Sensor Mounting Harness With Ring Connectors For Elevated Surfaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing methods for mounting environmental sensors, such as smoke detectors, on elevated surfaces like ceilings or walls are time-consuming, require significant labor, and pose safety risks due to the need for specialized equipment like scissor lifts, especially in high-elevation warehouse settings, where rapid and safe replacement is imperative.
Innovation Solution
A novel installation harness system comprising a wall mount with a socket and a housing with male and female ring connectors, allowing for easy electrical connection and secure fastening, along with a spacer to manage wires, facilitating quick and safe mounting and replacement of environmental sensors on elevated surfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If individual adaptation is performed for each piece of equipment to mount to specific locations, then the equipment can be securely mounted, but the installation time and labor cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal mounting system where a single wall mount structure with standardized socket and fastening mechanisms can accommodate multiple different environmental sensors (smoke detectors, carbon monoxide detectors, heat detectors, etc.). This eliminates the need for individual adaptation of mounting structures for each device type, thereby reducing installation time while maintaining secure mounting through the standardized aperture-receiving-fastener mechanism.
2Reliability
If equipment is mounted at high elevation on walls or ceilings, then safety requirements are met, but servicing the equipment requires expensive scissor lift machinery
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system is segmented into a permanent wall mount portion that remains fixed at the elevated safe position, and a removable sensor portion that can be easily detached and reattached. This segmentation allows the heavy-duty mounting infrastructure to stay in place while the actual sensor device can be quickly serviced by hand without requiring expensive lifting equipment, thus maintaining safety compliance while reducing servicing costs.
3Adaptability or versatility
If equipment is moved or replaced in a new location, then updated positioning is achieved, but the time and effort to remove and remount increases
Solution Approach 1:
The wall mount is pre-installed at the desired final location during initial construction or renovation, with the socket and fastening mechanisms ready in advance. When a sensor needs to be moved or replaced, it can be quickly detached from its old position and immediately installed into the pre-prepared wall mount at the new location, significantly reducing the time and effort required for relocation compared to creating new mounting structures at each location.
4Reliability
If significant touch labor is required for mounting, then secure installation is achieved, but labor cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting system incorporates self-aligning features where the sensor housing with its protrusion automatically aligns with and inserts into the wall mount socket, and the fastening mechanisms are designed to engage automatically or with minimal manual intervention. This self-service design maintains high installation quality through precise mechanical engagement while significantly reducing the touch labor required, thereby improving installation efficiency and reducing labor costs.
Data Source
AI summary
Described, herein, relates to a system of and method for the safe and rapid mounting of an environmental sensor (e.g., a smoke detector) onto an elevated support surface (e.g., a wall, a post, or a ceiling). Accordingly, the installation harness may include a housing and a wall mount. During use, the wall mount may be configured to be affixed to the elevated support surface. Additionally, the housing may be configured to selectively couple to the wall mount through a connector extension, securing the housing to the wall mount. Subsequent to a user coupling the housing to the mount, the environmental sensor may be in electrical communication with a power source, via at least one male ring connector being electrically coupled to its respective at least one female ring connector.