Stamp Device with Limiting Structure for Uniform Pressure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional stamping devices lack precise positioning and uniform pressure, resulting in incomplete and blurred patterns due to user variability in pressing force, making it difficult to achieve consistent and aesthetically pleasing results.
Innovation Solution
A stamp device with a pressing plate and bottom plate that includes a limiting structure to prevent lateral movement and an elastic telescopic structure for stable pressing, allowing for precise positioning and uniform pressure, along with a connecting structure for easy folding and unfolding, and a magnetic plate for secure carrier placement.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a conventional stamp is manually pressed on a carrier, then the stamping operation is simple and quick, but the pressing force is not uniform resulting in incomplete and non-uniform patterns
Solution Approach 1:
A pressing plate is introduced as an intermediary tool between the user's hand and the stamp. The pressing plate distributes the pressing force uniformly across the stamp surface through its flat bottom surface, ensuring complete and uniform pattern transfer while maintaining simple manual operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The stamping system is segmented into distinct functional components: the stamp (for pattern transfer), the pressing plate (for force distribution), and the limiting structure (for positioning). This segmentation allows each component to optimize its specific function while working together as a system.
2Manufacturing precision
If multiple stamping operations are performed at the same position, then the pattern can be more complete, but the position alignment becomes difficult resulting in blurred patterns
Solution Approach 1:
The pressing plate serves as a disposable positioning reference for each stamping operation. After each stamping, the pressing plate can be removed and replaced, ensuring fresh positioning reference for the next stamping without requiring complex reusable positioning mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The pressing plate acts as a mediator that establishes a consistent reference frame for positioning the stamp and carrier. The limiting structure on the pressing plate provides reproducible positioning features that enable accurate realignment for multiple stamping operations.
3Manufacturing precision
If the pressing plate is made rigid for stable pressing, then the pressure distribution is uniform, but the device size increases and portability decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The pressing plate utilizes a thin, flat plate structure that provides sufficient rigidity for uniform pressure distribution while maintaining minimal thickness. This thin-plate design ensures portability and small device size while achieving the required pressure uniformity for complete pattern transfer.
4Measurement precision
If the limiting structure is made complex for precise positioning, then the stamping position accuracy is high, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The limiting structure provides positioning features only at the critical locations where the stamp and carrier need to be positioned. Rather than making the entire pressing plate complex, simple limiting features are added locally to achieve precise positioning without overall complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The device ensures consistent and complete pattern printing with precise positioning, improved pressure control, and ease of use, suitable for various stamp thicknesses and user-friendly operation, while maintaining a simple and cost-effective design.
Implementation Method 1
an inside of the groove is provided with an elastic member for driving the movable block to be returned
Implementation Method 2
a magnetic plate for secure carrier placement
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AI summary
A stamp device includes a main body. The main body includes a bottom plate on which a carrier and a stamp are placed, a pressing plate which cooperates with the bottom plate to press the carrier and the stamp, a limiting structure for limiting a lateral relative movement of the pressing plate and the bottom plate, and a connecting structure for folding and unfolding the main body. An upper surface of the bottom plate is provided with a working space for placing the carrier and the stamp. The present invention uses the pressing plate and the bottom plate to press the stamp and the carrier for stamping the pattern on the carrier. A movement space cooperates with a limiting member to limit the lateral movement of the pressing plate. During the pressing process, the pressing plate is moved down horizontally as much as possible, so that the stamp adhered to the pressing plate maintains the precise positioning relative to the bottom plate. It is adapted for stamps of different thicknesses. The stamp is evenly stressed, so that the printed pattern is complete and uniform and more beautiful. The device is simple in structure, small in size, easy in operation, convenient to carry, low in manufacturing cost, and suitable for any user.