Rotary Brush Fill Material Holder Radial Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing rotary brushes for vehicle surface cleaning are costly and time-consuming to produce due to complex manual mounting operations of fill materials, which are not suitable for different material thicknesses and can cause wrinkles during the mounting process.
Innovation Solution
The rotary brush design features fill material holders that can be secured to the base body in multiple stop positions in the radial direction, allowing for easy attachment of fill materials of varying thicknesses, with interacting locking means to facilitate quick and automated mounting, preventing wrinkles and ensuring secure holding.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If manual mounting operations are used to attach fill materials to rotary brushes, then the mounting can be performed with simple equipment, but the production time and costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The fill material holder is designed to automatically secure the fill material through its own structure. The holder includes a clamping mechanism that self-secures the fill material between its clamping surface and the rotary brush base body's support surface, eliminating the need for complex manual fastening operations while enabling rapid automated mounting.
2Device complexity
If a rigid fill material holder system is used, then the mounting structure is simple, but it cannot accommodate fill materials of different thicknesses
Solution Approach 1:
The fill material holder incorporates an adjustable clamping mechanism that can adapt to different fill material thicknesses. The holder's clamping surface can be positioned at different distances from the rotary brush base body, allowing the same holder structure to securely accommodate fill materials of varying thicknesses without requiring multiple different holder types.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows adjustment of the clamping distance parameter between the fill material holder and the rotary brush base body. By changing this distance parameter, the holder can accommodate fill materials of different thicknesses while maintaining secure clamping, thus providing versatility without increasing structural complexity.
3Extent of automation
If cloth strips are inserted through a longitudinal groove with a fill material holder, then the mounting is automated, but wrinkles form and cause mounting failures
Solution Approach 1:
The invention extracts the fill material from the problematic longitudinal groove insertion method and replaces it with a clamping mechanism. The fill material is clamped between the fill material holder's clamping surface and the rotary brush base body's support surface, eliminating the wrinkle formation issue associated with groove insertion while maintaining automated mounting capability.
Data Source
AI summary
A rotary brush for processing the surface of a vehicle includes a rotary brush main part and a plurality of fill material holders that are arranged on an outer lateral surface of the rotary brush main part spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction thereof. Each fill material holder can be secured to the rotary brush main part in a plurality of stop positions spaced apart in the radial direction of the rotary brush main part.