Torque Application System with Offset Flanges for Gap Elimination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mechanical circuit systems face challenges in emulating loads and eliminating gaps between components, leading to unwanted noise and compromised data quality during tests and measurements.
Innovation Solution
A torque application system with offset flanges, featuring compensating means with springs, double roller bearings, and adjustment screws, which applies torque to eliminate gaps, ensure permanent contact, and impose controlled loads.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If conventional torque application systems are used, then the system structure is simpler, but gaps and backlash in geared systems introduce unwanted noise and compromise data quality
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the torque application mechanism into separate functional components: offset flanges for gap elimination, adjustment screws for positioning control, and spring compensating means for load management. This segmentation allows each component to address specific problems independently while maintaining overall system functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
Offset flanges act as intermediary elements between connected mechanical components, providing a controlled offset that eliminates gaps and backlash. The flanges serve as a mediator that transfers torque while maintaining permanent contact and preventing direct impact between adjacent components.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If gaps between mechanical components are present, then the system is easier to assemble, but unwanted noise is generated during operation
Solution Approach 1:
The offset flanges are pre-configured with specific offset distances that automatically eliminate gaps when components are assembled. The adjustment screws allow pre-setting of the exact offset position before final assembly, ensuring gap elimination is achieved through preliminary positioning rather than post-assembly adjustment.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the positional parameter of connected components by introducing a controlled offset distance through the offset flanges. This parameter change transforms the connection from direct contact (with potential gaps) to offset contact (with permanent contact and no gaps), thereby eliminating unwanted noise during operation.
3Reliability
If controlled loading is difficult to achieve, then the testing process is simpler, but reproducible results cannot be ensured
Solution Approach 1:
The spring compensating means provide automatic feedback control for load application. As the mechanical system undergoes testing, the springs continuously adjust to maintain predetermined load levels, providing real-time compensation for any deviations and ensuring reproducible testing conditions without requiring complex external control systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses internally compensated spring mechanisms that automatically maintain controlled loading conditions during testing. The springs self-adjust to compensate for variations in the mechanical system, eliminating the need for external operators to manually adjust loads and ensuring consistent, reproducible test results through self-regulating behavior.
4Reliability
If standard torque application methods are used, then the testing process is faster, but load compensation and overload prevention are not achieved
Solution Approach 1:
Spring compensating means are pre-installed in the torque application system to provide beforehand cushioning against overloads. The springs are pre-configured with appropriate stiffness and preload to automatically absorb excess energy and prevent damage during testing, eliminating the need for slow, cautious load application procedures.
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 system enhances data quality by eliminating noise, ensuring reproducible results, and simplifying test processes by allowing controlled load applications and internal load compensation.
Implementation Method 1
the torque application system prevents overloads in the mechanical system, since compensating means provided with springs compensate for possible misalignments that could result in permanent plastic deformations in the elements to which the set of components of the torque applicator is coupled
Implementation Method 2
A torque application system with offset flanges, featuring compensating means with springs, double roller bearings, and adjustment screws, which applies torque to eliminate gaps, ensure permanent contact
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AI summary
A torque application system for use in mechanical circuits and offset flanges is described. More precisely, the system of the invention comprises a set of elements that apply torque to the region of offset flanges capable of eliminating gaps in closed mechanical systems, wherein this set of components responsible for applying torque, in addition to promoting permanent contact of the mechanical system, allows a previously known load to be imposed. Accordingly, the system described herein allows analysis cycles to be achieved under different operating conditions that require smoothness, given the more uniform behavior of the mechanical system under analysis. Furthermore, due to internal load compensation means, the torque application system prevents overloads in the mechanical system, since compensating means provided with springs compensate for possible misalignments that could result in permanent plastic deformations in the elements to which the set of components of the torque applicator is coupled.