Vacuum Coupling Release Mechanism for Impact-Resistant Mounts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing connecting devices for fastening electronic apparatuses, such as cameras or mobile phones, to helmets or vehicles struggle to easily lock and unlock under impact stress, risking jerking removal when vacuum or magnetic connections are overcome.
Innovation Solution
A connecting device with an adjustable adjustment element that can be tilted about different spatial directions to expose a flow opening, allowing air inflow and releasing the vacuum effect, enabling easy locking and unlocking while maintaining load-bearing capabilities to absorb impact forces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Strength
If a vacuum element is used to create a strong connection between assemblies, then the connection strength is improved, but the ease of operation for releasing the connection deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The adjustment element is designed to be movable relative to the housing assembly, transitioning between a closed position (maintaining vacuum) and an open position (releasing vacuum). This dynamic mechanism allows the connection strength to be changed from strong (when closed) to easily releasable (when open), resolving the contradiction between strong connection and ease of release.
Solution Approach 2:
The adjustment element acts as an intermediary between the user's action and the vacuum element. By moving the adjustment element, the user controls the flow opening that mediates air inflow to the vacuum element, thereby controlling the release of the vacuum connection without directly acting on the vacuum element itself.
2Strength
If a magnetic element is added to improve adhesion, then the connection strength is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The magnetic element is integrated into the housing assembly structure, merging the magnetic function with the existing housing. This combination approach provides improved adhesion through magnetic attraction while avoiding the need for separate magnetic components, thereby minimizing the increase in device complexity.
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 device ensures secure attachment and easy release of electronic apparatuses under stress, allowing for intuitive operation and effective absorption of impact forces, preventing jerking removal during use.
Implementation Method 1
the vacuum element and the attachment assembly, when the closure module and the attachment assembly are stressed relative to one another, are held together by virtue of a vacuum effect between the vacuum element and the attachment assembly
Implementation Method 2
the first magnetic element and the second magnetic element in the connected position are opposite one another in a magnetically attractive manner
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AI summary
A connecting device for releasably connecting two assemblies, having a closure module which is assigned to a first of the assemblies, and has a housing assembly, an adjustment element disposed so as to be adjustable on the housing assembly, and a vacuum element; and an attachment assembly which is assigned to a second of the assemblies. The vacuum element is connectable to the attachment assembly along an attachment direction and in a connected position interacts with the attachment assembly in such a manner that the vacuum element and the attachment assembly, when the closure module and the attachment assembly are stressed relative to one another, are held together by virtue of a vacuum effect between the vacuum element and the attachment assembly. The adjustment element for releasing the vacuum element from the attachment assembly is able to be tilted about different spatial directions in relation to the housing assembly.