Sliding Housing Assembly for Stable Electromechanical Enclosures
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing housings for electrical and electromechanical components, particularly contactors, face challenges in providing robust protection against high currents and voltages while ensuring stable and secure assembly, especially in mobile applications.
Innovation Solution
A housing design comprising first and second housing components with guide grooves and complementary elements that allow for a force-locking connection, enhanced by securing means such as hollow sleeves and latchings, facilitating easy assembly and improved stability against torsion and perpendicular forces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a multi-component housing design is used to provide robust protection, then protection reliability is improved, but assembly complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The housing is divided into multiple components (first housing component, second housing component with guide groove, and securing means) that can be separately manufactured and assembled. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently while maintaining overall protection reliability through their coordinated assembly.
Solution Approach 2:
The securing means (hollow sleeves) are nested within the housing components, with the hollow sleeves receiving guide grooves and complementary elements. This nesting approach consolidates multiple functions into a compact structure, improving protection reliability without proportionally increasing assembly complexity.
2Strength
If securing means such as hollow sleeves and latchings are added to ensure stable assembly, then connection strength is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple securing functions are merged into integrated structures: the hollow sleeves serve as both structural support elements and mounting features for guide grooves, while latchings combine locking and positioning functions. This merging reduces the number of separate components needed, improving connection strength without proportionally increasing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The hollow sleeves and latchings are designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: providing structural reinforcement, enabling guide groove attachment, ensuring force-locking connections, and facilitating precise positioning. This multi-functionality improves connection strength while minimizing the addition of separate components.
3Force
If guide grooves and complementary elements are used to achieve force-locking connection, then resistance to perpendicular forces is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The guide grooves and complementary elements are implemented as localized features on specific housing components rather than requiring complex overall redesign. This allows the majority of the housing structure to be manufactured using standard processes, while only specific regions require additional machining or molding operations to create the guiding and locking features.
Data Source
AI summary
In embodiments a housing includes a first housing component and a second housing, the second housing component having a first guide groove, wherein the first housing component comprises a first complementary element, and wherein the first complementary element and the first guide groove are designed such that the housing components are connectable to form the housing by sliding one inside the other along a guide direction.