Threaded Jewelry Shaft With Interchangeable Nuts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing jewelry products are limited in their versatility and do not allow for easy interchange or modification of components, restricting users to a single configuration.
Innovation Solution
A jewelry product design featuring a threaded main shaft, decorative nuts, and a securing member that enables components to be easily engaged or disengaged and rearranged, allowing for various configurations, such as a bracelet with a partially closed loop and pivot pin mechanism, and interchangeable threaded shafts and nuts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing jewelry product designs are used, then the product structure is simple, but the versatility and interchangeability of components are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The jewelry product is divided into separate modular components including a main shaft, decorative nuts, and securing members that can be independently assembled and disassembled. This segmentation enables users to interchange components to create different configurations while maintaining a relatively simple individual component structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The main shaft is designed with a standardized threaded structure that can accommodate multiple types of decorative nuts and securing members. This universal interface allows a single main shaft to support various jewelry configurations, enhancing versatility without requiring complex specialized structures for each component type.
2Ease of operation
If existing jewelry product designs are used, then the manufacturing process is simple, but the ease of interchangeability and reconfiguration is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The jewelry product incorporates a dynamic assembly system where components can be easily attached and detached through threading operations. The standardized threaded interface on the main shaft allows decorative nuts and securing members to be quickly interchanged by simple rotational movements, greatly enhancing ease of interchangeability while maintaining straightforward manufacturing processes.
3Adaptability or versatility
If additional jewelry components are added for multiple configurations, then the versatility increases, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The main shaft serves as a universal base component that can accommodate multiple types of decorative nuts and securing members through its standardized threaded interface. This multi-functionality allows a single main shaft to support various jewelry configurations without requiring multiple specialized shaft designs, thereby increasing versatility while controlling overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
Different decorative nuts and securing members are designed with specific local characteristics (different shapes, sizes, decorative features) while maintaining the same fundamental threaded interface. This allows components to have specialized functions and appearances without requiring complex overall structures, enabling multiple configurations with relatively simple individual components.
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AI summary
A jewelry product that is to be worn by a user and that is formed as a threaded main shaft, along with a hanging link for support of the threaded main shaft from a body part. One or more decorative nuts are for threaded engagement with the threaded main shaft, and a securing member is for attaching the hanging link with the threaded main shaft. In another embodiment there is a partially closed loop that is comprised of separate loop portions, a pivot pin that connects the separate loop portions and that enables the separate loop portions to open and close, a sleeve disposed about the partially close loop and slideable to cover and uncover the pivot pin and a threaded main shaft engaged with the threaded opening of the respective heads.