Safety Socket Integrating Insulating Barrier for Foreign Object Protection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional safety sockets are complex, costly, and difficult to assemble, making them unsuitable for mass production and prone to damage, while they do not effectively prevent electric shocks from conductive non-plug foreign bodies.
Innovation Solution
A simplified safety socket design featuring a neutral-wire conductive base, live-wire conductive base, insulator, wiring terminals, and a live-wire connection piece, with elastic components and clips that prevent foreign objects from making contact by matching plug sizes, ensuring conductivity through three contacts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional safety sockets are designed with multiple components for safety, then safety performance is improved, but device complexity increases and manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple safety functions into a single integrated socket body structure. The socket body incorporates both the live wire and neutral wire contacts with built-in insulating barriers, eliminating the need for separate safety components. This merging approach maintains high safety performance while reducing device complexity and component count.
Solution Approach 2:
The socket body is designed as a multi-functional component that simultaneously provides electrical connection, safety isolation, and foreign object protection. The insulating barrier within the socket body serves multiple purposes: preventing contact between live and neutral wires, blocking foreign objects, and providing structural support. This multi-functionality reduces the number of separate components needed.
2Reliability
If conventional safety sockets use many components for safety, then safety performance is improved, but ease of manufacture deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
By integrating the insulating barrier and contact structures into a single molded socket body, the patent eliminates multiple assembly steps. The socket body can be manufactured as a single piece or pre-assembled unit, significantly simplifying the manufacturing process while maintaining all safety functions.
Solution Approach 2:
The socket body is designed with distinct functional zones (live wire contact area, neutral wire contact area, insulating barrier) that can be manufactured separately and then easily assembled. This segmentation allows for specialized manufacturing of each zone while simplifying the overall assembly process.
3Reliability
If conventional safety sockets are designed with complex structures, then safety performance is improved, but productivity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated socket body design allows for high-speed injection molding or other efficient manufacturing processes. By eliminating the need to assemble multiple small components, the patent enables faster production cycles and higher throughput, significantly improving productivity for mass production while maintaining safety performance.
4Reliability
If conventional safety sockets use multiple components, then safety performance is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated socket body structure eliminates the interfaces between multiple components, removing potential failure points. The unified structure is more robust and resistant to damage from improper insertion or physical stress, improving ease of operation while maintaining safety performance.
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AI summary
A safety socket is provided, comprising: a neutral-wire conductive base, a live-wire conductive base, an insulator, a neutral-wire wiring terminal, a live-wire wiring terminal, and a live-wire connection piece. The insulator is disposed between the neutral-wire conductive base and the live-wire conductive base. The contact of the neutral-wire wiring terminal is close to the contact of the first end of the neutral-wire conductive base. The live-wire wiring terminal is disposed between the live-wire conductive base and the insulator. The two contacts of the live-wire connection piece are respectively close to the contact of the second end of the live-wire conductive base and the contact of the live-wire wiring terminal. The invention can prevent electric shock when a conductive non-plug foreign body is inserted to provide high safety. The overall structure of the invention is simplified and easy to assemble, to achieve reducing manufacturing costs, and facilitating mass production.