Terrace Retaining Element Guide Tabs Stability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing terrace system holding parts face challenges in handling and stability, particularly when dealing with uneven terrace profiles and small distances between them.
Innovation Solution
The holding part features a base body with assembly openings for secure fastening to the substructure, and strategically aligned stops that ensure stability and accommodate variations in terrace profile dimensions, including those with sources and waning.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the retaining element is designed with elastic retaining webs that exert clamping force on terrace profiles, then the holding stability of the terrace profiles is improved, but the retaining element shifts position during insertion, making it difficult to handle
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces guide elements (tabs) on the retaining element that engage with corresponding guide grooves on the rail. These guide elements act as intermediaries that prevent lateral shifting of the retaining element during the insertion of terrace profiles, while the elastic retaining webs continue to provide clamping force for holding stability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the retaining element is designed to accommodate swelling and shrinkage of terrace profiles, then the universality and adaptability are improved, but the positioning stability may be compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs elastic retaining webs that can dynamically adjust their clamping force in response to swelling and shrinkage of the terrace profiles. The elasticity allows the retaining element to maintain a stable average position while accommodating dimensional changes of the profiles through flexible deformation of the webs.
3Device complexity
If the retaining element uses a plate-shaped base body with projecting retaining webs, then the structural simplicity is improved, but the positioning accuracy deteriorates due to shifting during clamping
Solution Approach 1:
The guide elements (tabs) serve as intermediaries between the retaining element and the rail, preventing lateral displacement during the clamping operation. This simple additive feature to the plate-shaped base body maintains structural simplicity while significantly improving positioning accuracy by eliminating shifting.
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
This design enhances the stability and universality of the holding part, allowing for easy handling and effective clamping of terrace profiles, even with uneven surfaces and small inter-profile distances, without damaging the profiles.
Implementation Method 1
two elastic retaining webs projecting from it, which engage in grooves on the cladding components under clamping action
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AI summary
A terrace system (1, 101) and a retaining element (4, 104) for connecting a first and a second terrace profile (2, 3) to a substructure (5) of the terrace system (1, 101) are shown. To achieve high stability, it is proposed that the retaining element (4, 104) on the base body (6) has at least one, in particular continuous, mounting opening (11) for connecting the retaining element (4, 104) to the substructure (5) by means of a fastening element (12), and that the first and second retaining webs (7, 8 and 107, 018 respectively) on the top surface (6a) of the base body (6) are aligned with respect to their width extension (B7, B8) essentially along a common straight line (G), which straight line (G) passes through the mounting opening (11).