Socket Guide Partition Wall for Accurate Lead Positioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional sockets that connect leads using an operation driver often fail to accurately position the leads between pressure springs and a bracket, leading to connection failures due to erroneous insertion.
Innovation Solution
A socket design featuring a guide partition wall integrally molded with the case cover, which partitions neighboring pressure springs and prevents erroneous insertion by guiding leads along the wall, enhancing assembly precision and structural support.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a spring member is divided into two pressure springs to extract two signals from one circuit, then the functionality is improved, but the positioning accuracy of leads deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The spring member is divided into two separate pressure springs through a slit, enabling each spring to independently contact and extract signals from separate leads. This segmentation allows the socket to handle multiple signals while the guide partition wall ensures each lead is correctly positioned with its corresponding pressure spring.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide partition wall acts as an intermediary structure between the two pressure springs. It physically separates and guides the leads into correct positions, preventing erroneous insertion while maintaining the divided spring structure needed for multi-signal extraction.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the spring member is divided into two pressure springs, then the functional capability is enhanced, but the risk of connection failure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The spring member is divided into two separate pressure springs through a slit, enabling each spring to independently contact and extract signals from separate leads. This segmentation allows the socket to handle multiple signals while the guide partition wall ensures each lead is correctly positioned with its corresponding pressure spring.
Solution Approach 2:
The guide partition wall acts as an intermediary structure between the two pressure springs. It physically separates and guides the leads into correct positions, preventing erroneous insertion while maintaining the divided spring structure needed for multi-signal extraction.
3Device complexity
If no guide structure is provided, then the device complexity is reduced, but the assembly precision deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The guide partition wall is integrally molded with the case cover, combining the housing and guiding functions into a single piece. This eliminates the need for separate guide structures, reducing assembly steps and overall device complexity while providing precise lead positioning through the integrated guide walls.
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 guide partition wall ensures accurate lead positioning, preventing connection failures and increasing the socket's assembly precision and structural rigidity, even when the operation driver is inserted incorrectly.
Implementation Method 1
the pressure spring of the spring member being pressed and elastically deformed by an operation driver inserted through an operation hole provided to the case cover
Data Source
AI summary
A socket includes: a base; a connection fitting including a bracket and a spring member, configured to form pressure springs by dividing the spring member into two in a width direction by a slit provided to the spring member, and assembled to an upper surface of the base; and a case cover configured to fit to the base and to cover the connection fitting. The pressure springs of the spring member are pressed and elastically deformed by an operation driver inserted through an operation hole provided to the case cover, to sandwich between the bracket and the pressure springs a lead inserted through an insertion hole provided to the case cover. A guide partition wall configured to engage with the slit of the spring member is integrally molded with an inner surface of the case cover.