Sliding Window Roller Guide Preventing Vertical Reaction Force
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional sliding window systems face challenges in achieving excellent soundproof, airtight, watertight, heat insulation, and wind pressure resistance due to limitations in sealing methods, particularly with heavy-weighted components and non-uniform sealing principles, which hinder smooth vertical movement and effective sealing, especially in large-sized windows.
Innovation Solution
A sliding window system with an aluminum alloy sash structure, incorporating a moving window installation structure that includes a window frame with thermal breaks, a roller device, and a horizontal-moving device, which allows for vertical sliding without applying a vertical reaction force to the roller, ensuring smooth movement and enhanced sealing by using thermal breaks and a vertical sliding unit to prevent vertical component forces, and a compression unit to facilitate horizontal movement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a conventional sealing method using windbreak hair or rubber is used, then the sealing performance is improved, but the sealing member deforms or wears out over time, making it difficult to maintain constant performance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the sealing mechanism from elastic deformation of rubber to mechanical compression through a lifting mechanism. The sash is lifted vertically to compress the sealing member against the frame, transforming the sealing parameter from material elasticity to mechanical force application, which prevents deformation and wear of the sealing member.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the conventional elastic sealing mechanism with a mechanical lifting system. Instead of relying on the elastic properties of rubber seals, the system uses a roller and guide rail mechanism to physically lift the sash, creating compression through controlled movement rather than material deformation.
2Reliability
If a lift and sliding type structure is used to lift the moving window, then the sealing performance is improved, but a vertical reaction force is applied between the rail and roller, making it difficult to slide smoothly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the forces acting on the roller by introducing a guide rail that constrains the roller's movement path. The guide rail separates the vertical lifting function from the horizontal sliding function, allowing the roller to lift the sash vertically while preventing it from applying vertical reaction forces during horizontal sliding motion.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide rail acts as an intermediary element between the roller and the sash. It mediates the force transmission by providing a constrained path for the roller, allowing vertical lifting forces to be applied during sealing while preventing vertical reaction forces during sliding, thus resolving the conflict between sealing and smooth operation.
3Area of moving object
If the moving window is heavy (large-sized window), then the window size and functionality are improved, but the weight makes it difficult to slide smoothly with conventional roller support
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the weight-bearing function from the sliding mechanism by introducing a lifting mechanism that independently supports the window's weight. The roller is separated from its dual role of supporting weight and enabling sliding, with the lifting mechanism handling weight support and the guide rail handling sliding motion, allowing large heavy windows to slide smoothly.
4Strength
If aluminum alloy sash structure is used, then the structural strength is improved, but heat insulation performance deteriorates due to high thermal conductivity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs composite material construction with aluminum alloy sash structures combined with thermal break components. The aluminum alloy provides structural strength while the thermal break material (typically plastic or composite) interrupts heat conduction paths, creating a composite system that achieves both structural integrity and heat insulation performance.
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 solution enables improved heat insulation, reduced dew condensation, enhanced wind pressure resistance, and smooth vertical sliding of heavy windows, ensuring complete sealing actions without the need for high forces, thus addressing the limitations of conventional systems.
Implementation Method 1
a thermal break which interconnects the inner and outer frames and is made of a synthetic resin
Implementation Method 2
a roller device installed below the moving window to be separated from the moving window so as to provide a vertical sliding movement of the moving window along the length of the rail guide
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a moving window installation structure of a sliding window system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a moving window installation structure of a sliding window system which is configured to prevent a vertical reaction force from being applied between a rail and a roller for supporting the weight of a moving window that constitutes a sliding window having an aluminum alloy sash structure such that the moving window can be smoothly moved in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the rail and the sliding mobility of a large-sized window having a heavy weight can be improved, and to improve a profile cross-section structure of a window installation frame provided with a sliding window such that heat insulation can be remarkably improved and wind pressure resistance against wind pressure can be enhanced.