Single-Plate Vibration Damper with Snap Tabs
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vibration dampers for compressors, pumps, and electric motors are costly, labor-intensive to assemble and disassemble, and require multiple components, making them inefficient in terms of time and resources.
Innovation Solution
A vibration damper with engagement tabs and elastically deformable contact and shock-absorbing blades formed from a single metal plate, allowing for quick assembly and disassembly by snap engagement and elastic deformation, reducing the need for multiple parts and simplifying the installation process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple separate components are used to ensure vibration damping performance, then the damping reliability is improved, but the device complexity and assembly time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate components (damping element, mounting plate, fastening elements) into a single integrated plate-like body with engagement tabs and shock-absorbing portions formed as one piece. This merging maintains vibration damping performance while eliminating the need for separate assembly of multiple parts, directly resolving the contradiction between reliability and device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The plate-like body serves multiple functions simultaneously: it provides vibration damping through shock-absorbing portions, structural support through the rigid body, and mechanical fastening through engagement tabs. This multi-functionality consolidates what previously required separate components, reducing device complexity while maintaining comprehensive performance.
2Reliability
If multiple components with fastening elements are used to ensure secure mounting, then the mounting reliability is improved, but the assembly and disassembly time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The plate-like body is segmented into functional zones with engagement tabs positioned at specific locations, allowing selective engagement with mounting holes. This segmentation enables quick snap-in assembly while maintaining secure mounting, as each tab can be independently engaged without requiring complex multi-step fastening procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
The engagement tabs are pre-formed with elastic deformation capabilities, allowing them to be inserted into mounting holes and automatically lock into place through elastic recovery. This preliminary preparation of the tabs enables rapid assembly without requiring separate fastening operations, significantly reducing assembly and disassembly time while maintaining mounting security.
3Reliability
If traditional multi-component dampers are used to ensure shock absorption, then the vibration damping performance is improved, but the manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The shock-absorbing portions, engagement tabs, and plate-like body are manufactured as a single integrated component using metal plate operations. This merging eliminates the need for separate manufacturing and assembly of multiple parts, reducing manufacturing complexity and cost while maintaining the shock absorption capability through the elastic deformation of the integrated structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The shock absorption mechanism utilizes elastic deformation of the plate-like body material, changing the physical state from rigid to elastically deformable during impact. This parameter change allows the single-component design to achieve the same shock absorption performance as multi-component dampers without the associated manufacturing complexity and cost.
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 solution enables rapid assembly and disassembly while maintaining performance comparable to traditional dampers, with lower production costs and simplified manufacturing using existing metal plate operations.
Implementation Method 1
at least two elastically deformable contact and shock-absorbing portions are formed on the first face (12)
Data Source
AI summary
A vibration damper, particularly for supporting compressors, pumps, electric motors and the like, comprising a flat body (11) from which at least two engagement tabs (14, 14a) protrude on each of the two faces (12, 13) and at least two elastically deformable contact and shock-absorbing portions (15, 15a) protrude on at least one of the faces (12, 13).