Suction Transport Device with Abutting Support for Stable Posture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional suction and transport devices struggle to maintain the preferred postures of inflexible products during transportation, leading to potential improper box packing due to loss of posture and contact with container surfaces.
Innovation Solution
The device incorporates a suction component with a support member featuring an abutting portion that maintains a higher vertical height than the sucking portion, along with adjustable and elastic abutting portions to stabilize the posture of products, ensuring they are transported in preferred orientations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional suction and transport devices are used to suck and transport multiple inflexible products, then the products can be transported, but the products cannot be kept in preferred postures and may contact container surfaces causing improper packing
Solution Approach 1:
The suction member is divided into distinct functional segments: a sucking portion for maintaining product posture and a support portion for providing additional stabilization. This segmentation allows each part to perform its specific function optimally, ensuring inflexible products maintain preferred postures during transport and packing.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention extends the suction member in the vertical direction by adding a support portion that protrudes downward from the sucking portion. This dimensional extension creates a new spatial relationship with the product, providing support from below while the sucking portion maintains posture from above, effectively solving the posture maintenance problem for inflexible products.
2Productivity
If products are transported in overlapping postures to reduce spacing, then box packing efficiency improves, but inflexible products cannot maintain stable postures
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the suction member into sucking and support portions, the device can simultaneously handle multiple products in overlapping configurations while each product maintains its posture. The support portion provides additional contact points that stabilize inflexible products even when they are positioned in space-efficient overlapping arrangements.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the geometric parameters of the suction member by extending it vertically to create a support portion. This parameter change allows the device to maintain product posture stability while enabling more flexible spatial arrangements of multiple products, thereby improving box packing efficiency without sacrificing posture control.
3Device complexity
If the suction member only has a sucking portion without additional support, then the device structure is simple, but inflexible products cannot be kept in preferred postures during transport
Solution Approach 1:
The suction member is segmented into two functional parts: the sucking portion that connects to the vacuum source and the support portion that extends downward. This segmentation adds minimal structural complexity while dramatically improving posture maintenance capability for inflexible products during transport and packing operations.
Solution Approach 2:
By extending the suction member in the vertical dimension to create a support portion, the invention adds a new spatial element that provides posture support without significantly increasing horizontal complexity. This dimensional approach maintains preferred postures of inflexible products with minimal additional structural elements.
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 effectively maintains the posture of inflexible products, preventing them from contacting the container walls and ensuring proper box packing by reducing spacing and inhibiting damage.
Implementation Method 1
a suction component (10) connected to a vacuum source (15)
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AI summary
Problem When a suction and transport device sucks and transports products, there arises a state in which the products are not sucked and transported in preferred postures. Solution A suction and transport device 1 pertaining to the invention sucks and transports a first product P1, and includes a first suction member 11 and a support member 30. The first suction member 11 has one end that is joined to a suction component 10 connected to a vacuum source 15 and another end that serves as a sucking portion 111 that sucks the first product P1. The support member 30 has an abutting portion 311 that abuts the first product P1. When the sucking portion 111 is sucking the first product P1 and the abutting portion 311 is abutting the first product P1, the height of the sucking portion 111 is higher than the height of the abutting portion 311 in the vertical direction.