrees of freedom and maintains a rigid connection, thereby reducing resonance and enhancing data accuracy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a conventional mounting connector is used to attach a sensing device to equipment, then the device can be mounted, but the connection is not rigid enough and allows vibrations and resonance, leading to inaccurate data collection
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting connector is divided into distinct functional segments: a base portion for mounting to equipment, a column portion for structural support, and a sensor mounting portion for attaching the sensing device. This segmentation allows each part to be optimized for its specific function, with the column providing rigid structural support to eliminate vibrations while the base ensures stable equipment attachment
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting connector utilizes a composite structure combining rigid materials (such as metal or rigid plastic) for the base and column portions to ensure structural stability and vibration suppression, while potentially using different material properties in different sections to optimize both rigidity for vibration reduction and appropriate mounting characteristics for the specific application
2Measurement precision
If a rigid connection is implemented to suppress vibrations and resonance, then data accuracy improves, but the device complexity increases due to the multi-component structure with cylinders, footings, and precise alignment requirements
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple mounting functions are merged into a single integrated connector component. The base with footings for equipment attachment, the column for structural support, and the sensor mounting interface are combined into one piece that can be installed as a single unit, reducing assembly complexity while maintaining the rigid connection needed for vibration suppression
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting connector is designed with universal applicability through standardized features such as the base portion that can be mounted to various equipment surfaces using footings, the column providing consistent structural support, and the sensor mounting interface that can accommodate different sensing devices, allowing one connector design to serve multiple mounting applications
Data Source
AI summary
Technologies are described for rigid mounting connectors to connect a monitoring device to a piece of equipment. The rigid mounting connectors may comprise abase and a column. The column may be tubular in shape and include a bolt opening configured to receive a threaded end of a bolt. The base may extend axially from and be attached to outside walls of the column. A length of the column may be perpendicular to the base and the column may be at a center of the base. The base may include cylinders positioned on a circle concentric to a center of the bolt opening. Each screw channel may be configured to receive a screw to fasten at least one printed circuit board assembly to a top side of the base. The base may include footings which may protrude out from a bottom side of each cylinder.