Slide Mounted Devices for Automated Banking Machine Servicing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Automated banking machines face challenges in terms of manufacturing efficiency, servicing accessibility, and space requirements, with existing designs often complicating the assembly and maintenance processes.
Innovation Solution
The design incorporates a top housing with vents for heat management and a secure enclosure that allows for easy access to internal components, featuring a rollout tray and slide mechanism for moving components between internal and external positions, facilitating efficient manufacturing and servicing while minimizing space requirements.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If devices are fixed within the housing, then structural stability is improved, but servicing accessibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The device support is designed to be movable between a first position within the housing and a second position extending outside the housing, allowing devices to transition from fixed to accessible positions for servicing operations
Solution Approach 2:
The device support is separated from the housing as an independent movable component, allowing selective access to devices without disassembling the entire housing structure
2Ease of repair
If devices are accessible for servicing, then ease of repair is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A slide mechanism is introduced to enable movement of the device support between positions, providing a controlled and simple method for accessing devices without requiring complex disassembly procedures
3Reliability
If housing is sealed for security, then reliability is improved, but heat management deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Vents are incorporated at specific locations in the housing structure, allowing selective air passage in certain areas while maintaining security and sealed enclosure in other areas
4Manufacturing precision
If components are internally mounted, then manufacturing precision is improved, but ease of manufacture deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The device support can be moved to the second position extending outside the housing, facilitating easier installation and servicing of devices without requiring precise internal mounting procedures
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This design enhances the manufacturing efficiency, simplifies the assembly process, and provides improved access for servicing, making automated banking machines more user-friendly and cost-effective to maintain and operate.
Implementation Method 1
the at least one wall formed to include one or more housing vents operative to enable air to pass therethrough. Such housing vents enable the movement of air, for example, to assist in removing heat generated by components within the housing
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus including an automated banking machine is operative to cause financial transfers responsive at least in part to data read from data bearing records. The machine includes a card reader that is operative to read card data usable to identify at least one of a user of the machine and a financial account. A computer associated with the machine is operative to cause card data to be read through operation of the card reader, and to cause a determination to be made that read card data corresponds to a financial account authorized to conduct a transaction through the machine. The computer is operative responsive at least in part to the determination to cause the financial account to be at least one of assessed and credited with a value associated with a financial transaction. Transaction function devices of the machine are supported through slides that can be configured in different ways to facilitate mounting of devices within the machine.