Robot Battery Locking Mechanism for Cross-Model Compatibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
The lack of uniformity in robot models makes it difficult to design battery compartments that can accommodate different robot models, hindering efficient energy storage and management.
Innovation Solution
A limiting device with a first connecting member, transmission rod, and second connecting member, featuring indexing buckles and limiting grooves, which allows the battery compartment to be locked or unlocked, enabling versatile fitting across various robot models.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If battery compartments are designed for different robot models, then each model can have optimized battery fit, but design complexity and incompatibility increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by designing a standardized battery compartment structure with uniform dimensions, connection interfaces, and locking mechanisms that can accommodate multiple robot models. The battery box, connecting pieces, and limiting devices are designed with consistent features across different models, allowing a single battery design to fit various robot platforms while maintaining optimized performance for each model.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a standardized battery compartment design is used across different robot models, then compatibility improves, but optimized fit for each model may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by maintaining standardized overall dimensions and connection interfaces for compatibility, while allowing model-specific adjustments in internal battery compartment features, limiting device positions, and connecting piece configurations. This enables each robot model to have locally optimized battery securing mechanisms tailored to its specific requirements while maintaining global standardization for interchangeability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies dynamics through the limiting device with movable connecting pieces that can adjust their position and orientation. The limiting grooves and connecting pieces work together with movable elements that can adapt to different battery positions and orientations, ensuring reliable securing while maintaining standardized external dimensions for cross-model compatibility.
3Reliability
If complex locking mechanisms are used to secure batteries, then security improves, but operation complexity and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies self-service through the limiting device design where the connecting pieces automatically engage with the limiting grooves when the battery is inserted into the correct position. The uniform connection interfaces and limiting grooves create a self-aligning, self-locking mechanism that secures the battery reliably without requiring complex manual locking operations, thereby maintaining both security and ease of operation.
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AI summary
A robot includes a limit device and an energy storehouse, the limiting device may lock or loosen a battery opened in the energy storehouse, the limiting device includes a first connecting member, a transmission rod, and a second connecting member. The first connecting member includes a first main body portion and two first connecting elements arranged at intervals. The two first connecting elements are respectively connected to the first main body. The transmission rod includes a first end and a second end arranged at intervals. The first end penetrates through one of the two first connecting elements. The second end penetrates through the other one of the two first connecting element. The second connecting member includes two indexing buckles arranged at intervals, each of the indexing buckles includes a first limiting groove and a second limiting groove.