Open Storage Basket X-Clamp Assembly for Level, Thin Joints
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing storage baskets suffer from unlevelled connection heights and aesthetically unpleasing connections due to the use of Z-type clamping pieces, leading to thick walls and an inaesthetic appearance.
Innovation Solution
The use of X-type clamping pieces with V-shaped metal straps for connecting side edge frames and infolding edges, ensuring levelled heights and smoother, more aesthetic connections through extrusion deformation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If Z type clamping piece is used to connect side frame body and bottom plate, then assembly is easy and production cost is lowered, but connection position has thick wall and unlevelled height leading to inaesthetic appearance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a Z-type (asymmetric) clamping piece to an X-type (symmetric) clamping piece. The X-type design with two V-shaped metal straps positioned symmetrically on opposite sides ensures that connection ends are at the same height, creating a level and aesthetically pleasing appearance while maintaining the extrusion-based easy assembly process.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention addresses the height leveling issue by changing the spatial arrangement of the clamping piece structure. The X-type configuration distributes connection points symmetrically in the vertical dimension, ensuring both connection ends align at the same height, thereby resolving the unlevelled appearance problem of the Z-type design.
2Productivity
If Z type clamping piece is used for connection, then assembly is easy and production cost is lowered, but connection position appears thick-walled and inaesthetic
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a Z-type (asymmetric) clamping piece to an X-type (symmetric) clamping piece. The X-type design with two V-shaped metal straps positioned symmetrically on opposite sides ensures that connection ends are at the same height, creating a level and aesthetically pleasing appearance while maintaining the extrusion-based easy assembly process.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention addresses the height leveling issue by changing the spatial arrangement of the clamping piece structure. The X-type configuration distributes connection points symmetrically in the vertical dimension, ensuring both connection ends align at the same height, thereby resolving the unlevelled appearance problem of the Z-type design.
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
Facilitates quick assembly, reduces production costs, and enhances the aesthetic appeal and structural integrity of the storage baskets while maintaining a thinner cross-section at the connection points.
Implementation Method 1
the first V shaped metal strap and the second V shaped metal strap fix and connect together the side edge frame at the two ends through extrusion deformation
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AI summary
An open-type storage basket easy to assemble, comprising a side frame body arranged on a side and a bottom plate arranged on a bottom of the side frame body, the side frame body is formed by bending of at least one side edge frame, which have end parts connected through an X type clamping piece whose longitudinal cross section presents an X shape, the X type clamping piece includes a first V shaped metal strap arranged on one side, a second V shaped metal strap arranged on the other side; one end of the side edge frame is inserted into the first V shaped metal strap while the other end is inserted into the second V shaped metal strap; the first and second V shaped metal straps fix and connect together the side edge frame at the two ends through extrusion deformation to form side frame bodies of various shapes.