Integrated Tool Hanging Clip Structure for Anti-Theft Strength
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional anti-theft hanging clips for tools have complex components leading to inconvenient assembly and higher manufacturing costs, while also being vulnerable to theft due to easy disengagement of sleeves from the clips.
Innovation Solution
A hanging clip design featuring a pre-fabricated sleeving portion and flexible sheet with support limiting flanges, a male/female clamping part, and reinforced pieces that form a columnar body for enhanced structural strength and anti-theft functionality, reducing assembly complexity and manufacturing costs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional anti-theft hanging clips use multiple separate components (clip body, embedding member with male/female assembly portions), then anti-theft functionality is achieved, but device complexity increases and manufacturing cost rises
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the clip body and embedding member into a single integrated hanging clip structure. The embedding member is formed as an integral part of the clip body, eliminating the need for separate components and buckling assembly. This reduces device complexity while maintaining the anti-theft functionality through the integrated design.
2Reliability
If conventional anti-theft hanging clips use multiple separately fabricated components assembled by buckling, then anti-theft functionality is achieved, but ease of manufacture deteriorates due to inconvenient assembly and higher manufacturing cost
Solution Approach 1:
The hanging clip body and embedding member are merged into a single integrated component that can be manufactured as one piece. This eliminates the complex buckling assembly process required in conventional designs, significantly improving ease of manufacture and reducing manufacturing costs while preserving anti-theft functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The embedding member is pre-formed as an integral part of the clip body during the initial manufacturing process, rather than being assembled separately. This preliminary integration simplifies the overall manufacturing process and reduces assembly steps.
3Strength
If the sleeving portion and flexible sheet are pre-fabricated and form a columnar body with outwardly supported vertical limiting walls, then structural strength and anti-theft capabilities are enhanced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible sheet is segmented into multiple support limiting flanges that extend outward to form vertical limiting walls. This segmentation creates a columnar structure with enhanced strength and anti-theft capabilities while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through the pre-fabricated design.
Data Source
AI summary
A hanging clip for tools includes a hanging clip body, a sleeving portion, a connecting portion, support limiting flanges, a flexible sheet, a positioning bulge and a male/female clamping part. The sleeving portion is directly extended to the bottom end of the hanging clip body. The flexible sheet is unfolded and extended downwards to the connecting portion and comprises of an inner surface, an outer surface, an extended end and a folded flange. The sheet could be unfolded and extended downwards via said folded flange, or bent and retracted upwards to form a columnar pattern together with the sleeving portion. The sleeving portion and flexible sheet are pre-fabricated and when the sleeving portion and flexible sheet are in service state, two vertical limiting walls of the sleeving portion could be supported via the support limiting flanges, thus saving manufacturing cost and enhancing the structural strength for excellent anti-theft functions.