Slide Rail Mounting Assembly with Multi-Directional Gap Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional slide rail mounting mechanisms are complex, costly, difficult to assemble, and result in friction-related issues leading to instability, noise, and reduced cushioning effect, particularly in buffer and pressing slide rails.
Innovation Solution
An adjustable slide rail mounting device with a multi-directional adjusting integration assembly and adaptive mounting assembly, featuring longitudinal, lateral, and vertical adjustment modules, along with an elastic buckle system, allowing for easy assembly and precise gap adjustment in various directions, ensuring stable and noise-free operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a traditional mounting mechanism with fixed seat, adjusting seat and buckle is used, then the gap between drawer and slide rail can be adjusted, but the structure becomes complex which increases manufacturing cost and makes assembly cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the fixed seat, adjusting seat, and buckle into a single integrated mounting assembly. The mounting assembly includes a mounting body with a built-in adjusting mechanism that can directly adjust the gap between the drawer and slide rail without requiring separate components, thereby simplifying the structure while maintaining adjustment functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting assembly is designed to perform multiple functions within a single component structure. It provides both the mounting function and the gap adjustment function simultaneously, eliminating the need for separate fixed seat and adjusting seat components, thus reducing device complexity while preserving adaptability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the traditional mounting mechanism adjusts the longitudinal gap between slide rail and drawer, then the gap can be modified, but the longitudinal positions of movable rail and fixed rail are reduced, decreasing cushioning distance and effect
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements localized adjustment at the mounting assembly position rather than changing the overall longitudinal positions of the movable rail and fixed rail. The adjusting mechanism locally modifies the gap between the drawer and slide rail at the mounting point, preserving the cushioning distance and effect while achieving the desired gap adjustment.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting assembly acts as an intermediary component between the drawer and the slide rail system. It provides the adjustment function through its built-in mechanism while isolating the adjustment action from the main rail positioning, thereby maintaining the cushioning effect of the slide rail system.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the longitudinal gap is adjusted to change the gap between mounting mechanism and drawer, then the gap can be modified, but the gap between tail hook and drawer increases or becomes too tight, causing large oscillating quantity and noise
Solution Approach 1:
The mounting assembly provides localized adjustment at its installation position, ensuring that the gap modification does not propagate to the tail hook connection. This localized approach allows independent optimization of the mounting gap without affecting the stability and oscillation characteristics of the tail hook to drawer connection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the adjustment function to be performed independently at the mounting assembly level, separate from the tail hook connection. This segmentation allows the gap adjustment to be isolated to a specific location, preventing unwanted changes in the tail hook gap and maintaining overall system stability.
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
The device provides a simple, cost-effective, and stable assembly solution that adjusts gaps in multiple directions, maintaining drawer stability and reducing friction-related issues, enhancing the usability and durability of slide rails.
Implementation Method 1
both elastic ends of the elastic element are respectively installed on the fixed frame and the adaptive frame, the adaptive frame is slidably connected to the fixed frame
Implementation Method 2
locked or disengaged on a movable rail of a slide rail through the elastic buckle assembly
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AI summary
The present invention provides an adjustable slide rail mounting device, comprising an adjusting component. The adjusting component comprises a multi-directional adjusting integration assembly and an adaptive mounting assembly. The adjusting component can be quickly assembled and disassembled through structural fit of a shell, a longitudinal adjustment module assembly, a lateral adjustment module assembly, a vertical adjustment module assembly and an elastic buckle assembly of the multi-directional adjusting integration assembly, so operation is convenient, and an assembly gap of a drawer after installation can be adjusted in various directions; and through a structure fitted with a fixed frame, an adaptive frame and an elastic element of the adaptive mounting assembly, connection stability between a drawer and a slide rail can be always maintained, assembly accuracy is improved, and use effect of the drawer is ensured.