Wafer Machine Rotary Adjustment Assembly
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wafer manufacturing techniques face challenges in achieving precise balance adjustments due to reliance on operator experience, leading to incomplete balance conditions and potential damage from excessive nut tightening, resulting in flaws and increased manufacturing time.
Innovation Solution
The use of a third fulcrum body and a plurality of carrying bodies with a rotary adjustment assembly, featuring a toothed disk and spring plate mechanism, allows for precise angular adjustments of a wafer substrate via a balance board, enabling efficient and precise balancing without excessive operator expertise or risk of damage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a nut is used for rotary adjustment of wafer substrate height, then height adjustment can be performed, but the adjustment precision is insufficient and operator experience is required leading to incomplete balance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the conventional nut-based mechanical adjustment system with a rotary adjustment assembly that integrates a toothed disk, spring plate, and locking mechanism. This new mechanical system provides precise angular adjustments through tooth engagement rather than relying on operator skill with nuts, directly resolving the contradiction between measurement precision and ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The rotary adjustment assembly incorporates a spring plate that automatically locks the adjusted position through elastic deformation and tooth engagement. This self-locking mechanism eliminates the need for operator experience to achieve proper balance, as the system automatically maintains the adjusted position without requiring skilled operation.
2Reliability
If excessive tightening force is applied to the nut, then adjustment may be secured, but the nut and screw are damaged causing rusting and complicated repair
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the vulnerable nut-screw threading system with a toothed disk and spring plate locking mechanism. This substitution eliminates the harmful effect of excessive tightening force damaging threaded components, as the new system uses elastic deformation of the spring plate and tooth engagement to secure adjustments without risking component damage.
Solution Approach 2:
The spring plate in the rotary adjustment assembly acts as a cushioning element that absorbs adjustment forces through elastic deformation. This beforehand cushioning prevents excessive force from damaging the mechanism, as the spring plate flexes to accommodate force variations while maintaining secure locking, directly addressing the reliability versus harm contradiction.
3Productivity
If conventional nut adjustment is used, then simple structure is maintained, but adjustment time is excessive and manufacturing efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the time-consuming nut adjustment process with a rotary adjustment assembly featuring a toothed disk and spring plate mechanism. This substitution dramatically reduces adjustment time by providing positive tooth engagement and automatic self-locking, eliminating the need for repeated trial adjustments and significantly improving manufacturing efficiency.
4Ease of operation
If operator experience is relied upon for rough adjustment, then simple operation is maintained, but complete balance condition is not achieved leading to flaws
Solution Approach 1:
The rotary adjustment assembly incorporates a spring plate that automatically locks the adjusted position through elastic deformation and tooth engagement. This self-service mechanism ensures complete balance is achieved regardless of operator experience, as the system automatically secures the precise position without requiring skilled judgment, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and manufacturing precision.
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
This solution enables high-precision balancing operations, reducing the risk of damage and accelerating the manufacturing process while ensuring accurate thin film thickness within tolerance ranges, thus overcoming the limitations of conventional methods.
Implementation Method 1
The toothed disk comprises a spring plate arranged thereon
Implementation Method 2
The rod has an end that is coupled to the support block to provide forward and/or rearward movement to the support block
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to an adjusting device of wafer machine, which includes a rotary adjustment assembly that is rotatable to cause the rotation of a rod so as to displace a support block thereby elevating or lowering a support post. A balance board is thus caused to move a wafer substrate so as to realize balancing of wafer through the support post, whereby efficient adjustment of the wafer machine to a balanced position can be achieved without extra expense of time in adjustment operation and thus accelerating the time of manufacturing process and providing extremely high precision and further effectively reducing the potential risk of damage caused by over-adjustment.