Socket Holding Frame With Locking Holes for Stable Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional socket holding frames lack a fixing structure to securely position socket holding mounts, leading to instability and poor positioning due to external impacts.
Innovation Solution
A socket holding frame design with a track base featuring locking holes and a positioning protrusion on the socket holding mount, allowing for secure sliding and rotational movement of sockets by engaging with locking holes, ensuring firm positioning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If socket holding mounts are made slidable and rotatable on track base, then ease of operation is improved, but stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The socket holding mount is designed to be dynamically adjustable during operation, allowing sliding along the track base and rotation to different angles. The positioning protrusion can engage with different locking holes to change position, and the release button enables dynamic switching between fixed and movable states, resolving the contradiction between ease of adjustment and positioning stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The track base is segmented into multiple discrete locking holes positioned at different locations, allowing the positioning protrusion to engage at specific intervals. This segmentation enables precise positioning at predetermined locations while maintaining overall stability, as each locking hole represents a stable engagement point.
2Manufacturing precision
If fixing structure is added to secure socket holding mounts, then positioning precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The positioning protrusion automatically engages with the locking holes through simple sliding motion, and the release button provides a straightforward mechanism for disengagement. The system uses its own structural elements (protrusion and holes) to achieve positioning without requiring external fixing devices, maintaining simplicity while improving positioning precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The fixing mechanism operates in a different dimensional approach by using vertical engagement (protrusion entering locking holes from above) rather than lateral fastening. This dimensional change allows for simple top-down engagement that achieves precise positioning without complex side-mounted fastening structures.
Data Source
AI summary
A socket holding frame has a track base and a socket holding mount. The track base has a positioning panel having multiple round locking holes arranged at spaced interval and aligned in a straight line and two side racks respectively located at two opposite sides of the positioning panel. Each side rack has a sliding channel. The socket holding mount has a round flange extending into the sliding channels of the two side racks, a holding portion formed from a top of the flange, and a positioning protrusion extending out of a bottom surface of the flange and being coaxial with the flange. The positioning protrusion is selectively mounted into one of the locking holes. The socket holding mount is rotatable relative to the track base around the positioning protrusion.